AN: Hey there! Here is the second chapter! I was hoping that it would be out this past weekend but the last scene was hard for me to write so I had to postpone the update. I hope you enjoy this next chapter and I will get the third chapter out as soon as it is finished. I would like to say thanks to all the people who have review for my first chapter, it really helped boost my self esteem. I am one of those people who criticize their own work and when I get to a point where I don't think I did a good enough job, I have to have a friend look over my writing and tell me that it is fine. That was the other problem, I didn't think I did this chapter good enough so I waited to see if my muse came up with something better. I will not answer any of the questions that have been asked for they will be answered in due time in the story itself. I give you hints in this chapter as to what happened. Also, if you have noticed, I have raised the rating to R. All I will say for now is that the story gets a little darker and watch some of the OC characters I have placed in this story, they have their own roles to play.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Any character that is not apart of the anime/manga series is mine however. I will only say this once. So thank you for reading and now on to the story! My Love Inuyasha
I'll Wait Forever
Chapter 2:
Kagome, still running through the forest to the well, sobbed silently. She had prepared herself on an ending of her friendship with Inuyasha but it turned to be the most sorrowful thing of her life. Not even the separation of her parents brought her that much sorrow or depression. Dark clouds would hang over her until the day she died as a result of her heart broken state.
As she neared the well, the forest became eerily still. She slowed her pace down to a slow steady walk to take in her surroundings. Slight rustles came from the bushes off to her left where she could only guess nocturnal creatures scavenged for food. The beautiful harmonies of the crickets stopped to only a light buzz in the air, barely audible to her human ears. Clouds moved over head, blocking out the powerful silver shimmer of the moon and the twinkle of the stars in the sky.
A slight prick of power ebbed at her senses, telling her something was coming. She stopped altogether and focused on her inner miko, her senses, that told her something important was about to happen. While the forest became shrouded in darkness from above, a pastel pink light glowed around the earth, spreading farther away from her. She turned her head around over her shoulder and saw the same pastel pink light behind her. She turned a full three-hundred-sixty degree circle and saw the pastel pink light in every direction, seemingly to seep from the ground itself and rise up towards the sky in a pink haze. The hair at the back of her neck rose at the power she felt. Her tears dried up from her eyes as she forgot about her sorrow for just a moment, focusing instead on the pastel pink light and haze surrounding the earth.
Just as the power had ebbed into her senses, it flew away, taking the haze and glow with it. She blinked for just a second, trying to figure out what caused that power to be released. It didn't feel evil or corrupted, just there as a light feeling of warmth, something she could take comfort in.
She stayed still in the middle of the forest, focusing on her miko powers to trace the source of the power when the well's magic tugged at the back of her mind, telling her that she had to leave. She didn't have time to go on a hunt for the source of that extreme power. With a heavy sigh and a broken heart, she turned in the direction of the well and continued on her way.
Memories flashed before her eyes of Inuyasha and her encounters with him in that same forest; of how they met, the team work it took the two of them to learn so they could defeat Yura of the Hair and many other adventures the two of them had had over time. She had three years worth of memories that would forever remain in her heart and mind. Three years worth of her life she had spent traveling back and forth to his time to be with him. She could never forget them or her friends Sango, Miroku, Shippou and Kaede. She would never forget any of them.
More tears pricked at her eyes but she kept them at bay; she didn't want to start crying now. She would be labeled weak if she did but as she remembered all those times Inuyasha had insulted her and the human race, the tears flew down her cheeks in an array of shimmering small water falls. The moon's glow had over powered the cloudy sky and shed its light on her, making her tears shimmer rivers of silver down her already moist face.
Silver, the color of Inuyasha's hair and his fuzzy ultra sensitive inu ears. That's what she glowed of; silver. The moon seemed to shine on her as if it was a spot light following her every move. The well came into her blurred view and as she entered the clearing, the moon's light slowly diminished, fading out into the background.
Succumbing to her fate, Kagome walked over to the well dejectedly. She jumped on to the rim of the well, turned to face the forest that was the home of some many of her memories and sketched the scene into her heart, hoping that she could remember later in her life every detail of her last few moments in Inuyasha's Forest. Turning back around, she faced the well head on and sighed, the last of her tears that she would ever show to this time escaping her eyes. She jumped into the well, never noticing as the moon's glow faded on her figure as she jumped or the glowing golden eyes in the distance that watched her every move.
The blue power of the well sent her back to her own time, her own world, her home. As its power faded to nothing and her feet touched the ground, a sad sorrow filled song made its presence know to her, one she had heard long ago in an anime. She couldn't remember the lyrics; it had been so long since she had seen the anime or heard the flawless emotional tenor voice, but the beautiful piano melody it had to accompany the singer still seemed fresh in her mind. She hummed the song as fresh tears lightly trailed down her face. She could no longer feel the power of the well. It had disappeared when she landed on her side. She could no longer go back to the time of youkai, the time of adventure, the time where her love lived every day of his life. Her time in the Sengoku Jidai was up, she could never go back.
She sank to the bottom of the well in pain. Her heart felt empty, devoid of any emotion. She felt tired, depressed and life slipping away from her. She had no one like Inuyasha back at her place. No one could help her fill the gaping hole in her heart where all her memories of him were held. She would never be the same.
Thunder cracked like a whip in the distance followed by the sharp bright flash of lightning while rain pounded down on the well house. The world around her mimicked her mood perfectly. Dark, dank, cold and devoid of life. No one in their right mind would be out in a storm that presented itself to her now.
Slowly, she picked herself up from the bottom of the well and used the rope ladder to climb up the side. She had let Sango keep her yellow backpack as a reminder of her. She didn't need it and she certainly didn't want it since it held all her traveling memories. Sango could give it to good use. That was just one less thing she had to worry about to climb up the side of the well with.
Stepping soundlessly out of the well, she turned around and placed the old wooden boards back on the well to keep other people from falling down it. There would be no seal this time to place over the top. It didn't need it since the magic no longer existed.
Mechanically, Kagome walked out of the well house into the pouring rain, becoming drenched from the on slot of water that over powered her thin frail body. She didn't care if she died from the cold or from sickness resulted from herself being out in the storm. She just didn't care anymore of what happened to her, not without Inuyasha in her life. A life without Inuyasha was a life not worth living in her eyes. She would try to go on but she knew she wouldn't make it past a few months before her body gave up and she slipped from this world into one where she could be reunited with her love. Then, maybe, would she find happiness.
She continued to walk down the shrine's steps to the road staring out in front of her but not seeing where she was going. She knew the way to her apartment by heart and knew she could get there without really trying.
The rain continued to pour down on her, soaking her form fitting baby blue sundress. The ground beneath her baby blue matching heels became slick from the rain and she slid somewhat but caught her balance in time before she fell. With that miner slip up, she was brought back to reality and consciously knew where she was going. She turned a corner and headed down to the under ground train station.
As she entered the train station, she felt an eerie silence fall upon the area. Not a single soul was around for miles; not even a mouse or a rat to pick up crumbs left behind by careless people. At least in the station she could dry off a bit but the silence seemed unnatural. 'Then again, it is late at night. Not too many people want to venture out at night in this area of town, especially in a storm like this one,' she thought to herself as she waited for her train to arrive.
She only had to wait five short minutes before her train pulled up to a stop by her side. She stepped on the train knowing where she needed to be left off at. She didn't notice the three shady figures sitting at the back or their looks towards her or their hushed whispers. She just settled herself down on a seat and tried to calm herself down. She did not need to break out crying in the middle of the train ride home.
She took shuddering breathes as one of the three shady figures moved closer to her to get a better look at her figure. Her baby blue sundress showed of her figure quite nicely while it was wet, leaving nothing to the imagination of the three guys in the train with her. Her nipples seemed to strain against the tight wet clothes she bound them in while her skin shivered from the cold. Her wet raven black hair plastered itself on her back, making it difficult for her to move her head but she didn't take notice. She didn't take notice to anything around her just the pain that filled her heart and the depression she was falling deeper into.
The guy that had moved towards her to look at her sat on the opposite side as Kagome and just stared at her, trying to see if she would notice him at all. She didn't. She didn't even give a second glance at his pointed ears, his light blue hair or his strange ruby red eyes. She didn't see him in front of her; she saw her memories preserved in her heart, her sorrow filled good-byes and her empty future.
The train pulled to a jerky stop, braking her out of her stupor. With a sad frown, she stood up and walked past the man who sat in front of her to leave the train. Just six more blocks left before she was home. The guys from the train continued to stare at her as the train pulled away from her stop but they didn't object to the departure of the train or the fact that such a beautiful young woman just left, a prime piece of meat that they could have taken to have their way with. She continued, oblivious to her surroundings, to her apartment, ready to finally have some time alone where she could lock herself up all night and cry her heart out.
Rain continued to fall down on the heart broken and depressed girl as she made her way home. She looked like a ghost with her pale skin gleaming white as paper from the cold rain and her frail state while her dark tresses contrasted with her skin with the visibility reduced to a gray mist around her. The baby blue of her dress seemed dull, dirty, worn and old from her travels through the rain but anyone who saw her as she walked down the street, alone with her head bowed, would've know she had been through a tough time.
Without conscious thought, she walked into her apartment building and passed the security guard to the elevator, drops of dirty rain water left in her wake as the only piece of evidence to show that she had ever come by there. Pressing the button labeled twenty-two, she waited to reach her floor, hoping that her neighbors wouldn't wake up from the noise she inevitably had to make.
With a high pitched ding, the elevator doors slid open to let Kagome out on the twenty second floor where her apartment was located. She silently reached into her purse she had brought with her to the Sengoku Jidai and pulled out her house keys. A slight jingle and a soft click were the only sounds that could be heard in the silent hallway. Kagome slowly pushed open her front door, slipped off her heels and shut the door behind her, making sure the lock was secure.
Her purse fell to the side table next to the door with a clatter as she ran into her room, stripping her dress on the way without a care as to where it fell on her floor. She pulled the covers away from her bed almost ready to slide into her warm comfy sheets when she unhooked her bra, letting her full c cup breasts free from their cold and wet confines.
She slipped into her rose colored sheeted bed and snuggled deep within their soft texture, trying to push back her pained memories. Tears silently slipped from the corners of her closed eye lids while she drifted into a deep sleep, soft pain filled whimpers escaping her lips every once in a while.
Bright orange and gold light filtered through a curtain to land on the red puffy eyes of a sleeping young woman. She hesitantly moved her hands to her eyes and rubbed them to gain full sight. 'Please, tell me that was just a dream. When I open my eyes, I'll be in Kaede's hut with Sango helping to cook breakfast, Miroku sitting with a lecherous grin on his face and a pink hand print against one cheek. Shippou will be curled up next to me and Inuyasha will be off in a corner, waiting with a scowl on his face for us to get up and get moving. Please, don't let me be in my own bed, in my own time, in my own home. Please…no…' she thought as her once slumbering eyes lifted from their almost swollen shut eye lids. She was met with her bedroom wall, stark white and bear with only a few gold rays of sun filtering across it. 'No…no…NO! It was real…I really said good…bye…to…them…no…' Salty tears welled up on her eyes at the thought. She didn't want to believe it, she wanted to go back to sleep, a never ending sleep, so she could relive all her memories of the past without having to worry that she would wake up only to discover that all her friends were gone. She didn't want that. She didn't want them taken away from her to only be left in her mind's eye. She wanted them right in front of her, as real as they ever were.
Slowly, she stumbled from her bed into her connecting bathroom to wash away her tears and take a long hot shower. She slipped her white cotton panties down her legs and threw them off with her right foot, not caring that they landed on the golden doorknob of her bathroom door. She walked over to her frosted doors to her shower stall, slid them opened and turned the water on steaming hot. She needed a good hot shower to help lift her spirits.
She walked into the shower stall and let the steamy hot water droplets stream down her head into her hair and down her finely shaped body, rinsing her sorrows away for the time being. This is what she needed; something to get her mind off her past and her love, a place where she could focus solely on the feeling of hot water dripping down her body and the sensations that it brought with it, a get away.
She let the steamy hot water tumble down her slick already wet body until it turned a cool temperature, letting her know that she had used up most of the hot water. With fine delicate fingers, she turned the shower head off and opened her frosted sliding shower doors to grab for a towel from the towel rack right next to her. She dried herself off with her rose colored fluffy towel then rapped it around her waist length raven tresses to dry them from their soak state.
Not caring if she was nude, she walked out of her bathroom and into her bedroom to find something to wear. She grabbed a pair of black silk thongs and a matching bra along with an old worn long sleeved gray plaid flannel shirt with hints of black, red, and gold that was two seizes bigger than her normal shirt seize, a pair of snug but loose jeans and a pair of regular work boots. After slipping into her lingerie, she pulled her flannel shirt over she thin frame, buttoned it up and tied the shirt tails around her waist three inches above her navel. She tugged her jeans on and let them fall loosely around her hips, an inch below her navel. Taking out the towel in her hair, she made her way into her bathroom to run a brush through her dark tresses to get the tangles out.
She left her dark silky hair down to dry and left the bathroom to slip on her boots. She casually walked out of her room, looking at her discarded clothing from last night and deciding she would pick things up after she got back. She headed to her front door, grabbed her purse and exited out of her apartment to head to a local coffee shop a few blocks down called Rika's House of Coffee.
A little golden bell rang as the front door opened to the small but warm welcome coffee shop. A young woman with dark circles under her eyes breathed in deeply the smell of fresh coffee and walked up to the counter, ready to be served. Her pace was slow and she lacked energy. Her tired features and slow movement told all who looked upon her that she was not having the best of days.
"Welcome to Rika's House of Coffee, what can I get you?" ask a platinum blonde American with silver eyes. Her tanned pointed ears stood out against her light hair and Kagome took notice that her inner miko sensed that the young woman in front of her was a dragon youkai, not a powerful one but a youkai nonetheless.
"I would like a cappuccino and a chocolate chip muffin, please," Kagome ordered. She needed caffeine and she needed something sweet. The platinum blonde youkai whose name tag read Melissa, busied herself with making the order. Once the fresh cappuccino was pored into a large Styrofoam cup, she quickly made her way to grab an over seized chocolate chip muffin for her customer.
"Here you go," Melissa said as she handed Kagome her order and awaited the amount due which she got kindly.
"Arigatou," Kagome answered as she turned around to find a place to sit and enjoy her late morning snack. The coffee shop was decorated in warm reds and golds, making it seem old and ancient like history but the colors weren't all that comforting to Kagome.
She found a seat in a back corner that was free and walked over towards it, noticing for the first time the other customers in the coffee shop. There were a total of fifteen but what struck her as odd was that six of the customers were youkai. Two ookami youkai sat together, seemingly in love, over by a small stair well that led up to the second story of the coffee shop that opened for people to have lunch. The other four sat together in a group as if they were long time friends, one neko youkai, one bird youkai and two inu youkai, talking in hushed voices and looking over at her. She looked towards them and stared. They well all well built male youkai in which, if she was there any other time, their bodies would have been worshiped by her. She was too depressed to take to much notice of their bodies, just the fact that youkai existed in her time.
'This can't be! Youkai have never existed here before! Not since last…night…' she thought with bewilderment as she turned her head to stare out of the window by her seat, remembering her encounter with the guy from the train station she thought she hadn't seen. She watched as people passed by her, humans and youkai alike. All sorts of youkai roamed the streets before her, mixing and mingling with humans as if it were nothing. 'But can humans see them? Can a human see that there is a difference between some of the people around them or are the concealing themselves?' She continued to think over her observation as she sipped her cappuccino and ate her over seized chocolate chip muffin.
'Ok, if I can focus my power, I might be able to sense if the youkai around me are using something to conceal themselves from humans and the rest of the world.' She remembered her training with Kaede and focused her power as she continued to eat. She had to make it seem as if she wasn't doing anything but eating her food. Slowly, her powers picked up on magic all over the city, magic that only ancient youkai and people of the Sengoku Jidai knew, used and believed in. It was the power of spells perfected over time so youkai could conceal themselves in the living human world in her time. Her eyes widened as the realization struck and sunk into her mind.
'But how? How could youkai live through five hundred years without being detected and why haven't I sensed them before or seen through their spells like I can now?'