Disclaimer: I do have a puppy dog, but his name is Bronx, not Inuyasha,
or Sesshoumaru...so, sadly, I don't own them. But mine is very cute
anyway!
For a few minutes Kagome sat, still too stunned to move. She wasn't sure what had just happened. She looked around the room, trying to find something that would give her final answer one way or the other, but there was nothing.
The first thing she did was scan the room for the light switches. It was on the left side of the door, about a foot and a half above where the door handle sits. She looked around for lamps or other light forms in the room. There was one floor lamp brought by Sandra, and each of them had brought a desk lamp which sat on their respective desks. She gave a sigh of relief.
Kagome could feel herself relaxing again as she stretched her arms above her head and gave herself one last shake to kill the rest of the sleepiness that remained in her body. She still felt panicked though. She felt as though she was in a haunted house, waiting for a ghost to jump out from behind something and grab her at any moment. She hadn't felt this scared since...
Well, she didn't want to think about that - she hadn't been to the feudal era in a long time and she would never go again. There was no sense in thinking about that anymore. Kagome couldn't help but feel a little of the loss she had felt back then before she had hopped into the well for the last time to return home.
They had all gathered at the bone-eater's well – well, almost all of them. Inuyasha had disappeared a few weeks earlier. Kagome thought about the way they looked all standing together, she would never admit it, but she could feel Inuyasha's absence so strongly that it hurt more than anything else. She sat in bed remembering everything that happened that day and the few weeks before that.
They had finally defeated Naraku. Well, defeated in the sense that after the battle was over there was no trace of Naraku, or any of his minions. It seemed to everyone that he was completely destroyed, leaving nothing behind to even mark his existence other than memories.
However, in the process the Shikon no Tama had been completely destroyed. The group realizedd that its destruction was for the best in the end though. No more evil could come from it, and there was the assurance that another evil youkai like Naraku could never again come into so much power.
Miroku's Kazaana closed up forever, so – as his first act as a whole man – he molested Sango with his completed hand for the first time, of course. Sango slapped him, with both of her hands in response. Then, to the surprise of everyone else, she threw her arms around him in a strong embrace. It hadn't taken long after the end of the battle to get everything back in order. Kohaku had been killed in the final battle, so Sango mourned his loss. This time, she had Miroku to turn to for a shoulder to cry on, however, so things weren't so hopeless.
The entire group had sat down together after returning to Kaede's village to decide what they would do now. Sango and Miroku didn't know what they wanted to do next, exactly, only that they wanted to do it together. Kikyou had used the last of her strength and life in the final battle and was sucked into the Shikon no tama to destroy it, so Inuyasha no longer needed to search for her. He was also unsure of where to go next. Shippou would go wherever he was told to go. And that left only Kagome.
Kagome. Inuyasha had pulled her aside the night after the battle and they sat alone in the dark forest. He said nothing at first, but continued to look over at her like he had something important that needed to be said. It was Kagome who finally ended the silence. "Inuyasha, is there something you wanted? I'm getting cold out here away from the fire, so if you don't have anything to say, I'd like to go back by the fire."
Rather than saying a word, Inuyasha just pulled her into his arms and held her close. Kagome understood what he was trying to say, and decided that the mood was right this time to be silent. She curled up in his arms and soon the two of them had fallen sound asleep in the moodlight.
But now, days after they had returned. It was Kagome who had the biggest decision of all to make. She couldn't really stay in the feudal era, she missed her home sometimes, and she missed her old friends. Her mom expected her to go back to school the following year. And she would have exams coming up. In a few short years, she would be going to college, and that meant that she would move away from the shrine. How often could she go to the feudal era if she couldn't go to the well everyday?
She tried to talk to Inuyasha about coming to stay with her in the future. They got ten minutes into the conversation before they both realized that either of them staying in the others time permanently would never work. They also realized that asking one of them to go back and forth, or both of them to go back and forth would never work either. So now Kagome needed to decide. Try to give up everything she had at home and come live in the feudal era for good, despite the odds. Or give up the feudal era for good and go live normally at home. Maybe she could come back and visit on the weekends, though...
Kagome talked to Sango and Kaede for long hours about what they thought she should do. She talked to Inuyasha about how he felt and what should be done, and finally she came to the conclusion that she had to go back to her own time for good. Maybe she would be able to come back and visit on occasion, or maybe he could come to visit her sometimes too. It would just be like visiting a far away friend. Everything would be alright in the end.
So, Kagome prepared everything to leave for good. She said her goodbyes to Sango, Shippou, Miroku, Kaede. And then she went to find Inuyasha. After searching for awhile, she found him on a branch in Goshinboku. He was angry. She didn't understand.
"Inuyasha, I am leaving for good. Don't you even want to say goodbye?" She was upset too. He was angry with her for leaving yet he knew she had to, and now he wouldn't even say goodbye. Kagome sat at the bottom of the tree for hours waiting for him to come down and say even a word to her. But he didn't. So she sat at the bottom of the tree and cried. She cried until she had fallen asleep, exhausted from all the emotions she felt. It was then that Inuyasha had jumped down from his branch and crouched at her feet, silently watching her tear stained face as she slept.
He had leaned down to brush a spare hair from her face and as he did, he has whispered quietly, "You don't understand. I'm not angry with you. You are leaving to find a better life and you will only think of me as a memory. The memory of your first love...yet to me, I am losing the one person who taught me to trust and to love with all my heart. I am angry because I don't want to let you go, and I know that I have to." Then he had taken his rosary from around his neck and left it in her lap.
She had lain there for a few minutes after he left, thinking about what he had just said. When he had brushed away the hair he had woken her up, but she lay there silent, pretending to be asleep so that she could hear what he had to say. She decided at that moment, as she sat there holding the rosary in her hands, that she would never forget Inuyasha and that she would come back every weekend to see him.
But, what Kagome didn't know was that she would be trapped in her own time once she returned. She went back through the well that day and decided that she would go back in a few days once the weekend was there. But Saturday came and she went to the well, then jumped inside. Nothing happened. She sat in the bottom of the well and hit the sides and the bottom, but nothing happened. She climbed out and jumped in again, but she managed only to land wrong on her ankle, spraining it. Hours later, after Souta had come to help her out of the well, she was even more distraught.
Kagome had lain on her bed for hours that night trying to solve the mystery of why she couldn't go through the well, when all of a sudden a thought dawned on her. 'The Shikon no Tama is destroyed. I'll never be able to go through the well again.' Kagome cried herself to sleep again that night and almost every night that week. She realized that she would never see anyone from the feudal era ever again. She felt like someone had taken her heart and torn it to pieces then handed it back to her.
It took her months to get her life back in order, but eventually she did. Kagome sat in her bed thinking about all the ways her life had changed since those first few months after leaving the feudal era. She had moved on with her life and she was happy again for one of the first times since she left. She hoped that things would stay like this.
"Kagome? Are you coming?!" Kagome jumped what felt like a foot off the bed when Sandra had suddenly stuck her head in the door to get her.
Kagome thought a minute. "Coming where?" she asked.
"To the floor meeting?" Saudra sounded slightly annoyed. "C'mon, everyone's waiting!"
Kagome nodded, turned to put her feet on the floor, and stood up. Only to find herself lying flat on the floor.
"Kagome?! Are you okay?" Sandra said through the half-open door.
"I don't know..." Kagome managed in response. She tried to stand up again only to find that her left ankle would no longer hold her.
So, sorry that it's taken me so long to update, I've been insanely busy and I had just a touch of something – not exactly writer's block more like writer's decision making woes...long story! But here's Chapter 5 anyway, hope you like!
Gizmo369: Thanks for the review! Hope you like the rest.
Trina3: I'm so excited to hear someone in the city likes the story! I lived in the suburbs for 3 years and visit as much as I can so I'm hoping to get things as close to right about the city as possible. Thanks for saying something!
drow goddess: Thanks! I'm trying to build suspense, kind of...Is it working?
Stripe: Thanks for the compliment! I wasn't really sure at first what I wanted from this story, so I'm hoping that's it's turning out okay! Glad to know that you like it!
For a few minutes Kagome sat, still too stunned to move. She wasn't sure what had just happened. She looked around the room, trying to find something that would give her final answer one way or the other, but there was nothing.
The first thing she did was scan the room for the light switches. It was on the left side of the door, about a foot and a half above where the door handle sits. She looked around for lamps or other light forms in the room. There was one floor lamp brought by Sandra, and each of them had brought a desk lamp which sat on their respective desks. She gave a sigh of relief.
Kagome could feel herself relaxing again as she stretched her arms above her head and gave herself one last shake to kill the rest of the sleepiness that remained in her body. She still felt panicked though. She felt as though she was in a haunted house, waiting for a ghost to jump out from behind something and grab her at any moment. She hadn't felt this scared since...
Well, she didn't want to think about that - she hadn't been to the feudal era in a long time and she would never go again. There was no sense in thinking about that anymore. Kagome couldn't help but feel a little of the loss she had felt back then before she had hopped into the well for the last time to return home.
They had all gathered at the bone-eater's well – well, almost all of them. Inuyasha had disappeared a few weeks earlier. Kagome thought about the way they looked all standing together, she would never admit it, but she could feel Inuyasha's absence so strongly that it hurt more than anything else. She sat in bed remembering everything that happened that day and the few weeks before that.
They had finally defeated Naraku. Well, defeated in the sense that after the battle was over there was no trace of Naraku, or any of his minions. It seemed to everyone that he was completely destroyed, leaving nothing behind to even mark his existence other than memories.
However, in the process the Shikon no Tama had been completely destroyed. The group realizedd that its destruction was for the best in the end though. No more evil could come from it, and there was the assurance that another evil youkai like Naraku could never again come into so much power.
Miroku's Kazaana closed up forever, so – as his first act as a whole man – he molested Sango with his completed hand for the first time, of course. Sango slapped him, with both of her hands in response. Then, to the surprise of everyone else, she threw her arms around him in a strong embrace. It hadn't taken long after the end of the battle to get everything back in order. Kohaku had been killed in the final battle, so Sango mourned his loss. This time, she had Miroku to turn to for a shoulder to cry on, however, so things weren't so hopeless.
The entire group had sat down together after returning to Kaede's village to decide what they would do now. Sango and Miroku didn't know what they wanted to do next, exactly, only that they wanted to do it together. Kikyou had used the last of her strength and life in the final battle and was sucked into the Shikon no tama to destroy it, so Inuyasha no longer needed to search for her. He was also unsure of where to go next. Shippou would go wherever he was told to go. And that left only Kagome.
Kagome. Inuyasha had pulled her aside the night after the battle and they sat alone in the dark forest. He said nothing at first, but continued to look over at her like he had something important that needed to be said. It was Kagome who finally ended the silence. "Inuyasha, is there something you wanted? I'm getting cold out here away from the fire, so if you don't have anything to say, I'd like to go back by the fire."
Rather than saying a word, Inuyasha just pulled her into his arms and held her close. Kagome understood what he was trying to say, and decided that the mood was right this time to be silent. She curled up in his arms and soon the two of them had fallen sound asleep in the moodlight.
But now, days after they had returned. It was Kagome who had the biggest decision of all to make. She couldn't really stay in the feudal era, she missed her home sometimes, and she missed her old friends. Her mom expected her to go back to school the following year. And she would have exams coming up. In a few short years, she would be going to college, and that meant that she would move away from the shrine. How often could she go to the feudal era if she couldn't go to the well everyday?
She tried to talk to Inuyasha about coming to stay with her in the future. They got ten minutes into the conversation before they both realized that either of them staying in the others time permanently would never work. They also realized that asking one of them to go back and forth, or both of them to go back and forth would never work either. So now Kagome needed to decide. Try to give up everything she had at home and come live in the feudal era for good, despite the odds. Or give up the feudal era for good and go live normally at home. Maybe she could come back and visit on the weekends, though...
Kagome talked to Sango and Kaede for long hours about what they thought she should do. She talked to Inuyasha about how he felt and what should be done, and finally she came to the conclusion that she had to go back to her own time for good. Maybe she would be able to come back and visit on occasion, or maybe he could come to visit her sometimes too. It would just be like visiting a far away friend. Everything would be alright in the end.
So, Kagome prepared everything to leave for good. She said her goodbyes to Sango, Shippou, Miroku, Kaede. And then she went to find Inuyasha. After searching for awhile, she found him on a branch in Goshinboku. He was angry. She didn't understand.
"Inuyasha, I am leaving for good. Don't you even want to say goodbye?" She was upset too. He was angry with her for leaving yet he knew she had to, and now he wouldn't even say goodbye. Kagome sat at the bottom of the tree for hours waiting for him to come down and say even a word to her. But he didn't. So she sat at the bottom of the tree and cried. She cried until she had fallen asleep, exhausted from all the emotions she felt. It was then that Inuyasha had jumped down from his branch and crouched at her feet, silently watching her tear stained face as she slept.
He had leaned down to brush a spare hair from her face and as he did, he has whispered quietly, "You don't understand. I'm not angry with you. You are leaving to find a better life and you will only think of me as a memory. The memory of your first love...yet to me, I am losing the one person who taught me to trust and to love with all my heart. I am angry because I don't want to let you go, and I know that I have to." Then he had taken his rosary from around his neck and left it in her lap.
She had lain there for a few minutes after he left, thinking about what he had just said. When he had brushed away the hair he had woken her up, but she lay there silent, pretending to be asleep so that she could hear what he had to say. She decided at that moment, as she sat there holding the rosary in her hands, that she would never forget Inuyasha and that she would come back every weekend to see him.
But, what Kagome didn't know was that she would be trapped in her own time once she returned. She went back through the well that day and decided that she would go back in a few days once the weekend was there. But Saturday came and she went to the well, then jumped inside. Nothing happened. She sat in the bottom of the well and hit the sides and the bottom, but nothing happened. She climbed out and jumped in again, but she managed only to land wrong on her ankle, spraining it. Hours later, after Souta had come to help her out of the well, she was even more distraught.
Kagome had lain on her bed for hours that night trying to solve the mystery of why she couldn't go through the well, when all of a sudden a thought dawned on her. 'The Shikon no Tama is destroyed. I'll never be able to go through the well again.' Kagome cried herself to sleep again that night and almost every night that week. She realized that she would never see anyone from the feudal era ever again. She felt like someone had taken her heart and torn it to pieces then handed it back to her.
It took her months to get her life back in order, but eventually she did. Kagome sat in her bed thinking about all the ways her life had changed since those first few months after leaving the feudal era. She had moved on with her life and she was happy again for one of the first times since she left. She hoped that things would stay like this.
"Kagome? Are you coming?!" Kagome jumped what felt like a foot off the bed when Sandra had suddenly stuck her head in the door to get her.
Kagome thought a minute. "Coming where?" she asked.
"To the floor meeting?" Saudra sounded slightly annoyed. "C'mon, everyone's waiting!"
Kagome nodded, turned to put her feet on the floor, and stood up. Only to find herself lying flat on the floor.
"Kagome?! Are you okay?" Sandra said through the half-open door.
"I don't know..." Kagome managed in response. She tried to stand up again only to find that her left ankle would no longer hold her.
So, sorry that it's taken me so long to update, I've been insanely busy and I had just a touch of something – not exactly writer's block more like writer's decision making woes...long story! But here's Chapter 5 anyway, hope you like!
Gizmo369: Thanks for the review! Hope you like the rest.
Trina3: I'm so excited to hear someone in the city likes the story! I lived in the suburbs for 3 years and visit as much as I can so I'm hoping to get things as close to right about the city as possible. Thanks for saying something!
drow goddess: Thanks! I'm trying to build suspense, kind of...Is it working?
Stripe: Thanks for the compliment! I wasn't really sure at first what I wanted from this story, so I'm hoping that's it's turning out okay! Glad to know that you like it!