Hey you guys! Sorry it took so long to get this out but well the last year has really sucked.... But now things have settled down . yay . so I can finally put these up! Thanks to ANYONE who reads and please review I need encouragement.... Oh and I do not own any of the Inuyasha characters, just the ones that come from my head. But I still don't really own those either ummm yea so anyway....... Here is the story finally ::sigh::
Chapter 3: A whole new world...
Kagome climbed out of the well. Now that she was away from Inuyasha she felt her tears returning. And she sat next to the well and wept. Everything she had said to him came back to her.
"I am sick of you..... HALFBREED"
The words danced sickly in her head. "I can't believe I said those things to him," she whispered to herself, "why was I so angry? I-I actually hated him for a minute."
She got up and stood in front of the well wondering if she should go back. Standing there she debated for a minute before turning toward the door, figuring they both needed time to cool down. She shoved down the knowledge that she was being cowardly and pushed open the door.
She stepped out in to the darkness and rounded the corner of the well house. Her first thought was that her house was gone, only broken bits of its foundation lay on the ground. She stood and stared trying to comprehend what could have happened. She stumbled over the large concrete slabs falling on her knees, as she had so often done before, in front of the God tree. The only familiar thing left standing, and even that feet appeared to be a miracle. There were large gashes along its trunk and its branches were barren. Everything looked as if it had been through a natural disaster.
Kagome instinctively knew that her family was not around, she knew that no one was around. She pushed her energy out farther feeling for the chi of life that hovered around all living things, she found none. Why weren't there any people in Tokyo? She asked herself, what could have happened to cause the destruction she saw, the lifelessness.
She walked down the temple steppes and out on to the street. She walked down the street slowly realizing that the destruction she saw was not from a natural disaster, but what could have cause ruin still eluded her. She glanced west and saw that there weren't any skyscrapers; the whole skyline of the city had changed. She walked up to one of the few houses that were still standing and saw that they looked like a patchwork quilt of architect styles and materials haphazardly thrown together. None of them had any glass, and all looked as if the had either been torn down or left to disrepair.
Kagome wandered down the street hoping to find something more familiar then the jumbled and faded houses along the way. Noting the scared road that was made of bricks and cobblestones in some areas and just dirt in others, she continued on, only stopping to stare at a few of the more disjointed eyesores. She had walked three blocks; maybe more it was hard to tell through the dark and debris, before she felt two evil auras coming swiftly towards her. Before she could even turn to hide strong arms wrapped around her throat and waist.
"don't scream- don't make any noise at all if you want to live." A deep voice whispered in her ear. Before she was pulled behind a half standing wall.
When the two demons appeared where she had just been standing she gasped and his arms tightened against her throat in warning. The two demons made their way down the street. She could hear them sniffing, trying to smell her out. They passed by the wall, she held her breath and willed them to keep going. They kept walking until the end of the street where they turned looked around and took off running in the opposite direction.
The man who held her let out a sigh and loosened his grip. "you're not going to take off on me, are you?"
She shook her head and he let her go. She turned and found herself staring into very familiar gray eyes.
"Miroku?" she gasped out.
"How do you know my father?" Kagome's eyes widened, "father" she whispered.
Miroku couldn't have a son, and even then how was his son in her time- or in what she assumed was her time she thought.
The man was looking at her curiously and she realized she hadn't answered him.
"I-uh- used to know him, a long time ago."
He nodded "well if you know my father then you might as well come back to the base with me, its safer there, oh" He laughed "by the way my name is Nakatsu." She beamed at him, "I am Kagome."
His smile faded "Kagome?" he repeated. She nodded "then you have to come with me." She glanced up at his now emotionless face, and began to follow him as he walked away.
It took a little over a half an hour to get to the large building she assumed was the base. Nakatsu opened a door in the back of the building and walked down a long hall with a stone floor.
Kagome could feel people in the building, demons and humans both, and she began to wonder what kind of base this was. Nakatsu Brought her to a dark room, which held a large table in the middle, reminding her of a conference room for a large company.
"Wait here, I'll be right back" he said, and closed the door leaving her in the dark.