Daniel's Disclaimer: Yeah, I'm still not related to Rumiko Takahashi; she doesn't have any nieces, that I know of, so it's not even like I can marry into her family or something. So, I still don't own any of this.
This is another one that sprung from my head fully formed, Athena-like. The second is just kinda an apology for putting up with how much I talk.
He rang the door bell.
The door opened, and her mother stood there. "Do I know you?"
"Yeah." He said. "I'm Inu-Yasha."
"You look different..."
He shrugged. "It's been five hundred years. Anyway, Kagome has to go back in time for as long as it takes to complete the jewel."
"And why should I do that!? Is Kagome supposed to throw away her education!? Am--"
He cut her off. "Here's ten million yen." He said, handing her the suitcase. "Now, Kagome will go back with my past self without any argument, right?"
She opened the suitcase, and nodded vigorously.
Take two!
It was fast, and quick, and surprisingly easy.
Hardest was getting the old man's blood out of the carpet, but he had a few days before she'd be back. After all, she'd only gone down the well that morning.
And now that the real family was gone, his simulacrums could fill in. They used the same spell as the kugutsu, so it was a snap.
The girl would never know anything.
But he knew everything. Three years until she would fail, her hanyou lover dead with her.
Naraku was the sort to read the last page of a book first.
...I'm a horrible person.
