First some good news! Thanks to K-Bob *love ya* I today (19/4-04) got my
first boyfriend ever! Love ya so much K-Bob ^^ *singing happily*
Now, thanks for my little speech, on with the story:
Back again! In this chapter no lyrics... but still...
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Translations:
Japanese – English – Eventually meaning in this story
Kisetsu – Season – Miroku and Sango's oldest daughter, five years
Shinju – Pearl – Miroku and Sango's youngest daughter, three years old and twin to Akai
Akai – Red – Miroku and Sango's only son, he is three years old and twin to Shinju
Hakari – Scale – Kiraras son
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA OR ANY CHARACTER!
'Thinking'
"Talking"
Lyrics
*Last chapter happenings*
After the nights happenings its time to get back to the village, Kagome healed Kohaku from the wound and could in order with his shard and Kougas two shard make the jewel complete. Under the way to the village Kagome realizes that this is the end. She and Inuyasha say goodbye by the well, and Inuyasha promises to wait for her how long it ever will take.
_.-:~*Chapter 3 – The day the world ended*~:-._
~Kyoto, Japan, 15 July 2005~
"W... wait a second, I have the paper..." Kagome threw the stuff out of her bag while holding the cell phone towards her shoulder. "I know the report should have been in today, and I am really sorry... but can you listen!" She got the paper she seeked and drew it out. "Yes, it says fifteenth July, and it is the report of my transfer to Tokyo, Hai... Number? Ehm... 1-7-5-8-45... Hai, Higurashi Kagome... Photographer, searching for post at Tokyo Daily news... Hai, that's correct. Transfer within two days, I can see if I can catch a plane... Arigatou Gozaimasu, Ja ne..." She pushed the off button.
"Really! Can't they realize I'm transferring! 'Get the paper quickly!' Ke!" She bit her lip as the familiar word slipped from her tongue. He hand automatically went to her neck, where she knew her scar would be.
"Inuyasha..." She whispered weakly as memories flooded over her. More than five years had passed since she left him. She could still imagine his gentle touch, his claws at her back... But she hadn't seen him in five years... Stuck In Kyoto... but tomorrow... She would transfer and be able to pay them a visit. She realized she needed to find a plane to Tokyo before tomorrow, or she would screw it up. She quickly put her stuff back into her bag and looked in the mirror. She still looked nearly the same as for five years ago, with waist-length raven locks and chocolate eyes. The difference was her clothing. Kagome now often wore a white dress and a black scarf. Her school dress... that was years ago... And she didn't have to worry about winter clothing, the last years the temperature had risen drastically, must because of the US doing Test with Nuclear weapon in the Okinawa region, and all over the world. The temperature never got less than 12 degrees Celsius anymore, and today it was about 40... degrees... She sighed and put on a level 65 sun lotion, she had always been frail against sunshine, and now with all the holes in the ozone layer... She sighed. In Europe it was worst. The Netherlands and half Sweden (A/N: Blubb blubb *under water* XP) where under water, as well as Denmark, France and Spain. The water level had been increasing higher as the Poles where melting away in the sun. She took her bag and left the hotel room. She checked out and got a cab to the Airport. She thought of her friends the whole time. Sango and Miroku had gotten married, she knew... but nothing more.
Her cell phone rang and she answered.
"Higurashi Kagome"
"Hey Kag! It's Eri" Kagome greeted back. Eri had gone biological college with her, but Kagome became a photographer and Eri a science in biology.
"You can't guess what stuff we found today" She said. "It is a biological Gas that can be used as car fuel"
"Great! But it's a bit late now" Kagome rolled her eyes at the endless sun outside.
"I know... but I can mail you the form, and then you can check through it?"
"Sure..." She thought how it would be if that fuel had been used from the beginning, and if Nuclear weapons didn't exist in the beginning, all that stuff.
"Mailing now, well, I heard you're coming back to Tokyo?"
"True... I got your mail now..." She opened the message on her laptop and read through the form.
"And all you need is some Bio-gas and water?"
"Including the mix of the two other ingredients... what were they..."
"You need to get it burning to make it work, and have a new system in the car... sounds good and expensive... but it seems to be able to work..." She printed the form and put it into her file-map. The driver told her that they were at the airport. She ended the call and took her laptop, her bags and Photographers tools. She went to the nearest service.
"Next plane to Tokyo?"
"Leaves in twenty minutes, can you run?"
"Sure" The woman gave her a ticket and she sprinted of, leaving her bags and took her Laptop and tools. She spurted into the gate a minute before leaving, and got precisely into the plane, and found her seat. She panted and took up her laptop, her mother had written a mail.
"Kagome, Can you call me please, I need to talk..."
She sighed. The same again, just because she had work cell phone, and not did have to pay... She called her up.
"Hello mom, I can't talk, I'm on the plane, coming to Tokyo in an hour or so... Cya!" She said and turned the phone of. She sighed and leaned against the back of the chair.
~*~
She came home that afternoon and went straight for the kitchen.
"Mom?" She called. Mrs. Higurashi came out and greeted her.
"Hello Kagome, I heard you were coming. Did you get transferred?"
"It depends on..." Kagome said while putting her bags down. "If they accept me"
"When is the meeting?" Mrs. Higurashi asked while looking at her, or make that study.
"Tomorrow morning..." She noticed her mother's looks. "What!?"
"You really should get yourself a boyfriend, or a husband make that" Her mother said. Kagome rolled her eyes and sighed.
"MOM! We've discussed this!" She grabbed the jewel she always wore around her neck. "I am already as near a marriage as possible!"
"With some half-demon you probably won't see again" Mrs. Higurashi sighed. "And how do people know it is true?" Kagome sighed and lifted her hair. The scar that was left after Inuyashas mark was fully visible.
"Demons, and make that Half-demons, both mark their mates like this so that none other can take her"
"Kagome, you can't be faithful to somebody who not seems to be that to you"
"What do you know!?" Kagome yelled. "We shared a promise, and promises are held, even by Half-demons!" With those words she ran into her room and began packing for tomorrow. After the meeting she planned to go to the Feudal era over the weekend... the first time in five years... She sighed.
"Hope they all are okay..." She put down all her stuff that reminded her of them, and clothes, other unnecessary stuff and even Shampoo. She ate under silence her dinner before getting up to her room. She opened her diary and read the last two entries... her last two days...
"And probably my most wonderful..." She whispered. She slowly drifted into sleep.
~*Next day*~
"LATE!!! Damn it!!!" Kagomes yells where heard over the whole Higurashi shrine. She combed her hair frantically while choosing clothes; she took a white top and skirt, with a grey scarf. Two minutes later she ate her breakfast without even looking at her mom, who herself was sighing the whole time while looking at her daughter. 'She is twenty-four now; she really should get married soon...'
Kagome rose up from the table and grabbed her file map, and her laptop.
"Bye mom!" She yelled before running out. Her mother stared after her for a while, before turning on the TV. She grasped and then rushed out the house, into the well house. She had chained the well, just in case...
"This time... fate is against me..." She said bitterly while unlocking the chains. "But I won't let another child die!"
~*~
Kagome ran through the city, people seemed depressed, but she didn't notice. She just cursed about the sun, and she hadn't put on any lotion...
"I have five minutes... WHERE is that newspaper stuffie...?" She rushed to the next street and found the right house. "Here it is!"
~*~
"Miss Higurashi, we find your stats really good, but thanks to the situation we're closing"
"What situations!?" She yelled. The man looked at her.
"You haven't heard?" he turned on the TV, on the news... Kagome got cold... On the screen a message flashed:
"The ozone layer will not hold against the sun's flaming heat for much longer, we think of maximum a week. After that the sun will probably burn the whole world into ashes..."
"This is a joke, right?" She said. They shook their heads. "But why?"
"A nuclear missile missed its target and hit a very... Ehem... dangerous spot..." one of the men said. "The ozone layer is getting terribly weak, and from now until a week is the strongest sun-part..." Kagome turned, rushing out. "NOT NOW!" She yelled and continued running through Tokyo's streets. 'NOT NOW' She continued screaming, inside her head...
~*~
Kagome slowly went up the shrine stairs of Higurashi shrine and met her mother. She looked worried.
"I've heard..." Kagome started.
"You need to get away" She said pushing a bag into her hands.
"AWAY?" Kagome yelled. Was she sending her away? Ms. Higurashi turned.
"At least you should be able to survive..."
"MOM! What are you babbling about?" Her mother dragged her towards the well house. She still held onto her Laptop and photographers tools.
"W...Wait!" She yelled when they got inside. "Why the haste?"
"The day a week away is tomorrow Kagome, I know it...! And you need to survive... Since Souta died in that Car crash (A/N: HAHA! I let Souta DIE!!!)"
"But I can't leave you here!" She took a step towards her mother.
"You leave right now!" She said, throwing the bag at her, making her fall into the well.
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!" She yelled before something hit her head and she saw only darkness...
~*~
"Shinju! Akai! Get away from there! You know Inuyasha's gonna kill you if he knows!" A five-year-old Girl with shoulder-length black hair yelled. She had violet eyes and looked like she could kill with her eyes. She wore a purple Yukata.
"But Kisetsu-Oneesama!" Two kids yelled back from the house they where approaching. The where twins, three years old. One girl, Shinju, and a boy, Akai. They both had short brown hair and nearly black eyes. Shinju wore a white Yukata with stars on while Akai wore black clothing.
"No but's! You know the Well Shrine is forbidden!" Kisetsu heard a mew and turned a little. "Hakari?" A yellow two-tailed cat with purple stripes and green eyes jumped on her shoulder. "Go get those brats please, before Inuyasha gets back" The cat nodded and turned into a big two-tailed cat. He chased the two kids and caught them against a tree.
"ONEESAMA!!!" They yelled. "GET HIM AWAY!" Kisetsu walked to them and grabbed them both by the ear.
"You know who else would be angry if they knew you where there without permission?" They both gulped. Their parents would. They would be angry if they knew they were outside the village...
"Please don't tell them!" They asked. She sighed.
"Get back home then" She let them go. They turned after a few feet's.
"What about you?" Shinju asked while Akai glared at his older sister.
"I, on my hand, have a permission. Inuyasha's gonna tell me the tale today"
"UNFAIR!" they yelled before running away at her glare. She sat down outside the well shrine. Inuyasha had on his own built it a few years ago. She was only little then... She studied the house. He had put down much job on it... And he was going to tell her about it today... She smiled. Her father often said that Inuyasha lost his love to the well, what that now meant.
"Maybe that's why he hasn't gotten a wife yet" She said aloud.
"Who hasn't?" She turned.
"Inuyasha! You heard me?"
"I'm not that old that my ears are getting bad" The Hanyo laughed. He stroke the cat-youkai between the ears. "Hello to you too Hakari" He turned back to Kisetsu. "Who were you talking about?"
"Actually..." The girl bit her lip. "... You"
"You know why" The Hanyo answered and shot her a glare. She nodded.
"I know... Dad told me about it once... but I don't know what it meant..." Inuyasha glanced at the Well shrine. He sighed once and picked out a golden medallion from his pocket. He carefully opened it and showed it to the girl. She looked at the two photographs. One of them was Inuyasha and one was another girl.
"That girl's called Kagome" He said before closing it. "I guess you have seen the picture of the whole group that your mother has in your house, right?" The girl nodded. Inuyasha sat down on the grass before her and started talking.
"She came out of that well the first time, eight years ago. I was still pinned to that tree; you know that story, right?" He saw Kisetsu nod before continuing. "She was from five-hundred yeas into the future" Kisetsu raised her eyebrows, showing she didn't buy it. "I promise you, she did! And well... She freed me, and I first thought it was Kikyo, they were incarnations so that was not so surprising..." The young girl continued listening carefully, while the Cat-Youkai fell asleep in her lap. While she listened, she could see the Hanyos gaze turn to something far away, and something inside her said that this tale could be truer than she first thought.
~*~
Akai muttered curses while he and his twin-sister walked back towards the village. Of some reason the once small village now started growing. Mostly since their dad and mom started gaining in some money and time to build. Both they and Inuyasha had already a long time been exterminating Youkais, and now they had protected the village long enough to make it grow.
"I don't get it! Why does only Kisetsu get the fun!?" He muttered. Shinju picked a magenta-coloured flower from the grass and put it behind her ear.
"Maybe because she is two years older" She answered.
"But I'm a BOY! They must realize that Kisetsu is not worthy..." He got silent as they reached the village. He didn't want anybody to hear. Shinju giggled.
"Scaredy-cat!" She teased before running towards the stairs at the north end of the village. He frowned before running after. They stopped and bowed for priestess Kaede in the house just beneath the stairs before getting up. Akai looked at the shrine up there. It also had much to do with the Tale that his older sister now got to hear. He and Shinju bowed another time. Then they set of towards the house at the end of the west side (You need to go that way to get there).
"I still think that..." Shinju hissed at him as they reached the door. She already stood with her ear against it. Akai looked wondering at her before doing the same. Their parents were talking.
"I'm still worried about Inuyasha; he's getting further away from social life!" Sango said as she stomped across the room. Miroku tried to calm her down.
"Of course it's because he waits for Kagome-sama..."
"I know!" Sango yelled. "But he doesn't even take the time throwing bad comments at either Kouga or anybody else, and he always is by the Well shrine" She sat down.
"I miss Kagome too, but I guess he does it more..." Miroku said. "After all... well... they shared a bond that night... it's nothing you just forget..."
"No... but every time she comes up as a subject he gets this far-away look and I see the sadness Miroku! Worse than anything... I get hurt just by LOOKING at him for god's sake!"
"I know... I didn't like Kisetsu almost forcing him to tell her the tale..."
"Not only then... Every time! Remember when Akai asked who the girl was? Inuyasha looked away before muttering a 'nobody' as an answer... And when everybody asks him about the well tale..."
"That's normally; he is after all the guardian of it since four years..." Miroku sighed.
"Do you think she comes back?" Sango asked suddenly, looking at the picture.
"Hai, just as I said before..." Miroku silenced. He looked outside, feeling an aura...
"Miroku..." Sango gasped.
"I think we got... a visitor..." Miroku smirked before getting to the door. He opened it and almost knocked his twins over.
"What are you... we don't have time now... We need to do a thing. Go to Kaede, she will know the reason..." And with those words he and Sango left the two confused twins.
~*~
Kisetsu stared at the Hanyo as he suddenly stopped talking. He was gazing towards the Well shrine.
"What..." She started. She saw him blink twice.
"K...Kagome..." He said before rising up. The five-year old followed him with a confused look as he left quickly, dropping the cat in the grass.
~*~
Kagome regained consciousness and blinked in the dark.
"The well..." She remembered her mother pushing her into it with the bag she now had on top off her. She looked at her laptop and found it unbroken, just as her tools.
"I need to get back..." She climbed up a bit before jumping down... nothing happened. She tried again with the same result.
"I can't go back! It's not true!!! IT CAN'T be!!!" She screamed. She started digging, even if she knew... Her world was gone... swallowed by it own self, burned by the sun... She cried a few tears before looking up. The well was darker than it would have been if she was outside... was it night? She looked up, no stars... but...
"A roof?" She asked herself while rising up. She brushed her clothing of before she heard the sound of bamboo moved away, letting some light in. Then she heard a voice she never thought she would hear again...
"Kagome?" She glanced up. She saw the same amber eyes and the same silver hair...
"INUYASHA!" She cried out.
~*~
Inuyasha almost sighed in relief, he wasn't dreaming, she was there!
"Kagome, hang on a second, I'm coming down!" He turned to the five-year old in the doorway. "I'll be right back" He started getting himself down the well. He stepped down on the hard earth floor and just looked at her, and she just looked at him.
"Inuyasha..." She whispered. He just smiled. "INUYASHA!" She threw herself against him, crystal tears forming in her eyes. He carefully laid his arms around her, just holding her while she sobbed towards his chest.
"I missed you..." She sulked. "I missed you so much..."
"Sch..." He whispered. "I missed you too, but it's okay now..." She looked up, red-eyed, but smiling.
"Hai... it's okay now" She saw a shadow through the small light coming down and looked up. Kisetsus violet eyes looked down at her. "Who's that?" Inuyasha looked up.
"Who? Oh... that's Kisetsu" Kagome let go of him and then looked up.
"Who's?" She asked. He smirked.
"Kisetsu, go get your parents, would ya?" He asked.
"No need to!" Two voices replied, and Kisetsus head was joined by two other.
"MIROKU! SANGO!" Kagome shouted happily. Her two friends smiled.
"You can greet them a bit later; let's get your stuff up..." He lifted her bag with a sigh. "Always as heavy hm?" She smiled and took her laptop and photo-tools. She quickly got up the well and was followed by Inuyasha. Her two friends had moved out of the little house and Kisetsu had also been dragged out. As she looked around she realized something.
"Hey! It's looking the same as in my time!" Inuyasha smirked.
"I realized that AFTER I built it..." She stared at him, nearly dropping her stuff.
"You built it?" She asked.
"Yup" He answered and left the Shrine. She followed. "I had a bit of time, you will see, many things have changed in the past five years..." He dropped her bag on the ground. "Now you can greet I think... if you don't have another bag hidden somewhere?" Kagome laughed and shook her head. She as well laid her stuff on the ground.
"Are you really from the future?" Was the first thing she heard. She looked at the girl, Kisetsu. In the daylight you could see she was quite alike Miroku, eye-colour and all. Only difference in appearance was that she was a girl.
"Yeah, at least I was" She answered a bit bitterly.
"What do you mean?" The other three asked.
"The biggest reason that I have so much stuff... is that my world was destroyed..." She hardly could get the words out. They stared at her in shock.
"HOW?" They then asked, Kisetsu only stared, wondering what the hell they meant.
"Well... due to its own habitants worthless care of it... it was destroyed by own things..." She shrugged her shoulders, showing she couldn't explain it better. They nodded a little, and the looked at her with pity in their eyes.
"I'll get over it..." She said chirping. "I at least didn't die, and I got too see you... and I guess I have to live here now..."
"That's great" Inuyasha said. "Only the part with you living here" He continued teasingly. She stuck her tongue out. The other two laughed.
"We should talk at our home, Inuyasha, you are joining?" Miroku said, and Sango continued. "We need to get the twins from Kaede..."
"Wait! You have more kids?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha nodded at Miroku. Sango nodded.
"We have Kisetsu, she's five, and our twins, Akai and Shinju, they're three" Kagome shook her head again, but picked her stuff up, it was already afternoon, and she hardly had anything too eat. Kisetsu studied her.
"You have weird clothes" She stated. Kagome smiled.
"Well, in my time I hadn't" Inuyasha picked her bag up again.
"Shall we go?" He asked before looking over at the shrine. "Hope it doesn't burn down or something while I'm gone" They laughed at his joke, but Sango whispered in Kagome's ear:
"He has been sitting in a tree near that shrine these five years, almost all the time... He was slipping away from social life... but now he's back in normal state" Kagome smiled again and started walking after the monk and the Hanyo.
"You know where Shippou is?" She asked. The other laughed.
"Probably where he uses to be" Inuyasha said. "Telling the 'children' of HIS great efforts in the adventure" Kagome laughed again.
"The worst lie he made up was how HE taught ME how to use Kongousouha against Naraku" He continued. "But I surely got that one out of him"
"Yeah, by chasing him through the whole village and afterwards hit him against a tree till he fainted" Miroku said. Kagome smirked.
"Inuyasha..." She said slowly. Inuyasha turned his head towards her.
"I think I'm gonna hear a word I haven't heard in five years" He said, surprisingly smiling.
"Right guess" She chirped before... "Osuwari" Inuyasha crashed against the ground.
"Man, I never thought I would hear that again" Sango said. Miroku smiled.
"Well, I thought, just a matter of time"
"For one time" Inuyasha said while rising up. "I'm not getting mad about it" Kisetsu stared.
"Honey, you'll understand later" Sango told her before walking on with the others, the girl following, still wondering what had happened.
_.-:~*End Chapter*~:-._
Stopping there! I at least told about how the world ended... a little short, but it will be described in detail later (How? I won't tell)
Next chapter will be much about how their lives has been for those five years (a bit more, nearly six actually, but still)
Review! And I will put up next chapter soon... And it WILL be more fluff, little later just... now that they have little kids and stuff :P
Until next time:
JA NE!
/Ashley
Now, thanks for my little speech, on with the story:
Back again! In this chapter no lyrics... but still...
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Translations:
Japanese – English – Eventually meaning in this story
Kisetsu – Season – Miroku and Sango's oldest daughter, five years
Shinju – Pearl – Miroku and Sango's youngest daughter, three years old and twin to Akai
Akai – Red – Miroku and Sango's only son, he is three years old and twin to Shinju
Hakari – Scale – Kiraras son
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA OR ANY CHARACTER!
'Thinking'
"Talking"
Lyrics
*Last chapter happenings*
After the nights happenings its time to get back to the village, Kagome healed Kohaku from the wound and could in order with his shard and Kougas two shard make the jewel complete. Under the way to the village Kagome realizes that this is the end. She and Inuyasha say goodbye by the well, and Inuyasha promises to wait for her how long it ever will take.
_.-:~*Chapter 3 – The day the world ended*~:-._
~Kyoto, Japan, 15 July 2005~
"W... wait a second, I have the paper..." Kagome threw the stuff out of her bag while holding the cell phone towards her shoulder. "I know the report should have been in today, and I am really sorry... but can you listen!" She got the paper she seeked and drew it out. "Yes, it says fifteenth July, and it is the report of my transfer to Tokyo, Hai... Number? Ehm... 1-7-5-8-45... Hai, Higurashi Kagome... Photographer, searching for post at Tokyo Daily news... Hai, that's correct. Transfer within two days, I can see if I can catch a plane... Arigatou Gozaimasu, Ja ne..." She pushed the off button.
"Really! Can't they realize I'm transferring! 'Get the paper quickly!' Ke!" She bit her lip as the familiar word slipped from her tongue. He hand automatically went to her neck, where she knew her scar would be.
"Inuyasha..." She whispered weakly as memories flooded over her. More than five years had passed since she left him. She could still imagine his gentle touch, his claws at her back... But she hadn't seen him in five years... Stuck In Kyoto... but tomorrow... She would transfer and be able to pay them a visit. She realized she needed to find a plane to Tokyo before tomorrow, or she would screw it up. She quickly put her stuff back into her bag and looked in the mirror. She still looked nearly the same as for five years ago, with waist-length raven locks and chocolate eyes. The difference was her clothing. Kagome now often wore a white dress and a black scarf. Her school dress... that was years ago... And she didn't have to worry about winter clothing, the last years the temperature had risen drastically, must because of the US doing Test with Nuclear weapon in the Okinawa region, and all over the world. The temperature never got less than 12 degrees Celsius anymore, and today it was about 40... degrees... She sighed and put on a level 65 sun lotion, she had always been frail against sunshine, and now with all the holes in the ozone layer... She sighed. In Europe it was worst. The Netherlands and half Sweden (A/N: Blubb blubb *under water* XP) where under water, as well as Denmark, France and Spain. The water level had been increasing higher as the Poles where melting away in the sun. She took her bag and left the hotel room. She checked out and got a cab to the Airport. She thought of her friends the whole time. Sango and Miroku had gotten married, she knew... but nothing more.
Her cell phone rang and she answered.
"Higurashi Kagome"
"Hey Kag! It's Eri" Kagome greeted back. Eri had gone biological college with her, but Kagome became a photographer and Eri a science in biology.
"You can't guess what stuff we found today" She said. "It is a biological Gas that can be used as car fuel"
"Great! But it's a bit late now" Kagome rolled her eyes at the endless sun outside.
"I know... but I can mail you the form, and then you can check through it?"
"Sure..." She thought how it would be if that fuel had been used from the beginning, and if Nuclear weapons didn't exist in the beginning, all that stuff.
"Mailing now, well, I heard you're coming back to Tokyo?"
"True... I got your mail now..." She opened the message on her laptop and read through the form.
"And all you need is some Bio-gas and water?"
"Including the mix of the two other ingredients... what were they..."
"You need to get it burning to make it work, and have a new system in the car... sounds good and expensive... but it seems to be able to work..." She printed the form and put it into her file-map. The driver told her that they were at the airport. She ended the call and took her laptop, her bags and Photographers tools. She went to the nearest service.
"Next plane to Tokyo?"
"Leaves in twenty minutes, can you run?"
"Sure" The woman gave her a ticket and she sprinted of, leaving her bags and took her Laptop and tools. She spurted into the gate a minute before leaving, and got precisely into the plane, and found her seat. She panted and took up her laptop, her mother had written a mail.
"Kagome, Can you call me please, I need to talk..."
She sighed. The same again, just because she had work cell phone, and not did have to pay... She called her up.
"Hello mom, I can't talk, I'm on the plane, coming to Tokyo in an hour or so... Cya!" She said and turned the phone of. She sighed and leaned against the back of the chair.
~*~
She came home that afternoon and went straight for the kitchen.
"Mom?" She called. Mrs. Higurashi came out and greeted her.
"Hello Kagome, I heard you were coming. Did you get transferred?"
"It depends on..." Kagome said while putting her bags down. "If they accept me"
"When is the meeting?" Mrs. Higurashi asked while looking at her, or make that study.
"Tomorrow morning..." She noticed her mother's looks. "What!?"
"You really should get yourself a boyfriend, or a husband make that" Her mother said. Kagome rolled her eyes and sighed.
"MOM! We've discussed this!" She grabbed the jewel she always wore around her neck. "I am already as near a marriage as possible!"
"With some half-demon you probably won't see again" Mrs. Higurashi sighed. "And how do people know it is true?" Kagome sighed and lifted her hair. The scar that was left after Inuyashas mark was fully visible.
"Demons, and make that Half-demons, both mark their mates like this so that none other can take her"
"Kagome, you can't be faithful to somebody who not seems to be that to you"
"What do you know!?" Kagome yelled. "We shared a promise, and promises are held, even by Half-demons!" With those words she ran into her room and began packing for tomorrow. After the meeting she planned to go to the Feudal era over the weekend... the first time in five years... She sighed.
"Hope they all are okay..." She put down all her stuff that reminded her of them, and clothes, other unnecessary stuff and even Shampoo. She ate under silence her dinner before getting up to her room. She opened her diary and read the last two entries... her last two days...
"And probably my most wonderful..." She whispered. She slowly drifted into sleep.
~*Next day*~
"LATE!!! Damn it!!!" Kagomes yells where heard over the whole Higurashi shrine. She combed her hair frantically while choosing clothes; she took a white top and skirt, with a grey scarf. Two minutes later she ate her breakfast without even looking at her mom, who herself was sighing the whole time while looking at her daughter. 'She is twenty-four now; she really should get married soon...'
Kagome rose up from the table and grabbed her file map, and her laptop.
"Bye mom!" She yelled before running out. Her mother stared after her for a while, before turning on the TV. She grasped and then rushed out the house, into the well house. She had chained the well, just in case...
"This time... fate is against me..." She said bitterly while unlocking the chains. "But I won't let another child die!"
~*~
Kagome ran through the city, people seemed depressed, but she didn't notice. She just cursed about the sun, and she hadn't put on any lotion...
"I have five minutes... WHERE is that newspaper stuffie...?" She rushed to the next street and found the right house. "Here it is!"
~*~
"Miss Higurashi, we find your stats really good, but thanks to the situation we're closing"
"What situations!?" She yelled. The man looked at her.
"You haven't heard?" he turned on the TV, on the news... Kagome got cold... On the screen a message flashed:
"The ozone layer will not hold against the sun's flaming heat for much longer, we think of maximum a week. After that the sun will probably burn the whole world into ashes..."
"This is a joke, right?" She said. They shook their heads. "But why?"
"A nuclear missile missed its target and hit a very... Ehem... dangerous spot..." one of the men said. "The ozone layer is getting terribly weak, and from now until a week is the strongest sun-part..." Kagome turned, rushing out. "NOT NOW!" She yelled and continued running through Tokyo's streets. 'NOT NOW' She continued screaming, inside her head...
~*~
Kagome slowly went up the shrine stairs of Higurashi shrine and met her mother. She looked worried.
"I've heard..." Kagome started.
"You need to get away" She said pushing a bag into her hands.
"AWAY?" Kagome yelled. Was she sending her away? Ms. Higurashi turned.
"At least you should be able to survive..."
"MOM! What are you babbling about?" Her mother dragged her towards the well house. She still held onto her Laptop and photographers tools.
"W...Wait!" She yelled when they got inside. "Why the haste?"
"The day a week away is tomorrow Kagome, I know it...! And you need to survive... Since Souta died in that Car crash (A/N: HAHA! I let Souta DIE!!!)"
"But I can't leave you here!" She took a step towards her mother.
"You leave right now!" She said, throwing the bag at her, making her fall into the well.
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!" She yelled before something hit her head and she saw only darkness...
~*~
"Shinju! Akai! Get away from there! You know Inuyasha's gonna kill you if he knows!" A five-year-old Girl with shoulder-length black hair yelled. She had violet eyes and looked like she could kill with her eyes. She wore a purple Yukata.
"But Kisetsu-Oneesama!" Two kids yelled back from the house they where approaching. The where twins, three years old. One girl, Shinju, and a boy, Akai. They both had short brown hair and nearly black eyes. Shinju wore a white Yukata with stars on while Akai wore black clothing.
"No but's! You know the Well Shrine is forbidden!" Kisetsu heard a mew and turned a little. "Hakari?" A yellow two-tailed cat with purple stripes and green eyes jumped on her shoulder. "Go get those brats please, before Inuyasha gets back" The cat nodded and turned into a big two-tailed cat. He chased the two kids and caught them against a tree.
"ONEESAMA!!!" They yelled. "GET HIM AWAY!" Kisetsu walked to them and grabbed them both by the ear.
"You know who else would be angry if they knew you where there without permission?" They both gulped. Their parents would. They would be angry if they knew they were outside the village...
"Please don't tell them!" They asked. She sighed.
"Get back home then" She let them go. They turned after a few feet's.
"What about you?" Shinju asked while Akai glared at his older sister.
"I, on my hand, have a permission. Inuyasha's gonna tell me the tale today"
"UNFAIR!" they yelled before running away at her glare. She sat down outside the well shrine. Inuyasha had on his own built it a few years ago. She was only little then... She studied the house. He had put down much job on it... And he was going to tell her about it today... She smiled. Her father often said that Inuyasha lost his love to the well, what that now meant.
"Maybe that's why he hasn't gotten a wife yet" She said aloud.
"Who hasn't?" She turned.
"Inuyasha! You heard me?"
"I'm not that old that my ears are getting bad" The Hanyo laughed. He stroke the cat-youkai between the ears. "Hello to you too Hakari" He turned back to Kisetsu. "Who were you talking about?"
"Actually..." The girl bit her lip. "... You"
"You know why" The Hanyo answered and shot her a glare. She nodded.
"I know... Dad told me about it once... but I don't know what it meant..." Inuyasha glanced at the Well shrine. He sighed once and picked out a golden medallion from his pocket. He carefully opened it and showed it to the girl. She looked at the two photographs. One of them was Inuyasha and one was another girl.
"That girl's called Kagome" He said before closing it. "I guess you have seen the picture of the whole group that your mother has in your house, right?" The girl nodded. Inuyasha sat down on the grass before her and started talking.
"She came out of that well the first time, eight years ago. I was still pinned to that tree; you know that story, right?" He saw Kisetsu nod before continuing. "She was from five-hundred yeas into the future" Kisetsu raised her eyebrows, showing she didn't buy it. "I promise you, she did! And well... She freed me, and I first thought it was Kikyo, they were incarnations so that was not so surprising..." The young girl continued listening carefully, while the Cat-Youkai fell asleep in her lap. While she listened, she could see the Hanyos gaze turn to something far away, and something inside her said that this tale could be truer than she first thought.
~*~
Akai muttered curses while he and his twin-sister walked back towards the village. Of some reason the once small village now started growing. Mostly since their dad and mom started gaining in some money and time to build. Both they and Inuyasha had already a long time been exterminating Youkais, and now they had protected the village long enough to make it grow.
"I don't get it! Why does only Kisetsu get the fun!?" He muttered. Shinju picked a magenta-coloured flower from the grass and put it behind her ear.
"Maybe because she is two years older" She answered.
"But I'm a BOY! They must realize that Kisetsu is not worthy..." He got silent as they reached the village. He didn't want anybody to hear. Shinju giggled.
"Scaredy-cat!" She teased before running towards the stairs at the north end of the village. He frowned before running after. They stopped and bowed for priestess Kaede in the house just beneath the stairs before getting up. Akai looked at the shrine up there. It also had much to do with the Tale that his older sister now got to hear. He and Shinju bowed another time. Then they set of towards the house at the end of the west side (You need to go that way to get there).
"I still think that..." Shinju hissed at him as they reached the door. She already stood with her ear against it. Akai looked wondering at her before doing the same. Their parents were talking.
"I'm still worried about Inuyasha; he's getting further away from social life!" Sango said as she stomped across the room. Miroku tried to calm her down.
"Of course it's because he waits for Kagome-sama..."
"I know!" Sango yelled. "But he doesn't even take the time throwing bad comments at either Kouga or anybody else, and he always is by the Well shrine" She sat down.
"I miss Kagome too, but I guess he does it more..." Miroku said. "After all... well... they shared a bond that night... it's nothing you just forget..."
"No... but every time she comes up as a subject he gets this far-away look and I see the sadness Miroku! Worse than anything... I get hurt just by LOOKING at him for god's sake!"
"I know... I didn't like Kisetsu almost forcing him to tell her the tale..."
"Not only then... Every time! Remember when Akai asked who the girl was? Inuyasha looked away before muttering a 'nobody' as an answer... And when everybody asks him about the well tale..."
"That's normally; he is after all the guardian of it since four years..." Miroku sighed.
"Do you think she comes back?" Sango asked suddenly, looking at the picture.
"Hai, just as I said before..." Miroku silenced. He looked outside, feeling an aura...
"Miroku..." Sango gasped.
"I think we got... a visitor..." Miroku smirked before getting to the door. He opened it and almost knocked his twins over.
"What are you... we don't have time now... We need to do a thing. Go to Kaede, she will know the reason..." And with those words he and Sango left the two confused twins.
~*~
Kisetsu stared at the Hanyo as he suddenly stopped talking. He was gazing towards the Well shrine.
"What..." She started. She saw him blink twice.
"K...Kagome..." He said before rising up. The five-year old followed him with a confused look as he left quickly, dropping the cat in the grass.
~*~
Kagome regained consciousness and blinked in the dark.
"The well..." She remembered her mother pushing her into it with the bag she now had on top off her. She looked at her laptop and found it unbroken, just as her tools.
"I need to get back..." She climbed up a bit before jumping down... nothing happened. She tried again with the same result.
"I can't go back! It's not true!!! IT CAN'T be!!!" She screamed. She started digging, even if she knew... Her world was gone... swallowed by it own self, burned by the sun... She cried a few tears before looking up. The well was darker than it would have been if she was outside... was it night? She looked up, no stars... but...
"A roof?" She asked herself while rising up. She brushed her clothing of before she heard the sound of bamboo moved away, letting some light in. Then she heard a voice she never thought she would hear again...
"Kagome?" She glanced up. She saw the same amber eyes and the same silver hair...
"INUYASHA!" She cried out.
~*~
Inuyasha almost sighed in relief, he wasn't dreaming, she was there!
"Kagome, hang on a second, I'm coming down!" He turned to the five-year old in the doorway. "I'll be right back" He started getting himself down the well. He stepped down on the hard earth floor and just looked at her, and she just looked at him.
"Inuyasha..." She whispered. He just smiled. "INUYASHA!" She threw herself against him, crystal tears forming in her eyes. He carefully laid his arms around her, just holding her while she sobbed towards his chest.
"I missed you..." She sulked. "I missed you so much..."
"Sch..." He whispered. "I missed you too, but it's okay now..." She looked up, red-eyed, but smiling.
"Hai... it's okay now" She saw a shadow through the small light coming down and looked up. Kisetsus violet eyes looked down at her. "Who's that?" Inuyasha looked up.
"Who? Oh... that's Kisetsu" Kagome let go of him and then looked up.
"Who's?" She asked. He smirked.
"Kisetsu, go get your parents, would ya?" He asked.
"No need to!" Two voices replied, and Kisetsus head was joined by two other.
"MIROKU! SANGO!" Kagome shouted happily. Her two friends smiled.
"You can greet them a bit later; let's get your stuff up..." He lifted her bag with a sigh. "Always as heavy hm?" She smiled and took her laptop and photo-tools. She quickly got up the well and was followed by Inuyasha. Her two friends had moved out of the little house and Kisetsu had also been dragged out. As she looked around she realized something.
"Hey! It's looking the same as in my time!" Inuyasha smirked.
"I realized that AFTER I built it..." She stared at him, nearly dropping her stuff.
"You built it?" She asked.
"Yup" He answered and left the Shrine. She followed. "I had a bit of time, you will see, many things have changed in the past five years..." He dropped her bag on the ground. "Now you can greet I think... if you don't have another bag hidden somewhere?" Kagome laughed and shook her head. She as well laid her stuff on the ground.
"Are you really from the future?" Was the first thing she heard. She looked at the girl, Kisetsu. In the daylight you could see she was quite alike Miroku, eye-colour and all. Only difference in appearance was that she was a girl.
"Yeah, at least I was" She answered a bit bitterly.
"What do you mean?" The other three asked.
"The biggest reason that I have so much stuff... is that my world was destroyed..." She hardly could get the words out. They stared at her in shock.
"HOW?" They then asked, Kisetsu only stared, wondering what the hell they meant.
"Well... due to its own habitants worthless care of it... it was destroyed by own things..." She shrugged her shoulders, showing she couldn't explain it better. They nodded a little, and the looked at her with pity in their eyes.
"I'll get over it..." She said chirping. "I at least didn't die, and I got too see you... and I guess I have to live here now..."
"That's great" Inuyasha said. "Only the part with you living here" He continued teasingly. She stuck her tongue out. The other two laughed.
"We should talk at our home, Inuyasha, you are joining?" Miroku said, and Sango continued. "We need to get the twins from Kaede..."
"Wait! You have more kids?" Kagome asked as Inuyasha nodded at Miroku. Sango nodded.
"We have Kisetsu, she's five, and our twins, Akai and Shinju, they're three" Kagome shook her head again, but picked her stuff up, it was already afternoon, and she hardly had anything too eat. Kisetsu studied her.
"You have weird clothes" She stated. Kagome smiled.
"Well, in my time I hadn't" Inuyasha picked her bag up again.
"Shall we go?" He asked before looking over at the shrine. "Hope it doesn't burn down or something while I'm gone" They laughed at his joke, but Sango whispered in Kagome's ear:
"He has been sitting in a tree near that shrine these five years, almost all the time... He was slipping away from social life... but now he's back in normal state" Kagome smiled again and started walking after the monk and the Hanyo.
"You know where Shippou is?" She asked. The other laughed.
"Probably where he uses to be" Inuyasha said. "Telling the 'children' of HIS great efforts in the adventure" Kagome laughed again.
"The worst lie he made up was how HE taught ME how to use Kongousouha against Naraku" He continued. "But I surely got that one out of him"
"Yeah, by chasing him through the whole village and afterwards hit him against a tree till he fainted" Miroku said. Kagome smirked.
"Inuyasha..." She said slowly. Inuyasha turned his head towards her.
"I think I'm gonna hear a word I haven't heard in five years" He said, surprisingly smiling.
"Right guess" She chirped before... "Osuwari" Inuyasha crashed against the ground.
"Man, I never thought I would hear that again" Sango said. Miroku smiled.
"Well, I thought, just a matter of time"
"For one time" Inuyasha said while rising up. "I'm not getting mad about it" Kisetsu stared.
"Honey, you'll understand later" Sango told her before walking on with the others, the girl following, still wondering what had happened.
_.-:~*End Chapter*~:-._
Stopping there! I at least told about how the world ended... a little short, but it will be described in detail later (How? I won't tell)
Next chapter will be much about how their lives has been for those five years (a bit more, nearly six actually, but still)
Review! And I will put up next chapter soon... And it WILL be more fluff, little later just... now that they have little kids and stuff :P
Until next time:
JA NE!
/Ashley