Hello, I'm back again!
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swimchick1614 - Lemons well Maybe a little yes in the future chapters .:smile:. but don't blame me if it isn't very good And if you like, would somebody please tell me how MUCH lemony is allowed?
K-Bob - You get to know in this Chappie what they all have done ;)
Oh! And if you wonder why Kagome takes the whole thing lightly She is in kind of a Shock, she tries to think it hasn't happened, she will become really sad and things a bit later, when she gets back to normal senses
I have now also choosen wich characters are gonna join them. Kouga will be with them the whole time (Mostly thanks to K-bobs... ehem... needing two counts, hope you're happy now ), and Sesshomaru and Rin are going to come along too (And Jaken as an irritating object Jaken-bashing WOHOO!)
Translations:
Japanese - English - Eventually meaning in this story
Baka - Idiot
Inazuma - Lightning- Strange girl, who after loosing her memory in an accident now lives in the village.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA OR ANY CHARACTER!
DISCLAIMER2: I do not own the song, It's 'I love you' by Faith Hill!!!
'Thinking'
"Talking"
.:Lyrics:.
"Singing etc."
.:Last chapter happenings:.
More than five years after Narakus death, Kagome has finished school and started a job as a photographer. She was stuck at a newspaper in Kyoto for all the time, but got transferred to Tokyo, in order to pay her friends a visit
But the next day everything turns to the worst, the world is going down! Her mother pushes her through the well, and she wakes up in the feudal era, not being able to go back.
Inuyasha is the first she meets again, followed by Miroku and Sango and their oldest daughter Kisetsu. They all have many things to tell about the past five years
.:Chapter 4 - What five years changed:.
Kagome looked around the village with an amazed look, it had grown so much!
"It's most because of you and us" Inuyasha said beside her. "Everybody wants to know about the Shikon no Tama story, the well story about you and stuff, that's my job, and then they also want to hear well"
"They want to hear our trip in the whole, that's almost part of the big story, including all the others, people call it simply 'The quest' or" Sango got cut of by her husband.
"'The quest for the shattered Shikon no Tama'!" He said chirping. Kisetsu looked at Inuyasha as she realized something.
"Hey, Yasha! You never finished the story of the well!" Kagome laughed when Inuyasha scratched his head.
"Well, you pretty much have the tale in front of you" He said before walking on. "We should try to find Shippou Kisetsu, Hakari near?"
"Eh yes" Kisetsu whistled once and a little yellow cat with purple stripes appeared.
"That looks nearly as Kirara!" Kagome said.
"This is Hakari, Kiraras son" Kisetsu said in an important-sounding voice. Kagome nodded before petting the cat.
"Hakari" Inuyasha said. The cat looked up at him. "Find the little fox-brat, would ya?" Hakari smirked before nodding, turning big and setting of.
"He listens to you?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha nodded.
"He is Kisetsus, but he has spent many nights at the well shrine" he shrugged his shoulders and continued walking. Kagome still looked around, still not believing this was the same little village. Some older women and men looked up and recognized her.
"It's Kagome-sama!" Some yelled at other. Kagome smiled and followed after the four in front. She saw Kaedes hut from here.
"Is Kaede still living there?" She asked. Miroku nodded.
"She is starting to loose powers; they are seeking desperately for a new Miko"
"But now you maybe can take that place, not worrying about Youkais though, we have always taken care of those, right?" Sango continued. Kagome nodded happily, she was back here, and she already got a job!
"But if Kaede is not head of the village, who is?"
"Me and Miroku" Sango said. "But I guess you and Inuyasha can join as well" Both stared at her for a moment, turning a bit red, and looked down. Kisetsu shrugged her shoulders.
"Okaa-san, I go see Kaede-baachan, Shinju and Akai are there, right?"
"Do so musume" Sango replied, and the girl sprinted of. Kagome controlled her face-colour and looked back up, seeing a big house above the stairs, a bit to the west from Kikyos grave-shrine.
"What is that?"
"Eh pretty much our house" Miroku said, scratching his head.
"It's HUGE!" Kagome exclaimed. Sango smiled.
"We have some rooms left, and we've got a hot spring on the backside"
"REALLY!? That's awesome!" Kagome chirped. Inuyasha sighed and looked over to Miroku, who shrugged his shoulders.
"Should we get inside?" He suggested. The girls nodded and got up the stairs. Kaede was inside her house with the kids.
"Kaede, take care of them for a while, we need to talk some parents business with Kagome-sama" Miroku said before following the rest up the stairs. The old woman nodded smiling and then continued talking to the children about herbs.
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Kagome gladly accepted the bowl of soup as they came inside. All of them where quiet for a time, nobody knew how to start. Kagome drank the last of the soup, putting it down with a 'thanks for the food' and then joining the silence. Inuyasha, tired of it, opened his mouth, but got cut of by the door bursting open.
"KAGOME!" A furry ball jumped inside and straight up hugging Kagome.
"Shippou-chan?" The Kitsune was not changed very much, but Youkais ages not the same way humans do...
"You're really back!!!" He chirped. "I missed you so much!"
"That didn't take your time from telling stories... untrue" Inuyasha muttered. 'That brat is too childish'
"Shippou, how come you knew?" Miroku asked. Hakari was not to be seen.
"The whole village know by now!" He chirped happily. "Wonder if Kouga's back from his hunting yet..." Kagome raised an eyebrow towards Sango.
"Kouga has lived here for these years, since his tribe got killed and all..." Sango shrugged her shoulders. Inuyasha chuckled.
"He's probably right on way in no..." The door busted open again; Inuyasha didn't even get to finish the sentence.
"What's with the bursting in like that!?" Miroku yelled. Kouga bowed a little.
"Gomen" He said quickly before glancing over at Kagome. "You are really back!" He smiled. She smiled too.
"Hai, as you might see" Kouga walked towards her. Inuyasha cleared his throat while glaring at the Wolf-Youkai.
"If you do anything, you Wimpy wolf, I will rip you to shreds!" Kouga blinked, once, twice. Then he smiled again.
"Of course not" He said. "Dog-Turd" Inuyasha got up.
"What the HELL do you think you're saying Wimpy wolf!?"
"Ha! I nearly thought I dreamed!" Kouga snapped his fingers. "But you really did call me that!" Kagome looked rather confused, as well as Inuyasha, but Sango and Miroku nodded.
"He hasn't called Kouga anything in four years, not Shippou either. Only the first year" Miroku said. Inuyasha snorted.
"KE! So what if I didn't?" Kouga shook his head.
"Well, it's a lot more fun when you are normal Dog-Turd" He said.
"Dare say that again, Wimpy Wolf!" Inuyasha growled, clenching his fists.
"Dog-Turd, Dog-Turd, Dog-Turd" Kouga said smirking. Inuyasha smiled (A/N: you know, like he does when he gets all mad and stuff :P)
"Is that so..." He muttered. "I'll rip you to shreds!" He jumped towards the wolf-youkai.
"Osuwari" Kagome said, making Inuyasha meet the floor. "Enough. Why won't you two just sit down patiently?" (A/N: Ordinary 'sit' doesn't make him fall (at least not in my story), just 'Osuwari')
The two glared once at each other before sitting down on each side of the room. Kagome smiled before gazing over the room.
"Well, what have you all been doing for these years?" She finally asked. Miroku was the first to answer.
"Well, I and Sango married about one and a half month after you left Kisetsu was born eight months later" Kagome raised one eyebrow towards Sango again, who blushed. Inuyasha snorted again.
"KE! Miroku couldn't keep his hands away, couldn't he? And nobody had anything to say" Miroku glared quickly at him before continuing.
"It was nearly by the same time that Kaedes powers started to ebb away. She couldn't handle Youkais, so we returned to our original job, Me, Sango, Inuyasha, Kouga" Shippou popped his head up in front of him.
"Me too!" Everybody sweat dropped.
"Yeah you too" Miroku said and pushed the Kitsune away. "Ehem, as I said, we continued to exterminate Youkai around here. That was also what made me and Sango heads of the village, since Kouga didn't want to"
"Humans with me as leader? Nah!" Kouga snorted. Miroku looked annoyed by all the interruptions, but continued.
"And because Inuyasha already had started to loose contact with everybody" He raised a hand to make Inuyasha shut his mouth as the Hanyo opened it, and continued again.
"That was as we felt it. He stopped to call everybody disrespectful names, and he spent more time by the Goshinboku and the well. Still he showed up as he needed to, but you didn't see much of him And when he then built the Shrine"
"BOUZU! I tell everything when it's my turn! You talk about you, and I about me!" Miroku clenched his fist, took a deep breath and said:
"Sure Well, a year passed and then Kohaku, starting a new village of Youkai-exterminators, got killed" Kagome looked at Sango pitiful. "But, he had already trained a couple of students, who all helped us to come over it (A/N: See? I'm a little-brother-murderer .:evil laughter:.) And Kohaku died without fear, he told Sango as he died, she was with him all the time" By this point his wife nodded.
"We went through the funeral in good manner. Some time later, three years ago, the twins were born. We had a hard time with those two but"
"That was why you always left 'em by Kaede" Shippou stated. Sango continued as Miroku started to look really ticked off.
"It was then people decided to find a new Miko, they even asked me, but I refused. I told them already then that you could take that place as you came back, and they accepted my answer. By that time Sesshomaru came by" She tilted her head to the left, trying to remember.
"Rin was about thirteen, and was starting to look like a really cute teenage girl. And as we asked if she got any lovers, Sesshomaru answered with a 'They wouldn't dare to'. He went of to talk to Inuyasha thereafter, and he never told what it was about well, if we continue, we saw Kanna around the village once, only to buy some herbs, but that was around the same time as Sesshomaru appeared. We never saw her after that. We have never seen Kagura since the day Naraku got killed" She stopped there, thinking.
"After that our lives have been going on as usual, and we worried a LOT about Inuyasha's social life"
"Would you stop that blabbering?" Inuyasha snorted. "I tell when it's my turn" Sango sighed.
"You heard him, well, who's next? Shippou?"
"He hasn't done ANY- thing" Inuyasha said teasingly. The Kitsune frowned.
"I have too!"
"Not"
"Too!"
"Have too"
"Have not Hey!" Shippou glared at the Hanyo, who now lay on the floor, choking from laughter. The others also smiled, Inuyasha got his normal manners back
"Ah well" Shippou started. "I have been helping the others telling of our adventures to the kids"
"In your own special edition" Inuyasha chuckled from the floor, getting another glare, not that he cared.
"Ehem well and then I have become five years older!" Everybody sweat-dropped, with an exception from Inuyasha, who was starting to get up.
"Oh is that so" Kagome said slowly. "Are you finished now?"
"I waited for you as well!" The Kitsune lay on top. Kagome nodded.
"Kougas turn now?"
"HEY! Why is Wimpy Wolf before me!?" Inuyasha growled. Kouga smiled a cocky smile, but Kagome shook her head towards the wolf, and then turned to the Hanyo.
"I guess WE have all night to hear YOUR story, right?" She said smiling. Inuyasha turned red and looked down, and even Shippou got the point, smirking together with the others, Kouga as an exception, he glared.
"Okay me" He said slowly, thinking. "I suppose, the first year I kinda built my home"
"Built, Ke!" Inuyasha muttered. "What is building in a cave?"
"Inuyasha! Let him talk please!" Kagome frowned. "Continue" She then said to Kouga.
"Well, I found it, made it my home and after about half a year I found myself home there That was about then Sango and Miroku asked me to help with the extermination of Youkais coming near, sure I said and followed up. I got quite much friend with them even Dog-Turd" This made Inuyasha clench his fist, but kept on his place as Kagome shot him a glare.
"Maybe because he started acting strange. 'Suppose he missed Kagome that much but back on me. I made most the hunting together with some townspeople; they somehow had started to think of me as something more than just a Youkai that needs to be exterminated Not that I cared, but it almost felt like having a tribe again hunting together" He sighed once.
"But that's not the point If we continue a while ago I found this girl" He stopped, glaring around as if expecting teasing comments, but not even Inuyasha said anything. He cleared his throat.
"Well But she I'm sure she likes me though"
"Oh! You mean Inazuma, don't you?" Sango snapped her fingers. Kouga muttered a faint 'yes' under his breath. Inuyashas head shot up.
"Inazuma? Is that the girl I think it is?"
"Who is this girl?" Kagome asked.
"We don't really know" Miroku said. "She was found outside the village a few weeks ago She couldn't remember a thing of herself or her life"
"How did she get the name?" Sango looked into her friends brown eyes.
"Kaede found out she was stricken by the lightning, it was a wonder she even survived" Kagome shuddered, her father had died from the lightning
"And now? What about her?"
"She lives next to Kaede at the end of the stairs. She is really somewhat confused but our problem with her"
"There's no DAMN problem with her!" Kouga yelled. Sango sighed.
"We didn't mean like that Kouga, it's just"
"She has a weird aura" Miroku continued.
"And a somewhat strange smell" Inuyasha muttered. Kagome shrugged her shoulders.
"I guess I will meet her later, Kouga, you want to continue?"
"Nani? Oh, Hai! Well, as I said, I think she likes me, and we went out for some walks and stuff but now, I'm finished, let's continue with next one" He quickly finished.
"It's getting quite late, we need to do a last check around the village and get the kids" Sango said.
"Are you gonna IGNORE me or something?" Inuyasha yelled.
"And Kagome needs to tell us about what she's been doing" Miroku continued without even looking towards the Hanyo.
"I'm gonna talk a bit to Inazuma" Kouga rose up and went out. Kagome shrugged her shoulders.
"Am I gonna get a room?" She asked. Sango nodded.
"Take your things and come after me" She said and went into a corridor. Kagome quickly picked her stuff, casting Inuyasha a smile before walking after her friend. Miroku went out the door, heading for Kaedes.
"I think I take the check, not that I think I need to but" The last of his sentence disappeared as he went out of hearing range. Inuyasha found he was alone, since Shippou jumped away towards Kaedes as well.
"Probably he's gonna get his stuff to sleep in Kagomes room like before But HEY! She's my mate, right? He is not allowed that, I'll make that clear" Inuyasha muttered. "What was the ignoring me? And then smiling? GAH! I don't get a thing!"
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Kagome followed Sango through the corridor. They passed two rooms with child's stuff. 'Probably the kid's room' She thought. Sango stopped at the room at the other end.
"Here" She said. Kagome looked inside. It was not small, but not a really large room either.
"It's not for long; I guess you'll build something with Inuyasha now, right?" Sango said, a sign of teasing in her voice. Kagome turned shade three red and stepped inside.
"Guess so" She muttered and put her stuff at the corner. "I'll unpack later, do you want any help?"
"No, no" Sango said, shaking her head. "Just relax, take a bath or something, you just follow that door, the hot spring is on the other side" Thereafter she left. Kagome shrugged her shoulders and searched for a towel. She found it in her bag and then went outside.
She followed Sangos advice and gasped as she opened the door.
'Hot spring' was just a tiny bit of the whole thing! The spring was carved out of the rock, perfectly sized for average adult humans. hot water flowed out of two 'springs' formed like, to her surprise, just as tiny Kiraras, water coming out of the mouths. A fence of bamboo went around the whole spring, probably to keep unwanted visitors out.
She got undressed and laid the towel together with her clothes at the edge, before stepping into the hot water. She sighed once as she felt the warmness fill her whole body.
She leaned towards a rock and closed her eyes. She sank deeper into the water until only her face was above it. She opened her eyes with another sigh and looked up at the full moon.
"What a day" She muttered. 'What a day'
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Sango passed Inuyasha on her way out. The Hanyo took no notice of her, he was muttering, his arms crossed into his Haori. She smiled as she heard her own name together with Miroku and Shippous, Kougas as well, together with the words 'Baka' and 'Ignoring fools'. She stood there for a while, just listening to him. She then decided, as he still didn't notice her, to scare him a bit.
"I'm going to help Miroku a bit, can you look after the house?" The Hanyo jumped about three feet into the air before landing halfway turned to her.
"S-Sango!? When..."
"Just answer my question!" Sango said, holding her laughter.
"Sure... I look after the house... um... Where'd Kagome go?"
"She got her room and then went outside" Sango said before leaving the house. Inuyasha stared after her before shrugging his shoulders.
"Outside? Well... I'll see if I find her..." He rose up, cursing over his now aching back, and then left outside. "I look after the house... sure!" He muttered.
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Kouga stomped his way down the steps of the stairs.
"Problem? She has no problem! Inazuma is really nice! That Dog-mutt doesn't know what he's talking about with 'strange smell'..." He muttered under his breath. He took the last three steps in a jump and passed Kaedes house.
"Kaede, is Inazuma inside?" He asked.
"Hai, she came back just minutes before ye came back" The old priestess said.
"Arigatou" Kouga said, passing the house and to the next one. "Inazuma?" He asked.
"Kouga, is that you?" Came a clear voice from the inside.
"Hai" He just answered.
"Come in then! Don't just stay out there!" He shrugged his shoulders and went inside. Inazuma was a twenty-year old young woman, reaching him to the shoulder.
She had Dark blue hair, reaching to her knees, tied up with two ribbons, making some off her hair lie in front of her ears (A/N: I'm soooo bad at describing... ever seen Chobits? She has hair like Chii). She had Blackish eyes with a tingle of Jade. Her Kimono was Jade-coloured, with a blue thunder over the front.
"Why where you hesitating outside?" she asked while casting him a look over her shoulder. She was currently starting a fire.
"Oh, you didn't hear the news?" He looked surprised.
"About that Miko, Kagome?" She rose up after getting a little flame growing in the fireplace. "Yes, I heard that"
"She hasn't been here for five years and"
"You're tracking off the subject" She hissed. "Why were you hesitating?"
"Oh, that" He looked at his feet. 'How to tell that some people think she is weird?'
"Well?" She put her hands on her hips, frowning at him.
"Ehm..." He took a breath, it was everything or nothing now... "Some people said some... not to fair comments about you"
"Nothing more?" She let her hands fall. "People are, and will always think I'm weird. I got hit by the lightning, I don't remember anything... just name it" She tilted her head.
"Was there anything more you wanted?"
"Eh... well..." He scratched his head. "I wondered if you wanted to follow me for a walk"
"Of course!" She said. "Just hang on a second..." She turned and brushed some dirt of her clothes, then turning her head.
"Maybe you could wait outside?" She asked slyly. He turned all red as he understood the meaning of her words and quickly left the building, waiting outside.
'She's not weird; she just doesn't remember WHO she is...' He stared up, seeing the fading daylight. 'Kagome can never be my woman now... but maybe there really is someone for me...' He sighed and cast a glance at the opening.
Maybe someone...
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Inuyasha followed Kagomes scent out to the backside of the house. He could hear her hum for herself from the other side of the fence.
'She is in there?' He thought with an arched eyebrow. He scanned around the area and found a nearby tree. 'It couldn't hurt... maybe?'
He jumped up in the tree and quietly looked out from the branches, his heart racing.
He watched as Kagome took a deep breath and dove under water for a second, and as she came up she broke through the surface. She shook the water out of her hair, making small silver droplets fly through the air and gleaming as the suns last rays hit them. The water was running down her fully exposed body as she was standing with her back against his way. Her raven-black hair was gleaming and had highlights from the sun's rays. He swallowed once as he followed her body curves down. (A/N: Is he going to be worse than Miroku soon or what?)
As if feeling his looks, she turned around, looking directly his way. He swallowed his heavy breath, if she noticed him now...
Still he couldn't prevent himself from watching. And when he thought of it, she WAS his mate, right? It should be okay... He thought. He gazed her from top to toe once again, wondering if she maybe should hear his heart beating, it was feeling like it would be heard over the whole village. He looked at the smooth fom of her face, her lips, and further down.
He gulped as he looked over her exposed curves. This was, in fact, the first time he acctually LOOKED at her when she was bathing naked. Sure, he had by accident seen her a few times, but never acctually looked...
She started humming again as she laid down next to one of the rocks. Slowly the humming turned into a melody. He twitched his ears to hear what she sang.
"I must be crazy now, maybe I dream too much. But when I think of you, I long to feel your touch..." She silently sang while she slided down into the water, until she had only her head above the surface. He continued listening.
"To whisper in your ear, Words that are old as time. Words only you could hear, If only you where mine" He still stared at her, listening in a state of awe.
'She sings... great...' He thought.
"I wish I could go back, to the very first day I saw you. Should've made my move, when you looked in my eyes" She paused, took a breath. He waited, wondering if she came up with the song now or...
"'Cause by now I know that, You'd feel the way that I do, And you'd whisper those words, As you'd lie here by my side" He saw her smile, heard by her voice...
'She... S-she is singing... about me... about us?!'
"I love you; please say you love me too. These three words, they could change our lives forever. And I promise you that we will always be together..." She made a short pause.
"Until the end of time" He realized that he was humming quietly alongside with her singing, still sitting there, hidden, just watching, and listening.
"So today I finally find the courage deep inside, just to walk right to your door. But my body can't move when I finally get to it, like a thousand times before. Then without a word you handed me this letter. Read I hope this finds the way" Another pause, and Inuyasha got more and more sure of that she came up with it as she sang... but... you never know...
"Into your heart it said" He knew the chorus was coming, he waited for her angel-like voice to sing more... about them...
"I love you; please say you love me too...
Until the end of time..." She sat up in a more comfortable position and drew her hands trough the water, making tiny waves and expanding circles.
"Well maybe I, I need a little love. Maybe I, I need a little care
Maybe you, maybe you need somebody, just to hold you. If you do, just reach out...
I'll be there" As she began on the chorus, he started singing along with her, silently, even though he not knew all the words, they came up.
"I love you; please say you love me too. These three words, they could change our lives forever. And I promise you that we will always be together...
Oh, I love you; please say you love me. Please say you love me too...
Until the end of time" Here, he stopped singing, not knewing the follow-up, and let Kagome finish her song on her own.
"Oh baby, my baby, together forever. I love you; I will be your light...
Shining through your eyes" He heard her sigh. She rose up at full length again, once again exposing her whole body, making his face burn. But still he gazed her. He saw her look up at the rising moon; its silvery ligth reflecting in her still wet hair and her whole body.
'She looks like an angel...' He thought.'My angel...'She started speaking to the moon, drawing his attention to her again.
"I wonder if... I ever let him acctually hear that one..." She sighed. "Supposedly not... He's maybe not that kind of guy... But I STILL love him!" He smiled towards her from his hideout. Her face got a confused look before she turned his way again. He clenched his teeth.
The moon was rising up from a different position, mostly showing his hideout pretty well. His silvery hair made reflections he knew. He followed his own shadow...
Amber met Chocolate brown.
"I-Inu...yasha?" Her voice echoed through his mind.
Damn...
.:Chapter 4 End:.
Woops, not so good Yashie hm? Well! Hope you like my new 'style'! I'm acctually trying to load up a HTML-document now, hope you like it!
Hope you got a picture of how they have got it, and you who wonder how our favourite couple's five years have been... (.:Chasing away curious fangirls:.) You will get to know in next chappie! Please review, a little fluffy next chapter I think... but we'll see about that...
Until next time,
JA NE!
/Ashley
P.S. I have no Internet at home until top last June, so I will be updating slow... don't blame me!
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School of many hearts: Chapter 3 up - Chapter 4 = 5% finished
The day the world ended: Chapter 4 up - Chapter 5 = 10% finished
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