Shadows from the Future
Chapter Eleven: Flash Backs and Flash Forwards
Arasoi and Keishou exchanged nervous glances. After a long slience, Keishou took a deep breath.
"It's about our mother, she's going to have a curse set on her that will slowly kill her."
Miroku's eyes widened as his grip on his staff tightened, and Sango nearly fainted. "What happened, or in this case, is going to happen?"
Arasoi wrapped her arms around her legs as her brother continued his story.
"Around this time, Kagome will leave the hut and the undead priestess Kikyo will kidnap her. Inuyasha, our father, around fifteen minutes later will go out in search of her. He will find her bound to a tree and see Kikyo about to castone of her spells on Kagome in order to regain her soul. After, Inuyasha will tell Kikyo that he has fallen in love with Kagome, and she'll go ballistic. Kikyo will then use her magic to try to kill Kagome, only something will go wrong and causing the curse on Kagome's life instead of dying right then and there, she'll slowly die. Less than a second after the spell hits Kagome, Inuyasha will attack Kikyo in his full demon form and kill her." His golden eyes shone under the bangs of his ebony hair, "It's our job to stop that spell from hitting our mother. We have to do it unnoticeable and incredibly quickly so we don't screw up the whole time line."
Arasoi sighed, "But it seems as if fate is not on out side with this one. Our dad never told us when this all took place, so when I set up the Bone Eater's well to send Keishou to this time I had to do it by assumption."
Miroku was taken back by the girl's explanation. "You must be really powerful to be able to handle that type of magic!"
Arasoi shrugged, "I suppose, I've never done anything that powerful and risky before. So it was kinda new for me."
Keishou's amber eyes stared at Miroku and Sango, "Listen up, you cannot tell Inuyasha or Kagome any of this, got it?"
His sister nodded. "Yeah, we've already messed everything else up if they find out...well lets say it'd be pretty bad."
The Monk and Demon Exterminator nodded. "You have our word."
"Look at that! I win again!" Keishou exclaimed seeing that all three of his X's lined up horizontally in the ground.
"You mean you cheated again." Inuyasha said poking the young boy with his stick.
The group had return to Kaede's village yesterday morning to a very concerned Kitsune and elderly Priestess. They had discussed battle plans again, but so far they really had no idea what they were going to do. So for the time being they decided to relax and enjoy this beautiful summer day and to worry about Naraku later.
"No I didn't!" Keishou yelled and hit Inuyasha's stick away with his own. Before long the two half demons were stick-sword fighting.
"Would you two cut that out? Someone is going to get hurt and Shippo trying to work over here!" Kagome yelled at the two hanyous who stopped at once.
"Wow Inuyasha, Kagome has you on a short leash doesn't she?" Keishou said smirking earning himself a whack on the head.
"INUYASHA SIT!"
Inuyasha then found himself face first in the dirt.
"STOP HITTING CHILDREN, INUYASHA! FIRST SHIPPO NOW AND KEISHOU!" Kagome screamed.
Inuyasha grumble curses from his position on the ground.
"SIT HIM AGAIN! SIT HIM AGAIN!" Shippo, Keishou and Arasoi chanted.
"Stupid brats!" Inuyasha growled. "Once I can feel my legs you better run!"
Kagome glared down Inuyasha. "Inuyasha be nice or I'll say sit again!"
There was a small whimper heard as Inuyasha fell deeper into the ground.
"You guys better get out of here, once Inuyasha gets up he's not going to be happy." Kagome turned to Shippo. "We can finish up later, okay?"
Shippo smiled at his surrogate mother. "Thanks Kagome!" He squeaked as he and the two other kids ran into the woods.
"DON'T GO TOO FAR!" Kagome yelled and sat next to the sat demi-dog.
"You...really sound like their mother." Inuyasha mumbled from the ground, "You know one of these days, when you have little brats of your own that is, you're gonna make a good mother."
His compliment was surprising and made Kagome blush. "Oh...well...thanks Inuyasha." She then noticed that he was able to sit up again.
"Can I go kill them now?" he asked innocently.
"No."
"Please?"
"No!"
"Just a knock on the head to show them who's boss!"
"Inuyasha!" Kagome scolded.
Shippo, Keishou, and Arasoi sat in a tree in the forest, "Geez, Inuyasha can be so pushy at times!" Shippo exclaimed as Keishou nodded. "One time he threw me into the forest and I was stuck in a tree for three hours! I would've been longer if Kagome didn't show up!"
"That's so sad Shippo!" Arasoi cried as she looked at her fox friend. 'In the future he's not nearly this fun! But then again, Uncle Shippo's all old and boring!' She thought back to how she got her disguising charm from her "wonderful" Uncle.
-Flashback-
Arasoi and Sanae walked towards Shippo's Kitsune Charm Market.
"I still can believe what he's doing! Uncle Shippo sold out!" Arasoi exclaimed as her friend agreed with her.
"I know! Then he goes off and says 'I didn't sell out, girls, I bought in!' It's the same thing!"
Arasoi brushed a stray piece of sliver hair from her eyes. "Okay, back to the plan. You know what to do right?"
Sanae nodded. "Yup, distract Shippo while you steal the disgusting charm." The girl paused. "Do you think it's a good idea, Arasoi? I mean, we can really get in trouble and my mom's really scary when she's angry!"
The young half demon rolled her eyes, "Relax, I'm sure Auntie Sango won't do anything to you. Besides, this is for my mom's life remember? And we won't get caught. Just say exactly what I told you to."
Arasoi then ran behind the market. Sanae sighed, and pushed her way into the crowd until she saw Shippo at the stand selling his charms.
"Just two gold pieces for a love charm! Find you're future soul mate today!" He shouted as Sanae mentally gagged.
"Here goes nothing." She whispered before bellowing. "HEY KITSUNE! MY MOTHER SAYS THAT YOUR CHARMS ARE FAKE AND THAT YOU'RE JUST A TRAVLING SALES MAN TRYING TO GET THESE POOR LADIES MONEY!"
Shippo's ears twitched, he knew that voice. He looked over the booth and grabbed Sanae by the collar of her kimono. "SANAE? WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?"
The young girl smiled, playing Piss off Shippo was one of her favorite games. "I'M TELLING THESE FINE PEOPLE THE TRUTH! THAT YOU'RE A PHONEY!"
The crowd started to mumble amongst themselves.
"My daughter told me this Kitsune was too good to be true!"
"Yes! I also heard he steals from the poor and uses that money to make these things!"
"Yeah!"
Shippo turned to the crowd "PLEASE! THESE ARE REAL KITSUNE CHARMS! THIS GIRL IS JUST ONE OF MY FRIEND'S KIDS!" The Kitsune stared at the girl. "You wait 'til I tell Miroku and Sango about this!"
Sanae gulped, her parents were not going to be happy about this. Meanwhile Arasoi had already found the charm she was looking for.
"Ha! I knew he had one of these!" she whispered as she slipped it on. Her hair turned into a dark black and her blue eye's darkened.
Suddenly Shippo picked up Arasoi's scent. "I should've known it'd be her idea!"
The fox demon turned around to she said pup run from behind the booth.
"ARASOI!" Shippo yelled, not even noticing the change in the girl's appearance.
"RUN ARASOI!" Sanae yelled.
They watched Arasoi run into the forest name after her father and jump down the bone eater's well.
-End of Flashback-
Arasoi smiled, in the end she got the Kitsune Charm and that's all that matters right?
"Hey guys! Let's play that Tick-Tack-Toe game again!" Shippo said hopping out of the tree.
"Sure. I got first dibs!" Keishou announced as he jumped out of the tree along with his sister.
"Then I play winner!" she said to the two boys.
Suddenly Arasoi stopped and stared a nearby bush.
"Something the matter?" asked Shippo.
The girl ignored the demon and reached into her pocket and pulled out a scroll.
"Arasoi?" her brother asked, but still no reply.
Arasoi then threw the scroll at the bush; a large purple demon aura appeared.
"What the hell is that?" whispered Keishou.
The aura turned into a smog and was then sucked into the sky with a shriek that sounded like it was being brutally murdered. Moments later all was silent except for Inuyasha and Kagome running.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT NOISE, SHIPPO?" Inuyasha demanded when they reached the pups.
"I don't know, ask Arasoi she did it!" Shippo yelled from Keishou's shoulder.
"Hey! Why am I the first to be blamed anyway?!" Shippo was again ignored as Inuyasha turned to Arasoi.
"Well?" His voice was sharp.
"The bush, it has some weird demonic...thingy in it. I think it was watching Shippo, Keishou and me. It had a horrible presence and reminded me of the one Nariko had."
Kagome looked at the bush. "Are you sure Arasoi? Are you sure it felt like one of Naraku's minions?"
The girl nodded. "I'm positive."
Keishou found his voice. "Maybe we should all go back to the hut for the night."
Everyone agreed and they walked back.
"Big brother?" Arasoi whispered. She and Keishou were a good distance away from the group so Inuyasha wouldn't hear.
"Yeah?" he answered
"I think Naraku's after us."
"I wouldn't be surprised. He probably saw us fight before and it curious about it."
"But what about the time line!"
Keishou faced his sister, "What about it?"
"Well, as you said before. We're changing so many things by us just being here, you know? Maybe that means Papa will choose Kikyo instead of mom!"
"I doubt it, but we have to make sure he chooses mom without our help. How are we gonna pull that off?"
Arasoi smirked and brushed a stray black hair from her face. "Leave that to me, big brother!" She then skipped ahead leaving him confused.
(AN: I FINISHED CHAPTER 11!! SCORE!! Ok, if anyone didn't pick up on who Sanae was, she was Sango and Miroku's daughter. I just wanted to make that clear because one time I wrote in riddles and everyone was confused and asked "What? Who's that? What?" and crap. So this chapter was basically a fill in and to entertain you readers with my mindless babble, the next chapter will be better I promise! Anyway, now go review and BE NICE OR ELSE!!)