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Cherryblosomz- I dunno. I'm lazy. And I don't like math… hmm… Consult a calendar. When you figure it out, tell me to. o.0
Legends Don't Die
Chapter 2: Three Weeks
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Kagome ran to her bike, hopped on it, and sped out of the cemetery. Her heart was beating furiously, not from pedaling, but from fear.
She slammed her bike down at the foot of the shrine steps and jogged up. She rocketed to the mini shrine and into the well house.
'I have to go back. But I can't. What should I do?' Kagome stared into the well. 'Three weeks. I have three weeks.' Kagome thought, staring at the darkness of the well. 'No. THEY have three weeks. What can I do to change the destiny of five people?'
Tears of helplessness and frustration poured down her face, and into the well. She spun on her heels, wiped her tears and walked away, accidentally cutting herself on a loose piece of wire.
"Dang." Kagome said, staring at her hand and shaking her head. "I'll clear out the wire at some point." With a shrug, Kagome headed to the house to get a Band-Aid.
"Done with the skating rink already?" Her mother asked as she walked through the door.
"Um… yeah. I cut myself on some wire, so I'm going to go take car of it, 'kay?" Kagome asked, and without waiting for a reply, rushed to the bathroom, and began to take care of the small cut on her hand.
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Inuyasha sniffed the air. He could smell tears. Kagome's tears. And Kagome's blood. But he couldn't smell her. He followed the smell until he came to the well, and the answer came to him.
'She must have been crying over the well. She really doesn't get tired of making me worry.' Inuyasha sniffed the well again. Definitely Kagome.
'I wonder if she's going to come back…' He wondered. 'I can't protect her in her world like I can here.'
With one last look to the Shingoku Jidai and a reassuring "She won't notice me" he hopped into the well.
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"Mom! I'm going to the library!" Kagome called.
"Okay dear!"
Kagome jogged down the shrine steps and headed toward the cemetery record keeper's place, instead of the library.
Kagome sighed. She felt like she did something she wasn't supposed to. 'I've been so uneasy and uptight that I've been doing things that aren't me.' Kagome thought uneasily.
Kagome swung open the shop door, and the bell above ringed in protest. She ran up to the counter and tapped the bell for service.
"How can I help you?" The shopkeeper asked.
"I need to find out all I can about the deaths of five people." Kagome said.
"Names?"
"Sango, Miroku, Kaede, Shippou… and Inuyasha. They all died on July 18." Kagome said, a heavy weight falling on her heart.
"Oh. That's three weeks from now. Are they your ancestors?"
"I guess you could say that." Kagome replied.
"Well here's a few files. Try the library." The shopkeeper said. "If you want to buy the info, that would be 50 yen."
Kagome paid the shopkeeper 50 yen and left, heading toward the library.
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Inuyasha swung out of the well, and sniffed around. It smelled of nothing but Kagome, old wood, and dust. He walked patiently out of the well, and sniffed the air. Two trails. One to the left, and one to the right.
The one to the right seemed newer, so he headed that way, staying out of sight.
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Kagome stood in line to check out books, her hands full.
When she finally got there, the librarian checked the books out to her, and Kagome left. Kagome piled the books into her backpack and headed home.
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Inuyasha saw Kagome head his way, and he dunked behind a tree.
Kagome paused, and looked around. 'Demons in my time?' Kagome thought. 'Impossible.' Kagome began to run toward the shrine, her feet clanking on the sidewalk and her backpack bouncing against her back.
Kagome didn't even hear her mother's greeting, as she hurried to her room, locked the door, and locked the window. Kagome slammed her bag down on the desk and spilled out the books and papers.
Hurriedly, she began to read.
"Aha!" Kagome said triumphantly, but the triumph turned into a frown. "In the Shingoku Jidai, there was believed to be a great battle. In that battle, five lives were lost. These lives were, Kaede, a nearby village's miko; Shippou, a young boy; Sango, a young woman wielding a large boomerang; Miroku, a young man who was a priest; and lastly, Inuyasha, who was believed to be inhuman. Oh my god." She sank down into her desk chair. Tears began to run down her face, as if her friends had already died.
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Inuyasha sniffed the air. He could smell Kagome's tears again. Sighing, he jumped toward her house. He jumped up into the tree near the window and peeked inside.
Kagome sat in her desk chair, books and papers spread out in front of her, and tears pouring down her face.
"Oh my god." She whispered over and over.
Inuyasha stared at her, and slipped his claws under the window, and tried to pull it up.
Locked.
He stared again. He really didn't want to go through the front door and run into that old man, but he didn't want to tap on the window either.
Sighing, he broke the lock (it's a different type of lock then on usual windows… it like… I dunno. Just go with it) and pushed the window up silently. Kagome didn't notice.
"Kagome?" He whispered.
"Inuyasha?" She turned to look at him. "Oh my god." She whispered again. She hugged him, one of her legs tipping over the desk chair. "Oh my god, Inuyasha. You have no idea what's going to happen."
Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. 'What's going to happen?'
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OK chapter 2 done. Yaaaaaaay.