I'm totally sorry for the lateness of this chapter, but I found a new online game and I've been playing it none stop. ::smacks own hand:: A thousand apologies to my readers, though if you want to bully me, download Lineage II and talk to me online lol players name is Rinako. Also I had Writers block I swear! Just to think about writing without telling myself, "Hey, this doesn't make sense!" Hopefully this chapter has survived and will make sense lol. Also how the hell does this thing not see the bolds and italics I put in this thing, damn it! If anyone knows how to make the FanFic layout look like how I typed this bugger please review just to tell me how lol. Anyways! On with the story!


Chapter Three: Breakings and Queries

Kagome sat leaning on her side whilst the bus made the most uncomfortable journey to the bus-stop closest to her home. She had the tattoo done on her left shoulder blade trailing to her middle back. The white gauze bandage placed on her back itched and the tape pinched her skin, the dull ache currently presiding over said place was making her mood dark and her temper short.

'Damn that InuYasha, even now he's causing me pain.' She mentally growled, shifting again so her other shoulder got some work.

"I still don't know how you could take that much pain. I mean, I was close to hurling back there. Watching as that, that... was that a guy?" Eri waved away the question, "As he cut you up and mopped up the blood."

"You've watched plenty of those poorly made horror movies, a bit of blood shouldn't make you queasy." Ayumi countered, this being the reason she was able to watch with rapped fascination as the tattooist set about his work.

"Well all that's fake. My own bloods fine, but watching a friend bleed real blood just isn't kosher." Eri retorted. Yuka nodded in agreement with Eri like she did with most things. Whilst Kagome was chewing in the sheet covering the table, she was shifting through the 'tattoo catalogue' pretending to look, drowning out the muffled grunts of pain that emanated from her close friend.

Ayumi rolled her eyes and turned her attention to Kagome. Observing how she chewed on her bottom lip and scrunched her eyes tight, she asked the only question she knew, "Kagome? You O.K?" and to that question she received a grunt.

'Don't itch. Don't itch.' Kagome repeated this mantra over and over and it wasn't working. The need was gnawing at her will power. She did the next best thing; she itched close to the gauzed covered tattoo. This alleviated some of the itching and brought her from the edge of scratching the damn thing out right. She'd have to call on her friends to change the bandage for her. Her mother could not see this, well not yet.

'He said some of it would scab. Lying sod. The way this thing is itching it's all going to scab over. When I get back to show this off InuYasha will laugh at the giant cockroach sulking from the mysterious nipple I grew on my back.' She sighed, standing up as the bus stopped at her stop.

Walking off the bus, she spun around to wave her friends off only to find that they were standing in front of her.

"Wha... Why?" her arms waving up and down and at friends.

"You said later. And guess what? It's a whole lot later. Heck it's sunset for crying out loud. So we're staying over the night, that way you can tell us the whole story." Eri hefted her bag into view, along with Yuka and Ayumi. This being her plan all along.

Kagome sighed a sound close to a scream. Glaring at them individually she turned her back on them, "Fine, just don't blame me when you-"

She was cut short as the mother of all cramps seized her lower abdomen, doubling her over to crouch on the pavement.

"Kagome!" her friends exclaimed out of sync. Before they could reach her she'd bolted, running in a half crouch. This not being the ideal way to run, she soon toppled forward losing balance, to crash to the harsh ground. Ignoring her banged knees and scrapped elbows she got up again this time running upright to save herself a repeat.

It had taken her three minutes to complete her mini-cross country run of two and a half blocks (return bus-stop half a block closer to home), seventy four steps and thirteen strides to reach the shrine holding the well. Her lungs were burning and her calves protesting to the sudden adrenaline abuse.

She stood there watching as the light behind the shoji doors increased with intensity with each passing moment. Her mind was going in a million different directions at once, but all seem to come to the same conclusion. InuYasha was coming through and she was plain out of places to put another seal.

'How can he be breaking through?' She pondered, her breathing returning to normal. 'It couldn't be... Kaede wouldn't...' Her three shadows had caught up and were currently wheezing their presence. They watched as Kagome made her way to the doors, reaching out one hand to grasp the door grip, only to have it shoot back. She then clenched her hand into a fist, the knuckles turning white as her hand made the return journey to the door grip. Slamming the door back hard causing dust to fall from the roof, they watched as she plunged into the darkness enveloped blue.
InuYasha sat at the bottom of the well. Hand pressed to the cold earth as he took several deep breaths to steady his thoughts. Instead of steadying them, they drifted down their own little well to the past of ten minutes ago. Kaede, the insufferable witch, had finally finished the 'ritual' that he saw there was no need in doing. At this she sighed and replied.

"We all know how you think, which I might add isn't very often," a low growl stopped her insults, "And your trail of thought switches from one thing to another even if it's a slight disturbance. All in all you have no discipline," another growl which she ignored, damn priestesses, "This ritual should help you centre your thoughts better... here, you have to drink this again for the ritual to be fully complete."

Vile concoction, tasted like grass mixed with horse piss, and smelled like a river that passed through a disease infested village. He'd have to scrape his tongue after this.

That reminder had brought his thoughts back through their well back to his present. The 'vile concoction' seemed to be having some adverse affects on his system. He'd had to remove both his inner and outer haori's due to his increase in temperature. He had to get this over and done with.

The others were beginning to annoy him greatly. They all asked the same questions over and over, "When's Kagome coming back? Why did Kagome leave?" and "What made her leave like that?"

'Damn her!' She hadn't been gone a day and they were acting like this. He had told her to stay back, that he had things to sort out. 'But did she listen? Fuck no! And now look what she's done! She's gone and fucked up the group with her, damn emotional, self.'

He growled at how thoughts of her weren't helping in breaking the seal. He huffed and closed his eyes centring himself, closing off his sense so he wasn't distracted with changes in the air and the sound from above. If Sango and Miruko couldn't defend themselves against an attack without him there, they deserved to die.

Taking another deep breath he slashed the top of the hand in contact with the earth, allowing the blood to pool slightly past his claws. With this he started to chant, the words echoing off the walls. "This is my will. There is no stronger. This is my will. And you will yield."

His pooled blood moved to form circles within circles, kanji's with in the rings spelling the words he breathed. He felt the seal give as blue light edged the circles his blood had made. It wasn't enough. Growling he pushed harder into the compact earth, his eyes glowing bright yellow, causing the rings to expand outwards to be replaced with new blank rings.

"This is my will. There is no stronger. This is my will. You will break. This is my will. And I shall pass!"

Fissures ripped the bottom of the well apart and bled blue light. The fissures cracked like glass, and were blown out only to be sucked back into the enthral pit. Unlike the shards of reality Inuyasha dived into the comforting deep.

He'd missed this.
Kagome watched in horror as the kanji's she'd placed there were sucked into the well. She rushed to the lip of the well clawing at the words to stop their travel, but they continued unhindered and unperturbed by her frantic actions. The lid caved into the cyan glow. Kagome had stopped breathing as her horror had turned to fear. She wasn't ready for him yet. Not yet. Her wound was too fresh for him to show now.

She stood at mouth of the well looking over the rim as glow faded. Their eyes locked. He was there, he was really there. The vision of him soon came to rush up at her. She raised an arm to her face in defence only to get pulled by her upper arm, with the rest of her body, into the air above the well against his topless being.

They hovered there for what seemed an eternity, the heat of his body transferring through her thin t-shirt making his appearance all the more real. She panicked. She pushed at him causing his hand to move to her lower arm, where his grip tightened.

"Sit!" Kagome hollered. The beads around his neck fleshed as the submission words crashed into his ears only to be followed by a scream as InuYasha claws ripped through the flesh of her lower arm.

He instinctively released her when the smell of her blood hit him. She slammed into the ground her knees turning to jelly from the impact as he slammed though back into the past.

Kagome sat panting heavily, tears of pain streaming from her eyes, her torn arm hanging over the edge of the well. InuYasha had let go just in time or her arm would have been broken. Tears of anger joined her tears of pain as her eyes began to glow an electric blue. 'Couldn't he understand that I need my space after seeing something like that?! Why do I have to suffer because of his stupidity?!' her anger railed, overriding the pain as her mind centred on her one demand, "As long as I draw breath InuYasha you will not come back through!"

Unknown to her, her blood that had pooled at the bottom of the well did as demanded, spinning circle after circle of her oath, glowing the deep colour of three minute old blood that couldn't penetrate the deep darkness at the bottom of the well as it pushed its way through the earth to seal the past.
This was the first time that InuYasha was sat and he didn't encounter ground. The usual caress that lasted at least thirty seconds flew by in two as he found himself in the bottom of the exact same well just five hundred years in the past.

He sat on this hunches staring at his hand as Kagome's blood ran down his fingers to slowly drop from his elbow. He brought his hand to his lips, and sniffed attentively. He still couldn't believe he'd hurt her. 'I didn't mean too. It wasn't meant to happen. But she- ' His nose was assaulted with the smell of her blood. The well stank overwhelming his sinuses as rings and kanji's of her blood erupted from the floor, throwing him out in a maroon blast. He righted himself in the air and watched as the rings formed outside the well. A maroon barrier erected in its place as it glowed faintly in the moonlight. He landed two feet out of barrier and read the kanji's 'As long as I draw breath InuYasha, you will not come back through'.

He growled in protest being shut off from one of the few joys about being with her. Besides her stunning resemblance to Kikyo that's all the joy she had to offer him. She was rude and disobedient and constantly angry with every action he preformed.

"InuYasha... I do not know how you did," a wrinkly or slightly pruned or even a raisin-like hand waved, "what you did, but she put up an extremely strong blood barrier that's keyed to you." Kaede finished looking at the tense shoulders of InuYasha.

Shippo began to whine, the scent of Kagome's blood strong in the air and crusted to Inuyasha's claw. The explanation Kaede provided wasn't enough to alleviate his fears that the stupid hanyou hadn't hurt her, his hold on Sango's shoulder turned into a vice grip as his fears got the better of him and he started to cry.
Kagome was back at home, laying on her front with a pillow secure under her throat, surrounded by the shocked faces of her friends. After she had made her vow to never let Inuyasha back in her time as long as she lived dark bands had appeared around the well. She was soon sent off to the hospital when her mother found her bleeding in her kitchen sink with the pitiful excuse that a 'dog' had attacked her, technically one had it was just a 'dog demon', so it was a half pitifully poor excuse. She'd arrived back home with fourteen stitches and a rabies' shot only to have to explain who the half naked attacker had been. This had left her in her present situation, of shocked faces and disbelieving stares.

"Don't worry Kagome, you'll find a guy that really deserves you." Ayumi patted her hand in affection. If all of what she said was true, which it had to be with the light show they had all witnessed, then no wonder she didn't have any interest in Hojou.

Kagome had to smile at Ayumi even if it was a sad one. She loved the way Ayumi could just block out all the danger she had told her that she'd been through and concentrate on her past love interest.

"So you've been going into the past to put back together a jewel that you broke all this time?" Eri started, "Why didn't you tell us about this sooner? You could have trusted us with something this important."

"You do realise how stupid it sounds don't you? I mean even though I was there I didn't believe it had happened when I first returned home until he came back for me," Kagome scoffed, "At least now you can actually believe me without blatantly laughing and calling me crazy."

Silence ensued. So it was a little hard to believe that demons existed in the past and some my have survived into the future let alone that they existed at all.

"You're in love with that guy aren't you." Eri stated.

"Was. You guys were right it was a one sided love. He didn't even see me." Kagome whispered, turning her head away.

"Did you tell him how you felt?"

"Yes. And he still rejected me."

"Kag..."

"It's O.K really. I fell in love quick I'll just fall out with the same speed if not quicker. C'mon, switch off the light, today's taken a lot out of me." Kagome said with a bit too much energy. Her friends shared a look and complied with her wishes.

When she heard the even breathing and slight snores from her friends, she was certain they had finally fallen asleep, she silently wept herself to sleep.
She had awoken with red puffy eyes and a blocked nose. Last nights crying had not done her the world of good. Her friends had woken before her to surprise her with a breakfast feast of eggs, toast, coffee and more eggs. She smiled and wondered into the bathroom to brush her teeth, wash her face and pull her underwear out of the night wedgy it had twisted itself into.

She came out with a sleepy smile hanging on her face, to find Souta eating her special breakfast. She was just about to flick his ear when the door bell rang. She wondered to the door in her PJ's and her slightly puffy face to open the door. There standing in the threshold were two women.

"Would you happen to be the resident priestess of this shrine miss?" the one with glasses, pale brown eyes with matching hair swept into a lazy braid and what seemed to be a permanent joyful smile said.

"Yes, I guess." Kagome replied still sleepy, but mildly curious as to why two people, the other with dead eyes, dark auburn and a permanent frown, would be doing visiting anyone on a Sunday morning. Her eyes wondered to the permanently smiling ones hands. A clipboard. 'Shit! Questionnaires.'

"Good!" Permanent smile chirped, permanent frown had yet to say anything, "We would like to ask you a few questions, if that's alright with you?"

"Questions? What exactly to these questions pertain?" Kagome now more awake than asleep as her brain started squeezing out posh words.

"These questions 'pertain' as to how a priestess of such low standing was able to erect three of the most powerful seals that we have felt of late."

Permanent frown had finally spoken.

End of Chapter Three

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Yenai: Thanks for saying this story's good . I would love for all of me reviews to speak their mind and swear as much as they like. I'll leave Sess finding out about the tattoo so you read this story lol, but it would be much like her to fall over. And she got that tattoo from a tattoo parlour! :P. ::cough:: my tattoo parlour ::cough::

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