Disclaimer: Keh, if I owned Inu Yasha.. Why would I be wasting my time writing this..?
A/N: Time for another well-deserved update! . I'm glad so many were pleased with the turn of events in the last chapter! Your support really means alot to me in my writing. And I was pleased, myself, with the last chapter. Now, I get to have some fun!
I want to give a special thanks to distorted-desire for pointing out my idiotic error in the last chapter. I had put Shippou was ecstatic.. What the hell?! I don't know what I was thinking, but I went back and corrected my error. Domo Arigatou!
Telling a lie so many times, makes it become the truth...
Memories get made from nothing but air...
And I can't tell what's real and what's not anymore...
Inu Yasha shifted slightly, his ears twitching as he heard the sounds of someone entering the house. He slowly moved Kagome over, so she was lying on the bed instead of him, and slowly got up. He stretched slightly, making his way silently to the window, after glancing over at the girl laying on the bed. Kagome had curled up a little more, since her source of warmth was suddenly absent, pulling the haori tighter around her.
Inu Yasha smiled slightly at the sight, before looking out the window, though not seeing anyone. 'Already went in the house while I was looking at her...' he thought, blinking. He crept over to Kagome's bedroom door, and opened it a little bit, sticking his head out to see how far they were in the house. They were still around the living room, he decided, a sniff of air confirming his suspicions that Kagome's family was home.
Sighing, he walked back over to the nightstand beside Kagome's bed, his hand hovering inches about his dimly glowing badge. Before touching it, however, he looked back to Kagome, somewhat sadly, and leaned over, kissing her forehead and pulling her blanket over her. "Gomen nasai...But I'd rather not explain it to your mother tonight..." Kagome whimpered softly in her sleep, and he hesitated for a moment, before turning away and grabbing his badge, walking to the door as the transformation took place. He sent one last glance to Kagome, before his amber eyes darkened to the dull violet of his human form, his claws retracting to normal, human fingernails, and his hair darkening to black, his ears going into his head, to reappear as human ones on the sides of his head.
"Ehhh... How..? Oh yeah, I was tucking her in..." Agent Smith blinked, looking over at Kagome's form, then back down the hall, noticing the sounds. 'Her mom's home.. I better get to my room!' He went further into the hall, but suddenly froze, his eyes going wide, his gaze seeming far away...
Long, red things billowed to his sides, the wind sweeping through his hair...
'What...are they? Haori sleeves..?'
His tanned, bare feet ran over the rough terrain, the soles of them tough, so that the many rocks and sticks on the forest floor didn't even hurt...
'Where..am I going..?' To his sides hung two legs, both wearing white knee socks and brown dress shoes, though they looked a little weathered from travel...
'Someone's on my back.. who..?'
Hands gently clasped his shoulders, fingers brushing over the worn beads of the rosary around his neck that clanked with his every step. He leaped up, bounding off of a tree trunk, to land in a branch of the tree, silently letting his passenger slide from his back to stand beside him, though keeping an arm around her waist to keep her from falling.
'...Who is it..?'
He looked ahead to see a beautiful sunset, the colors looking crisp and vivid from the vantage point on the branch. A half-smile tugged on his lips, causing one fang to slip from the corner of his mouth.
"Inu Yasha... It's..beautiful.."
He turned to the sound of the voice, to look at his companion....
"Agent Smith... Hello?"
Souta's voice broke into his..memory? Waking dream? He was unsure what to file that one under.. Agent Smith blinked, looking down at the kid. "What are you doing out here?" Souta asked.
"..I thought I heard someone enter the house, so I was checking to see if it was you guys. Goodnight, kid." He patted Souta on the head and began to head to the guest room he was residing in.
"...You look like him, you know."
Agent Smith turned to look at Souta. "..Who?"
Souta continued facing the opposite direction of Agent Smith, looking a little stiff. "The one nee-chan cries over at night.. We found her in the well that day, clutching his haori and sobbing... She wouldn't stop crying for so long.. I was afraid she was going to die..."
Agent Smith stiffened, looking towards Kagome's bedroom door. 'Why should I care about who hurt her..? And yet, I do. I care about what happens to her, and what happened to her.. But why? Why should I..?' He blinked, remembering his 'waking dream', and the haori he was wearing. 'What does it all mean..? That haori looked like the one Kagome had.. Was she the person on my back..?'
"You're silent..." Souta's voice broke into his thoughts again. "Could you really be Inu-Yasha-no-ni-chan...? Are you too ashamed of what you did to reveil yourself?"
Agent Smith's eyes flashed golden for a moment, and he could've sworn he was about to black out, before he blinked it away and shook his head.
'Salt.. Lots and lots of salt... The air is full of it...'
"Inu Yasha... She's crying again... Why do you have to torture her by always going after Kikyou?"
"Shut up, bouzou..."
'Her sobbing is tearing at my heart...'
"...Gomen nasai... Kagome.."
".. I don't know what you're talking about, kid." Agent Smith turned back around, taking a step towards his door.
"I used to think you were my hero!" Souta shouted out, whirling around. Agent Smith spun back around, ready to retort, before he noticed the tears in the young boy's eyes. He blinked again, abit taken back, and then sighed, turning back around.
"You.. have me confused with someone else." he muttered, as he turned to his room, just as Kagome's mother walked up the stairs. As he closed the door behind him, he heard her muffled voice, asking Souta what was wrong, and Souta's reply of just being tired. Agent Smith sighed, climbing up on the bed, lying back and closing his eyes without bothering to take off his clothes.
Souta's voice echoed in head, whispering of how he reminded him of the one that broke Kagome's heart.
'We found her in the well...'
His eyes shot open.
'In..? She was IN the well..?'
Agent Smith sat up, glancing around in the darkness. 'Maybe I heard wrong.. I'll ask the kid tomorrow...' he thought, as he shrugged, trying to brush aside the feeling that he was forgetting something. His eyes flashed golden in the darkness for a moment, but he shook his head, letting his eyes slide closed once more and sleep overtake him.
'....Kagome?'
He blinked, clad in a solid red kimono, his silver hair being blown back by the size of the energy blast coming straight towards him that was fired by Naraku, his ears flattened to his head. 'I can't dodge.. It's too strong.. too big...'
'The final battle...'
Screams came from his friends, all of them calling out his name, though the voice he made out the most was that of Kagome's.
"N...nani..?"
He turned his head, his friend's screams turning to calls for the raven-haired girl to stop, as she ran out to him, crying out his name. Everything faded to black, except for the black energy blast coming towards him, and the girl from the future running towards him, her bow clutched in one hand, the other out-stretched. Time slowed down, as his golden eyes widened in fear, his mouth opening to scream.
"Get back, FOOL!"
Kagome defied him, hurling herself into his side, clutching on for dear life with her out-stretched hand, her other hand holding her bow out in front of her. His arm automatically went around her waist, holding her close to his side, the one thought going through his head being, 'Oh gods, that idiot's going to die.. As am I..'
"NO!" Kagome cried out, her back arching, as her head flew slightly back, her eyes fading to the solid hazel color of her iris, as a pink light emitted from her body, covering the pair. Inu Yasha winced, narrowing his eyes against the light, his grip on her tightening.
'Her miko powers are incredible...'
The pink light shoved the black orb back at Naraku and his minions, with twice the force, as the pink light circled around the orb, obliterating them into nothingness.
"KAGOME!"
".....KAGOME!"
Agent Smith blinked, a hand to his chest, sweat cascading down his brow. He panted, clutching at his heart, in a futile attempt to make his heart-rate return to normal. He glanced over at the nearby window, finding rays of light coming from it, the distant cherping of birds confirming that it was morning. He took in slow and deep gulp of air greedily, letting them out in a sigh. "It.. it felt so real.. A red haori.. dogears... silver hair.. I had them.. Why?"
His hand suddenly went to his head, and he winced, closing his eyes in pain. "Itai... my head.. is pounding.."
The door flew open suddenly, Souta standing in the doorway. "Are you okay, Inu-Yasha-no-ni... I mean.. Agent Smith?" Agent Smith slowly opened his eyes, giving Souta a dry look.
"I'm fine, kid. But I have some things to ask you, so come over here." Souta climbed up on the bed, blinking some.
"Nani?"
Agent Smith sighed, racking a hand through his dark hair. "Okay, last night you said.. 'in the well', ne? IN it?"
Souta nodded slightly. "Ne.. Nee-chan used the well to travel back to a time where youkai existed... We found her in the bottom of the well, sobbing, with his haori around her."
Agent Smith let this sink in for a moment before narrowing his eyes. "Youkai..? Do you take me for a fool?"
"I'm serious. Nee-chan can use purifiying arrows.. And Inu-Yasha-no-ni-chan used a huge sword called the Tetsusaiga." Souta tilted his head slightly to the side, studying Agent Smith's face.
"You keep on bringing up this Inu Yasha guy.. He and Kagome were close, huh.. Lovers?"
"Jealous?" Souta smirked, deciding to play around with him. "They were deeply in love."
"And he hurt her?" Agent Smith inquired.
"She refuses to talk of it.. She just said he was gone for good and that she would no longer be going through the well.. I'm asuming a youkai killed him.. But you look and sound just like him.. except you're human.. But nee-chan had told me than since he was hanyou, he had a human form.."
"Human..form..? Hanyou..? Do you have a picture of this guy?"
Souta nodded and ran out the door, only to reappear moment later with a couple of photos. He handed them to Agent Smith, once again climbing up on the bed. Agent Smith examined the first one, blinking. In the photo were Kagome and Inu Yasha glaring at each other inside a photo booth. "That one was taken when they were fighting about Inu Yasha coming out into public to look for Kagome without a hat over his ears..." Souta explained.
Agent Smith blinked, studying the twin, white, dogears upon the man's head. 'He does look like me.. Only with the hair and ears different.. and his eyes.. are cat-like..' He pulled out the next photo from under it. In that picture he saw the two looking at the camera in shock. In the next one, Inu Yasha had his clawed hand poised in attack to protect Kagome from the camera, while she had a hand on his arm, looking angry. The last one had her pointing at him, mouth open, while only his legs were shown. "What's happening here?" Agent Smith asked, holding out that photo.
Souta glanced at it, then smiled. "Nee-chan had the ability to subdue Inu-no-ni-chan. The rosary around his neck-" Souta pointed to the worn necklace in the picture, "was what binded them together. Only she could do it."
"That's what she found at that tree outside, though..." Agent Smith muttered, before his breath hitched suddenly and he brought a hand to his head, his eyes wide.
"Daijoubou?" Souta asked, blinking.
Anger, red eyes, growling...
'Why am I craving human flesh and blood..?'
"Agent Smith? Daijoubou?!" Souta shook him slightly, only to get a whimper of pain.
"Inu Yasha..."
'A voice... It sounds like Kagome's..'
"Inu Yasha... Osuwari!"
"A-agent Smith? Mama! Mama! Something's wrong with him!"
Another groan as Agent Smith collapsed off the bed.
Bright, white light coming from a worn necklace, pulling at his neck... Pulling, pulling, forcing him to kiss the ground..
'What happened?'
No more blood lust, soft golden eyes instead of bloody red...
"What the hell was that for, woman?!"
He lifted his head to see the girl...
"Inu Yasha!"
Kagome looked at Agent Smith, crouching down in her pajamas and his haori and shaking him.
"Daijoubou?!"
"H-hai..." Agent Smith's head stopped hurting as he looked up at the woman with the tousled, raven hair. "But I'm not..." He broke off. He wasn't so sure that he wasn't Inu Yasha anymore. All these memories...
"Kagome," Agent Smith began, taking hold of her wrist as he got up to bring her to her feet, "let's go for a walk."
"But I'm not dressed-.."
"Just around the shrine."
Together, they left the house and began to walk along the shrine grounds, stopping at the bench underneath the Goshinboku. He pulled the rest of the pictures of Inu Yasha Souta had brought to him from his shirt pocket. Silently, he looked through them, noticing Kagome tense and open her mouth several times. In the pictures were Kagome and Inu Yasha, sometimes a small child with a tail, and one with the whole Sengoku Jidai tachi.
One of Inu Yasha and Kagome eating steak.
One of Inu Yasha playing with Kagome's robust cat, Buyou.
One of Inu Yasha with Kagome over his shoulder, headed for the well house.
One of Inu Yasha in human form, sulking with Kagome by his side...
Agent Smith paused, staring at that one. A human form.. It looked just like him. The dreams- memories.. Was he this Inu Yasha guy?
"... Explain it."
"Huh?" Kagome looked at the picture, then to Agent Smith.
"Did you stalk me or something? How did you get someone that looked identical to me in this pic-" He broke off, his eyes seeming faraway as another memory hit him.
"I'm sorry, did I wake you?"
His eyes were opened partway and everything was blurry. His head was hot and breathing was tough. He thought he was dying.
"No.. Tell me something.. Why is it that you were crying?"
"Huh.. Oh.. Because I thought.. you were going to.. die.." Her voice shook and the word 'die' came out in a whisper. Her voice sounded like Kagome's.
"You cried tears for me.. No one's ever done that before.." He closed his eyes to avoid looking at the blurry shape. "Would you... lend me your lap?"
"Huh.. Sure." The girl lifted his head up into her lap, smoothed out his hair under his head. "Better?"
"Yes. You.. smell nice..
Kagome."
A/N: Another finished chapter.. So sorry it took so long to update! I promise, promise that I won't take so long to update next time! My life just kinda.. twisted, is all.. And I had to adjust. ;
Will Agent Smith find out his past?! What's going on with Sango and Miroku?! Why doesn't Kagome just tear off Agent Smith's badge and screw Inu-chan?!
Find out in the next, exciting chapter of Broken Hearts Change Nice Girls!