Ai ga subete – Our era starts from here

Hi there! Thanks for your terrific reviews. I'm really sorry it took me that long to write this chapter, but I didn't have that much time (homework, activities…and I've to look after my boyfriend's little sister for some weeks). Some of you asked me about the Inuyasha's wish. Please be patient. I don't know how long it'll take till he makes his wish. Well, that's because I'm not sure if I'll make this fic rather short (so it'll be finished after the trip) or longer (you'd have to wait quite a while for the wish, but there would be compensations for that). I think I'd prefer the longer one, but I'm really not sure yet.

(Oh, and about the bone eaters well: (response to Inu-KagomeFan's review) I think that's what's said in the anime, isn't it? (I haven't seen each episode of the English version) But do you remember the episode when Inuyasha came to her time to take her with him for the fight against Yura? She was able to go through the well without a shikon-shard then. And when Inuyasha sent her back and blocked the well she didn't need the shard to go back as well. The only reason she wasn't able to first was that Inuyasha had blocked the well (That's what he did it for))

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PS: I don't own Inuyasha! (As if you wouldn't know that :)

Ai ga subete – Our era starts from here

Chapter 5: Arrival

The coach arrived around noon. When Kagome stepped into the entrance hall of the hotel she felt somehow relieved. During the whole journey she'd had the strange feeling that somebody watched her. Especially when they had a rest and she had gotten of the coach to stretch her legs. But every time she turned round to see who was staring at her there was no body. She sighed. Probably she had just gotten used to being followed or something. Now that they'd finally arrived she felt kind of save, even if she didn't know why she'd felt another way before.
"Hey, Kagome" Eri began. "Mrs. Yamaguchi wants to talk to you."
Kagome was slightly surprised but nodded and went over to where their class teacher stood.
"What does she want?" Yuka whispered. Her two friends only shrugged their shoulders.
"No idea." Ayumi replied.

"Mrs. Yamaguchi?" Kagome asked. "You wanted to talk to me?"
Mrs. Yamaguchi turned round. "Oh. Miss Higurashi" she said, fixing her crooked glasses. She was smaller than Kagome, wearing a dark blue dress and with her straight black hair tied back in a long pigtail. She didn't even look much older than her, though she was at least twenty-eight years old.
"I'm very pleased to see that you're feeling better" she said with a friendly smile. "I don't know if your mother told you, but since it wasn't certain if you'd be able to join us we ordered an extra room for you so it would be easier to reverse, just in case... Well, there isn't a free bed in one of the other rooms anymore, so if you want to stay with your friends, maybe you could just ask somebody else…"

Kagome thought for a moment. Being with her friends would have been nice of course, but a room just for her? Where she would be left by herself at last at night? That sure sounded tempting. And since the others were staying in twin rooms and Ayumi had already decided to stay with a friend from another class…
"I think I'd like the idea of staying in that room better" she finally replied.
"OK. But tell me if you change your mind."

- - -

Inuyasha leapt on the biggest branch of a huge oak about 500 meters away from that hotel-thing, his bag still dangling over his shoulder. When he had felt that the 'coach' had been slowing down he had jumped off it, making sure he wouldn't only just escape from Kagome's and her classmates' looks as he'd done about two hours ago when the coach suddenly stopped on a big space with lots of cars on it. Soon after that another 'coach' had arrived. When the third one finally had been there they went on with the journey. Which was quite lucky because there'd been only cars for Inuyasha to hide behind and Kagome had been just a few steps away from him when her teacher had asked the students to get on the coach again.

After he'd left the grounds of the Sunset shrine and finally found out what a coach was, he'd followed it on foot for a while, carefully trying not to be seen by Kagome. But when this coach had started driving faster and there had been less and less people and houses he'd decided to act on Mrs. Higurashi's advice and had simply jumped on top of it.
With his sensitive dog-demon-ears he had been able to hear that some of the guys inside of that coach were startled at the sound above them.
After a while he'd found out where Kagome was sitting and had lain down to be able to hear her voice. Inuyasha could hear her talking with her three friends, that short haired girl, the one with wavy hair and the one always wearing a hair-band. At first they'd talked something about a 'boyfriend', whatever it was supposed to mean. But when Kagome'd asked her friends to speak quieter and Inuyasha could hear that Yuka whispered his name, he'd started paying more attention to the girls' conversation. After the three girls had said something about him being not as violent and selfish as they'd imagined and they'd asked Kagome if he was still two-timing her, they'd quickly changed the subject and started to talk about something boring. At least it had seemed to be boring to him, but even he could guess that it would have sounded much more interesting to Kagome. (Of course the new topic was 'school'!)
When he had gotten tired of listening after another few minutes he'd lain down on his back, looking at the quickly changing image of a light blue sky with some small clouds.
He hadn't any problems lying on top of a fast driving vehicle. It wasn't much different from riding on Kirara or on Hatsie (the raccoon) only quite disturbing to his ears.

Most of the time he'd thought about what the next week would be like. Mrs. Higurashi had already told him some things about daytrips and hiking, but even she hadn't been sure about everything. She'd guessed that there would be much free time as well…
And of course he couldn't stop thinking about what she'd told him before he had left.
"Oh, and Inuyasha..." He still blushed at the thought what she'd said, even more than he had when she'd really said it to him. That was probably because he hadn't completely comprehended the meaning of her words until he'd thought of it for some minutes.

Shaking his thoughts of he looked back at the hotel entrance. After everybody had gotten off the bus and entered the hotel, and the luggage had been taken inside, there was no sign of Kagome or her classmates anymore. Inuyasha waited for a while. Then he realized movements behind most of the windows of the huge building. He decided that taking a closer glance at it would be much better than just waiting. He placed his bag under one of the bushes, then rushed over to the rear of the hotel. Soon he could make out some of Kagome's classmates' he had seen earlier when they'd had a rest. To his dismay there were only boys, not all of them from Kagome's class.
He had to move very fast so nobody would see him, but still he was able to notice that most of the guys were getting things from their bags and put it into 'wardrobes'.
Soon he considered that the girls' rooms had to be somewhere else.

He started running round the building but it didn't take him long to find what he was looking for. Leaping up into the air his eyes were able to confirm what his ears had recognized earlier.
Yuka and Eri were sitting on a bed in one of the rooms, giggling and talking about something boring again. He was able to see them through something that looked just like Kagome's window, only higher, and there was something like a square platform with a railing in front of it.
(A/N: I guess Inuyasha wouldn't know the modern balconies, would he?)
When he noticed that Eri started at the sudden movement behind her, he quickly landed on the ground, pressing himself against the wall. He could hear how Eri opened the large window, which turned out to be a door made of glass, and step out on the platform.

"What is it, Eri?"
"Nothing, Yuka. I just thought I saw something moving."

Inuyasha breathed deeply when she reentered the room. He waited a few seconds, then continued his search for Kagome. Since Yuka's and Eri's room was on the second floor, and so was Ayumi's, he guessed that the room in which Kagome stayed would be there, too. But it wasn't! So he had to check nearly every window of the hotel to find her. It took him quite a while and he was nearly about to despair, when he finally found her.
She lay on her back, her eyes closed. The bed she was lying on seemed to be even bigger than the one in her mother's room. He could tell that she still hadn't finished unpacking her things since the wardrobe was still open and some 'tee-shaats' lay on the bed, near her head.
He was wondering if she was asleep or had just closed her eyes for some reason he didn't know. Then he realized that the window-like looking door was opened slightly. Finally he decided to jump off the railing he had been sitting on while watching her and enter the room.
Just when he wanted to push that glass door open he heard somebody knocking at the wooden door which was on the far side of the room. Kagome jumped up immediately heading for the door and Inuyasha decided that it would be better not to appear in front of her when somebody else was there as well. Clearly recognizing Eri's and Ayumi's voices, he jumped back down to the ground and rushed back into the woods.

- - -

Kagome sighed and throw herself on the large bed of her hotel room. She'd almost finished unpacking her things but was too shattered to go on. She just wanted to rest for some minutes. Of course traveling with her classmates wasn't as strenuous as traveling with Inuyasha and the others. But still she was really tired. Well, not to mention that her ears (and brain) needed to recover from the merciless talk-attack her friends had performed on her. Maybe she only wasn't used to it anymore, but she really wondered how anybody could possibly talk for such a long time. She opened her eyes, looking at the ceiling for a moment, then closed them again.
'I wonder how Inuyasha and the others are doing… hope he isn't too angry with me anymore.'
After a few minutes of being lost in thought about Inuyasha (who'd been the main object of Eri's, Ayumi's and Yuka's discussions, by the way) she suddenly heard someone knocking at the door. She got to her feet immediately, she blushing slightly when she realized what she'd been thinking about. Kagome quickly opened the door, allowing Yuka, Eri and Ayumi to enter the room.
"Hi Kagome! Haven't you finished unpacking your things yet?" Eri asked.
"No, I was just going to when you knocked at the door" Kagome replied, picking up one of the t-shirts on the bed.
"You could do that later, you know. Actually we wanted to ask you if you'd like to come with us" Ayumi threw in. "We don't have to go somewhere with the others until tonight so let's just do something on our own!"

Before Kagome was able to do anything she was dragged out of her room by her friends.

- - -

Kagome looked out of one of the windows in the hotel restaurant. The pouring rain made it impossible for her to even take a glance at the huge trees of the forest near the hotel. Although the sun hadn't set yet, the whole scenery outside seemed to be shrouded in darkness by the black clouds.
Actually she'd have gone for a walk in the mountains with her teachers and classmates after supper, but since it was raining cats and dogs it was quite impossible. The students got some more free time instead.
"Bo-o-ring" Yuka yawned. "What are we going to do now?"
Kagome shrugged her shoulders. She would have been quite happy if she'd gotten some time alone during the afternoon. But her friends had only dragged her along with them the whole time. She wouldn't have thought it that bad, but since the strange feeling had returned after they'd left the hotel, she'd felt really happy when it'd started raining and they had to go back.
Ayumi came over to their table again with a big smile.
"I asked the other what they have planned for tonight" she said.
Yuka's and Eri's faces lightened at once.
"So why are you smiling that way?" Yuka asked excitedly.
"Yeah, don't put us on the rack any longer!" Eri pleaded.
Ayumi drew a deep breath to intensify the excitement of her friends.
"First of all we're going to the boys' rooms, maybe playing some games, they weren't sure yet, but after the teachers went to their rooms we will go on a nightly excursion!"
Eri and Yuka acted like they would shriek on the scary sound of Ayumi's voice.
"So what kind of excursion is that one going to be?" Kagome asked.
"You know, there are some strange things happening. Some of our classmates saw a mysterious creature going through the hotel area. And there is already a rumor about a ghost and that this place is haunted!" She said in a convincing tone. "And we're going to get to the bottom of this story." Eri nodded in agreement.

Kagome thought about it for a second. "I think I won't join you" she said. "I'm not that interested in ghosts and stuff like this."
Of course she was telling lies. She hadn't felt something like a ghost or youkai somewhere in this area, so she was sure that her friends wouldn't be endangered. But since they didn't know about her miko-abilities she decided that she'd get a unique chance to spend some time alone.
"What do you want to do instead?" Yuka asked curious.
"Maybe going to the onsen near here."
Eri rolled her eyes. "But don't wail over missing all the fun later."
"I won't. Promise!" Kagome replied as they got up and started to head for their rooms.

- - -

Kagome sighed, leaning herself against one of the rocks in the onsen. The water was marvelous warm, making her relax. Finding the onsen hadn't been that hard since she'd already seen some signs to guide the way during her walk with the three other girls. But the rain pouring down on her had made it harder to get there because the path was rather slippery and so she'd nearly slipped one time. Still that only had happened because she had been running, feeling somehow followed by somebody like she'd done nearly the whole day. But now that she'd finally reached the hot spring and the rain had finished she didn't feel this way anymore. She'd slipped off her soaked yukata and placed it over the heating in the lonely changing room which was part of the bathing area as well as the onsen.
The rain had finally stopped when she'd arrived and now that she was sitting in the pleasant hot water the clouds were finally dispersing, revealing the starlit moonless night.
Right…there was no moon…it was new moon!
Kagome shook in sudden realization. It was the new moon tonight, Inuyasha's time of the month. The time he became human.
She'd nearly forgotten about this the day before. Yeah, tonight was the night Inuyasha wouldn't be able to fight any demons, the night he could get hurt even more seriously than usual. 'I hope he is alright…' she thought, starting to blame herself for leaving him and her friends at the time they were most vulnerable to attackers. She sighed again, dipping her head under water to gather her thoughts. When she finally had to breathe she broke through the surface of the water, finally hearing what she'd ignored before.
"Hey! Kagome!" There was a soft whisper coming from the bushes near the onsen.
"Who…who is there?" Kagome asked confused.
"It's me!" the voice answered. Her eyes widened in shock when she finally realized what was going on.

"I-Inuyasha!?"

Well, that's it, my fifth chapter! I think it's quite confusing but there will be answers in the next chapter. And you'll learn about Mrs. Higutashi's words too.
I hope you liked reading it anyways. Please review!

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