A Summer With A Goddess
By Jade Dennis
Disclaimer: I do now own the characters of Inuyasha, they are the sole property of Rumiko Takahashi-sensei and the wonderful people at Viz Productions. (Yeah, I'm a professional) I am not exploiting these characters and am making not profit from my work. (although I wish I was)
Summery: The Inu Gang defeat Naraku and Inuyasha makes the wish for the Bone Eater's Well to remain open. With the portal forever open, he decides to spend a summer in modern times with Kagome. What will he find there and what secrets will be revealed? Inuyasha/Kagome
A/N: I don't have a beta reader right now and my Microsoft Word is being really gay. Can you tell? I'm working out of notepad as of right now. So please bear with the grammar and spelling mistakes. But I am looking for a beta reader and if anyone is interested, give me a jingle!
Prologue
It was over. It was done with. They had completed their job. End of story. The shard hunters had defeated the dreaded Naraku with a little help from Kikyo and the Shikon no Tama had been completed. The journey had lasted for the better part of four years, and now they could all take a much need rest. As the dust fell over the battlefield and the clouds began to clear, one couldn't help but wonder whether it truly was the end or not. The world was still infested with youkai, there were still many humans with evil in their hearts, but the Shikon no Tama had been restored. They had the jewel, so why bother fighting on? Their mission was finished, was it not? But there was still one problem at hand.
A wish had to be made; a good one. Who was to make it? Miroku desperately wanted to take the jewel for his own but he felt as though it did not belong to him. A few years ago, the monk had planned on wishing to be eternally surrounded by beautiful women. However, Sango was now the only woman he wished to be with. He also wanted the cursed line of the Kazaana to be removed from his family line, but he had a feeling that it was already taken care of.
Sango wanted her family and fellow villagers back. Since the incident she secretly blamed herself for their deaths. She saw it as her own fault for not being able to protect them when they needed it most. The slayer knew that she should allow them to rest in piece amongst their ancestors and the angels, but the feeling never left her soul. She wanted to bring them back from the dead, but she knew that the wish did not belong to her.
Shippou originally wanted to summon his dad and the rest of his family from the grave; that was why he joined the battle to begin with. But within time he had learned to accept their fate and knew that there was nothing he could really do about it. He had found a new family amongst the shard hunters and had found that this was where he belonged. All he really wanted now was to know that everyone was happy.
As for Kagome, she didn't care what happened; as long as the jewel was put to a good use. The only reason she began to hunt the Shikon no Kakera was because she felt guilty for shattering it. She felt as if it was her responsibility to gather the shards and keep them safe. But she did not care what the final wish was used for, as long as it was pure at heart. She had been fighting amongst her friends and even made new ones, and their happiness was all that truly mattered to her.
In all, everyone wanted Inuyasha to make the final wish. It was he who deserved it the most. He was the one who had searched it out well before any of them had even been born. From the beginning, they knew that the wish rested in his hands. After all the trouble and heartbreak he had gone through to defeat Naraku and attain the jewel, he deserved it more than anyone else. They all stood looking intently at him as he held the completed Shikon no Tama in his hands for the first time in over fifty years, waiting anxiously to hear what he would wish for. The endless silence seemed to stretch on for hours as the hanyou seemed deep in though over what to do with the jewel.
Inuyasha originally searched out the jewel with the pretence of transforming into a full youkai with its mystical powers. He was sick and tired of always being ridiculed for his half-bred blood. But when he met the priestess Kikyou, everything changed for him. When he slowly fell in love with her, he began to have doubts about his wish. She explained to him that he could use the jewel to become full human because he was already half. If the jewel was used for a good purpose it would surely disappeared and she would become a normal woman, and they could live a life happily together as humans. But on the promised day, an evil force from the outside interfered, causing the two lovers to betray each other. Inuyasha, stubbornly changing his mind after Kikyou's supposed betrayal, stole the Shikon no Tama from the village and planned to make his wish on his own. But she caught him and pinned him to the mighty Goshinboku for a dreaded fifty years.
When Kagome resurrected him from his forced slumber, Inuyasha immediately relinquished his need to become a full youkai. With the help of a priestess, Kaede, Kagome was able to subdue the angered hanyou who had mistaken her for his past lover. Kagome, as it turned out, was Kikyou's reincarnation. Unlike Kikyou, however, she carelessly shattered the magic jewel by mistake, spreading its pieces across the Sengoku Jidai. On their search to find the missing pieces, Inuyasha and Kagome, along with those they picked up on the way, grew gradually closer. He began to rethink his choice once more. Then, on a fateful day, he violently turned into a full-blooded youkai during a battle against one of Naraku's creations. He lost all sense of control and logic, and it scared him more than anything else in the world. Was that what he would become if he wished to be a full youkai? Would he hurt his friends? Would he hurt Kagome? He could not allow that to happen. Shaking off the thought, Inuyasha looked back at the jewel.
"I can't do it." His eyes were downcast, staring sadly at the glowing jewel in his open palm. "What if I make the wrong choice? What if there is some kind of awful consequence that comes from whatever I wish for? What if…" He couldn't finish his last thought as a single tear slid from his eye. It was all too sudden.
Everyone exchanged shocked glances. It must be an awful burden on his shoulders to think of a wish on the spot but none of them had thought about that. They expected him to wish to become a full youkai, or possibly a human, or for world peace and a lack of evil. They expected it to be over and done with in the blink of an eye, just another day in the life of a shard hunter. They never thought it through. Each wanted to comfort the sad hanyou but it was Kagome who made the first move.
"It's okay, Inuyasha." Her calm voice came from behind him as her warm hand was placed comfortingly on his back. "I trust you to make the right choice."
Her confidence in him made him smile inwardly, but worry and concern was still plastered all over his face. "There are consequences to everything, Kagome, and I'm just afraid of something bad coming from anything I wish for." He couldn't bring himself to look into her eyes, afraid of what he might see in them. She may sound confident in him, but she could be secretly terrified. He was afraid to see the fear in her eyes.
"Inuyasha is correct." Miroku spoke up, the wisdom of years of Buddhist training kicking in. "If not at this time, something may come along in the future that is evil and has resulted from a wish made here today. One never knows the outcome of these types of events. This is something that needs to be thought over sufficiently, rather than jumped into without thought or proper reasoning."
Inuyasha turned to Kagome and finally peered deep into her eyes. His own reflected concern, fear, and love. "I'm so afraid of losing you, Kagome."
"You'll never lose me, Inuyasha. I'll always be here for you, no matter what." Kagome smiled. Her smile was radiant; it offered such warmth and comfort. That was another way she was different from Kikyou. Although he did not realize it at the time, Kikyou wanted to change him into a human because she was afraid of his demon side, afraid of the prejudice she might receive from mating with him. But Kagome, she was different. She did not care weather he was hanyou, youkai, or human. She cared for him no matter what he looked like.
"No-" Inuyasha began but was interrupted by Sango.
"If the wish is made for good won't the jewel disappear?" Sango stopped when she noticed everyone staring at her. She had apparently stated the obvious. "Well, Kagome, how would you get back to your world without the Shikon no Tama to open the portal?"
"I never thought of that..." Kagome spoke up, placing a forced smile over her worried face. "I would never leave you guys, I'd come back. You know that. I'd find a way."
"No, Kagome." Inuyasha spoke softly, never taking his eyes off of hers. She could have sworn she saw a tear swell up there. "Once you leave, the well will be closed up. Kagome, you won't be able to come back."
"What? That's not fair! But...the jewel disappeared once and reappeared inside my body, remember? Well, maybe it will happen again! It has to! I can't leave you guys!" She sunk to her knees in defeat, salty tears staining her pale cheeks. "How can they just expect me to leave and never come back? How can I live without you guys? This isn't right!"
Inuyasha knelt down beside her and pulled her into a tight embrace. "It's going to be alright, Kagome. You said you trusted me to make the right choice, right?" She stopped crying momentarily to look into his eyes and to nod a simple 'yes'. "Well," he continued. "I've made up my mind about my wish."
The hanyou got up and walked over to the well and peered deep inside its seemingly bottomless depths. "Inuyasha!" Shippou ran up to him and tightly wrapped himself around Inuyasha's leg. "What are you going to wish for?" The innocence of a child was plastered all over the kitsune's face as he peered up at the older youkai.
"I wish," he could already feel the power radiating from the jewel from the two small words. "That the Bone Eater's Well never closes up!"
The Shikon no Tama began to glow brighter than it had ever done in the past. The gang stared in amazement as the jewel began to crack into a million tiny pieces, blinding them with a light that is so pure it is unexplainable. They were forced to turn their heads away as the light became too bright for their eyes to handle. In the chaos, Inuyasha dropped the jewel and felt it fly from his grasp. When their vision finally returned to them, the jewel was gone.
"Oh no! Did it shatter again!" Sango yelled into the blank air.
"I...I think...I think I might have dropped it..." Inuyasha answered with a half panicked, half guilty look on his face.
"No, the wish has been granted. I can sense it." Miroku spoke up, barely able to control his voice. "Inuyasha?"
"Yes, monk?"
"Did you just wish for what I think you just wished for?" He asked in pure shock.
"Depends, Miroku, what do you think I just wished for?" Inuyasha shrugged with indifference.
"I could've sworn you wished for the well to stay open…"
"Hey, you were right! Congratulations!" The hanyou praised the monk with false enthusiasm.
"Inuyasha," Kagome began, rising from her former position on the ground. "What does this mean, exactly?"
"It means that now we can see each other every day." Inuyasha replied with a soft smile. "It means that I'll never have to worry about losing you again." Once again her eyes began to swell up the forewarning of oncoming and exasperating tears. But this time, they were tears of joy. She clung onto the hanyou's haori for comfort as he once again pulled her into a comforting hug.
Sango, too, began to tear up at the romance of it all. She thought that it was beautiful that the hanyou would use his only wish to better his bond between his loved one. "Inuyasha! Do you not understand what you just did!" Miroku yelled, ruining the mood entirely. "There are serious repercussions to that wish you just made! Because you didn't specify, I wouldn't be surprised if any old youkai could travel through that well now!"
"You fret too much, Miroku." Inuyasha sighed with a pleasant smile. "Besides, we'll worry about that when it happens." Inuyasha gave the monk a sly smile and turned back to Kagome.
"Oh, whatever!" The monk through his arms up in a sign of classic surrender, knowing all too well that the hanyou would not be listening to him for a while.
"Kagome, I love you. I will always love you and I will never leave you. I promise." The young miko felt her legs turn to jell-o as Inuyasha confessed his true feelings for her. His amber eyes peered deep within her soul and filled her with a warm sense of comfort and security; she knew that the words he spoke were true. Her legs wobbled beneath her as her teenaged swooning took over her body; the only thing preventing her from falling was Inuyasha's tight embrace. She had been waiting for this moment for what seemed like decades, and here it was. All of the things that she prepared to say in her spare time immediately left her brain, leaving her mind blank and unsure of what to say.
Before anyone could make another sound, Inuyasha bent down and planted his lips lovingly over Kagome's. She pulled away at first out of utter shock but quickly melted into his kiss, wrapping her arms around his lean body and kissing him back deeply. Time seemed to freeze and yet at the same time it seemed to speed up. She wanted the kiss to go on forever but it ended as quickly as it had begun.
"Inuyasha, I love you, too!" For a third time that day Kagome began to cry. She couldn't get a hold of herself; too much raw emotion was flowing through her veins.
"Everything is going to be okay, Kagome. I promise." He reassured her. "Now we can have that 'Happily Ever After' dream of yours."
"Do you love me, Miroku?" Sango sang out to the monk, tempting him seductively. She wanted to hear his answer, and she silently pleaded for it to be a 'yes'.
"Well, uhm…you see…" He began to blush. "We'll see." WHACK! Miroku began to rub his head painfully on the spot where Sango had hit him with her massive boomerang.
"Why can't you be romantic like Inuyasha?" She whined to the monk. It was odd though, Inuyasha had never been the romantic type before, but this sudden surge of emotion really empowered her. Everyone began to laugh at Sango's remark as they headed back to Kaede's village.
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