Musume no Shorai - Chapter 14

By the time Rin had composed herself enough to… almost stop laughing, the children and Rin once again sat outside of Kaede's hut waiting. The adults were inside, Sango doing the best she could to treat Kagome's injures, and the rest of them planning their next move.

Sachi's right hand fidgeted nervously with the rim of her green skirt. Natsuko and Rin had their ears pressed to the huts exterior just under the window, listening. But it was in vain. The adults spoke in whispers, almost as if they knew they were being spied on.

"Their to good at this." Natsuko sighed, giving up and leaning her back against the hut once more.

"What's the point in keeping us in the dark? We just want to know if Kagome-sama is alright!" Minaru pouted, crossing his arms.

There wasn't a point; that's what bothered them. It wouldn't be a bad thing for them to know if Kagome was going to be all right, was it?

Rin looked over at Sachi, who stared absently at the sky, her mouth hanging open slightly and her eyes seemed to be glazed over.

'This must be killing her.' Rin frowned at the thought.

"I could try to remove the arrow, but I might only make things worse and cause more harm than good." Sango said, sitting back on her ankles and looking around the fire. Grim faces greeted her gaze, even the normally emotionless Sesshomaru's face seemed mournful. Her husband's eyes the only ones to even look at her.

"She looks so pale…" Shippo was horse and trailed off.

Inuyasha stared at Kagome. He seemed to not hear any of what the others were talking about. Her breath was in short, quick gasps and her pail face was beaded with sweat.

'I'm sorry Kagome, you needed me to protect you' Inuyasha closed his eyes 'and I couldn't.'

It had all happened so fast, he couldn't stop it. He had felt so helpless; he still felt so helpless. Kagome was here, still alive. But dieing, slowly and painfully.

And he couldn't stop it.

"Inuyasha?" Everyone was looking at him now, had he missed something?

"Yeah?" Inuyasha straightened his posture and looked around at all of them. "What?"

"You look pale yourself, are you feeling okay?" Miroku asked, but he wasn't the only one looking at Inuyasha with concern.

"I'm fine." Inuyasha rolled his eyes trying to shake off his dazed feeling and rested his hands behind his head.

"In that case, go check on the children." Sesshomaru said, closing his eyes.

Instead of arguing, Inuyasha did as he was told. He seemed zoned out as he go up and made his way out of the hut.

"He's so out of it, this must be really hard on him." Shippo said, watching Inuaysha fade from site behind the grass door mate.

Everyone nodded somberly, and the room once again fell silent.

"Doggie head!" Kohaku laughed, smiling and clapping his hands together at the sight of Inuyasha walking out of the hut door just a few feet away from them.

Inuyasha briefly scanned them, eyes darting from one to the other to the next… Then his eyes went wide.

"Where are Sachi and Natsuko?" Inuyasha seemed a little panicked and his eyes darted around the street looking for any sign of them.

"Took you a minute, eh Inuyasha?" Receiving a death glare, Rin added quickly. "They went to the well, Sachi said something about a doctor uncle or something in the future." Inuyasha was going to press for more information, or start running to the well, which ever his body did first, when a voice called from behind him.

"Inuyasha? Is that you?" Inuyasha turned and saw a man, average height with dark hair and a slight beard. He sniffed; that scent, he knew that scent.

"Sota?"

"I can't take it anymore, I have to do something!" Sachi spoke suddenly, standing up.

"Easier said than done, Sachi." Rin said, opening one eye to look at her from her spot against the hut.

"Well…" Sachi pondered a minute. There had to be something she could do, something, anything! She hated this feeling, this feeling of helplessness. But what she really hated was the feeling of uncertainty, of not knowing. She had spent so many years not knowing, and she hated every minute of it, Sachi was not going back to not knowing. Spark. "Uncle Sota!"

Minaru was the only one who didn't look at Sachi like she was a little out of her mind.

"Uncle Sota?" Kohaku asked, titling his head slightly to the side.

"He's a doctor, he could help! I should go get him!" Sachi's mind was racing, her heart pounding in her head.

Without another thought, her feet started moving and she dashed down the street towards the forest.

"Sachi, wait!" Natsuko took off after her.

"No, I don't mind watching Kohaku and Minaru, go, I'll explain why you two just took off!" But Rin's threat only faded behind them.

"I said wait damn it!" Natsuko yelled, grabbing Sachi's wrist before she could throw herself head first into the well. "I know you want to help your mom but you need to slo-" Before Natsuko could get the last of the sentence out of her mouth, Sachi yanked her wrist forward pulling Natsuko with it as she jumped into the well.

Natsuko closed her eyes tightly and waited to hit the well's bottom, she wouldn't be able to walk away from this without a sprained ankle or wrist.

But it didn't happen.

Instead, she felt herself and Sachi land on the dirt floor as light as a feather.

She blinked open her eyes, Sachi's gold ones staring at her annoyed.

"Hurry up already, we're wasting time just standing here." Sachi pulled her wrist away from Natsuko's loosened grip and began to scale the wall to the top of the wall. Normally she wouldn't be able to do this, but this was a bit much for her to register at once.

Natsuko shook her head; if Sachi could keep a level head, then she would to!

Taking hold of some roots, Natsuko fallowed Sachi up the well.

"Sachi?" Natsuko asked, after pushing herself over the well's opening and fallowing her up the steps to a door. "Is this really-" Sachi slid open the door from the well house, causing Natsuko to draw in a quick gasp.

A temple. Beyond that some trees, then lots of tall things she didn't recognize. And lots of lights.

Sachi didn't answer, just nodded briefly and walked quickly across the yard to a rather large hut.

"Uncle Sota!" Sachi called, not bothering to slip off her shoes. "Uncle Sota!"

"Sachi?" Sota looked up from his book at her. "Good, your bac- who's this?" His eyes feel on the girl standing behind Sachi, who looked at the sink and stove with amazement.

"Uncle Sota we don't have time for this, mom's hurt and we need you back in the past!" Sota's eyes became sharp, and he left the room quickly. Sachi and Natsuko were about to fallow him when Sota suddenly returned, holding in hi hand a leather bag.

"Let's go, you can fill me in on the way."

They darted from the house to the well, Sota listening to the two intently as they retold of the fatal encounter with Kikyo, Kagura, Tsubaki and Chiruu.

His eyes widened as he helped Sachi and Natsuko out of the well.

"We have to hurry, theirs no time to waste." Natsuko lead the way to the village, running at top speed.

Sota saw the village coming into view from outside the forest. A group of people, most children, waited outside a hut. That red kimono, silver hair with dog-ears; could it be?

"Inuyasha? Is that you?" The dog demon turned, gold eyes staring at Sota with surprise.

"Sota?"

End Chapter 14

Eevee-Finally, I updated this one! Not much action, just getting Sota there. But boy, do I have ideas for the next chapter (plots)

Peggi-Yayness!

Special Thanks:

Zurizip – I'm trying, but Eevee is not very good that keeping track of her writing until its to late X3 Yesh, more fluff. I tried to add into this chapter, but I fail miserably TT Hehehehehehehe, there's a reason Rin is older in this fanfic (evil grin) Thanks for the review!

Koru – Let's see, Sachi has 1/3, I guess? It's iddy biddy, you see X3 Lol, a lot of people seem to want to kill me for my cliffies. Not much of a cliffie on this one though, I'm getting a little rusty (sweat drop) Squee, thankyuu!

Painfulsintearz – Well, Kagome isn't dead yet. And as far as I know, Sesshomaru's sword can't heal, just restore, like that big panther demon!

jim hawking jr – Thankyuu (glomps)

azn-xoxo – Tehehehehehehehehe, maaaaaybe (evil grin)

kougasmate13 – I'm going as fast as I can. No! Don't perish!

Black Spell – Oh, I like your pen name (nods) But a funny pervert X3 Thankyuu!

Thunderstorm Blader – Shhh! Were not there yet! (shifty eyes) But I appreciate the support, and I'm trying to update as much as possible (nods) Naraku just seems to be using the same old strategies, so he needed to be, you know, coughkilledoffcough.

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