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A/N: erm, yes well I'm not even going to say anything cause I am well over-due for an update and I haven't soooo yeah.

Chapter 2- Stuck

8 Eternities

The red sun rose in the dark sky quickly spreading it's light over the land. As the sun rose a certain form grew fainter and then disappeared altogether with everything she had brought from her own time. No one noticed anything was wrong until much later that morning when they woke up to find that Kagome had gone. "She must've gone back to her own time, there's no need to worry" Sango said although worry was evident on her voice.

Inuyasha didn't care about that though. "She usually tells me when she's leaving! It's not even that she went back that I'm pissed about; it's the fact that I can't trace her scent to the well or anywhere else for that matter. That is what bothers me!" he bellowed growing increasingly agitated. "I'm going to go check her time" Before anyone could say anything to change his mind, Inuyasha set off without a single glance back.

'Huh!' Kagome woke up to a loud ringing noise that got gradually louder until she slammed her hand down on top of it. She propped herself up in her elbow and looked around. The bright morning sun shone down in her window and it was quite hot already. She was in her own bed in her pajamas. 'How the hell did I get here?' she thought frantically as she ripped the blankets off of herself. She hurriedly got up, opened her door, and walked out into the hallway. Buyo came over and slinked into her room, well if you could call it slinking since the cat was about thirty pounds overweight.

"Hey Buyo." The cat didn't spare her a glance. "Fine, be that way" She walked over to the top of the stairs and headed down them. There was no one in the kitchen at that time and it seemed they were all out somewhere, even her grandfather since his hat and overcoat were gone from the coat hanger. 'Am I REALLY here?' She thought, then she pinched herself. "Ouch! Yeah I'm here, but how?"

Kagome went outside to the well house and slid back the door. The well looked the same as always, she walked down the old steps heavily and suddenly got a feeling of foreboding. 'I'd better hurry up and jump in the well' and she then ran over and went feet first into the well. What happened next was extremely surprising. When she got halfway down she realized that she wasn't going through time at all and then she hit the ground at an alarming rate.

"OW! Damn it! Why does this always happen?" Kagome stood up and brushed herself off. She climbed up the ladder she had placed there for when she came back and ran out of the well house. "Something isn't right" She muttered as she walked back over to her yellow house. The hot sun beamed down and the cicadas were buzzing in full force.

Inuyasha has reached the well over an hour ago and was now just staring down into it. He was baffled, openly baffled for the first time in his life. Half of him being baffled was him being pissed off to no end and this was shown by the amount of trees that were currently ruthlessly cut down. Finally he gave up after jumping down the well more than forty times and was about to leave when Kaede came. "Keh, what do you want old hag?"

"Just wanted to tell ye why ye can't go down the well. But if you don't want to know I can always be on my way." She turned to go and before she got three steps away Inuyasha was in front of her.

"Fine, tell me what you know" Desperation was evident in his eyes.

"Alright. Sit down." Kaede slowly sat down as well and one could hear basically all the bones in her body protest then give in. She plopped on the ground. "Alright, The reason you can't get down the well is because it is not of any use anymore. Once the Jewel is complete and safe with its keeper then it and the keeper disappear. That keeper being Kagome. Now there is a way to get past this, but it will take some time, quite literally. You will have to live through however many lifetimes it takes to get to Kagome's time if you truly want to see her again. This number just so happens to be eight. You will be reincarnated eight times, have eight different lives with eight different outcomes and eight different deaths. You must live at least twenty years in each of these and you cannot kill yourself, you can only be killed by others or die of old age or of an illness. So that is how you can bypass the system, like it or leave it. I shall be back at the hut. Think on it." She then got up and shuffled away leaving Inuyasha to make a choice that didn't seem hard but the outcome would be very difficult.

'Eight lifetimes…. I never even wanted to live out my one. But if there's something to hope for…I suppose I can do it.'

A/N: ok, that's all for now. Updates will become more frequent as the school year winds down though for the first few weeks of summer I won't be at home too much due to volleyball. Hope you liked it and please read and review!