Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.
A/N: ok, I don't really know too much Japanese history and the like, cause world history just briefly goes over important events but I'll try to do my best. Just don't kill me is all I'm saying if I get something wrong.
Chapter 4- Living in A Very Different Time
Kagome flipped on the TV and the local news program was just starting. "Good Morning Tokyo! It's 7:00am on the 10th of May 2004." Kagome stared at the screen in utter disbelief. "Time has been fucked with" she said out loud as she sunk in to the plush couch that was behind her. She closed her eyes to think this over and ended up falling into a light sleep.
"Get UP you wretched good for nothing boy!" the old lady mumbled some other vulgar words as the 'wretched boy' sat up from the ragged futon he had been sleeping on. He stretched and finally stood and walked into the kitchen area. "You're lucky the mistress likes you or else you would have been thrown out into the woods long ago." The old woman who said this was the same from before and everyone in the household knew her as Auntie. She was the oldest person there and had been working for a certain Damiyo family since she was a little girl.
Inuyasha merely rolled his eyes when his back was turned towards her, he went out to go fetch the water from a river near by. This was what he did every morning for the past seventeen years. This was also what contributed to his fit figure, even though he was a human it wasn't so bad. He got out of his system the repulsion at not being able to leap from tree to tree when he was much younger, also it wasn't really needed. There were no demons in existence anymore. Well except in the minds of the very old.
Things had been quite monotonous for a very long time. Nothing happens but he was considered lucky. He was owned by a very wealthy Damiyo and it was very secure though he was by no means underfed he wasn't exactly always full when he went to bed at night. Inuyasha walked back up the hill with two large buckets full of water in his hands. The sounds and smells of breakfast were well underway as he entered the kitchen and a girl with long brown hair and chocolate eyes swiped the water from his grasp.
"Get a move on Inuyasha! There is far too much to do." Her name was Lilly though Inuyasha had known her as Sango before he started this escapade into the future. Whoever doubted reincarnation was quite wrong, Lilly was seven years younger than he was and he had to wonder how Sango had died in the first place.
"I'm going." Inuyasha muttered as he went out the door yet again. This time it was to chop wood, do laundry from the day before, and then hang the laundry to dry. He took an axe from the chopping block and set a piece of wood on it. In one clean swipe he had split the wood into two equal pieces.
Kagome was pacing. She hadn't paced for a long time but she was now. Nothing added up. She had woken up to the sun blaring in her eyes through the picture window and confused herself yet again. Time could not go backwards but with the shikon jewel completed anything could happen; it could have brought her back to the future but to when it all began?
'I guess I just have to accept it. I'm still a 9th grade junior high student going on to high school and taking entrance exams next winter.' With this resolved she resigned herself to leafing through her homework and found that she could do it with ease, something she had not experienced in a long while.
"So, Inuyasha. I have called you to speak with me on your 18th birthday for two reasons. One, is I would like you to become a soldier in my army and the second is to give you this." The Damiyo held out a finely crafted sword. "Your mother left this in my care when she gave you to this family as a young boy. She wished you to have it on your 18th birthday and I do not go against the wishes of a dying woman. You may return to your duties in the household for the time being until tonight. Tomorrow you start extensive training."
"Yes, sir" Inuyasha then turned and walked out of the room. He placed his sword by his ragged futon and went about his daily routine as always. Inuyasha went to feed the animals that were on the large property and as he did so he thought on everything that had transpired. 'This is not good. I still have two whole years before the minimum age comes around. I'm not sure how long I'll last with the reports of increasing warfare throughout Japan. Only a matter of time before it comes to our area.'
The rest of the day went by quite uneventfully and while lifting heavy pots for the women, Lilly asked him questions.
"So it's true then. You're leaving to fight?" Lilly asked worry evident on her voice. Inuyasha couldn't look at her at this point because she looked so much like Sango and acted like her as well at times.
"Yes, it's true. I have to, The Damiyo said I am to join their ranks tonight after supper is served and I have eaten." He continued with his work.
"It's so dangerous though. Do you have to go? I'd rather you stay, you can protect us!" She was looking for every kind of loophole there was.
"No, I cannot get out of this one. Plus it is an honor to serve your Damiyo especially in a time of need such as this." He said it half heartedly and not at all with vigor.
"Oh" Lilly looked quite crestfallen as she left him to serve the meal.
Inuyasha sighed heavily. He did not want to leave either, but it must be done.
This was quite the experience for Kagome. She had finished all of her homework with ease, ate dinner, even went out for a run afterwards, ate dessert, and now she had the rest of the night to kill before school tomorrow morning. 'What can I do?' She thought and then she came up with a great idea. "I'll go on the computer!" She declared as Buyo walked lazily through the room. Kagome went to the den in her home and booted up the family computer. She hadn't been online in ages, quite literally.
Once the computer was running she double clicked the icon for the Internet and signed onto her screen name. She was online for about two seconds when all these windows popped up all saying some form of 'hi' or 'what's up?' She looked at her buddy list and found that she had 60 buddies but only 25 of them were actually online at the moment. So Kagome went through and answered each of the IM's talking to everyone, even the ones she didn't really remember who it actually was.
Then one screen in particular got her interest a little bit. This is how the conversation went:
HealthManiac21 : Hey Kagome!
HappyHappyGenki : Hi…sorry I don't remember who this is.
HealthManiac21 : it's Hojo; I can't believe you would forget your own boyfriend's Screen name!
HappyHappyGenki : Oh right, sorry. I wasn't feeling too well today so I'm a bit out of it.
HealthManiac21 : Quite all right. I was wondering if you felt better that is, if you'd like to go hang out with everyone tonight at the usual place. I'll pick you up if you like.
HappyHappyGenki : Huh? Oh, I don't know. Who is everyone and where exactly is the 'usual place'?
HealthManiac21 : You are kidding right? You know Ayumi, Eri, Yuka, and some others from other classes. We go to Karaoke every Sunday.
HappyHappyGenki : oh, right. Uhm, sure, why not?
HealthManiac21 : great! I'll be right over.
HealthManiac21 has signed off.
"Hmm…ok well I guess I have something to do tonight then." She said goodbyes and signed off as well. She got her shoes on as the doorbell rang. "Coming!" Kagome yelled out as she ran for the door. She pulled hard on it and it gave a little but didn't come open. "Goddamn, this door gets stuck way too often." With another hard tug she swung the door open looking only a tad disheveled.
"Hey Kagome. Ready to go?" Hojo asked, as he again looked her up and down.
"Yes, and do me a favor. Never look at me like that again." Kagome told him as she closed the door behind her checking to see if it was locked and then proceeded to walk away, leaving Hojo to catch up.
A/N: I think this is a good place to leave off at for now. Yay, it hasn't been four months since my last update, I'll try to get better about it, though AP American Homework looms over me…GAH! Oh well byes.