Across Time part 7
Merry Christmas everyone! Whether this ends my hiatus I don't know, but I'll give you this for a present.
I'll explain about the city planning joke about Osaka. It is perhaps the worst developed modern city in
the universe. Power lines everywhere etc.
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-Warcrafter- I explained it above.
-lilemmy- Think about it this way. Say your best friend had died and three weeks later you told your
parents that he was still alive and you were going to meet him after school?
-Eikou- You won't have to worry about a lemon in this fic. There might be some adult themes but no
lemons.
-Jamfase- Normally I would no problem. But I'm rather busy and not really in a mood for reading at the
moment so if you would please remind me that I said I would in a few weeks.
-ek- Can't say I've ever gotten that comment before. Its generally pretty easy to tell who's talking.
Usually theres a "name" said at the end of speech sentances and when there isn't its pretty obvious who
is talking.
-Airen2- Yes well Inuyasha has never been a very logical person :P
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If someone were to look at Inuyasha they would have thought him a statue. Indeed he had behaved
much like a statue, scarcely moving from his perch in the large tree in front of him house. He was in his
favorite spot at the moment. The branches were crossed in a way that allowed Inuyasha to see out over the
the encircling wall while preventing others from seeing him. And far he could see from here as well. For
example, some two blocks down the street a violent brunette was beathing a purse snacher half to death.
The sight was only a momentary distraction at best. For the brunettes attitude reminded him somewhat of
Kagome's more tempermental moments which in turn reminded him of last night.
Endlessly, and very frustratingly, did his thoughts return to then, to the question 'Why had she
pulled away?' Inuyasha was a bit slower to forget the event than Kagome, though his mood had improved some
since last night as Kagome's return drew closer. But the less human parts of his mind were doing just the
oposite in the form of a dull ache caused by Kagome's absence that was increasing in intensity and was
counteracting much of the improvements to his temper. Speaking of his temper, Shippo had obviously been less
than pleased at the damage done to his beloved car, but seeing the mood Inuyasha was in, Shippo was smart
enough to hold his tounge about his car until later. Car, shrine, Damnit!. Inuyasha narrowed his eyes and
gave a frustrated growl. Why? Why had she not let him kiss her like he cursed himself to the lowest levels
of hell and back again for not doing five hundred years ago? In the very edge of his consciousness a tiny
voice wondered if perhaps it was becuase she did not have the feelings he had for her?
Inuyasha turned to his side, one of the few movements he had made since he had taken residence up in
the tree last night and had blocked out the world for the most part, as if doing such would repel the voice
and mercilessly pushed such ideas out of his mind. Surely there was an explanation he was missing? But these
thoughts were not new ones. Indeed they were more or less the same thoughts he had been thinking for the
past 17 hours, his mind seemed to be a broken record. Broken, steering wheel, car, shrine, SHUT UP! The
brunette was still at it, now repeatedly kicking the fallen man. It looked like a good way to releive some
tension and Inuyasha was inclined to go over there and give the man a few good kicks of his own. Such plans
were shut down as he spotted Kagome turning the corner (though coming the other way to his home and not
seeing the kung fu girl of doom) and moments later her scent reached his nose.
Her scent rolled over his mind, all of it, like a flood water over a smouldering fire, smothering
it and washing away the remnants. For a minute he watched his mate approach, frozen in place by a mixture
of relief and more primal things. Inuyasha shook his head. No, she not his mate, yet. Some parts of his
mind begged to differ, after all she had lain in his den and was now returning. For the moment atleast,
however, it was Inuyasha's consciousness who had control of his mind. Even with Kagome's presence, causing
the urge to mate with who he had been waiting for for too long (Especially after the incident in his room),
Spring was still far off and his blood's passions were dimmed.
And so he resisted the urge to leap towards her and whisk her away, instead tracking her with his
eyes as she made her way toward him, slowly. Very slowly it seemed. In fact could she move any slower?
Inuyasha ground his teeth slightly in annoyance as Kagome continued teasing, to him atleast, him by taking
her sweet time and more. It seemed more time passed watching her walk down the road than all of the hours
he had been sitting in his tree, and his irritation flamed again into exsistance as eons passed. Finally,
she reached the gates and then he did leap, brushing past the branches of th trees and into open air. Dogs
howled as he soared above the walls and landed silently behind the unsuspecting girl. "You're late." He
said testily.
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Kagome jumped slightly and her heart skipped a beat at the unsuspected comment. Kagome turned on
her heel quickly to see a testy looking Inuyasha, with no magic concealing his appearances. "Inuyasha!"
Kagome said, laying a hand on her chest. "Don't you think it's a little dangerous to be standing outside
like that?" Kagome asked after the quick burst of adrenaline had passed. Inuyasha gave a snort but moved
towards her with the intention of picking her up and jumping back over the wall. Kagome, however, mistook
his intentions and stepped out of his way so he could open the locked gate.
Inuyasha's scowl deepened but he said nothing and proceded past her and to the black structure.
Indeed he did use his claw to open it and within moments of him sticking his claw in it clicked and
creaked open slightly. Inuyasha roughly yanked it open and let Kagome pass.
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"Where is Shippo? I haven't seen him today." Kagome asked, setting her bag down beside her
as Inuyasha returned from the kitchen carrying a simmering pot of tea and two cups. Kagome raised an
eyebrow at the tea, slightly amused. When she had accepted Inuyasha's offer of something to drink she had
been expecting something a bit more... modern such as a soda or limonade even. Even though her little run
hadn't exhausted her in the least bit, she still would have prefered something colder. 'Oh well.' Kagome
thought taking a sip after he had poured her a cup and handed it to her. 'It's good tea.' Very good in
fact. Indeed it should be considering it had been Inuyasha's choice drink for over five hundred years.
"He's at school." Inuyasha replied, sitting down crosslegged at the table and setting his cup of
tea on the table, where it was ignored. Kagome smiled slightly as she thought of the not so young kitsune.
"You really have been here all along." Inuyasha nodded, though it was rhetorical. Kagome smile then
twitched into a sad frown. "That means Sango, Miroku, Kaede, and the others are all dead." Another nod,
grim this time. "Did Miroku and Sango ever get married?" Yet another nod from the mute hanyou. Kagome's
smile returned, though sadness still lingered, as she took another sip of her cooling tea. "I bet they
had lots of children."
Inuyasha glanced away. "No, they didn't have any." he said softly. Kagome blinked. "What?" she
asked, wondering if she had heard right. How was that even possible? She wouldn't have been surprised if
Inuyasha had said that Miroku's children had doubled the population of Japan, but no children? Inuyasha
looked mildly uncomfortable, shifting his position slightly. "A few months after you... you left, Kaede
found out that Sango was sterile. She thought it might have been becuase of the Shikon shard she had used
when we first met her. That or becuase of all of the wounds she got during our fight with Naraku." Kagome
gasped slightly. "That's terrible." She whispered, feeling grief welling up inside her. And she hadn't
been there to comfort her either. Oh how horrible it must have been for her. And what did Miroku think?
"Miroku married her a week later." Inuyasha said, as if reading her mind. "They were happy and
took care of homeless children til the day they died. They both died in their sleep on the same night."
Kagome sighed and looked down into her tea. "Did Sango leave anything for me? Did she tell you to say hi
or write a letter?" Inuyasha's ears twitched slightly and he glanced down at the table for a moment, his
eyes filled with a spark of indecesion. It past after a moment and he looked up again. "No, she didn't."
Kagome nodded, still looking at her tea. "I guess she moved on. I can understand why, it's better if she
did."
Silence encompassed them after that and neither spoke for a time, how long Kagome wasn't sure
as she had yet to see a clock in the house (quite possibly because Inuyasha and Shippo could tell time
some other way), as she let her thoughts dwell on her friends from the past. Even Inuyasha was
reminiscing, or maybe he really was just staring at her? Finally Kagome broke the silence as a thought
struck her. "What about Kirara and Myouga? Where are they?" Inuyasha gave a little shrug. "We couldn't
get her to leave their grave after we buried Miroku and Sango. We've never seen her after that. She could
still be around somewhere. Myouga stayed with her. He said he was too old to travel."
Kagome opened her mouth to ask another question when she heard the slamming of a car door
outside. "Shippo's back." Inuyasha announced. A minute later Shippo entered the house sporting a
backpack far too large for him and wearing blue jeans and a plain grey shirt. "Hi Kagome!" Shippo
said cheerfully as he entered the room and dropped his bookbag on the ground where it landed with a
very lound thud. "Would you like some tea Shippo?" Kagome asked as the kitsune dug through his stuffed
bag and removed a large school book. "No thanks." Shippo said sitting halfway between Kagome and
Inuyasha and setting the book down on the table. "I need to finish this first." he said opening the
book and pulling out a stack of papers that were in it before taking a pencil out and beginning to
write.
Kagome watched the boy as he began scribbling away. "What are you doing Shippo?" Kagome asked,
interested. "Math." the boy replied not looking up. "Really? Well math isn't my best subject but maybe
I can help you." Kagome said leaning over to look at the boys work and paling. On his paper was a
multitude of equations and formulas of higher mathematics that completely baffled Kagome. "Shippo
what are you working on?" Kagome asked with her eyes wide. "I'm proving the pythagrian therom for
class." he explained with a grin, obviously amused at Kagome's offer to help. Kagome sweat dropped as
she looked at the sizable stack of papers beside him. "That isn't all one problem is it?" Kagome asked
nervously. Shippo gave a mixture of a snort and a chuckle. "Of course not." he said. Kagome gave a
sigh of relief at the boys words. "It's two problems."
:P Sorry it took so long. MY comp died and I had to wait for a new comp then transfer my files. But
this is a nice Christmas present I hope. Enjoy your vacation people and I hope you get lots of goodies!
Merry Christmas everyone! Whether this ends my hiatus I don't know, but I'll give you this for a present.
I'll explain about the city planning joke about Osaka. It is perhaps the worst developed modern city in
the universe. Power lines everywhere etc.
-
-
-Warcrafter- I explained it above.
-lilemmy- Think about it this way. Say your best friend had died and three weeks later you told your
parents that he was still alive and you were going to meet him after school?
-Eikou- You won't have to worry about a lemon in this fic. There might be some adult themes but no
lemons.
-Jamfase- Normally I would no problem. But I'm rather busy and not really in a mood for reading at the
moment so if you would please remind me that I said I would in a few weeks.
-ek- Can't say I've ever gotten that comment before. Its generally pretty easy to tell who's talking.
Usually theres a "name" said at the end of speech sentances and when there isn't its pretty obvious who
is talking.
-Airen2- Yes well Inuyasha has never been a very logical person :P
-
-
-
If someone were to look at Inuyasha they would have thought him a statue. Indeed he had behaved
much like a statue, scarcely moving from his perch in the large tree in front of him house. He was in his
favorite spot at the moment. The branches were crossed in a way that allowed Inuyasha to see out over the
the encircling wall while preventing others from seeing him. And far he could see from here as well. For
example, some two blocks down the street a violent brunette was beathing a purse snacher half to death.
The sight was only a momentary distraction at best. For the brunettes attitude reminded him somewhat of
Kagome's more tempermental moments which in turn reminded him of last night.
Endlessly, and very frustratingly, did his thoughts return to then, to the question 'Why had she
pulled away?' Inuyasha was a bit slower to forget the event than Kagome, though his mood had improved some
since last night as Kagome's return drew closer. But the less human parts of his mind were doing just the
oposite in the form of a dull ache caused by Kagome's absence that was increasing in intensity and was
counteracting much of the improvements to his temper. Speaking of his temper, Shippo had obviously been less
than pleased at the damage done to his beloved car, but seeing the mood Inuyasha was in, Shippo was smart
enough to hold his tounge about his car until later. Car, shrine, Damnit!. Inuyasha narrowed his eyes and
gave a frustrated growl. Why? Why had she not let him kiss her like he cursed himself to the lowest levels
of hell and back again for not doing five hundred years ago? In the very edge of his consciousness a tiny
voice wondered if perhaps it was becuase she did not have the feelings he had for her?
Inuyasha turned to his side, one of the few movements he had made since he had taken residence up in
the tree last night and had blocked out the world for the most part, as if doing such would repel the voice
and mercilessly pushed such ideas out of his mind. Surely there was an explanation he was missing? But these
thoughts were not new ones. Indeed they were more or less the same thoughts he had been thinking for the
past 17 hours, his mind seemed to be a broken record. Broken, steering wheel, car, shrine, SHUT UP! The
brunette was still at it, now repeatedly kicking the fallen man. It looked like a good way to releive some
tension and Inuyasha was inclined to go over there and give the man a few good kicks of his own. Such plans
were shut down as he spotted Kagome turning the corner (though coming the other way to his home and not
seeing the kung fu girl of doom) and moments later her scent reached his nose.
Her scent rolled over his mind, all of it, like a flood water over a smouldering fire, smothering
it and washing away the remnants. For a minute he watched his mate approach, frozen in place by a mixture
of relief and more primal things. Inuyasha shook his head. No, she not his mate, yet. Some parts of his
mind begged to differ, after all she had lain in his den and was now returning. For the moment atleast,
however, it was Inuyasha's consciousness who had control of his mind. Even with Kagome's presence, causing
the urge to mate with who he had been waiting for for too long (Especially after the incident in his room),
Spring was still far off and his blood's passions were dimmed.
And so he resisted the urge to leap towards her and whisk her away, instead tracking her with his
eyes as she made her way toward him, slowly. Very slowly it seemed. In fact could she move any slower?
Inuyasha ground his teeth slightly in annoyance as Kagome continued teasing, to him atleast, him by taking
her sweet time and more. It seemed more time passed watching her walk down the road than all of the hours
he had been sitting in his tree, and his irritation flamed again into exsistance as eons passed. Finally,
she reached the gates and then he did leap, brushing past the branches of th trees and into open air. Dogs
howled as he soared above the walls and landed silently behind the unsuspecting girl. "You're late." He
said testily.
*********************************************************************************************************
Kagome jumped slightly and her heart skipped a beat at the unsuspected comment. Kagome turned on
her heel quickly to see a testy looking Inuyasha, with no magic concealing his appearances. "Inuyasha!"
Kagome said, laying a hand on her chest. "Don't you think it's a little dangerous to be standing outside
like that?" Kagome asked after the quick burst of adrenaline had passed. Inuyasha gave a snort but moved
towards her with the intention of picking her up and jumping back over the wall. Kagome, however, mistook
his intentions and stepped out of his way so he could open the locked gate.
Inuyasha's scowl deepened but he said nothing and proceded past her and to the black structure.
Indeed he did use his claw to open it and within moments of him sticking his claw in it clicked and
creaked open slightly. Inuyasha roughly yanked it open and let Kagome pass.
*********************************************************************************************************
"Where is Shippo? I haven't seen him today." Kagome asked, setting her bag down beside her
as Inuyasha returned from the kitchen carrying a simmering pot of tea and two cups. Kagome raised an
eyebrow at the tea, slightly amused. When she had accepted Inuyasha's offer of something to drink she had
been expecting something a bit more... modern such as a soda or limonade even. Even though her little run
hadn't exhausted her in the least bit, she still would have prefered something colder. 'Oh well.' Kagome
thought taking a sip after he had poured her a cup and handed it to her. 'It's good tea.' Very good in
fact. Indeed it should be considering it had been Inuyasha's choice drink for over five hundred years.
"He's at school." Inuyasha replied, sitting down crosslegged at the table and setting his cup of
tea on the table, where it was ignored. Kagome smiled slightly as she thought of the not so young kitsune.
"You really have been here all along." Inuyasha nodded, though it was rhetorical. Kagome smile then
twitched into a sad frown. "That means Sango, Miroku, Kaede, and the others are all dead." Another nod,
grim this time. "Did Miroku and Sango ever get married?" Yet another nod from the mute hanyou. Kagome's
smile returned, though sadness still lingered, as she took another sip of her cooling tea. "I bet they
had lots of children."
Inuyasha glanced away. "No, they didn't have any." he said softly. Kagome blinked. "What?" she
asked, wondering if she had heard right. How was that even possible? She wouldn't have been surprised if
Inuyasha had said that Miroku's children had doubled the population of Japan, but no children? Inuyasha
looked mildly uncomfortable, shifting his position slightly. "A few months after you... you left, Kaede
found out that Sango was sterile. She thought it might have been becuase of the Shikon shard she had used
when we first met her. That or becuase of all of the wounds she got during our fight with Naraku." Kagome
gasped slightly. "That's terrible." She whispered, feeling grief welling up inside her. And she hadn't
been there to comfort her either. Oh how horrible it must have been for her. And what did Miroku think?
"Miroku married her a week later." Inuyasha said, as if reading her mind. "They were happy and
took care of homeless children til the day they died. They both died in their sleep on the same night."
Kagome sighed and looked down into her tea. "Did Sango leave anything for me? Did she tell you to say hi
or write a letter?" Inuyasha's ears twitched slightly and he glanced down at the table for a moment, his
eyes filled with a spark of indecesion. It past after a moment and he looked up again. "No, she didn't."
Kagome nodded, still looking at her tea. "I guess she moved on. I can understand why, it's better if she
did."
Silence encompassed them after that and neither spoke for a time, how long Kagome wasn't sure
as she had yet to see a clock in the house (quite possibly because Inuyasha and Shippo could tell time
some other way), as she let her thoughts dwell on her friends from the past. Even Inuyasha was
reminiscing, or maybe he really was just staring at her? Finally Kagome broke the silence as a thought
struck her. "What about Kirara and Myouga? Where are they?" Inuyasha gave a little shrug. "We couldn't
get her to leave their grave after we buried Miroku and Sango. We've never seen her after that. She could
still be around somewhere. Myouga stayed with her. He said he was too old to travel."
Kagome opened her mouth to ask another question when she heard the slamming of a car door
outside. "Shippo's back." Inuyasha announced. A minute later Shippo entered the house sporting a
backpack far too large for him and wearing blue jeans and a plain grey shirt. "Hi Kagome!" Shippo
said cheerfully as he entered the room and dropped his bookbag on the ground where it landed with a
very lound thud. "Would you like some tea Shippo?" Kagome asked as the kitsune dug through his stuffed
bag and removed a large school book. "No thanks." Shippo said sitting halfway between Kagome and
Inuyasha and setting the book down on the table. "I need to finish this first." he said opening the
book and pulling out a stack of papers that were in it before taking a pencil out and beginning to
write.
Kagome watched the boy as he began scribbling away. "What are you doing Shippo?" Kagome asked,
interested. "Math." the boy replied not looking up. "Really? Well math isn't my best subject but maybe
I can help you." Kagome said leaning over to look at the boys work and paling. On his paper was a
multitude of equations and formulas of higher mathematics that completely baffled Kagome. "Shippo
what are you working on?" Kagome asked with her eyes wide. "I'm proving the pythagrian therom for
class." he explained with a grin, obviously amused at Kagome's offer to help. Kagome sweat dropped as
she looked at the sizable stack of papers beside him. "That isn't all one problem is it?" Kagome asked
nervously. Shippo gave a mixture of a snort and a chuckle. "Of course not." he said. Kagome gave a
sigh of relief at the boys words. "It's two problems."
:P Sorry it took so long. MY comp died and I had to wait for a new comp then transfer my files. But
this is a nice Christmas present I hope. Enjoy your vacation people and I hope you get lots of goodies!