I love this part of the fic, because writing it meant that I had to watch the Inu Yasha movie (first one) again. ^_~ This is the last missing scene, by the end of this post the story will officially become an AU. I'm so excited!!!
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Prisoners: the Bone Eater's Well
Gone
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*this scene picks up about halfway through the movie. If you haven't seen "The Love Which Transcends Time", don't worry about it, this would confuse you anyway, I know it confuses me! :)*
(Kagome has a mind control device in her forehead, held there by a shard of the sacred jewel. It was put there by a Chinese youkai, Menomaru, who is the son of a demon whose mortal enemy was Inu Yasha's father. Now Menomaru is bent on killing Inu Yasha, and controlling Kagome from the safety of a sort of cocoon, which Miroku and Sango are trying to infiltrate. For any further questions on this plot please refer to the movie.)
Kagome's head felt as though it were about to split in two. *Funny, I don't remember injuring my forehead in the battle with Hyouga.* Her eyes opened automatically and she perceived that she was in Kaede's hut, her dirty and torn school uniform folded neatly beside her. She herself was dressed in the traditional clothing of a miko, the sort of outfit Inu Yasha couldn't stand to see her in.
*Because of Kikyo-* Her thoughts were interrupted as her body began to rise against her will, *What-* Kaede was coming toward her, fear etched on her careworn face as she looked into the girl's face. *Kaede!* All the miko in training could do was watch as she raised her hand, a glowing blade appearing from her fingertips. Kaede backed away, but it was too late, Kagome struck the old priestess down and stepping qickly and smoothly over the her old friend.
Kagome wanted to go back and attend to the woman, but her traitorous body wouldn't allow her to deviate from her current course, taking her straight to-
*Inu Yasha!*
"Kikyo?" the hanyou looked at her through the mist, squinting as she neared, "Kagome!" he began to run over the bridge to her.
*No, Inu Yasha, run away!*
Inu Yasha was speaking to her, but through the haze of her mind it was coming out garbled. She fell forward, into his arms, laying her head on his shoulder. "Kagome?" Inu Yasha seemed surprised at first, before wrapping his arms around her.
*No,* the demon controlling Kagome had her lash out, piercing the hanyou.
Inu Yasha stumbled back, in pain, "Someone's controlling you!"
There was no answer as Kagome's body attacked again, this time cutting the supports of the rope bridge they were on. The bridge broke apart, and they began to fall, "Die Inu Yasha," Kagome heard herself saying, throwing more of the glowing blades even as they fell.
Inu Yasha avoided the darts of light and landed easily on the rocks far below the bridge. Kagome followed, floating while assaulting him ceaselessly. Inu Yasha ran hard and fast, managing to make it all the way back to the sacred tree before she finally managed to hit him.
Inu Yasha fell back against the tree with a moan, as Kagome raised a leaf high above her head. Transforming it into a bow and arrow, she took aim at Inu Yasha... and dropped her tools to the ground.
*****
Sango caught her giant boomerang as it came back to her. "Did you see that, it went right through the cocoon!" she told the monk by her side. Luckily, the boomerang had managed to break the concentration of the man within.
*****
Sango had bought Kagome and Inu Yasha some desperately needed time. "Inu Yasha!" Kagome cried out, "I have no control over what I'm doing. Please, run while you have the chance.
Inu Yasha was panting heavily against the tree. He closed his eyes, a pained expression on his face, "Everyone wants me to run away! This time I refuse! I won't leave you alone!"
Kagome felt the pain return to the center of her forehead as she turned to pick up the bow.
"Damn, not again," Inu Yasha muttered.
Kagome was aiming again, *Inu Yasha... no... No....* she let fly the arrow, *NO!* It seemed to happen in slow motion, the arrow was flying toward him, as Kagome screamed, "Inu Yasha!" and the shikon shard was forced from within her, falling to the ground, unnoticed, and she was running to Inu Yasha.
Kagome held the hanyou gently, tears flowing freely, when she heard a voice.
"How ironic."
Kagome looked up, "K-Kikyo?"
The dead miko gestured about her, "This place, and those clothes. Well, it only makes sense, you are my reincarnation, after all," she held out the jewel shard that had been used to control Kagome, "Here, take this and return home."
Kagome held the half demon tighter, "But, Inu Yasha..."
"You were the one who hurt him in the first place!" Kagome flinched at the accusation. Kikyo walked over to them calmly. She ran one hand over the bark of the Sacred tree.
"Menomaru is using the power of a time tree to gain strength."
"A time tree? Like the Sacred Tree?"
Kikyo nodded, "Yes, this tree is a time tree as well. A time tree lives in a dimension utterly different than out own. Whatever happens to one time tree happens it all throughout it's entire existence. Hyouga is drawing energy from every time in which his time tree exists," she looked at her reincarnation gravely, "Even now, it will be growing colder in your time."
Kikyo pressed the shikon shard into Kagome's hand and began walking toward the Bone Eater's Well. Kagome followed reluctantly. When the well came into view she gasped. It was sprouting branches, growing quickly up over the mouth of the well, the door to Kagome's time.
"But the well is so old," Kagome breathed.
"The wood with which this well was constructed came from time trees. It is now reacting to Menomaru's time tree. If you do not go through soon, you will be trapped in this time for all eternity."
Kagome looked at the shard in her hand, then back to the tree where Inu Yasha still lay, unconscious. Her head was swimming with thought, and so she was utterly unprepared for the shove that Kikyo gave her. She could see the branches growing thicker and longer even as she fell to her own time, never to return to this one.
*****
On the other side of the well it was freezing cold, even in the thick miko clothes she still wore. A few flakes of snow floated down through the cracks in the roof of the well house. Kagome climbed out and opened the door.
The shrine was covered in a blanket of snow. Her grandfather and Sota were kneeling before the Sacred Tree, praying to it to stop the snow. Kagome stumbled toward the Sacred Tree. "Kagome!" he grandpa called out.
Kagome walked up to the tree, *this tree exists, just like this, in Inu Yasha's time...* she suddenly had the ridiculous urge to carve a big heart with the words "Inu Yasha + Kagome" inside of it, so that Inu Yasha would be able to see it. Tears streamed down her face, "Oh, Inu Yasha!" she pounded a fist against the tree.
"Kagome?" the reply was faint, and most likely a figment of her imagination, but it made Kagome's heart leap with joy.
"I-Inu Yasha?!?"
"Kagome, I hear you!"
"Inu Yasha, the well is too choked with branches, I can't get through!"
"Not already!" Kagome blinked at this odd response, "Kagome, I can barely hear you.."
"I know, your voice is getting fainter, too... oh, Inu Yasha!"
"Kagome, listen to me, I will-" the rest was cut off.
"Inu Yasha! INU YASHA!!!" Kagome pounded the tree, the tears on her cheeks freezing as she cried them. She crumpled to the ground.
"Uhh, sis?" Souta was looking at her, eyes wide, "You okay?"
*****
Five hundred years earlier, Inu Yasha woke up with a big bandage across his chest, "No! Kagome!"
Shippo glanced at Myoga, "Think he's feeling better?"
Inu Yasha looked at the little kit, "You, you woke me up!"
Shippo yelled as a hanyou approximately ten times his size began to give chase.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
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TBC
I know that I changed the movie's dialogue a bit in some places, but, well, I lack a photographic memory, so I did the best I could. By the way, the movie is highly recommended and is very cheap on ebay. I got my copy for 5.75, s+h included!
Next time: the battle with Menomaru / Hyouga. I thought I would get to it in this chapter, but it's getting kinda long, anyway, after that the real fun begins... see ya soon!
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Prisoners: the Bone Eater's Well
Gone
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*this scene picks up about halfway through the movie. If you haven't seen "The Love Which Transcends Time", don't worry about it, this would confuse you anyway, I know it confuses me! :)*
(Kagome has a mind control device in her forehead, held there by a shard of the sacred jewel. It was put there by a Chinese youkai, Menomaru, who is the son of a demon whose mortal enemy was Inu Yasha's father. Now Menomaru is bent on killing Inu Yasha, and controlling Kagome from the safety of a sort of cocoon, which Miroku and Sango are trying to infiltrate. For any further questions on this plot please refer to the movie.)
Kagome's head felt as though it were about to split in two. *Funny, I don't remember injuring my forehead in the battle with Hyouga.* Her eyes opened automatically and she perceived that she was in Kaede's hut, her dirty and torn school uniform folded neatly beside her. She herself was dressed in the traditional clothing of a miko, the sort of outfit Inu Yasha couldn't stand to see her in.
*Because of Kikyo-* Her thoughts were interrupted as her body began to rise against her will, *What-* Kaede was coming toward her, fear etched on her careworn face as she looked into the girl's face. *Kaede!* All the miko in training could do was watch as she raised her hand, a glowing blade appearing from her fingertips. Kaede backed away, but it was too late, Kagome struck the old priestess down and stepping qickly and smoothly over the her old friend.
Kagome wanted to go back and attend to the woman, but her traitorous body wouldn't allow her to deviate from her current course, taking her straight to-
*Inu Yasha!*
"Kikyo?" the hanyou looked at her through the mist, squinting as she neared, "Kagome!" he began to run over the bridge to her.
*No, Inu Yasha, run away!*
Inu Yasha was speaking to her, but through the haze of her mind it was coming out garbled. She fell forward, into his arms, laying her head on his shoulder. "Kagome?" Inu Yasha seemed surprised at first, before wrapping his arms around her.
*No,* the demon controlling Kagome had her lash out, piercing the hanyou.
Inu Yasha stumbled back, in pain, "Someone's controlling you!"
There was no answer as Kagome's body attacked again, this time cutting the supports of the rope bridge they were on. The bridge broke apart, and they began to fall, "Die Inu Yasha," Kagome heard herself saying, throwing more of the glowing blades even as they fell.
Inu Yasha avoided the darts of light and landed easily on the rocks far below the bridge. Kagome followed, floating while assaulting him ceaselessly. Inu Yasha ran hard and fast, managing to make it all the way back to the sacred tree before she finally managed to hit him.
Inu Yasha fell back against the tree with a moan, as Kagome raised a leaf high above her head. Transforming it into a bow and arrow, she took aim at Inu Yasha... and dropped her tools to the ground.
*****
Sango caught her giant boomerang as it came back to her. "Did you see that, it went right through the cocoon!" she told the monk by her side. Luckily, the boomerang had managed to break the concentration of the man within.
*****
Sango had bought Kagome and Inu Yasha some desperately needed time. "Inu Yasha!" Kagome cried out, "I have no control over what I'm doing. Please, run while you have the chance.
Inu Yasha was panting heavily against the tree. He closed his eyes, a pained expression on his face, "Everyone wants me to run away! This time I refuse! I won't leave you alone!"
Kagome felt the pain return to the center of her forehead as she turned to pick up the bow.
"Damn, not again," Inu Yasha muttered.
Kagome was aiming again, *Inu Yasha... no... No....* she let fly the arrow, *NO!* It seemed to happen in slow motion, the arrow was flying toward him, as Kagome screamed, "Inu Yasha!" and the shikon shard was forced from within her, falling to the ground, unnoticed, and she was running to Inu Yasha.
Kagome held the hanyou gently, tears flowing freely, when she heard a voice.
"How ironic."
Kagome looked up, "K-Kikyo?"
The dead miko gestured about her, "This place, and those clothes. Well, it only makes sense, you are my reincarnation, after all," she held out the jewel shard that had been used to control Kagome, "Here, take this and return home."
Kagome held the half demon tighter, "But, Inu Yasha..."
"You were the one who hurt him in the first place!" Kagome flinched at the accusation. Kikyo walked over to them calmly. She ran one hand over the bark of the Sacred tree.
"Menomaru is using the power of a time tree to gain strength."
"A time tree? Like the Sacred Tree?"
Kikyo nodded, "Yes, this tree is a time tree as well. A time tree lives in a dimension utterly different than out own. Whatever happens to one time tree happens it all throughout it's entire existence. Hyouga is drawing energy from every time in which his time tree exists," she looked at her reincarnation gravely, "Even now, it will be growing colder in your time."
Kikyo pressed the shikon shard into Kagome's hand and began walking toward the Bone Eater's Well. Kagome followed reluctantly. When the well came into view she gasped. It was sprouting branches, growing quickly up over the mouth of the well, the door to Kagome's time.
"But the well is so old," Kagome breathed.
"The wood with which this well was constructed came from time trees. It is now reacting to Menomaru's time tree. If you do not go through soon, you will be trapped in this time for all eternity."
Kagome looked at the shard in her hand, then back to the tree where Inu Yasha still lay, unconscious. Her head was swimming with thought, and so she was utterly unprepared for the shove that Kikyo gave her. She could see the branches growing thicker and longer even as she fell to her own time, never to return to this one.
*****
On the other side of the well it was freezing cold, even in the thick miko clothes she still wore. A few flakes of snow floated down through the cracks in the roof of the well house. Kagome climbed out and opened the door.
The shrine was covered in a blanket of snow. Her grandfather and Sota were kneeling before the Sacred Tree, praying to it to stop the snow. Kagome stumbled toward the Sacred Tree. "Kagome!" he grandpa called out.
Kagome walked up to the tree, *this tree exists, just like this, in Inu Yasha's time...* she suddenly had the ridiculous urge to carve a big heart with the words "Inu Yasha + Kagome" inside of it, so that Inu Yasha would be able to see it. Tears streamed down her face, "Oh, Inu Yasha!" she pounded a fist against the tree.
"Kagome?" the reply was faint, and most likely a figment of her imagination, but it made Kagome's heart leap with joy.
"I-Inu Yasha?!?"
"Kagome, I hear you!"
"Inu Yasha, the well is too choked with branches, I can't get through!"
"Not already!" Kagome blinked at this odd response, "Kagome, I can barely hear you.."
"I know, your voice is getting fainter, too... oh, Inu Yasha!"
"Kagome, listen to me, I will-" the rest was cut off.
"Inu Yasha! INU YASHA!!!" Kagome pounded the tree, the tears on her cheeks freezing as she cried them. She crumpled to the ground.
"Uhh, sis?" Souta was looking at her, eyes wide, "You okay?"
*****
Five hundred years earlier, Inu Yasha woke up with a big bandage across his chest, "No! Kagome!"
Shippo glanced at Myoga, "Think he's feeling better?"
Inu Yasha looked at the little kit, "You, you woke me up!"
Shippo yelled as a hanyou approximately ten times his size began to give chase.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
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TBC
I know that I changed the movie's dialogue a bit in some places, but, well, I lack a photographic memory, so I did the best I could. By the way, the movie is highly recommended and is very cheap on ebay. I got my copy for 5.75, s+h included!
Next time: the battle with Menomaru / Hyouga. I thought I would get to it in this chapter, but it's getting kinda long, anyway, after that the real fun begins... see ya soon!