Present Era
Kagome—
If you read this then Sota, Jii-chan and I are still in Paris. There is enough food in the cabinet to last you awhile if you come back for supplies, and there is money on the kitchen counter, under the sugar jar. We'll be back the as soon as we can, but your uncle has gotten sick. I hope to see you soon.
Love
Mama
Kagome sighed as she looked at the note. She just wanted to cry into her mothers shoulder right now.
500 Years Ago Through The Well, 500 Years Ago…
Pass Through The Well
Take Demons Out
500 Years Ago Through The Well! (sing to the tune of 100 Bottles of Beer On The Wall!)
Inuyasha sat high in the branches of the God Tree. He was looking up at the stars in the night heavens above. He hadn't seen any of his friends for five days, not since the event at the well. Inuyasha tried to think of anything besides Kagome, but he couldn't help it. He kept seeing her face in the stars. 'She would have loved tonight.' He thought. 'She would have sat outside and stared and stared at the stars. She would be saying how you couldn't see all these stars at her home because all the light from the city would get in the way. She'd be saying how the woods were so lovely, and the air so fresh and clear.' Inuyasha felt a single tear slide down his cheek before he could stop it. Inuyasha clenched his fists, forbidding himself to cry any more, but he couldn't help it. He would never see her again.
"You promised." He whispered to the girl from the future. "You promised that you would never leave me!" Inuyasha stood up in the tree and howled for the whole world to hear. "YOU PROMISED ME!" He yelled at her. He wrapped his arms tightly around himself and fell back down to his knees. He rocked back and forth, sobbing to the girl that he loved. Would he ever see her again?
'If I do…' Inuyasha vowed silently to himself. 'Then I swear that I will tell her how I feel, and I will hold her and never let her leave me again. I swear that I'll tell Kagome that I love her, I swear I will. Oh, Kami. Kami, please! Don't do this to me, please don't do this to me!'
About one mile away a monk, a demon exterminator, a kitsune, an inu youkai, and a human child looked as the screams of rage and sorrow from the sobbing hanyou reached their ears. They looked at each other, well, except for Shippo. Ever since his honorary mother had left the only sound that he had made were the sounds of his cries, and the only things he acknowledged were his tops, which he played with once or twice. It is hard to loose a mother twice.
"Well…" Miroku said quietly. "St least we know where Inuyasha is." He told the silent group. Only Sesshomaru acknowledged him.
"I'll go get him." Sesshomaru said, getting up. Miroku got up as well, glancing between Sango, who was now sobbing silently into Rin's shoulders, and Inuyasha's half brother, who had tried to kill Miroku's hanyou friend on numerous occasions. Sesshomaru read his mind.
"I won't kill him." He said, turning around and walking in the direction of the cries. "You have no choice but to trust me. So stay with your woman and the children." Then Sesshomaru was gone. Miroku didn't have the chance to correct him, nor did he want to.
Miroku sat down next to Sango and wrapped his arms around her. She turned into him, sobbing for the loss of her best friend. The girl who had become like a sister to her, who was now gone. Rin escaped now that Sango no longer needed her and went to sit next to Shippo. Not so much for comfort of companionship as much as there was no one else there and Rin hated to be alone. She hadn't used to mind, but since she had been resurrected every time she was alone she would start to remember the nightmarish memories of the smell and the sound of the wolves hot rancid breath right before their jaws came chomping down upon her. Rin shuddered and moved a bit closer to Shippo. (Who took no notice.) She looked at her companions, she looked at all of their depressed expressions as well. 'This Rin wishes that Miss Kagome and Moga were here.' Rin thought, using Jenny's "other" name. 'Then it wouldn't be like this, and we would all be together again.' Rin thought for a moment ,ore, and, with the innocence and reason of youth, came to the logical conclusion. as would we all! 'It's all that boy Hobo's fault! He's the one to blame!' Rin thought angrily. Yippee! Yes, we should all blame Hobo! Erm…sorry. I'll be quiet now.
Back in the Present
Kagome was sitting on the couch in front of the blank TV screen. She was staring absently at the cup of green tea in her hands. Every now and then a lone silver tear would trace its way slowly down her face. Hojo sat across the living room from her in a recliner. He was watching Kagome closely and every now and then he made a stab at conversation or took an idle sip from his own cup of fresh hot green tea. Nothing worked, no matter what he did or what he said Kagome just sat there. She sat in the exact sane place where she had sat for the last five days. The only movements that she made were the ones that were absolutely necessary. The two of them had only been seeing Jenny in the early morning before she would leave to go to play with her little friends. Hojo has been staying with Kagome since Jenny isn't home most of the time and Kagome's family is away. So neither of them was expecting what came next.
The door to the shrine slammed open with force, and in came Jenny and her three friends. All of them grinning in satisfaction and they were carrying a bunch of instruments.
"Kagome…" Jenny said. "We made a deal with a shaman spirit up the street." She paused and noticed Hojo. Her face darkened dangerously and her eyes flashed stormily. She jerked her head at the door, her lips pursed together so tightly that they were slightly white. Hojo nodded The idiot still hasn't realized that Jenny hates him with a passion. and ran out of Higurashi shrine. When the tension in the atmosphere finally relaxed a little Kagome looked up at her American friend, the only person that she thought understood her pain.
"What deal?" Kagome asked Jenny. "And what's a shaman spirit?" The black boy, who was holding a keyboard in one hand grinned wolfishly and stepped forward, presenting himself with an elaborate bow.
"I believe that I can answer your question, the second one that is." He said. The other three groaned and dropped their instruments before collapsing into seats around the room, still grumbling. The boy with the keyboard shot a glare at all of them before turning back to Kagome.
"Hello, my name is Mario. I, like Moga and Blake, am an exchange student from the United States of America, and I, like Blake and KK, am following Moga, or Jenny, as I believe she's calling herself these days…yes well…We're following her around the world, where ever she might go, to make sure that she doesn't try, and therefore succeed, in killing anybody…again."
"Hey, Mario!" Jenny interrupted. "Is this an explanation of shaman spirits, or my personal history!" She glared at him from across the room.
"Well…" Mario said happily, completely unfazed by her ice-cold death glare. "I happen to think that she deserves to know that she's consorting with a mass murderer!"
"I am NOT a mass murderer!" Jenny yelped. "It was only twenty people, and they were shooting at us and the police anyway!" Kagome was beginning to get rather disturbed. "That was the only mass killing!" The two other boys in the room chose that moment to stick their oar in as well.
"Well, there was that time in Minnesota, with the mayor of that town." The English guy, Blake, said. Kagome had heard Jenny address him once at the door when she left in the morning, and Kagome had remembered his name.
"And that time in Cambridge." The Spaniard said.
"Don't forget Arizona."
"And the casino."
"And the NYC job."
"And that time in Nepal."
"And that time in—"
"OKAY, OKAY ALREADY!" Jenny screamed, jumping up and out of her seat. She glared daggers at the three boys who smiled innocently back. "I think that Kagome gets the point! Now, Mario, if you're going to answer her question, ANSWER IT! And make it short and sweet and to the point." Jenny said.
"Aye, aye, Captain!" Said Mario, raising his hand in a sailor's salute and turning back to Kagome again to try and start explaining, again, but Kagome interrupted.
"Never mind." She said. "I don't think I even want to know. So, what deal?"
"That's where I come in!" The Spaniard said joyfully. He jumped up and down clapping his hands together, everyone else besides Kagome groaned.
"Short and sweet and to the point, KK!" Jenny told him. "Short and sweet and to the point!"
"Short and sweet and to the point?" He asked her.
"Short and sweet and to the point." She confirmed.
"Short and sweet and to the point." KK whispered to himself.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Blake said, shaking his head. "We got you KK, short and sweet and to the point, so get a move on it!"
"And remember…" Mario said.
"SHORT AND SWEET AND TO THE POINT!" Blake, Jenny and Mario all chorused as one.
"Idiots." KK muttered. Then he walked over to Kagome who was watching the performance with one eyebrow raised. "So, here's what's going on, sweetie." He said, sitting down next to Kagome on the armrest of the couch. "The shaman spirit says that she'll grant us one wish if we'll be the band that plays at the Homecoming dance at your school this year. Plain and simple." He turned to his friends. "Short and sweet and two the point?" He asked them.
"I don't know…" Jenny said. She looked at Mario and Blake. "What do you guys think? Short and sweet and to the point?"
"Short and sweet and to the point." Blake said, nodding. Marion nodded as well. The three of them turned to KK and shouted gleefully.
"SHORT AND SWEET AND TO THE POINT!" They yelled happily at him.
"Nice job KK." Jenny said in approval, standing up. She had a mike in her hand and she walked over and handed it to Kagome. Kagome looked at it, and then she looked up at Jenny, then back to the mike, and then back to Jenny.
"Huh?" She asked. Jenny smiled all the more.
"You're the lead singer. I'm back up singer and guitarist, KK is the drummer, and Mario is the piano player. Blake is the male singer and guitarist. Oh, people, I have no idea how bands work, or how their instruments are supposed to work, or what the different jobs are, I'm just making this up as I go along here, okay. So if I get anything completely wrong and absurd, please feel free to correct me. It's all electric. I'm producer, KK and Mario do lights and set up and that sort of thing, you are in charge of outfits and technicalities when it comes to specifics at the school. And Blake is our official spokesman." Jenny finished with an elaborate gesture with her hand. Kagome stared at her for a moment, taking all of this information in.
"And you say we get a wish?" Kagome asked. "For example, wishing that the well was open?" Jenny grinned that weird smile of a hunter again. See confrontation between Koga and Inuyasha #2
'So far so good.' The American thought.
Feudal Era
Sesshomaru walked under the branches of the forest. He used his demon speed and was soon at the clearing where Inuyasha was sitting in a tree, sobbing for the whole world to hear. It disgusted Sesshomaru, though he knew it would have just touched Moga's heart. Fluffy uses Jenny's real nickname to! Interesting!
"Shut up Inuyasha." Sesshomaru ordered him.
"No." Inuyasha whispered. He stopped sobbing and jumped down from the tree. He faced his older brother, revulsion, pure and utter, contorted his features. "No." He said again. "Why didn't you stop them? Shippo and I could sense it! And you're a full demon, an ADULT full demon! You must have known. I thought that you loved Jenny!"
"I do." Sesshomaru said with a shrug. "But it doesn't matter. If she hadn't returned to the future then there are three others who would have destroyed you and Kagome and all of your friends and all of your enemies to get her back. And it's not like I won't ever see her again, now that I know Moga's living."
"Moga?" Inuyasha asked, though he didn't really care what the answer was.
"Jenny." Sesshomaru said. "don't worry, knowing Moga she'll probably start drafting every single magical person in Japan to reopen the well for Kagome. But you need to go back to Kaede's."
"No." Inuyasha shook his head. "I can't go back there. I'll never see Kagome again. I can't be reminded of her."
"Fine." Sesshomaru shrugged. "I'll give you one hour."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Inuyasha yelled at his older brothers retreating back. Then a familiar scent reached his nose and he froze, like a deer caught in the headlights. Wah! I have not deal with this! BUT I HATE IT! DIE KIKYO! DIE! DIE! AND DIE!
Now that that's out of my system. on with the story!
"Kikyo." Inuyasha muttered. He turned around to see the clay pot standing there with an arrow notched in her bow, her quiver slung carelessly on her right shoulder. "What do you want?" He asked her. 'I really don't want to deal with her right now.' He thought 'I don't know how to tell her that I've chosen Kagome, even though I'll ever see her again. I couldn't even tell Kagome!'
So, Inuyasha." Kikyo lowered her bow.
"Kikyo…" Inuyasha said again.
"I don't know whether to believe my eyes or not. My reincarnation is gone forever and you are on speaking terms with your brother. This is very good."
Silence
Silence
Man, by now you'd think that they'd have learned to run.
Silence
Silence snapped.
"What!"
Inuyasha screamed at her, loosing it completely.
"IT IS NOT GOOD! KAGOME IS GONE! SHE'S NOT COMING BACK! I'LL NEVER SEE HER AGAIN! AND YOU THINK THAT IS "GOOD?" WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!" Inuyasha glared at Kikyo, his fists clenched . He wanted to attack her, but he couldn't bring himself to do it.
"It's good because now no one will stand between us." Kikyo said. Inuyasha closed his eyes tightly.
"Go. Away. Now." Inuyasha managed to get out between his clenched teeth. His eyes were closed.
"Has she stolen you from me then?" Kikyo asked him.
"No." Inuyasha said. Her words tore at him. 'Kagome doesn't love me…how could she?' "I am trying to steal her. Now go away." When Inuyasha opened his eyes three minutes later Kikyo was gone, a small pile of mire was there in her place. Inuyasha nodded at it.
"Are you done yet?" Sesshomaru asked, coming out of the forest a little while later. Inuyasha got up from where he was sitting.
"She's gone." He said. "their both gone forever." Sesshomaru didn't respond, though there was a faint gleam in his eyes as he escorted his younger half brother back to Kaede's hut in the village one and a half miles away.