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HI LYDDIA! I'm updating just for you! Don't you feel special! Thank you for reading my lovely, funny story! If you don't read this note I will be very disappointed in you. And believe me, I WILL find out tomorrow on the bus! And NOW do you know what---Yes, ELVISH IN ANIME!
To other people: Lyddia is my friend. She was bored at a party and so I directed her to my story via phone. In fact, I'm talking to her right now, as I'm writing this note.
Me: Lydia, is there anything you want to say to the nice people.
Lydia: Umm…This is very weird because if you were on an exchange trip to Japan, wouldn't---
Oh.. wait. She's talking fast.
Lyddia motions that we give Inu a Mohawk.
Now girls! Now girls! She's not very…sane! And no! I'm not going to give you her address! Also, for when you people who like to kidnap Inu…It's the perfect threat to keep him in the closet! Mwah ha ha!
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE, YOU MUST ALL READ THIS!
Okay, in this chapter Inuyasha is going to seem really trusting. Too trusting, in fact. What you have to understand is that his rock, the sole reason that he has lived through so many scrapes has now disappeared. And, as far as he and anyone else out side the group that's doing all the tricking knows, he will never see her again. Kagome's gone people. And some others are giving him hope. No duh he's gonna trust the first people who come along, I don't care if he IS Inu-kun! He's a boy! And as far as relationships go he's just a child. I am not so mean that I would make him his usual stupid jerk self/
Thank you.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any other copyrighted parts of Rumiko Takahashi's work.
Oh…hey! Well, will you look at that. The word "Miko" is in the name "Rumiko" Rumiko! Huh. That's interesting. Yeah, okay. Just thought I'd point it out. You can read the story now.
Chapter 5
Normal POV
In the Present Era
"Are you trying to tell me…" Kagome said slowly and faintly when H had finished explaining what she had to do to save Inuyasha's life. "That if I say goodbye to him…to Inuyasha…then you'll spare his life?" Kagome could not quite believe that these were the only requirements.
"You got it kiddo." H said.
"Look, Kagome…" Jenny said. She walked over to Kagome and slung her arms over Kagome's shoulders. "You don't have to do this, it's harder then it sounds believe me…"
"Yeah." H said with a grin. "She should know." Jenny glared at him.
"Watch your back H." She hissed. "One of these days I'm gonna rip your head off and leave your intestines on the rocks to dry up in the sun. I'm gonna sell your body on the black market but I'll keep that black heart of yours as a souvenir!" She screamed at him.
"Ouch, violent. Though I must give you points, you were definitely more imaginative then Sesshomaru, he didn't think past killing me. If you two combined your threats you really would make a formidable couple!" H said. Jenny dropped to her knees, and started to howl stuff in a language Kagome didn't know. Apparently what she said was bad because H's face darkened and he started yelling at her in the same language.
"No." Kagome said. "STOP IT!" She screamed. Everyone turned to look at her, shocked by the quiet girls sudden outburst. Kagome looked at her hand a little, as if it was her hand that had just yelled. She, too, couldn't have been more surprised by her own rage. "I have to do this." She told Jenny. Tears began to stream from Kagome's eyes again. They ran down her face, dripping slowly from her chin to land on her clothes where they left little spots of damp darker material. The tears flowed harder and harder, until Kagome's whole face was covered in their wet residue. She ran, still sobbing, out of the house and into the well house. She fell upon it and screamed into its hard wooden planks. She lay there sobbing for her lost love, which would never even know she loved him.
Feudal Era
Inuyasha sat at the edge of the well. He let his claws trace themselves lazily across the grain of the roughly cut wood. He stared down into the shadows that his the bottom of the Bone Eaters Well. 'It's amazing…' He thought. 'That something as innocent as this well…could destroy my life…so profoundly and utterly…'
Present
Kagome felt it, Inuyasha's presence. She stared down into the depths of the well in shock. She saw no one there, but it felt like Inuyasha was right beside her. 'I'll…I'll just tell him now that I'm…that I'm saying goodbye…' She thought. 'I…I can't say it now…but…I can forewarn him…right?'
"Inuyasha…" She called. "Inuyasha I have something to tell you…"
Feudal Era
Inuyasha smelt it. He smelled her scent, it was faint, so very faint, but it was there. Even though it was like a summer breeze in the desert, it hit him like a wave from the Perfect Storm. It crushed his senses, leaving him bare and alone. And at the same time it took him in, comforted it in it's warmth, it gave him the feeling that someone was telling him that he would never be left alone again, just like his beloved had told him oh so long ago. "Kagome!" He screamed, as he looked around himself frantically. "KAGOME! KAGOME! KAGOME!" He screamed desperately. He smelled salt mixed in with her normal heavenly exotic scent, which meant she was crying. 'No, Kagome!' He thought. 'Don't cry…please don't cry! Don't cry for me! I'm not worth it!' "KAGOME!" He screamed again. Inuyasha was still peering into the well. "KAGOME! WHERE ARE YOU!"
"Inuyasha…" He heard her voice inside her head. He fell to the ground, cradling his head in his arms. He completely forgot that hearing voices is a sign of madness, he forgot it because he heard her sweet voice again. "Inuyasha…I have to tell you…in five weeks, I'm going to say goodbye…I have to…they'll kill you if I don't…I'm so sorry Inuyasha…" Kagome's voice faded from Inuyasha's mind. Her scent and her presence disappeared completely and suddenly. Inuyasha began to scream emotional pain again. He threw himself against the well and he pounded the wood with his fists in desperation. "No!" Inuyasha screamed. "No! No! No! NO!
NO!"
Inuyasha jumped into the well in hopes that he would be able to get through before Kagome did something that they would both regret. Like saying…goodbye. 'She can't.' Inuyasha's mind howled ass he hit the bone-cluttered floor of the Bone Eaters well in the feudal era. 'If she does…I won't be able to live…I can't live without her…I can't…"
Somewhere else
"Right, it's your turn. You mess it up, you die, man. Got it?"
"Got it. Don't worry! Everything will be fine. I'll make sure that we all get there on time."
"Good. Now you make sure to be nice to him, okay? The poor guy's going through a lot right now. So keep your temper and don't give him any reason to loose his. If you can that is, which I seriously doubt. You're the most infuriating hot tempered person I know."
"I love you to."
"Yeah, yeah. Just be nice."
The boy nodded to show that he understood and the two figures embraced. A few moments later you could see a tiger running north, and a lion running south, in the direction of the well.
At the well
Inuyasha was lying on his stomach in front of the well. He was sobbing noisily again. As he lay there and thought about Kagome, and about never seeing her again, and about saying good-bye, Inuyasha felt his pride join his indifference towards her. It was sacrificed. What next came out of Inuyasha's mouth he would deny ever saying till the day he died and beyond.
"HELP!" He shouted. "Help me! Somebody please help me!"
"You called?" A voice said from behind and above the hanyou, a laugh hidden just below the surface. Inuyasha turned around to find a black boy standing behind him. The boy was wearing a long overcoat made of a red and gold material and some baggy black jeans. He grinned at Inuyasha with teeth that were so white they seemed to reflect the sun's rays, but what grabbed Inuyasha's attention the most was the fact that his eyes were the exact same electric green color as Jenny's. Inuyasha stood up slowly, his eyes narrowing in suspicion.
"Name's Mario." The boy said. He had been sitting on a tree branch and now he jumped down to stand in front of Inuyasha. "I think, correction, I know that I can help you with your problem. It'll take five weeks though."
"Are you saying that you can…that you can open…that you can open the well?" Inuyasha asked. Almost against his will the hanyou felt a tremendous hope fill his body. Before he even knew what he was doing he had picked Mario up by his shoulders and was crushing the poor guy against a tree. He did all of this with the most adorable and endearing hopeful smile that Mario had ever seen in his ENTIRE life. And Mario…well, let's just say that this guy got around. 'Moga was right.' Mario thought. 'This guy really is going through a lot, to actually believe a perfect stranger like me.'
"You better believe it." Mario said with another grin. "Want me to prove it?" He asked. Inuyasha nodded, his smile disappeared and once again his eyes narrowed in suspicion. "Kagome told me to tell you to remember the first time she sat you. You were trying to kill her." That's when Inuyasha knew the boy was lying. His hope vanished, and his gentle (though firm) grip tightened until he was clutching the red and gold over coat and the flesh beneath with fists.
"Kagome…told you, huh?" Inuyasha asked. "You liar. Kagome is planning to say goodbye." Mario looked startled.
"How do you know that?" Mario asked. Inuyasha looked at him in shock, just as startled.
"How do you know that?" The hanyou asked.
"I know that because I was supposed to tell you."
"Yeah well, Kagome beat you to it."
"How could Kagome tell you? She's in the present…future."
"I heard her voice in my head."
"Sure you're not just going insane?"
"NO I'M NOT!"
"Are you sure about that? Because hearing voices is almost always a sure sign of insanity."
"I'm not mad!"
"Whatever. I still think you're mental—" Mario stopped speaking when he spotted something over Inuyasha's left red clad shoulder. "Sesh-miester!" He cried out in joy and the boy's face brightened considerably. Inuyasha whirled around to find, sure enough, Sesshomaru, Sango, Shippo and Miroku all standing there looking at the odd scene before them. Only Sesshomaru didn't look confused. Mario broke free of Inuyasha's hold and grabbed Sesshomaru's hand. He shook it fervently and beamed up at the older man while Sesshomaru smiled faintly in welcome. Sango and Miroku raised an eyebrow and Inuyasha's mouth dropped open. Shippo jumped up into a tree because he could sense an argument on its way.
"How long has it been, man?" Mario asked.
"Too long, surely. I don't think I've seen you since the Strike." Sesshomaru replied.
"Oh! Do you remember Moga's face?"
"SHUT UP!" Inuyasha shouted. He grabbed Mario by his collar and held him up in the air. "Can you do it or not!" Inuyasha shouted at our poor friend. Mario just grinned.
"This time in five weeks and three hours you'll be seeing your love once again." Mario said.
"You better be telling the truth. 'Cause your life is on the line here." Inuyasha hissed.
"Would I lie about something like this?" Mario asked, all innocence.
"Yes." Sesshomaru answered. Mario shot him a glare.
"You're not exactly helping." Sesshomaru just shrugged.
"Will you two shut up?" Inuyasha asked.
"No." They both answered.
"Fine, then answer my questions." Inuyasha demanded. He shook Mario. "What do I do?" He asked the boy.
"Simple. You just have to learn a song, and how to act." Mario said.
"Huh?" Inuyasha asked. Sango and Miroku sat down beneath the tree where Shippo was, and watched as the next, and possibly most important step in the plan played out.
"What's Moga planning?" Sesshomaru asked sharply, glancing at Mario even more sharply. Rin came into the clearing.
"Um…" The girl interrupted. Everyone looked at her.
"As of now, this is not choreographed." Mario muttered.
"Moga told me to tell you that we have a problem…" Rin said.
"Moga?" Inuyasha asked.
"Uh-oh…" Sesshomaru muttered.
"Isn't that what you call Jenny?" The hanyou asked his older brother. "How did she contact Rin!" Inuyasha was furious, to say the least. Understatement of the year.
"Mind-speaking, probably…" Sesshomaru said.
"Look, geniuses." Mario snapped. "If you had been paying attention you would have realized by now that the kid just said that we have a problem. Spill, girl!" He said, turning to Rin. "What kind of problem."
"Moga said that this Rin was to tell you that—" Here Rin's voice stopped and Jenny's voice played like a recording.
"H has decided to be the utter creep we all know him to be. He changed the date. We've got one-week people. Get a move on. Oh, by the way…the song is Into The West. Shut up Mario! Not my first pick, it's hers." Rin closed her eyes, and then opened them.
"Can this Rin go play now?" She asked Sesshomaru. The tall demon nodded and she ran off. Shippo's mind was on informational overload so he ran after her, going to play for the first time since Kagome had left.
"What…?" Inuyasha whispered. Everyone ignored him, so Inuyasha just decided to do what people told him.
"This is not good. This not good at all." Miroku muttered.
"You don't know the half of it. Because of day light savings, and the time differences, that message was really twenty-four hours late. Not including the calendar. H is using a different calendar from Moga, which means we really only have four days." Mario said in panic.
"Shit!" Sango swore.
"How do we pull this off?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Uh…Inuyasha's still here…" Miroku said.
"WHAT!" Everyone screamed. They all turned to stare at the hanyou.
"Moga's going to kill us." Mario said.
"Yep." Sesshomaru agreed.
"…." Inuyasha was having a little bit of trouble breathing. His mind wasn't able to take or figure out the meaning of what he had just heard.
"I'm not explaining this twice in one day." Sango and Sesshomaru said in unison, both equally exasperated. Luckily they were spared the pain and annoyance of trying to trick the half demon, because he did the only thing he could do. He dismissed what he had heard and threw himself at the well screaming again.
"NO KAGOME!" He said into its depths. "DON'T SAY GOOD BYE!" He yelled. Mario stared.
"He's an idiot." Mario said to the air.
"That he is, that he is." Miroku agreed, shaking his head. The small group left to go plan elsewhere, somewhere away from the hanyou who had been driven to temporary madness. Hey, everyone gets a nervous breakdown now and then!
The one, the only, the present
"Kagome?" Jenny called from outside the well house. "Kagome?" She walked into the well house and found Kagome asleep at the well. She sighed. 'Well…' She reasoned with herself. 'It is getting late, 7:40 already…I guess I'll just tell her in the morning. Poor kid.' Then Jenny scooped Kagome up in her arms and carried her to her room as if she was a little baby.
"How's the girl?" Blake asked when she came down.
"Alright." Jenny sat down and accepted a cup of coffee from KK. She stared at the rising steam for a minute of complete silence before speaking. "So, how do we get out of this one with our lives?" she asked the other two. They spent the entire night deep in contemplation and silence. Because, you see, things had suddenly taken an unexpected turn, and the plan that Jenny and Sesshomaru had so ingeniously put together was now coming undone. Things were not going according to plan.
At about one in the morning KK looked up and grinned. His eyes twinkled.
"I've got it!" He said in excitement. "If you can't beat 'em…"
"Join 'em." Blake nodded. He knew what KK was saying. They looked at Jenny. She was smiling.
"Call in the recruits. We're back on schedule men." She said. They redid the plan on their side of time, and didn't go to sleep till Kagome was awake. When she came down she found the trio passed out in her kitchen. She shook her head and was in the middle of making breakfast for herself when the doorbell rang. Afraid of whom it might be this time, Kagome took her time in opening the door. When she saw whom it was that was standing there, her mouth dropped open in shock.
"Well! Are you coming or not?" One of the people who stood there asked. "Really Kagome, you need to get dressed right now!"
"Wh-why?" Kagome asked.
"Because you're going shopping." Jenny said from behind her. Kagome turned around to find Jenny standing there with a dead serious expression on her face. She thrust a bundle of clothes at Kagome and then thrust her out the door. "Get her out of here!" The American shouted at Eri and Yuki. Help! How do you spell their names? Did I even get the right names or whatever? I don't know, I've just seen these in more then one fic, so I assume those are their names. the two girls nodded and dragged Kagome (still in her clothes from the day before.) Out of the shrine and into the awaiting car.
"Did they take her?" Blake asked from behind Jenny, who was standing on the front steps watching them leave. The girl turned and smiled at her old friend. He knew what that smile meant. "Let's hop to it, then." He said. They went inside and began to prepare. The end was swiftly approaching.