I haven't written anything in such a long time (well, when I'm writing this, at least)! I can't wait to get back to work on this story. I think it is sort of fun... Anyway, here's the next chapter.

A Change in Our Future

Chapter Fifteen: InuYasha's Vow

InuYasha ran through the forest, his legs pumping as fast and hard as he could get them to go. He started jumping over the trees to make it there faster, and to see where he was going, since the rain had washed most of the scents away. We had a long way to travel, if we wanted to get back to the Bone Eater's Well, and it would take a long time. The sky was still dark and it was pouring out. I wouldn't be surprised if I caught a cold.

I turned around just as I felt a sneeze coming on, when I felt it go away and saw something really dangerous behind us. I gasped and said, "InuYasha, I think we have some company."

InuYasha turned his head and growled. Behind us were about 100 demons, each one of them with one of those freaky collars on them, but the collars were glowing red.

"I think they're being controlled!" I shouted over the wind. InuYasha nodded and turned back to face where he was going.

"Kagome, you need to keep them at bay. If you don't, we could get hit by one of their attacks," InuYasha said. I nodded in agreement and got out my bow. Turning around as much as I could, I got an arrow out of my quiver and pulled it back.

A small demon with huge teeth attacked first. I shot an arrow and killed it, but then the demons started to attack all at once. I shot arrow after arrow, but soon I was down to only two of them.

"InuYasha! I'm almost out of arrows. I can't stop them anymore!" I said while trying to knock away a demon with my bow.

A demon suddenly came out of no where and knocked me off of InuYasha's back. I screamed, and held out my hand, trying to grab on to something. The demon charged at me, hoping to get me in midair. Suddenly I felt energy surging in my hand, and I shoved it in the demon's face. Purification energy had gone through me in a time of need. I didn't think I could use it like that, unless I had the sacred jewel in my body. It didn't matter, though. What mattered is how I was going to stop myself from falling and breaking every bone in my body!

That was quickly answered, though, by InuYasha catching me right before I hit the ground. He continued to run, and then jumped up over the trees again. I was stuck in InuYasha's arms, and I clung to him tightly. I lifted my head to watch behind InuYasha, and saw more of those demons coming. I gripped InuYasha's shoulder tighter, and glared.

"InuYasha, we have to do something about them, or we'll be killed before we get anywhere near the well!" I said loudly. I saw InuYasha wince a little bit out of the corner of my eye, and I figured it was from the volume of my voice.

"We just have to outrun them," InuYasha said, jumping into the air again by using a tree branch.

InuYasha's speed never faltered; he may have gradually gotten faster. He never dropped me either, or even came close to dropping me. This would have been nice, if we weren't being chased by a bunch of man-eating demons, and if it wasn't raining. I'm defiantly going to get sick, now.

I grabbed my bow and got an arrow ready. I only had two arrows left... I needed to make them count.

I pulled back on the arrow and carefully aimed. Right when InuYasha was flying through the sky I let go. The arrow sped through the air and my sacred powers surrounded the arrow as it flew. It went through the flying mass of demons, destroying about half of them. I couldn't help but feel a little bit emotional about killing them. Especially since I killed Kane. But I couldn't think about that right now. I only had one arrow left.

InuYasha jumped once more and I just happened to turn around. There was the city; the vast expanse of Tokyo. This city ceased to amaze me. I haven't even seen close to all of it, especially being in the Sengoku Jidai for a lot of the time lately.

InuYasha started to lose the demons, and I was getting tired. I was soaked to the bone, and I was starting to get a little bit sick, but I felt very warm there with InuYasha, even though the wind and rain made me really cold.

I watched as the demons slowly faded into the distance and I put my last arrow back into the quiver on my back. I held onto my bow tightly and used my free hand to grip onto InuYasha's haori. I couldn't help but worry about Gosai, Sukebei and Shippo.

It wasn't long before I was resting. I was almost asleep, but still conscious. I mean, how could I go to sleep while wind was blowing at me and rain was pouring on me, making me really, really cold?

InuYasha made it to the city quickly and traveled on top of the buildings. By then I was wide awake and looking around to see if there were any more demons coming to attack.

"We're almost there," InuYasha said, jumping to another building. I held onto InuYasha tighter and nodded.

"InuYasha... How are we supposed to beat Naraku?" I asked.

InuYasha growled at the name. "I guess we'll just have to keep fighting. There's no way around it."

I sighed. "I suppose so. But..."

"Kagome, don't worry. We'll beat him... It'll be hard, but we can do it," InuYasha said.

I smiled slightly. "Yeah... I guess you're right. We will beat him. And we'll be able to kill him with our friends."

The rain started to lighten up and soon we landed in front of the shrine steps. InuYasha let me down, allowing me to regain my balance. It took a while, since I had just been carried for who knows how long and I was pretty dizzy. InuYasha looked around as I started to walk up the stairs to the shrine. It was like he was searching for any more demons.

I got to the top of the stairs and InuYasha followed. Before we could go to the well, I was stopped with a bone-crushing hug. I turned my head to see my mother with her arms around me. "Mom?"

"You didn't come home so I was worried about you. I knew you had InuYasha with you, but I couldn't help but worry," Mama said, a few tears falling down her face. Those tears weren't very visible in the rain, though.

I hugged my mom back and said, "I am going to have to go back to the Feudal Era. We need to stop Naraku, so none of this ever happens."

She let me go and smiled at me. "Try to be safe," Mama said, and she watched me go over to the well house.

"InuYasha?" Mama called InuYasha over and said to him, "Make sure to watch over my daughter. I'm worried about her safety..."

InuYasha looked serious and said to my mother, "I will protect Kagome. I promise that she will never get hurt as long as I'm around."

I stood at the door to the well house, having not heard any of the conversation that took place. When InuYasha walked over to me, I asked, "What did Mama talk to you about?"

"Nothing. She just wanted to make sure you were safe," InuYasha said, walking into the building. "Let's go."

I nodded in answer and we jumped into the well, hand in hand.

Much, much shorter chapter than most of the other ones. Oh well. That was more of a filler anyway. I didn't much like it. The one after the next one should be more interesting.

Next Chapter: Kagome and InuYasha go back to the Sengoku Jidai and they need to explain to Sango and Miroku what happened. They also need to go stop Naraku as soon as possible, but a cold stops them from leaving right away. All that running around in the rain didn't serve Kagome very well, did it?