Hey! Another update :) I'm sorry last chapter might have been a bit...confusing...to most readers, but I tried to explain what was going to happen in the future, so you knew what to expect, instead of trying to do it as the story went along, that seemed too hard so I just explained it beforehand :) Lol, sorry for the confusion.

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Chapter 19: The Future?

"The future?"

"Yes, the future."

"I don't believe you."

"I know."

Kagome exhaled, and shook her head. She and Sesshoumaru had been on the subject of where she lived for over 15 minutes, but all Sesshoumaru kept on repeating was 'the future?' He was so hard to convince. Kagome sighed, and forced herself to be nice.

"Sesshoumaru, I know this is hard to believe. But yes, I come from the future. You can ask Inuyasha, he's been there with me a couple of times before. He will tell you all about it."

Kagome and Sesshoumaru turned to face Inuyasha, whose eyes had gone wide, and he held his hands up in defense.

"Hey, hey, hey! I have nothing to do with this! Don't get me involved!" Sesshoumaru hadn't heard the words that Inuyasha yelped out, and he swiftly grabbed Inuyasha's neck, and pinned him against the castle wall in one quick motion.

"Inuyasha, what crazy thoughts have you been putting into Kagome's mind?" Sesshoumaru snarled in Inuyasha's face. Inuyasha just squeaked, unable to talk for the hands of Sesshoumaru were squeezing his neck far too tight for comfort.

Kagome 'eeped', and ran up to the fighting siblings. She touched Sesshoumaru's arm, causing him to relax, and drop Inuyasha. He fell in a heap on the ground, clutching his pained neck. What the heck was that for!

Kagome looked at Inuyasha, who just growled at Sesshoumaru, after seeing Kagome's glare. She then looked up at Sesshoumaru, who was eyeing her suspiciously. Kagome sighed.

"Sesshoumaru, don't blame Inuyasha for this. I really do come from the future, and if you do not believe me, then I will take you there myself. You can ask my friends about it, they know I come from the future also." Kagome tried to explain to Sesshoumaru, but he was unaware of what Kagome had said, and he just snarled at Inuyasha. He wanted to squeeze the living breath out from him, but Kagome's touch on his arm was calming him, and he decided not to, for the sake of Kagome.

Inuyasha just looked at the two. Kagome was talking to Sesshoumaru, who seemed entirely unfocused on her, and who had a set expression on him. Inuyasha once again growled. It wasn't his damn fault that Kagome came form the future! He didn't believe her at first either, until she finally showed him. Boy, was that a shock to be thrown 500 years in the future. He knew that Sesshoumaru wouldn't handle it well either.

Inuyasha continued to glare at his brother, as his brother continued to glare at him. Inuyasha was unable to break his glance, for he did not want to have another argument with his brother. He didn't want Kagome to 'sit' him again. He shuddered. He hated it when she sat him.

Kagome continued to explain the circumstances to Sesshoumaru, until he finally turned to face her. He put a finger over her lips to shush her. Kagome stopped talking abruptly, taken back from Sesshoumaru's action. Was she talking too much again?

Sesshoumaru took his finger away from Kagome's mouth, and he lifted her chin with his finger. He looked her in the eyes, and smiled, much to Kagome's disbelief. She had thought that he was angry for some odd reason. She opened her mouth to talk, but Sesshoumaru had once again shushed her with his finger.

"Shhh...I know you want me to believe you about this whole 'future' thing, but I will not believe you, or anybody that tells me, until you show it to me. I think that you need some sleep, and Inuyasha and I will work things out."

Inuyasha's eyes grew wide. What in the hell did he want to work out! Since when was this his fault? He hadn't done anything to make Kagome believe anything! And now Sesshoumaru wanted to kill him because he thought that he had...brainwashed her! What in the hell kind of reasoning did Sesshoumaru do in his stupid mind!

Kagome's eyes grew hard, and she swiped away Sesshoumaru's hand.

"Sesshoumaru, this has nothing to do with Inuyasha! I DO come from the future, and I will PROVE it to you! We can go right now if you want to!" Kagome threw her hands up in the air, growing extremely weary rom this subject. Why did everything have to be so complicated when it came to Sesshoumaru? He was so hard-headed!

Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow at Kagome's explosion, and he just waved it off. Kagome was out of her mind. What kind of trickery did Inuyasha do with her? Did she come from a long line of miko's that nobody knows about? Did somebody make her believe she was someone she was not? There had to be some kind of explanation to all of this, and he knew that Inuyasha was behind it all.

Kagome saw in Sesshoumaru's body language, and in his eyes, that he did not believe her. She knew that he was going to kill Inuyasha when he got the chance. She knew she shouldn't have said anything about him knowing about her living in the future. Oh, how did she ever get herself into this situation?

Inuyasha finally stood, causing both Kagome and Sesshoumaru to turn their attention towards him. He stretched, and faced the two. He saw the anger in Sesshoumaru's eyes, and the pity in Kagome's. He just 'Feh-ed', and turned to go.

"This has nothing to do with me. You guys can sort out your problems as they go, but don't get me involved in them." Inuyasha turned to go, but Sesshoumaru placed a hand on his shoulder. Inuyasha stopped in his tracks, and turned to face Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru's eyes had hatred written all over them. Kagome gasped, and pulled Sesshoumaru's hand back. Sesshoumaru's eyes then dimmed out, and he faced Kagome.

"Sesshoumaru, please don't blame this on Inuyasha. Come on, we will go to my home place now, just so I can prove it to you." Kagome pleaded with Sesshoumaru, but Sesshoumaru's attention was faced toward the hanyou.

"No, Kagome, we will go tomorrow. It is too late to go now. There is food in the kitchen if you are hungry, or you can just ask a servant to bring food to your room." Kagome nodded, and grabbed Inuyasha's arm. Inuyasha looked at Kagome, who was mouthing a 'come on', so he followed her and left, leaving Sesshoumaru to stand in the same position he was in when they left. He was deep in thought, too deep to almost notice the two quickly scurry off.

'Does Kagome really come from the future? How far in the future is she from? And she said that Inuyasha came from the future...Well then, I guess I am going to have to speak with him about this later on.'

Sesshoumaru nodded to himself, seemingly pleased with his plans. He then turned to face the sun, which was almost gone in the horizon.

'Its getting dark...I should head inside...'

Sesshoumaru sighed, and then walked his way into the castle.

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Kagome and Inuyasha walked, toward the guest hall. Kagome was apologizing to Inuyasha about what happened to him and Sesshoumaru, but Inuyasha just brushed it off. That wasn't his biggest concern at the moment. It was worrying about Kagome, and if Sesshoumaru would try to hurt her if she took him to the future. He had almost wanted to rip Kagome's throat out when he first went to the future, for daring to bring him to such a place with polluted air, loud people, and too many things going on at once.

It was all too unbearable.

He knew that Sesshoumaru wouldn't take the situation well either, because of the fact that he was a youkai, and he was just a hanyou. Sesshoumaru could probably hear and smell much better then he could, much to his disliking, so he knew that he wouldn't take it well. He would just have to go to Kagome's time with them...but how would he convince Sesshoumaru that he was going also?

He couldn't think of a reason why.

After a few minutes of Kagome's apologizing, she finally noticed that Inuyasha wasn't paying attention. His head was bowed slightly, and he seemed deep in thought. Kagome instantly grew angry, but she softened after Inuyasha's ears flattened, and his head bowed lower. What was he thinking about?

"...Inuyasha?"

Kagome's voice had made Inuyasha slip out from his trance, and he shook his head, and turned his head to meet Kagome's eyes.

"...What?"

Kagome's eyes softened more, and she stopped walking. Inuyasha stopped a few steps ahead of her, not turning to look back.

"Why are you stopping?"

Kagome's mind was wandering, trying to find a reason why Inuyasha would look so sad.

"What are you thinking about?"

Inuyasha just bowed his head, covering his eyes. How did she know that he was thinking? Did he show it that much in his features?

"Nothing, just don't worry about it. Its nothing important, really."

Kagome opened her mouth to protest, but a running Sango caught her from her tracks.

"Kagome! I've been looking everywhere for you!"

Kagome turned and smiled at Sango, who approached her rather quickly. She closed her eyes and laughed, and when she opened them again, she saw Inuyasha walking slowly away. She frown, but Sango's cheery voice brightened her up just a bit.

"Kagome! You won't believe it! Miroku and I have been walking around the castle all day, just talking and all, and he hasn't groped me, or tried to at all! And the best part is, Miroku asked me to be with him forever, and he was sincere about it! Can you believe it! I'm so happy!"

Sango squealed, and jumped. Kagome laughed, and jumped with her. So, she was right! Miroku really did have a thing for Sango! She knew that Miroku would change his ways for Sango, she always knew that he would.

"So, Kagome, where have you been all day? I haven't seen you since we did our little plan with Miroku!"

Kagome sighed, and smiled sadly. The thought of Sesshoumaru not believing her was making her feel guilty for what he did to Inuyasha. She really didn't mean to cause any harm to Inuyasha! She was just trying to prove it to Sesshoumaru without actually taking him there. And only if the well would allow it. It let Inuyasha through, and that centipede demon, why not Sesshoumaru? A small part of her hoped that it wouldn't.

Sango noticed the sad look in Kagome's eyes, and she instantly tried to cheer her up.

"Oh, come on Kagome! Whatever happened today couldn't be that bad! You know what, lets just get to our rooms, you can sleep in my room. We can get a servant to bring us food, and we can talk about whatever's bothering you, okay?"

Kagome looked up at Sango, and smiled. She nodded her head, and hugged Sango. She always knew how to bring her up. They let go of each other, and walked slowly up to Sango's room.

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Sesshoumaru walked around his castle aimlessly, just trying to reason everything out in his head. On top of that, he was trying to find Inuyasha. He wanted to just talk to him about this future thing. Hopefully he had forgiven him for trying to kill him earlier.

Sesshoumaru walked up and down all the halls, gone into the library, the dining hall, everywhere. He had even checked Inuyasha's room, and he wasn't there. Where in the hell could he have gone? There was only one place that he hadn't checked, the gardens. But, they had just came from there, why would he gone back? He decided to take a look anyway.

As he walked out from the castle doors into the gardens, he sensed Inuyasha nearby immediately. He knew he was here, there was nowhere else he could have gone, except for off of his premises.

He saw him sitting under the grand old tree, his favorite tree, the tree that was planted when his father was born. He approached Inuyasha, who was well aware of his presence.

Inuyasha looked up at the sky, gazing at all of the stars that lay there. Sesshoumaru stood a few inches away from him, and he sat down as well, on the opposite side of the trunk that Inuyasha sat. They both sat staring at the stars for a bit, until Inuyasha had broken the silence.

"These stars are rare in Kagome's time, you can barely see any at all."

Sesshoumaru just simply nodded, knowing that silence was the best answer. He knew not to get into a fight now, it was useless.

"Kagome's time...tell me about it."

Inuyasha was taken aback by his brothers words, he had expected him to tear off his head, not ask him about Kagome's time! Inuyasha nodded his head, and breathed in deeply.

"Well, to start off...she lives 500 years in the future. She travels from here to there through the Bone Eaters Well, which I'm sure you know of." Sesshoumaru nodded again, and Inuyasha continued, knowing well that silence was Sesshoumaru's answer.

"Humans rule the planet, there are no youkai at all in her era..." Inuyasha heard Sesshoumaru's low growl at his comment, but he decided to ignore it as best as he could, and continued.

"It is very polluted, and its loud. Your senses probably wouldn't get used to it, so I would suggest finding a scent you like, and concentrating on that, until you go into Kagome's home. Her home always smells nice, don't ask me why, but you cannot hear or smell the outside, which I'm sure you will be pleased by."

There was another silence, until Inuyasha took another breath, and spoke again.

"There is something called 'technology' there, which is very improved, and vast from our time. Some things there I have seen, and they still continue to amaze me. I even wonder how humans managed to do it, I still think that youkai roam the areas, but they keep themselves hidden, like you would when you go there."

Sesshoumaru took a minute to sink in all of Inuyasha's information, and then nodded. So, from what Inuyasha was telling him, Kagome wasn't lying. He would have to apologize to her later about that. He rose from his spot on the ground, and sniffed the air.

"Inuyasha, I apologize for the attack I placed on you earlier. I was having confusion."

Inuyasha nodded, and looked up to the sky again.

'Why is he apologizing? That's not like him...'

Sesshoumaru straightened up, and started walking toward the castle. He said his last comment before he was inside the castle.

"I hope we can talk like this again..."

Inuyasha looked over to where Sesshoumaru was, but he had disappeared into the castle. Did he just say he hoped to talk more like this again? Inuyasha's eyes grew wide. What had gotten into Sesshoumaru? That was really not like him!

Inuyasha thought for a moment, then smiled.

'Kagome...'

He shook his head, and closed his eyes. That girl could work miracles on ones soul...

'I guess Sesshoumaru needs it anyways...'

Inuyasha stood, and smiled sadly. Kagome had worked wonders on Sesshoumaru's heart, she even made him come to accept humans, even to take one as a mate. She even made him consider himself as a real brother...one he didn't try to kill all of the time, one that he actually let in his castle to live there...

'Sesshoumaru, you are one lucky youkai...'

Inuyasha bowed his head, and walked slowly into the castle.

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Well, there you go, another chapter done! Sorry that the end is sort of sad, Inuyasha being all thrown around everywhere...but, I might give him somebody in the future :) You never know! I'm not that mean of a person! Lol...

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