Time

Disclaimer: Read the one from the last chapter.

Kagome didn't want to open her eyes. She didn't want to see whatever she would see… In case it wasn't what she wanted to see. What she wanted to see… Well, it was safe to say she wouldn't see it, ever. So she didn't open her opens, creased and shut.

Sesshomaru pulled her up. His hands were careful and strong. Kagome wobbly stood unable to sense her surroundings as she normally would, because of her lack of sight. When Sesshomaru let go she started to fall down. She used her miko senses and saw something sharp. She winced.

Two pairs of strong hands held her up and Kagome instantly opened her eyes, not used to the second pair. As she opened her eyes she instinctively gazed around. The trees were a bright, vivid green, surrounding her. It didn't look like autumn to her, here. It looked like Spring, from the temperature. She looked down. There was a tombstone. It was the same one from the cemetery.

Kagome whipped her head around to thank her saviours and saw both Sesshomaru and Riku. Riku had instantly let go and Sesshomaru had let go a little after. After all, Sesshomaru knew her much better.

"Kagome," Sesshomaru said. "I take it you know where we are." He said slowly. His warm eyes were piercing through her. She couldn't tell what emotion he was feeling. She could only see that he was interrogating her. Why? She was not sure.

Kagome nodded her head slowly. "The graveyard we were in before. Maybe…" She slowed down, a theory popping into her head. A ridiculous one at that, but it was possible. "The Feudal Era?" She finished slowly. Her head was pounding now. What if she was right?

Sesshomaru smiled at her lightly. It was almost unnoticeable. "You are very close, but no. We are, though it is disturbing to say this, but before." He said slowly. Sesshomaru's eyes warmed from their frosty disposition.

Kagome gaped at the statement. "But… But how? What… how… I just don't get it, Sesshomaru!" She yelled, confused. How could they be before the Feudal Era? They didn't have tombstones before then! At least, they didn't have any from her knowledge.

Sesshomaru started to speak, as if he was telling a story. "We have just entered the birth of the first thing of their kind. The first shall be born in one day, exactly. I do not know the approximate year, but I know this is true. I hope you quickly adapt to this time period. We may have to stay here for years." His words were sharp and short to Kagome.

Kagome nodded, nervous that she was in such an unfamiliar world. "Uh, Sesshomaru?" She asked him. "Won't we look weird to the natives, whatever they are?" Kagome didn't know whose grave she had entered, because it could have been a human's, and, well, they would have stuck out like sore thumbs!

"You need not worry about that, Kagome." Sesshomaru told her. His tone was somewhat sharp, but somehow what Sesshomaru said made Kagome feel happy inside, maybe it was because he was saying them.

Riku cut into Sesshomaru's words to help out. "Humans already exist here, and when we transported through time, since it was a grave, our clothes transformed."

Kagome nodded. She understood, but somehow felt confused. She didn't know why that hadn't happened when she travelled through the well. She guessed that she would have to live with it and ask about it later.

Riku started off to the left of Kagome but Sesshomaru started talking to him as he walked. "Riku?" Sesshomaru asked. "Where are you going?"

Riku didn't stop walking. "I'm going to the village, Sesshomaru. Where else do you think I would be going? Oh, yes, I am actually going so smartly to the hunting grounds where I will purposely be killed by weak humans." Riku drawled sarcastically. He really disliked Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow. "I don't know how you'll get to the village. As far as I can smell, (AN: Um, you know? No offences to people who already know, but this is how a dog demon senses things, so, yeah.) there is at least one square kilometre of men-at-arms ready to attack intruders. You will die. You are a half-demon, true, but these many trained men can beat you."

Riku turned around and glared at him. "That's why you're coming with me, and Kagome's staying behind, right?" Riku said cockily, crossing his arms and leaning against a nearby tree.

Sesshomaru shook his head. "No, Riku."

Riku blinked, startled from Sesshomaru's impudence. Sesshomaru usually did what he wanted, even though he usually objected to what he said. "Why not, Sesshomaru? Do you have a better plan than mine?"

"Actually, yes I do, Riku." Sesshomaru told Riku. "It is to leave you here with Kagome. I will be fighting the soldiers. Don't get angry." Sesshomaru started walking in the direction Riku had started to go earlier.

Sesshomaru calmly walked past both Riku and Kagome. Kagome now saw that he was wearing the same clothing from when he was in the Feudal Era. The dress must have been similar.

"Sesshomaru!" Riku yelled. Kagome saw that a few birds had flown out of their trees. Riku, she could see, was not the type to take precautions. He reminded her of Inuyasha, though she hadn't seen the kind side of him, yet. (AN: Don't worry, folks! This does happen to be a SessKag fanfiction, even though there's something between Inuyasha and Kagome in the anime.)

"Yes, Riku?" Sesshomaru turned around, though he was in the middle of the forest, to see Riku with his advanced vision. "Please don't yell so loudly next time, though." Sesshomaru added before Riku could answer.

Riku ignored the last comment on the outside, though he instantly started fuming inside. "What's the big plan for leaving me out, huh?" He said, less loudly, to Sesshomaru, though he was tempted to yell even louder.

Kagome smiled. She thought that even though Riku was like Inuyasha, he was more polite. It was funny to think that way for Kagome. Riku was so impudent, and thinking he was even a little mature was kind of odd to her.

Sesshomaru had to fight a smirk at Riku. The boy could be so childish at times! "Riku," He said loudly, though not loudly enough for the opposition to hear. "Kagome, though she is strong, will not be able to hold off whoever may attack her on her own. You cannot beat an army alone. I can. Therefore you and Kagome will stay together, because your strength combined equals around mine. We are divided because it is smarter to go into two groups, so that if one goes down, it is likely the other will live. Do you understand?" Sesshomaru finished his explanation. He walked off.

To Be Continued…

Author's Note: Thanks for reading! I worked on this for like, three hours on Saturday. Pathetic, I know. But hey, I'm a nerd and the library just got stocked :-D But now I've read all the decent ones in so, yeah. Back to Chapters or convincing, in vain, to get my mom to pay a fine we don't deserve to pay for Terry Fox Library. Ah, meh.

I might be late next week, but I'll try really hard not to. I have a Music Retreat so I'll be gone for three days, leaving me with, like, four days to write my chapter and none of my days that I usually write on. So… I hope it is okay!

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