Chapter 16- Confusing Explanations
Sesshoumaru couldn't breath. He clawed at his brother's arm but the arm didn't flinch. Kagome, It's seemed that was all his future self could think about at a time like this. Why? How could a stupid human girl help her enemy from being killed by her love. Suddenly the Future Sesshoumaru spoke.
"KAGOME!" He screamed through the water.
"what'd you say dog?" InuYasha asked pulling Sesshoumaru out of the water.
"If you kill me her son with die."
"I don't want anything to do with you inside of her!" InuYasha yelled, putting Sesshoumaru back in the water.
"And so will she." Sesshoumaru said right before he went under.
InuYasha paused. Why was his heart beating so fast, with so much confusion. NO! He was demon; he didn't have these feelings! It was then that InuYasha looked at his hands. His nails had gotten shorter. His hands that once were so strong looked weaker. He was changing back to a…Suddenly he felt Sesshoumaru's nails claw down his back and to his sides. InuYasha flinched in pain and Sesshoumaru was able to get free. Breathless, Sesshoumaru ran off.
"Yah that's right! Run Sesshoumaru! You are not worthy to be called a Demon!" InuYasha yelled in anger and beat his fists to the ground.
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"What do you mean we can't go back?" Shippo asked confused.
" We came here to find you, and hoped that Kagome would come to find us, but she has not. And Sesshoumaru has not returned either. So we have no way to leave this time since we do not have a piece of the Jewel shard." Sango explained.
" I still have faith in Kagome. She has not failed us yet; let us not give up hope so soon." Miroku said.
"Maybe we should search Sesshoumaru's castle for a piece of the jewel. It wouldn't hurt." Shippo suggested.
"True…" Miroku began.
"but I'm afraid of what we may find." Sango concluded Miroku's thoughts.
"I'm afraid for Kagome, though." Shippo whined.
"Yes, I also sense that we need to return to her." Miroku agreed.
"Then let us go" Sango sighed.
Without another word the group walked to the castle.
They searched the rooms and found nothing of use. They found a room where Jaken must have slept (where was he anyways?), modern weapon rooms, a girl's room (oh yah, Rin), and then…the cells. They slowly walked down the damp, cold hallway of about a dozen cells. When they reached the end there was something on the ground in the cell to their left. The door was agar, and Miroku walked in and stirred the object on the floor. He gasped at what it was. It was himself. A pale, starved, and also dead, form of himself. Sango caught a glimps and nearly fainted.
"Miroku?" Sango whispered when she was able to speak and slowly walked towards Miroku.
"I see." Miroku said aloud to himself, "Now I truly understand what had happened to Kagome in this time. I saw it through my own eyes."
"What do you mean Miroku?" Shippo asked.
"I do not understand how the future to this era included Kagome, but the future of this era started in about four days of our time." Miroku tried to explain.
"whoa, I don't understand. How can the future start somewhere?" Sango asked.
"I mean the event of Kagome killing InuYasha and staying with Sesshoumaru." Miroku said, " According to what I have seen through this corpse, Kagome killed InuYasha four days from the current time in the era we are supposed to be in." Miroku said, "So you see. We are not supposed to be able to access this time or this time to be able to mingle in the past, but some how the future has split. It seems like it is trying to fix the future by correcting the past."
"I am so confused." Shippo said.
"What Miroku is trying to say-or atleast I believe- that the past is not supposed to be altered to correct the future. The reason our Kagome came to the future was so that she could get a glimps of what she has done and go back and correct it." Sango tried to simplify it for Shippo.
"Yes, but Sesshoumaru, the future one, has also come, and I believe he is causing quite a problem. We should get back now." Miroku said in earnest, and left the cell with the other's following.
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How dare he! Kagome thought as she ran to the well. He hadn't even let her explain. If she did not let all the things come to pass then that Sesshoumaru will have never existed. So if she can only make sure that the events that lead to that horrible future do not happen, then the child will have never existed.
Kagome reached the well and jumped inside, but nothing happened. InYasha still had the jewel! The only way she could get to Shippo was to confront InuYasha, who right about now wanted her dead.
