I've been here, sitting in my room for a few hours now. Nothing has happened... no voices, no little boy... nadda. I'm being to question my sanity... was I just dreaming it up back in Sengoku Jidai?
Was it just a figment of my overactive imagination? Or was it really a demon that's plaguing me? The door creaked and I shrieked. Souta popped his head in.
"Sorry sis.. you're kinda jumpy today. Mom says dinner's ready." and away he went... should I go down to dinner? I'm scared that, if I have too much contact with them.. with anyone really.. something bad will show up... I don't want anything to happen to them.
I should go back to Sengoku Jidai. I don't want to harm them either... no... especially not little Shippou, but.. they're far more prepared to handle anything that could happen.
I slowly shuffled down the stairs, wincing at every creak I make. Am I becoming too sensitive to my surroundings? This whole situation is making me paranoid. As I reach the bottom, I peer my head into the corner and right there! Right there! It's a - the boy... he's back. He's sitting there, in my spot at the table, with everyong ignoring him. No one can see him but me... that's plain enough.
"Come sit down Kagome," came a voice. I think it came from Mama.. but I don't know... there's a mocking tone... I look to my mother, who smiles back at me. "Come sit Kagome."
I nod, and turn back to my seat, and prepare myself to pretend as though nothing is wrong.
But - he's gone. The little boy's gone. Where has he gone?
hello mother... is all I hear before an ice cold hand touches the small of my back. I screamed as loudly as I could.
Nightmares and Visions
Physical Barriers
by: bs
"I have to go check on her!" I cried, lunging for the well. Miroku quickly slammed his stupid pole on my head, knocking me backwards. Stupid monk! He's going to pay for that.
"Calm down Inuyasha! You said so yourself, she needed these three days!"
"So! I can feel it! Something is WRONG!" Without another word, I raced past him and leapt down the well. When I reached her time, I heard a heart wrenching scream.
I knew it! When I raced over to Kagome's house, I couldn't help but sense something cold in the air... a very cold and dead feeling...
When I reached the kitchen I saw Kagome on the floor with a barely visable boy kneeling next to her, whispering in her ear.
"GET AWAY!" I hollered. The little boy looked at me with his eyes.
All I can say is - those eyes are one ugly shit thing.
When I woke up I knew I wasn't at home anymore... I could hear a fire crackling... birds chirping... no fat cat suffocating me...
"Awake?" a voice called out.
It was funny... this didn't seem like Kaede's hut. I moaned slightly and shifted underneath the blanket that covered me. Inuyasha didn't seem to mind.
"Where's Shippou?"
No response. Where was everyone? Had they gone out? I sat up and rubbed my eyes. "Where is everyone Inuyasha?"
"i'm not inuyasha"the voice said. I blinked and gazed at the person next to the fire.
"it's about time you woke up mother."
I stopped breathing and I'm positive my mouth was gaping. The little boy was sitting there, peering into the fire, prodding and poking at it with a stick. "i've been waiting for you to wake up and now that you have we can talk." he said with a monotone.
He turned and looked atme, the firecasting shadows all over the - what were we in? WHERE was I?A cave? Did he take me to a cave?
I whimpered and scrambled backwards with my feet until my back hit something solid.
"i wouldn't do that if i were you mother. the spiders are very territorial."
I looked around, but I didn't see any bugs crawling around. Was he trying to mess with me? What the hell did he want with me? Why was I even here? Was it nighttime? Or daytime? I couldn't see the entrance, how was I going to get out of here?
I was driving myself nuts. "There aren't any spiders here."
My voice was all shaky. Calm down... slow deep breaths... slow deep breaths...
It was very quiet... I could only hear the crackling of firewood and my own steady breath... as well as the soft clattering noise that echoed strangely on the cave walls.
I didn't see anything that might have made the noise when I scanned the cave thing we were in.
In fact there wasn't anything in here except me, the boy, and... the fire. I sighed and looked up to see if there was anything there.
I came face to face with a giant spider.
Kaede sighed and faced me. "She's been trapped by the spirit that's plaguing her. If I'm not mistaken..."
She stopped and shook her head. Why couldn't the old hag just finish what she was going to say! "WHAT? Mistaken WHAT?"
"This spirit is a manifestation of Kagome's soul... there is no way to exorcise it without harming the essence of Kagome."
what the fuck!
Every word that just came out of that hag's mouth didn't even make sense. It all contradicted itself! "What the hell? If it's part of Kagome it won't hurt her! It shouldn't hurt her! And why should it be doing all this shit to her anyway? IT'S KAGOME. She wouldn't hurt herself!" I raged. I think I would have gone on if Miroku hadn't interfered. I swear I'm going to do something evil to him one day...
"Inuyasha - stop! Kaede- what you're saying... is it even possible? I mean - Mushin explained to me the theory behind it - but it's a contradictory of itself!"
...what the fuck?
"Explain monk!"
"Ah.. well..." Miroku paused and scratched his head. "It's very complex and it may take awhile..."
"Talk!"
"We might as well enlighten Inuyasha and Sango on this matter." Kaede sighed. Stupid old bat always has to make things productive. Sango, who was tending to Kagome looked up at the mention of her name.
"What are we talking about now?"
"Miroku wants to 'enlighten us' on what he says is happening to Kagome."
"That tone is quite becoming on you Inuyasha..."
"..talk!"
Stupid monk and stupid girl. Why the hell did Kagome have to get into such deep shit? Something was obviously bugging her, the way her fingers were twitching under the bed. Her fingers always twitched when something was bugging her.
"Well - a person's soul is completely different from a person's mind. They are in sync with each other, and co-operate with each other to live but in truth, they are two separate things. Imagine it like... like ramen Inuyasha. There are the noodles, and there is the hot water. They are different in their own sense, but when you mix it up you get something so much better."
...stupid bastard.
"I get it!"
"Alright. Just checking. Anyway, it seems Kagome's soul and mind have simply gotten out of sync with each other. Her mind may be on something while her soul is thinking something else entirely."
"...so where does the situation Kagome is in work into all of this? Why is she acting this way?" Sango asked.
Smart girl.
Miroku paused. And sighed. And rubbed his chin.
...TALK DAMMIT.
"I believe it is because she uses the well. Her soul realistically belongs in her time, as well as her mind. But when she comes here, she has to adjust. Maybe when her soul and mind became out of sync, it was during one of her well visits. The time alteration she has to do was somehow changed."
"...so why can't we just wake her up and make her alter it now?"
"Because she does it subconsciously. She has no idea how to do it. It's something that occurs without her knowledge - and yet if it didn't she wouldn't be able to function properly here."
"It's like that top thing Kagome brought me from her time!" Shippou pipped him.
I want to kill him. His voice is grating. And yet he continued.
"It spins well on flat places, but sometimes it needs to get used to things before going fast again!"
Miroku chuckled. "Yes that's a good way of putting it."
Kaede frowned. "Now we have the dilemna of how to make Kagome adjust back."
"Going back to her time didn't help. I think it made it worse."
I thought back to Kagome's kitchen, with that little boy even I could see.
"Ahh... yes. We have just one issue here and once we get through that it's an easy go." Miroku stated.
"And what's that?"
"We simply need to stop being physical. We need to get rid of Kagome's body and just grab at her soul and mind."
"...what the fuck. How are we going to do that!"
"And that Inuyasha, is our one obstacle."
AN: Is it just me, or like... when I upload documents into the duhher - document manager, some words get clumped together and then you have to go back and double check on the clumping. Seriously - anyone else? boooo
I feel the end of this fic is near.Maybe three... four more chapters. Or five... six... ten... more like four or five. :D