Don't worry all of your questions will be answered and I hope none of you are confused after reading this chapter. Just to tell you I try to make my stories confusing, but they do get straightened out later on. Promise. Hope you like it.

In the Sands of Time

Chapter 4 Not Just a Coincidence

Souls' Hatred

Kagome stood slowly, unsure of her balance. Her eyes looked up to see the sleeping man before her. His hair moved softly in the breeze. "I'm sorry, Inuyasha. I'm sorry." An unnoticed tear silently slid down her cheek and she mentally slapped herself for talking to a dead person. It was stupid to think that he could hear her. All the same, she spoke to him. "What's the point of being sorry now, I can't change what happened. Neither can you. I hate you all the same and that, I promise, will never change."

She walked up to him and looked him over. Her eyes stopped at the beads that hung from his neck. A small smile tugged on her face as the memory of that night came to her. The scenery around her slowly began to change from the green forest into the cold gray bricks of the castle.

She shivered from the cold air that was around her. Before she could do anything or look around her body began to move on its own. She was living her past over again, and she was afraid.

"Princess?" I looked up, startled by the sudden intrusion of my thoughts.

"Oh, spot." I said, he scowled at the name. He held out his hand to me and I grabbed it as he gracefully pulled me from the floor. I dusted off my skirt before looking at him. "It's so nice to see you." I said with a fake smile plastered on my face.

He rolled his eyes at me as he saw right through my mask. "Are you ready to go?" He asked, his voice weary and tired. I nodded gingerly at him.

We walked down the hall a ways without saying a word. As soon as we turned the corner my bodyguard flung me around and pinned me to the wall.

"What the hell did you call that?" He hissed his voice barely above a whisper.

I stared at him blankly; it was almost as if he were counting down. "Oh, the name? I thought it was cute." I said, I didn't resist his hold on me, what was the use. I wouldn't get to my room any faster.

"What? No, not that." He barked. "Why the hell did you order for me to be woken up just to bring you to your damn room?" His voice seeped with more danger every word he spoke.

"Oh, you were sleeping?" I gasp. "I'm so sorry, I never meant to wake the 'Royal Highness.'" I laughed a bit at the look he gave me. "That's not funny considering your father would have me killed."

"He would have you killed if he knew the way you are treating me." His jaw dropped and he let me go. "Come on spot," I called as I descended the hall.

"Gah, Were you even listening?" he yelled in frustration.

"Oh, and aren't you suppose to be around me all day?" I said over my shoulder as he ran to catch up.

"Yeah, so what about it?" He shrugged at the question.

"You weren't at dinner." I sighed lightly. "Maybe I should report you to my father."

His face faltered. "You would never." He hissed.

"And why shouldn't I?" I threatened. Of course, I never would but all in all, it was fun to scare him.

He mumbled something that I couldn't hear; I just shrugged. He stopped suddenly and put his hand on the door handle.

"Here you go, Princess." He pushed open the door and gestured for me to walk in. I nodded and entered the room.

"Oh, I have something for you." I said before dragging him into the room with me.

"Wha...?" he yelped as I walked over to the middle of my room and left him at the bed.

"You can sit down if you want." I told him as I walked over to the chest at the end of my bed and began rummaging trough it. I heard him flop down on my overly soft bed.

"What are you doing?" I heard him say from above me.

"I'm looking for something."

"Then why am I here?"

"Because," I looked up from the chest and at him, "it's for you." I said, holding up a beaded necklace.

"What do I need this for?"

"You don't, just put it on." I sat back and watched as he slipped the beaded necklace over his head. "It looks good on you." I commented as I stood up and walked over to sit on my bed, next to him.

"I feel like a girl." He said tugging at the rosary.

"Oh, nock it off." I slapped his hand gently. "It looks good." He suddenly grew stiff and ridged before shooting up from the bed.

"What is..." he silenced me with a gesture of his hand. I looked around the room and found nothing wrong. I wondered what was wrong with him all of a sudden.

I could feel the tension building in the air as it weighed down on my shoulders.

I felt as a hand slipped around my middle. "Kya!" I screamed.

"Would you shut up? It's just me." I looked up to the face that I loved so much. "Sorry." I whispered as my arms wrapped around him for protection.

"Well, Inuyasha, I see that you are still protecting that bitch. Even though you had to sell your life over to the King." I looked up to Inuyasha and saw a look disgust. Although I knew what a guard had to do, I was still surprised to have the words spoken so clearly.

If I died, he died. If he died, I would just get a new guard. It was disgusting to think about it. I had had many guards over my lifetime, but Inuyasha was the only one that I really trusted.

"Who the hell are you?" Inuyasha asked, his voice was full of anger and disgust for the man who had entered.

"No one you need to concern yourself over. All I need is for you to hand over the girl and I will leave, maybe even spare your life." His voice made me cringe.

"What makes her so special to you?"

"I've been waiting my whole life to take her back with me. I have to the king to thank for my life." He finally emerged from the shadows he hid in.

My breath caught in my throat as I looked at him, his face triggered a memory in my mind. Somewhere, I had seen him but the memory was too fuzzy to see. I just knew that I had met this man someplace before.

"What the hell are you talking about?" I screamed.

"You don't remember, princess? Then I guess I will have to tell you so you can live with the memory of it every day of your filthy life.

"You had two guards outside of your room that night I silently walked in to the castle. I knew this because of the information your father had given me the morning before. Your father is such a great man, did you ever know that?"

"My father would never give a snake like you information that would harm me."

"Do you know that for a fact princess? Would you bet your life on that?" I breathed in slowly at the words he said. "I never would." He said plainly.

"I walked up the hallway easily considering the number of guards that stood there. Lucky for me they had all been given orders not to lay a finger on me. The only ones I did have a problem with were the ones outside of your room. I quickly killed them with a blink of my eye.

"I remember walking into your room and seeing you sleeping soundlessly on the bed. You looked like an angel lying there surrounded with white sheets. The moonlight enhanced your black hair and pale white skin as you slept. I remember brushing a finger on your cheek, your skin was so soft and lovely.

"I picked you up in my arms and walked towards the open window. You insisted that you wanted it open; even when the coldest breeze fell threw. I walked up to the window and looked down at the ground below.

"You began to a wake as I stepped onto the sill, fear was in your chocolate eyes as I jumped from the window. Questions that could not be answered where visible in them as we landed safely on the ground and I got onto a horse, placing you in front of me.

"You stayed with me not even looking at me with out a bit of fear in your eyes. You don't know how much I wished you would just look at me with love, like you once did.

"The town must have been a mess because soon the king sent out search parties looking for the precious princess. They soon found us and I let you go back with them swearing that I would someday return and take back my daughter."

I gasped at the last word he said. "You, You're my father?" I slowly released my grasp on Inuyasha and walked gingerly toward the man that claimed to be my father. "Why did you leave in the first place?" I asked when I had walked up to him.

"I never left, I've always been here."

The world around me went black and when I awoke I was surrounded by flowers. Pink petals dropped from the sky as I looked around, the sky was blue, and the ground around was a mixture of purple and pink. The air smelled of roses.

Everything soon began to be engulfed in flame as the wonderful air was soon filled with smoke that choked the lungs. Flames fell from the sky and threatened to burn me.

My surroundings soon changed again and I was back in the forest looking up to an empty tree. I fell to the ground and breathed in the forest air as I drifted into another illusion of my mind.

I stood in a sea of hot sand. That's all there was in the horizon, sand and more sand. I heard a whip crack and I looked back to see a man sitting on top a horse, silhouetted by the sun. My eyes were covered and my world fell into darkness.

Inuyasha rounded the corner and slammed his fist into the brick wall. Dust floated quietly and softly to the ground around his feet. "What the hell is with all the secrets?" Inuyasha whispered to himself.

"There're for the protection of others. You don't want everyone to know that you're hiding something that could lead to the destruction of the world, do you?" He looked up to the black haired monk standing next to him. He jumped back a bit at the closeness.

"Where the hell did you come from?" Inuyasha yelled, surprised that the monk had caught up to him already.

"Oh, let me think....from the room I was in before. Anyway, you should have stayed and watched the rest of the girl's memory." Miroku said, ignoring the annoyed look he was receiving from Inuyasha.

"Why? Did it have more with me?"

"Actually, it did." The monk looked down at the lightly dusted floor in thought. "It had a lot to do with you. Would you like to hear?"

"You know what I would love to hear? I would love to hear about MY past, and why the hell everyone is keeping something from me! That's what I want to hear, not something about a girl's memory that coincidentally has me in it. It could be a dream she's remembered for all we know."

"Why would a girl be having a dream with you in it, if they have never seen your face? Also brings up that matter of why there was two 'dreams' that had you in them."

"Would you just shut up? I don't want to hear you rattling on about something that doesn't concern me."

"This does concern you, you just don't want to admit it. Inuyasha, open your eyes and mind. Think for once." Miroku patted his arm and turned to walk away. Inuyasha pressed his hands against the wall and breathed, thinking about what the monk had said.

"What did she say?" Miroku barely heard the soft words that came from the man that looked to the floor. He grinned and began to talk.

"I'm sorry, Inuyasha. I'm sorry." He quoted from the girl. Inuyasha looked up to Miroku and stared at him. "Do you really think it's a coincidence that he also has the same name as you?"

A/N: Ok, I'm done with this chapter. I think that's a good spot to end. It feels like forever since I last updated. It's so sad, school has started and I already have a paper due. I'll try to get the next chapter up when I finish it...yeah...whenever that is. Hope you like it. Please review!!!!!! I would like it so much! I'm so happy that all of you that have reviewed so far. Thank you so much! It means so much. Remember to Review! Lol. Till next time.