In One Moment
Summary: Cancer. This six letter word can change the lives of anyone. So what happens when Kagome is diagnosed with it? Then, when she tells InuYasha that she has a few days to live and they can't be with him?
Author's Comment: Well it was an over whelming landslide, you all wanted me to continue. Alright then! So welcome to chapter three! Thanks for reading and please continue with your reviews.
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha!
It was two years, since that fateful day. That day where InuYasha lost his true love, not to sickness and death, but to the unreachable chasms of time place. Still, InuYasha ever fateful to his one and true love sat in the same tree near the well, hoping that someday Kagome would pop up and greet him with that same smile that made his heart flip flop inside. InuYasha never left that tree, causing Keade to come and bring him food every few hours.
Occasionally, the hanyou would leave his spot. For example the wedding of Miroku and Sango.
They wed, about a year after Kagome disappearance, during the spring time. The Sakura trees had bloomed giving the couple a nice back drop. They had exchanged their vows under these trees and the pale pink petals fell around them. It was truly a beautiful wedding. Everyone was quite surprised, when Sango stepped out in a white kimono made of silk. She did that in remembrance of Kagome, who had once brought a wedding magazine from her time.
It was not surprising to say, that in nine months after their wedding, Sango gave birth to Kuerno. Miroku was extremely happy to see that his first born son was born without that cursed hell hole and that he was overall health. Kuerno was like a miniature Miroku. The exception was that he had inherited his mother's brown hair instead of his father's black locks.
However, it seemed that after their wedding, InuYasha became more and more distant from his old friends. Seeing two of his companions together and so deeply in love pained greatly. He could not help but feel cheated. He had wished Kagome to be saved and clearly it must have worked, otherwise why would have the Shikon jewel of have disappeared. Then again, maybe it didn't work. InuYasha would scold himself when thoughts like that entered his mind. Still, it just never made sense to him. If it had indeed worked why wasn't she here by his side? The last memory he had of her, she was confessing her deep love for him.
It just never became clear to him.
InuYasha never learned that 500 years into the future, Kagome was alive and thriving. She had no memory of him. She had been attending a university for the last year to pursue her dream of being a teacher. But most of all, that Kagome had fallen in love with someone else. That she was now engaged to Hojo Miazski.
"Kagome! Phone!" Kagome's friend Eri called to her. Kagome and her three best friends all attended the same university in Tokyo. They thought it would be fun to rent an apartment together, splitting the rent four ways, making housing affordable on their student salaries, which usually consisted of what ever they could mooch off their parents.
Kagome appeared from the bedroom she and Ayumi shared. The apartment only had two bedrooms, but it thankfully had two baths. If InuYasha had been there, he would have probably not have recognized her. Kagome lost her old school outfit and donned a new, more modern look. She wore a pair of low rise, dark washed jeans and a pair of black shoes.
"Who is it?" She asked, already knowing the answer. Kagome took the phone out of Eri's hands.
Eri rolled her eyes and smiled. "Who do you think? Your stuffy teddy bear."
Kagome laughed and playfully push Eri away before talking into the receiver, "Hey, baby."
"Hey." Came Hojo's voice. "I wish you would not call me that anymore."
"What? Baby?"
"NO! Kags you know what I mean."
"But you are my stuffy teddy bear!"
"But-." Hojo started to protest, but he knew that Kagome would not back down so easily. They had been going out for the last two years; he did learn some things about his girlfriend. "Oh, well, never mind. By the way Kagome, what do you want to do for your nineteenth birthday?"
"Oh my gosh, it's this Saturday isn't?" Replied Kagome shocked.
"Um, yeah, Kags."
"Wow, you certainly do forget things when you're busy planning a wedding. Oh, that reminds me. I figured out our colors! How does pink and silver sound?"
"Well, if you love it…"
"Yes, of course I love it, but I want to make sure you love it too."
"Anything you love I love it too."
"Awe, that's sweet, baby." Kagome smiled into the phone. "As for my birthday, lets just go out, just the two of us."
"Alright, then, pick you up at eight."
"Bye, love!" Kagome blew kisses into the phone. "I can't wait! I love you!"
"I love you." Replied Hojo, hanging up with a click.
Kagome smiled as she hung up the phone. She sighed and turned around to walk back into her room, but found that her door was blocked by her three friends.
"Oh, Kagome you're so lucky!" Yuka cried as she hugged her.
Eri and Ayumi nodded in agreement as they stood behind Kagome.
"You have such a great boyfriend." Said Ayumi. "He really loves you."
"Fiancée, Ayumi." Eri told her. "Hojo isn't her boyfriend anymore, because in three months they'll be married!"
All the girls screamed and jumped up and down with the soon to be bride.
"How does it feel Kagome? To know that in a few months you'll be Mrs. Kagome Miazski?" Yuka asked all dreamy like.
"Wonderful, now if you guys excuse me, I have to leave, for I have an appointment to find my wedding dress!"
Kagome drove to her old home to pick up her mother, who was accompanying her to find the perfect dress to say I do in. On her way she found herself looking down at the engagement ring Hojo had given her. It was safe to say that the rock was the size of a continent. She wondered where Hojo had gotten the money. Usually pre-med students don't have a lot of money or extra time on their hands.
Kagome smiled. She couldn't wait to start her new life with him. He made feel so happy, so warm, and so secure. He was her protector and she knew that as long she was with him, she would always be safe. It was because of Hojo, that Kagome had come out of her shell and pursued her dream of becoming a teacher. She laughed, when she remember how her grades were in high school. Hojo had tutored her and her grades went instantly up. Still, Kagome never could figure out why her grades were so low in the first place. She was a fairly good student, and then out of the blue her grades dropped. Her mother told her, that she was sick quite a bit when she was sixteen and seventeen, but Kagome could not remember that. It seemed that, that era of her life was gone, missing from her memory.
The thought in Kagome's head disappeared as she pulled up to her house. She got out of the car, locked it and made her way up the stairs.
"I wish Gramps would have installed an elevator." She huffed, as she made her way to the top.
"Kagome, darling, you're here!" Kagome's mom, said, smiling. She stuck her head out the second story window. "Just give me a minute to grab my purse."
"Alright mom!" Kagome called back, as her mother's head disappeared inside the house. She stood in courtyard of her old home, completely bored. The sun was over head, warming up her back as she stood away from it.
Her eye swept the yard, until they rested on the bone eater's well. For the longest time, she had a dreadful feeling about that place. But, sorrow and mourning were mixed in, too. From all the years, of saying, "Its nothing." Kagome was fed up with it. She decided she was going to investigate that very moment.
Kagome crossed the yard, until she stood in front of the shed. Slowly she opens them and a large flock of moths flew out. After letting out an ear piercing shriek, she took a deep breath and walked in. No one had been in here for a long time.
Kagome walked down the few steps and placed her hand on the railing of the well. She and Sota used to play in here. Kagome would tell Sota nightmarish stories of demons that were locked in there and if he was bad, she would lock him in there, leaving him for the demons to devour. Kagome frowned; she never realized how cruel she was to Sota.
Carefully, Kagome leaned over the edge. Not expecting to see anything to she was surprise to see a gleaming object.
"What is that?" Kagome asked herself, leaning down more. "A rosary?"
Kagome should have been more carefully, for she leaned over to much and few into the well. Expecting to hit solid ground, she was in a panic when she found herself floating, surrounded in blue light.
"What the hell?" Kagome said, as she hit bottom again. Like she did a long time, Kagome climbed out of the well and looked at her surroundings.
"A forest? But there's no forest in Tokyo." Kagome walked into the forest, her instincts leading her. She came up to a huge tree, and recognized as her own sacred tree.
"Where am I?" She cried, sitting down, her back leaning against the trunk. "My appointment is at 4!" Kagome pulled her knees to her chest. "I feel sick." She mumbled.
Kagome had a sinking feeling in her stomach. Had she been here before? She didn't think so. She would have remembered such a beautiful and serene place like this. This place was the complete opposite of home.
A branch snapped and Kagome snapped back into reality. "What was that?" Kagome became nervous. Something was watching her, she just knew it. But where? Where was this…creature watching her from? Kagome looked over her shoulder and around the tree to make sure there was nothing behind. Nothing.
She turned back around to find herself staring into a pair of ember eyes.
"Ahh!" Kagome gasped, falling backwards so that her back was on the ground.
"Kagome?" InuYasha said, offering his hand to help her up. "Is that you?"
Kagome took this stranger's hand. When she stood firmly on the ground, she stared at him and replied, "How- how do you know my name?"
"Kagome," InuYasha took a step back. She had completely forgotten about him.
Yeah, so here you go. The third chapter. I'm not that happy with this one. I really didn't have time to write it the way I wanted to, but I didn't want to keep you guys waiting. I'm so busy right now, I have work and school and not to mention two other stories I need to write in, otherwise my best friend is going to kill me. So yeah. Reviews are always appreciated. I would also like some ideas for this story too; I'm kind of coming to a writer's block. Thank you in advance.
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