It Went Wrong 49 Times

by Red Flames of Passion

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly." – Ben Okri Some things are destined to occur but can be thwarted by outside forces. When it came to Inuyasha and Kagome there really was no wiggle room; the Fates wouldn't allow it. A series of mistakes told in 300 words that help to explain just why Inuyasha was sealed for 50 years.

5. Mistake 5

Disclaimer: Inuyasha I don't own. This story I do.

_Mistake 5_

Tokyo - 1854

We chose to be guardians.

Many lifetimes ago a flame was created and a bond was forged, but because something so pure could not exist without its counterpart an evil was born. Determined to undermine and subdue, the evil would stop at nothing to consume that which it hated.

The small crevice that had suddenly appeared before him mocked with its cold dark glare. Seiichi bowed his head in sorrow.

Nothing could have prevented the destruction but it still didn't lessen the blow of failure. And to think that after 300 years it had all come down to this, an earthquake. What could be done now? He didn't want to go home and explain to his grandmother, to see the anguish that was sure to cross her face. He didn't savor having to explain to his father that there was nothing that could be done because there was nothing left to save.

Memories of the day that he learned of his duty pushed to the forefront; his attitude had not been the best. Why waste his future on something that had happened in the past or would happen in the future? The very idea had seemed ridiculous and terribly confusing but, he admits, he had not understood.

It wasn't until he read the stories that his families devotion to the well made sense.

Hate, violence, anguish, fear,and pain but always prevailing was love. A love between two people that burned and scorched everything in its path. She would leave everything for him and he would become anything for her. Inuyasha would love his Kagome and Kagome would save her Inuyasha.

Discreetly wiping at his eyes, Seiichi vowed to somehow insure the fated meeting between the two lovers. There just had to be another way! There had to.

A.N: I based my timeline with Inuyasha being sealed in 1500 and Oda Nobunaga born 1534, being 16 when he was mentioned in both the anime and manga. This would place all events happening in 1550, which would coincide with the Sengoku Jidai timeline (1467-1600).