New World New People

High Tensions

It was a couple days after Erin and Caitlin had gotten into a fight and neither one had spoken to the other. When ever they saw each other they turned around and walked in the opposite direction, or they would glare at each other THEN turn around and walk away.

"Caitlin, you have to apologize to Erin! I can see the tension between you two! When ever you see each other I can see the static from where the glares met!" Kagome said.

"What do I have to apologize for? I wasn't the one who was acusing me of purposly giving up my powers! In case you didn't know, that was Erin." Caitlin said as she turned her back on Kagome.

Kagome sighed and stood up, this was harder than she thought it should be. She walked outside of the room that Caitlin was sitting and waited for Sango to meet her there.

"Well?" Sango asked as she rounded the corner.

Kagome shook her head, then, "Caitlin says she has nothing to apologize for, I'm partly with her on that one." Kagome said.

"Erin says she's not going to apologize until Caitlin does. This is going to be a pain in the ass. First we've gotta get one to apologize, and then the other has to, this is going to take some serious planning." Sango said.

"I think we should just leave them alone, one of them will apoloize sooner to later." Kagome added.

"You're right. I think Sesshomaru or Kouga will talk some sence into one of them. So, what's for dinner? Too bad we can't have more home cooked meals from Caitlin's house, those were good." Sango added. Kagome smiled.

"The only thing that InuYasha lets us have." Kagome said.

"Ramen." Sango and Kagome said together in a monotone.

"Greeeeaaat..." Sango muttered, Kagome laughed and got started on the ramen.

"So I should apologize huh!? I have nothing to say 'sorry' for! She's the one who was saying that I had purposely given up my powers! Fucking bitch. I can't believe she would think I'd do that! I mean sure I like to play jokes, but I'm missing my family too!" Caitlin fumed as she started to walk back and forth from one wall to another.

"You're going to make a rut in the floor if you keep it up." Sesshomaru said as he walked in, Caitlin jumped and then turned to him.

"Don't scare me like that!" Caitlin growled at him. Then she continued to pace back and forth, without even remembering that he was there. Finally she sat down on the floor cushion and banged her head on the table a few times. "My life has gone to hell." Caitlin muttered, she didn't think that Sesshomaru would have heard her through the table, and with her muttering, she was wrong though.

Sesshomaru didn't say anything, but he wanted to say something. Then Kagome walked in and looked at Caitlin, she was still hitting her head on the table.

"Uh...what're you doing?" Kagome asked.

"I'm trying to give myself a concussion." Caitlin answered, still banging her head on the table, Sesshomaru threw a pillow and just as Caitlin was about to hit her head the pillow stopped. "Stupid pillow..." she pushed it out of the way and continued to hit her head.

"You're going to give yourself brain damage if you keep it up." Kagome said.

"Good."

"Then what will you do when you get home?"

"If I get home."

"What will your mom say?"

"If I see my mom."

"You're dad?"

"Don't have one."

"Sister?"

"Could care less."

"Grandma?"

"Never see her."

"Aunt?"

"She's a retard."

"Uncle?"

"Hate him."

"Grandpa?"

"Never see him."

"Anyone?"

"I don't talk to half the people I know. Besides, what's it matter? I don't belong there any more? That's the furture and demons aren't part of it. Humans are the dominant species, not demons, and if people knew they'd try to kill us. You know it Kagome. My fate is to die here and there's nothing that I can do about it." Caitlin added.

"How do you know?" Kagome asked.

"I saw mine and Erin's fate when Aetwin left my body, she used my powers to see the future, Erin and Kouga will be mates soon enough, and I will die here in this era." Caitlin answered.

"No one will let that happen." Kagome said.

"You wont be around." Caitlin said, then she stood and looked at Kagome. "You will be gone, InuYasha will be with you, Sango and Miroku will be in Kaede's village waiting for you two to come back, Erin and Kouga will be with their first child, and the only one who is left is Sesshomaru and he wont be here because there will be a great war between him and the South, which leaves me wide open for Naraku to come and get me, which he will succeed in. There's nothing preventing it because it's all linked together and if you change one little thing then the whole world will come crashing into chaos." Caitlin explained. Without another word Caitlin left and Kagome stared at the wall. How could she just accept it? No one she knew would accept their fate so easily.

Kagome left and walked after Caitlin. Sesshomaru knew Caitlin was right because the South had just declared war with him yesterday. But there was one thing that she didn't consider, what if he made her his mate? Before that thought got any further he pushed it from his mind and got to work on his papers that need signing.

"Sango, have you seen Caitlin?" Kagome asked when she saw her friend.

"Yeah, she walked past me, she didn't look too happy so I didn't bother her." Sango answered.

"Which way did she go, do you know?" Kagome asked. Sango shook her head. "Darn." Kagome muttered.

"Why?" Sango asked.

"Caitlin knows what's going to happen to her and she thinks there's nothing to do to change it. I'm not going to let that happen, we will change her fate." Kagome answered.

Sango looked at Kagome.

"Kagome, when you look at your fate there's nothing you can do about it. What you see will happen." Sango said.

"I'm not going to let her die just because of some stupid thing called 'fate'!" Kagome yelled. "People have the right to die how they want to! Not how they're killed!" Kagome added, then she ran off down the hall. Sango sighed and wished that she hadn't told Kagome that.

From above Caitlin heard everything that Kagome and Sango had said, in order to make sure that she wasn't found she jumped up to the ceiling and was sitting on a rafter.

"Come out Naraku, I know you're there." Caitlin said as she turned to her left.

"My my, for someone who smells like a human you sure have good demonic sences." Naraku said as he came out of the shadows. Caitlin's nose scrunched up in disgust.

"I may smell like a human but I'm not. What business do you have with me?"

"You can easily get the Shikon Shards from the girl, Kagome, yes?" Naraku asked.

"Yes, what of it?"

"Bring me the shards and I will let you live when the time comes to kill you. If you don't, I'll kill you the first chance I get." Naraku said.

"Then you're going to kill me because I will not betray my friends." Caitlin said. "Leave." she ordered.

"Even though you know that you will die you still protect your friends, what a noble heart." Naraku chuckled. "In this time era there is no such thing as noble." Naraku added, then he disappeared, Caitlin's hair was pushed out of her face and she rolled her eyes.

"All show." Caitlin muttered and hopped down. Sesshomaru was right there, Caitlin who didn't noticed was surprised and fell over instead of landing. "Ow...my head." Caitlin muttered, she had hit her head on the ground. Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow. "That's so going to leave a mark, tender spot, and give me a headache until it heals." Caitlin said as she rubbed the spot and flinched.

"What'd you do? Fall down and hit your head?" InuYasha taunted.

"Well yeah, because some of us actually have a head that is attached to the shoulders and not some where else. If you don't get it, I'm talking about something BELOW your belt." Caitlin retorted. InuYasha caught on then drew Tetsusaiga.

"That is SO wrong!" InuYasha growled.

"Hey, no weapons in Sesshomaru's castle!" Caitlin growled right back.

"Then no one should be in this castle, much less you or Sesshomaru! You're both living weapons!" InuYasha said. Caitlin thought about that then looked at him.

"No swords, or any other form of a weapon that has nothing to do with a human being, and/or demon." Caitlin said more specificly. "If you're going to use them to fight with someone." Caitlin added as InuYasha was about to say something more. "AND! If you are caught fighting in Sesshomaru's castle with a weapon that you thought you weren't going to use, it will be taken away and not given back until it is direly needed, or you have left the castle." Caitlin continued adding onto the new rule she had just added.

"Anything else?" Sesshomaru asked.

"No, I'm good." Caitlin answered. She held her hand out to InuYasha. "Hand over the sword." she ordered. InuYasha looked at his sword, then at Caitlin, then back to his sword.

"No way!"

"Hand it over unless you want your ass to be kicked." Caitlin added as her metal claws extended from her hands, InuYasha looked at them, he knew they were dangerous, and he knew that she would kick his ass no matter what. InuYasha muttered, then he remembered something.

"You can't touch it, so why should I bother giving it to you?" InuYasha asked.

"Oh yeah, you have that sheild on there don't you?" Caitlin asked. "Then I'll get Kagome to take it from you." Caitlin added with a smile. Caitlin ran off down the hall to go find Kagome, instead, she had head long into Erin. "Damn." Caitlin muttered. "Right where I hit my head before too..." Caitlin muttered as she tenderly rubbed her head.

She hadn't noticed to whom she ran into. Caitlin looked at the shoes. Damn, it's Erin. Caitlin muttered to herself.

"Do you mind?" Erin asked coldly.

"No, I don't. What I do mind is being told I did something on purpose when people know I wouldn't do it." Caitlin answered in an even colder tone, Caitlin had more practice with the cold tone than Erin did.

"You're not denying it, so you did let her take your powers on purpose!" Erin said.

"OH MY GOD YOU STUPID IDIOT! I DIDN'T YOU MAY PISS ME OFF BUT I WOULDN'T JUST LET HER TAKE MY POWERS!! THERE WAS NOTHING I COULD DO ABOUT IT ANYWAYS! IT'S WHAT AETWIN DOES! SHE POSSESS TIME DEMONS, THEN AFTER A WEEK SHE HAS TOTAL CONTROL OVER THEIR BODY, BY THEN THE ACTUALL TIME DEMON IS DEAD AND AETWIN IS IN CONTROL OF THEIR BODY!!! WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND!!? MY POWERS ARE GONE AND THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT! JUST GIVE IT UP!" Caitlin yelled at her friend. Caitlin was really getting to the point of killing someone. "If you don't get it after knowing me for so long, then maybe we aren't supposed to be friends." Caitlin added as she walked past Erin.

"That was loud." InuYasha commented. Erin glared at him.

"Shut up." she ordered, then walked off.

"No where near as bad as Kagome." InuYasha muttered.

"Do you want her to get as bad as me?" Kagome asked.

"No."

"Then stop saying things like that." Kagome said. "Now hand over the sword." Kagome added as she held out her hand.

"No way! It's my sword!" InuYasha said.

"This is Sesshomaru's castle, aren't you going to abide by the rules?" Kagome asked.

"No."

"Sit!" Kagome ordered, InuYasha's face was plowed into the floor and then Kagome took the sword.

"Kagome! Give it back!" InuYasha cried as he started to get up.

"Sit."

"KAGOME!" InuYasha yelled.

"I'm not giving it back." Kagome said. InuYasha got up.

"Kagome! Give it back! C'mon!!" InuYasha pleaded.

"Sit!"

"KAGOME! DAMN IT! GIVE IT BACK!"

"NO! SIT!"

"Damn..." InuYasha muttered. "Don't think I wont remember this because I will!" InuYasha yelled after her.

"That's nice." Kagome called back.

"Damn." InuYasha muttered.

"Erin, will you come with me for a moment?" Kouga asked.

"Sure Kouga." Erin said, she had already pushed what happened between her and Caitlin from her mind. Kouga took Erin's hand and lead her to a quiet place in the castle where no one was.

"Erin, will you become my mate?" Kouga asked. For a moment Erin had no clue what he was talking about, after all in her time they didn't refer to being married as 'mates'.

Caitlin, Sesshomaru, InuYasha, and all other demons looked to the East wing of the castle. They had felt two powers merge together.

Erin and Kouga no doubt. InuYasha thought. At least he'll stay away from Kagome now.

Everything is just getting closer to come into play. Caitlin thought sadly.

Sesshomaru ignored it, he didn't want to interfere with this. It was bad enough as it is. Sesshomaru saw Caitlin walking down the hall in the other direction than he was walking in. For a second he thought that he smelled salt, then the scent got stronger. He realized that Caitlin was crying.

"I know you're there Sesshomaru." Caitlin said, her voice was faltering at some spots. "I must be a disgrace to you. Crying. I know you never did that, nor ever will." Caitlin added.

"Why do you cry?" Sesshomaru asked.

"I don't want to die." Caitlin answered. "I still have things that I want to do, places to go, things to see. Soon enough, with Kouga and Erin being mates now, Erin will soon be with a child, then InuYasha and the others will leave, I know that you've already gotten a notice from the South saying they want a war with you, and Naraku has already come to visit me. He told me that if I got the shards from Kagome that he'd let me live, even if I did do that he wouldn't let me live." Caitlin explained. "I'll never even see my mom and little sister again, or my cats, or my step dad, my friends who are still in my time. It weighs so heavily, not to mention that I can't take Erin back, even if I did her heart would break even more than it already has. Leaving the love of her life behind while she sees everyone else would just break her. I don't want that to happen to her. I suppose leaving her here is the less of the two evils. It's not every day that you find the one that you're meant to be with. I'll never know that feeling though, I'm going to die when no one is here, they're all out doing some other stuff, while I'm here doing nothing besides waiting to be killed. Some way to die huh?" Caitlin asked, she wasn't even looking at him she was looking at the floor, her tears were falling from her face and hitting the carpet she was standing on. "I don't want to die..." Caitlin whispered, Sesshomaru almost didn't hear it. Sesshomaru walked over to Caitlin and put a hand on her shoulder, she was shaking. Without thinking Caitlin burried her face in Sesshomaru's chest. "Sesshomaru, I don't want to die."

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Disclaimer- I don't own InuYasha.

Aki- That was sad...while I was writing it my eyes were watering up! T.T Why am I so good at writing sad things? Ah well, don't matter. Please review!