Title: Future
Character/Pairing: Kagome, implied IYK
Rating: PG
c. 2006
It was always back in her era, back where she had come from. She talked as though she came from the past, not the future.
It didn't matter how she spoke of it, because when Kagome went home, the facts were like a thorn in her side.
No matter how many times she went down the well, no matter how many times she fought Naraku, Kagome was separated from her friends by a significant five hundred years.
Sometimes, this bothered Kagome more than she let on. It was always when she went home that she thought about it most; the fact that maybe she wasn't ever happy with Inuyasha because she was from this time.
No, that wasn't right. She was happy with him, a lot of the time. It was normally only when Kikyou came into the picture that her mood was spoiled. She knew that he favored the dead miko over her. Was it fate, and not just him being stupid? What if it was really meant to be this way?
Kagome didn't fit into the feudal period. At every village they stopped at, whispers followed her. They asked about the girl in the strange clothes. Was she dangerous? Most assumed her to be a miko automatically, but Kagome was never quite sure as to how they reached this decision. Maybe it was the bow and arrows.
Maybe she had brought bad karma upon herself. After all, she'd taken a lot of things from her time through the well. Shampoo, chips, toys for Shippou. Maybe she had angered Father Time. He might have decided to curse her.
Kagome had never understood curses, not really. She always trusted in Inuyasha to save her when she was in trouble or under the control of a spirit. He'd done so multiple times.
But Inuyasha wasn't there the day the well sealed itself, and Kagome cried at the bottom until it was dark and her mother came looking for her.
She belonged in the present.