Chapter 2: The meeting
She smiled, and Kagome jumped into the well and a pink light engulfed her. As she went through time itself she felt her transformation start. She felt her hanyou power along with her miko powers return to her. Her hair longed down to her hips and was highlighted with red tips. She felt ears on top of her head grow, black tipped with red. Her eyes changed from brown to a black with her iris's red. Her forehead was marked with a black star. She also grew pink strips on the sides of her face. Following her transforming she landed in her new time, her new life with her mate. With her new found powers she smelled around to find many new smells. She looked at her body. Her body newly toned from her transformation and capable of many new things. She jumped from the well and landed in a flowered filled field. She looked around only to see the beautiful flowers that filled it. She walked north, looking any and everywhere for Inuyasha. She finally decided to go where her soul was being pulled. She walked north and she reached the forest. Trees on both sides of the path, greener than you could ever imagine. She finally reached an off beaten path, she felt obligated to follow this path. The path whined and turned, dark from the lack of sun. Moss softens the path, the overgrown plants and weeds ruled the path and the trees and finally she reached him. A boy with the same looks of Inuyasha lay pinned to a tree with a single arrow to his chest. The moss that ruled the path was spreading over his right arm and his legs. She reached for him and he pulsed when she neared him.
"Inu…Inuyasha. Is that you?" She reached for him but stopped and pulled back her hand. He pulsed again and slowly opened his eyes.
When he opened his deep sun stained eyes, he looked around and caught his eyes on Kagome. His eyes began to look lustful, longing, and happiness.
"Kagome, have you finally come to free me. I have been pinned to this tree for 50 years. My feelings for you must have reached you. I may not have been awake but I have felt you for so long." Inuyasha happiness filled his voice.
She pulled the vines from his body and he fell into her arms because of the weakness from being sealed to a tree for 50 years.
"Kagome, I have longed for you for so long. I can't believe you are here. I have missed you so much." Inuyasha embrace her and tiled his head into the crook of her neck to take in her scent.
"Inuyasha, I have longed for you as well, I know I was just recently told about you and my past, but I knew about you for so long. I have sensed you for so long and knew that there was someone out there far from my reached that I must get to so I may protect them. Now that I know that it was you I am never going to leave you. I have missed you for so long. I am sorry that I was not there for you; I have felt your pain, your loneliness. I am so sorry Inuyasha." Kagome pulled her face into inuyasha Kimono and cried.
"Kagome I should beg you to please forgive me. I should be the one to apologize to you. I should of came and found you before it was too late. But after my mother died and my father died in the battle to protect you and me so many years ago, I had no one to take care of me. I was alone in the world, and being a half demon no one accepted me. I was different, I was the first to be blamed, no one trusted me and it was always always my fault. I was neither demon nor human so I had to make a world for myself. I felt that no one could fill my void. Then I learned about you and felt that I had to find you but when I found the well your father had already sealed you and your mother in, I could not get you. So a priestess told me the only way to get to you was for me to project myself into your sweet dreams, so she seal me to a tree so I may come to you in your mind. It looks like it worked and I am happy that you came and found me. Koi." Inuyasha held her as he spoke those last words to her and she knew in her heart that he only spoke the truth and knew that nothing in the world could tear them apart they were bounded in spirit and no one could break that bound.
They what seemed like another 50 years holding each other. Exploring each other's mouths and tongues. After finally the day has grown late and figured might as well find a village to settle into for the night.
Inuyasha….Lets go into the nearby village and rest for the night." Kagome hesitated to let go of his beautiful but still sleepy face.
He examined her face and found that no matter how much he wanted to be mated under the witness of the gods he knew that she was raised in a time that suggested otherwise. He submitted to her request. His face softens and a small smile creped up upon his face.
"Of course. There is a nearby village; the priestess that bound me to this tree once resided there. Obviously she is dead by now but we can stay there for the night but once morning hits lets retreat to the west. My new found mate must meet my brother the lord of these lands and be introduced into the family properly and I am assuming that you would like to see your father's castle as well. Sitters have been placed till the day you returned to rule over the east." Inuyasha graciously raised up to took hold of his mate and walked towards the nearby village.
As the walked under the beautifully lit dark blue sky, with the stars shinning unusually bright that night, they both wondered what each other could of done in their past lives to deserve such an amazing mate. Their night couldn't of gotten better if they tired. Reaching the entrance of the village, the soft orange tint of fire shown through the huts. The smell of bore meat, and spices filled the air. Inuyasha's stomach growled and roared. Inuyasha embarrassedly hide the sound. Kagome giggled and stopped and looked towards inuyasha who was trying to forcing his muscularly hands over his flat, rocky abs trying to hide the fact that he hadn't ate anything in 50 years.
"I guess you are hungry, being sealed to a tree for 50 years you should be huh." Kagome giggled and smiled.
She pulled Inuyasha towards the village. They came up against the head of the village. An older women, dressed in a white priestess top with Red pants. Long Gray hair tired back with a hair tie but still being in the way. Tired purple eyes and a scar going from her left corner forehead to her right check engulfed her old but still gorgeous face. She approached the couple and inquired as to what the one hanyou and one youki were doing in this land.
"Are ye lost. Why do ye wander in this land." The old priestess questioned.
"No, I am Kagome. And we were wondering if we might lodge in one of your huts for the night and partake in some food. We will be off in the morning. We are heading west." Kagome gently wooed the elder women into allowing them to stay in a hut on the out skirts of the village, and allowing them to eat with her.
As the elder women requested, they dinned with her. She was interested into the couple intentions and origin.
"Ah Kagome, although ye said ye just got to these lands. How might ye of gotten here." The elder woman as they learned was known as Yuuki questioned.
"Well I came from the well of time." Kagome didn't want to lie to a priestess. She felt obligated to tell her everything.
Her eyes widened, as she spoke of the well. As in this land the legend of the well was sealed and no other forced could lift the spell on the ancient well. Tales of the well stated a priestess was to come from another time to save the west and east from a terrible evil.
"Kagome, how did ye come out of the well of time." Yuuki questioned.
"Well priestess Yuuki, I came from the well because I am a priestess and a….um hanyou and my father was the one to seal the well in the first place. He sealed me and my mother in the well to protect us against a terrible evil..naraku." she was careful not to say anything that would dishonor her as a hanyou
"Umm..that would explain why you were the ONLY one to break the spell on that well. Many have tried to break the spell on that well. It is said that the one to break the spell would be of another time and will be gifted from kamii all of the gold and treasures of time. And may I ask who you may be? As Yuuki understand who kagome was she still hadn't figured out who inuyasha was.
"I am Inuyasha. I am a Hanyou and I am the prince of the west. And this is my mate Kagome, The Princess of the east and a miko and she is also a Hanyou if you haven't noticed. My father and hers were allies and we are mated for the unity of our lands." Inuyasha irritated with all the 20 questions.
"Inuyasha I know ye both are a half demon, I want to know why ye was sealed to a tree in the forest for 50 years. We have watched you for 50 years. You were sealed to that tree and no one knew why. No one understood what you could want in return for being sealed to that tree." Yuuki inquired.
"Huh, My mate was sealed on the other side of the well of time and the only way to reach her was through her mind and dreams. So I requested a priestess from this village 50 years ago to seal me to that tree so I may reach her in her mind, so she may come through the well and brake the seal on the well and on me." Inuyasha fuming with his arms folded inside his fire rat robes.
Yuuki stayed on high alert. Once the seal was gone the demon who they were protected against would most defiantly seek them out and would want control their lands and possibly the well as well. Kagome requested her and inuyasha's hut for the night. Yuuki guided them to the edge of the village. They came upon a small run down hut. They hut was drafty, with hanging siding exposing the inside of the hut. Possibly would need work to keep up a fire. Yuuki gave them blankets to keep warm because of the draft that would most defiantly blow the fire out. Inuyasha however pinned his sleeves back and fixed the hanging siding. Anything for his mate he thought.
"Your hut. It is old but it will do." Yuuki ushered them inside. Yuuki cleaned the hut for them because being on the edge of the village it lacked the attention that it really needed.
"Kagome, I am going to go get some wood for the fire. Please stay inside with yuuki until I return. I don't want anything to harm you. You and I are new mates and I am not supposed to not leave you but in these circumstances we need a fire and the old priestess is useless in getting firewood. I will return as soon as possible." Inuyasha held her face gently in his hand before he laid a passionate kiss on her lips. He left immediately in the middle of the kiss leaving kagome still frozen in her kiss.
Kagome was shocked the way he left her. Inuyasha left her in the middle of the most passionate kiss they had ever had because he felt in demon in him wanting to do so much more. Once Inuyasha reached a tree a safe distance from him and kagome but not too far in case a demon tried to attack him and his new mate. He leaned against his tree trying to catch his breath and relax himself and his demon self.
"My kami kagome, I almost lost my self.
She tasted so good. We need her. Mate her.
I need my mate but I must think this through carefully I don't want to force her. She must agree to what we need first. Then she will be the best mate for us.
But it must be soon we can't go without her. We need to feel the skin of our mate."
Inuyasha forced himself up and went to look for firewood for him and his mate first night together but not quite as officially mates yet unless kagome wished it.
Kagome waited for Inuyasha to return in the corner of the two-bedroom hut with blankets surround her with her only light from a small Lantern. Yuuki left her; another woman in the village was to giving birth any moment and she need to leave to deliver the baby.
Inuyasha returned with an arm full of wood and became enraged when he saw his mate huddled in the corner.
"Kagome where's Yuuki? Why isn't she here with you? That stupid old wench, how dare she leave you." Inuyasha screamed and ran towards her to see if any harm came to her while she was alone and unprotected.
"Yuuki had to go to the village." Kagome tried to explain what happened but Inuyasha was so enraged that only her kiss could calm him down. Inuyasha relaxed and made the fire near her.
Kagome and Inuyasha sat in front of the fire to get warm. Kagome kept looking at inuyasha and inuyasha the same.
"Inuyasha..May I come over there and stay warm with you. The time you were gone the cold breeze was really cold and I can't seem to get warm." Kagome rubbed her arms to warm them but to no avail.
He just eyed her out of the corner of his eye. He just smiled held out an arm. Kagome scooted over to him and laid her head on his shoulder as they both watched the warm, orange fire. The fire eventually died out but not before Kagome fell asleep on his shoulder and inertly he placed kagome in his lap and fell asleep with her in his embrace.