Date night was going really well, Kagome and Hai were watching an action movie as they were eating popcorn. Kagome never saw an action movie as the type of date movie but it was a movie about the feudal era, which both of them was always interested in, the main character, seemed to be fighting demons as they jumped out at him. Kagome was scoffing at the fake looking demons as she whispered, "That could never happen."
"What?" Hai asked.
"Look at that demon, it doesn't look real at all."
"How would you know?" Hai asked.
"Just look at that demon, the slime dripping on the ground, over time he wouldn't be slimy anymore unless if there is water somewhere. But if you look around there is no water for him to sit in. they even said there was a drought for a year now which in return would make a lot of that vegetation dry out." Kagome let out a chuckle before leaning over to Hai whispering, "And I am pretty sure most people back then didn't use just karate to kill the demons."
"How would you know this?" Hai asked smiling.
"Any feudal era enthusiast would know that. I just don't think you can kill something twice your size without a sword or even one ofuda." Kagome whispered,
Hai chuckled as they went back to watching the movie. "I think you are right though, I mean I am a pretty big feudal era enthusiast and I don't think they ever mention using karate moves. But there is one flaw behind your thought."
"What could that be?" Kagome asked.
"This is a movie and not real life so anything can happen."
"True." Kagome said as they went back to the movie.
Hai noticed Kagome get into the movie when it started to get into the romantic scene. Hai smiled as she leaned in her seat to show her interest into this part of the movie as she held the popcorn bucket in her hands and slowly grabbed a piece of popcorn to bring it to her mouth. He got a mischievous look in his eyes and put his hand closest to Kagome next to her side as he made a quick movement whispering, "Gunna getchya." These in returned made Kagome scream and throw the popcorn all over the man in front of her.
The man looked back at the two as Kagome blushed, "Sorry sir."
"Yeah yeah." The man whispered looking back flipping the popcorn off of him. "Just keep it to yourself." He whispered as Hai chuckled.
"Don't do that." Kagome whispered smacking his shoulder.
Hai laughed, "I got you." He said smiling as he put his arm around her. "Only you would be scared during the romance part of a fighter."
"I wasn't afraid, you caught me off guard." Kagome laughed nervously noticing his arm wrap around her as she put her head against his shoulder. She decided to let him get away with this motion.
After the movie Hai stretched, "I'm really not that hungry."
"Me neither actually, that popcorn was filling." Kagome smiled as she held the popcorn bucket in her hand.
"What you ate of it." Hai laughed as Kagome glared.
"You were the reason for that one."
"Park?" Hai asked changing the subject.
"Sure." Kagome smiled as they left the theatre and walked to the park.
They were sitting on the park bench looking at the sky. "Kagome?"
"Yes?"
"Can I ask you a silly question? I mean if you don't like it then don't answer but I feel that I have to ask."
"Go for it." Kagome said.
"Well do you believe in…" Hai paused making Kagome look over at him. "Well you like the feudal era right?"
"Yes."
"And you believe in a lot of the tales told through the feudal era?"
"Most of them seem pretty real." Kagome almost started to laugh remembering her feudal era stories.
"Well there is one part of the feudal era that has always made me wonder if others would believe it. I just don't want to say it and scare anyone off so I never actually asked."
"What would that be?"
"Do you believe in soul mates?"
"What?"
"I knew it was a stupid question. Sorry for asking." He said looking away.
"NO continue."
"Well, you know soul mates, that one person that no matter where, who, or what they are there souls always seem to find the same person they know and in the end, they always end up together whether they know it or not."
Kagome thought about it. Sure she was the reincarnation of Kikyo and if it was possible Kikyo would have been with Inuyasha and later Kagome found him and she was going to stay with him. And now here she was with Inuyasha's reincarnate. "I never thought about that."
Hai laughed nervously, "I am probably scaring you now with that question."
"No not at all. Would you mind if I can show you something?"
"I guess not." Hai said shrugging his shoulders.
"Good, follow me." Kagome had him follow her back to her family's shrine.
"Why are we back at your place?" he whispered.
"Shhh." She said before walking over to the well house. "I haven't told anyone about this." She said opening the doors that led to the well.
"A well?" he whispered.
"Yes." Kagome said timidly. "This is called…"
"The well of ages…the bone eaters well. You guys are in charge of this well?"
"Yes." Kagome said shocked. "How did you know what it was?"
"I have always found an interest in it; I have read great stories about it in the library. Everything I read about it makes me want to just read more about it." He said looking around it. "I have always wished to see this place. I never thought that you were n charge of this well. Of all the wells, I never thought it was possible."
Kagome sighed, "Inuyasha…" she whispered.
"Huh? Did you say something?" the man said looking up.
Kagome had tears coming down her face. "It is just..."
"Who, what? Did I do something?"
'Clueless as ever.' She smiled before saying louder. "Inuyasha. Does that name ring a bell at all?"
"Isn't that your son's real name?"
"Yes but it goes deeper than that."
"Oh, that is your son's father's name right?"
'How can I expect him to remember? I didn't remember him when I went from Kikyo to me.' She thought as she thought about it. 'Come to think of it, there could have been people in between us and I would have never known.'
"Really your crying is starting to bug me. Did I do or say something wrong?" He hugged her close to him.
"No, you did everything right." She said looking up at him. "Now to answer your question, I do believe in soul mates, I believe that everyone out here has that special someone they want to be with forever." Kagome said wiping her tears away. "Would you like to come inside for tea?"
"As long as we won't wake up your family." He whispered.
"Come on. Everyone is asleep so we can have tea without the commotion." Kagome said dragging him inside.
Once inside she had him go wait for her in the dinning room which he seemed to find without her showing it to him. "What is this picture?" he asked picking up a picture from the table. "It looks bent."
Kagome came in to see him holding Yasha's picture of her and her group. "Well that's me and that's Yasha's father." She said pointing to each person.
Yasha never slept well at nights, he was diagnosed with insomnia by his doctor a while back but found it odd how he was never tired after sleeping for just two or three hours a night. His mom never got him any sleep medication due to him never feeling tired. Unlike anyone else who would be very tired if they did that. He would stay up either doing homework or playing on his computer, normally the latter. When he heard the front door open, he knew who it was and came down stairs to see his mother. He was about to say hi when he heard her talking.
"Kagome, this man looks a lot like…" he paused before looking up. "Me."
"Yes I did notice that too."
"I can't do this then." He said putting the picture down.
"What are you talking about?" Kagome asked.
"You are dating me because I look a lot like Yasha's father. I can't date someone who is dating me for the way I look." He said putting the picture down.
"No it isn't your looks, it is your... personality." Kagome said as he walked to the door. "Wait." Kagome said.
"No, I thought maybe we actually had something but if it is just for my looking like Yasha's father then I can't do this."
"No you don't understand, please sit down, I will have to tell you." She said grabbing him and bringing him back to the table.
"Fine tell me what you have to say." Hai said.
Yasha wanted to hear this as he went down the stairs and hid away behind the sofa so that he could hear them from the dining room.
"Let me start with the well. That well can transport between here and feudal Japan." Shiho walked down the stairs at the sound of Kagome home and went up to her nudging up to her and then went to sit down next to Hai.
"In the legends only a select few can go through the well." Hai pet Shiho as she sat down next to them watching their conversation.
"Yes, have you heard the story about the young half demon and the well?"
"No."
Kagome sighed. "Well, a young half demon always got picked on all his life. You see, he wasn't full demon nor was he full human so he was always teased. He never made it anywhere in life because he kept having to live in fear of being killed. Life was tough for the half dog demon. His looks were that of a human, save the ears, teeth, and nails but his mind was that of a dog demon. This made a lot of people feel rather…insecure around him."
"I am with you so far." Hai said as Shiho still allowed him to pet her.
"Good. Well he found a woman…a priestess to be exact who appeared to accept him for what he was. Her name was Kikyo…"
"I read about Kikyo, she was a great priestess who was loved and revered by all until she was killed by an evil half demon."
"Yes, Kikyo and the half dog demon became fast friends and soon they found each other in love until Naraku, a disgusting half demon, tore them apart making them hate each other. Naraku killed Kikyo like you said but before she died, she pinned the hanyou to the sacred tree, the same tree outside, for fifty years."
"You are saying this as if it actually happened." Hai laughed.
"Yes, well, the story goes on to say that a young girl came out of the bone eater's well and found the young hanyou pinned to the tree appearing to be in a resting state. She awoke him by taking the arrow in his chest out. At first he thought she was the young woman he grew to love…Kikyo. She looked the same as Kikyo save the hair being different. They seemed to have the same caring personality and love and understanding needed to live with the hanyou.
"The hanyou was confused, here was the woman reincarnated from the woman he once loved. The only problem was they looked the same and in some ways even acted the same but somehow they had a few different personality differences. He mainly found that out when Kikyo was resurrected and he found that she harbored nothing but hatred towards the hanyou. Yet he couldn't help but remember the old times they used to spend together alone, the times when it seemed like only love could come out of the relationship."
"Why are you telling me all this?" Hai asked interrupting her.
"Well you see I wanted to tell you because I do believe in soul mates. Please don't think I am crazy for this but…" she paused.
Hai looked down at the picture. "I am not following."
"Of course you wouldn't. Hold on a second." She said going upstairs. She came back down with a few more pictures, "These will help you understand. Look at this one." She said throwing a picture down.
"That's you standing up in priestess clothing." He pointed out.
"Now look at this one." She put another one down next to it.
"That looks like you too in the same outfit only your hair is tied back."
"No, this is Kikyo." Kagome pointed to the one with the hair tied back. She forgot how she got that picture but she was glad that she somehow got it.
"You are the woman from the story?" Hai asked.
"Yes." Kagome said ashamedly.
Hai looked between the two pictures before Kagome put another one down of Inuyasha and Kagome together. "This is me and Inuyasha, Yasha's father." She said. She then put a mirror in front of him. "Notice the jaw line and the way you both look. As well the hair color and eyes." She said pointing them out.
"You mean, I am…er was."
"I believe so."
"How is that possible?" Hai asked looking between all of the photos.
"I don't know but I acted the same way when I heard that. Just believe me, it is true." Kagome said.
Hai started to feel overly scarred. "It is just coincidence. I know it is." He said throwing the photos off the table and onto the floor. "I wasn't expecting this."
"Hey don't ruin those they are old." She said picking them up quickly.
"This is wrong. I know it is. This is coincidence." He said again before running out of her front door leaving Kagome to look back at her pictures.
Yasha slowly moved to make sure he didn't get noticed as he quickly ran upstairs before he got caught, how dare his mom never tell that a story she had told him from when he was a child was real. She always made it sound like a fictional story and here she was telling someone else, someone she barely knew, that it is real. He went into his room and slowly closed the door. He grabbed the sword and dressed in the kimono his mother gave him as he set his bed to make it look like he was still in it. Then he slipped out of the window…if his own mother had the feeling to lie to him much like the rest of this world then maybe this world wasn't meant for him.
"Maybe I shouldn't have told him." she whispered. Shiho let out a whine in response. "Let's just go to bed." Kagome whispered walking up the stairs; Shiho stopped at Yasha's door and scratched the door trying to get in. "Just come sleep in my room tonight- I don't want to wake him. We will have to tell him that story is real one day." Kagome yawned as she walked down the hallway to her room where she changed into her night clothes.
Shiho jumped on the lower part of the bed where Kagome's feet would be as she curled into a ball and closed her eyes to sleep.
"See you tomorrow." Kagome whispered giving a Shiho a kiss on the head.
When morning came- Kagome went to wake up Yasha only to find that he wasn't in his bed, "Where is Yasha?" Kagome yelled running down stairs seeing her mother cooking breakfast.
"I haven't seen him since last night when I sent him to bed." She said frying up some eggs.
"This isn't good, I can't find him anywhere." Kagome said frantically thinking of places he could have gone.
"Did you check the school?" her mother asked.
"It's Saturday."
"Did you check the park? He likes to go there."
"Good Idea!" Kagome shrieked getting everything together to rush out of the house. Shiho ran behind her as she tried to catch the scent of Yasha. The only problem was Yasha's scent was everywhere.
Once at the park she saw Azami and Kyubi playing on the swings, she quickly ran over to them. "Hey guys have you seen Yasha?"
"No ma'am." Kyubi said.
"He hasn't talked to either of us in a long time." Azami told her.
"Then who was he talking to on the phone?" Kagome said frantically.
"He has been hanging around the seniors a lot. They seem to be using him more than anything and we tried to explain it to him but he refuses to accept that." Azami said.
"The last time he talked to you, did he say anything odd to him?" Kagome asked.
"Come to think of it, Yash said something about this not being where he belongs. He said that if he stayed here, it wouldn't lead to anything good. He also said that everyone here would be better off without him. That was a week ago, that was when he refused to be our friends anymore." Kyubi said.
Shiho barked and grabbed Kagome's pants, trying to pull her back to the car.
Kagome finally realized where he went to. "Thank you guys. You helped me a lot." She said running back to her SUV with Shiho running behind her. There was only one place he could have gone to get away from this world. Kagome ran up the shrine steps and toward the well house. She tried to open it up but found it was either locked from the inside or it was pried shut. Kagome finally saw a note on the door she grabbed it and quickly read,
"Mom,
I love you a lot but this world just isn't what I want. It isn't where my dad lived, and it isn't where I should live either. I want to find out what the other world is like, I don't want to take just small trips once in a while but I want to spend my life there. I am going to lock this door so that it will take you longer to get to me. I will be back one day I just need time to myself to find out who I am. I don't understand too much and maybe by getting away from everything, I can straighten it all out myself. By the way, can you tell Azami I do forgive her and I shouldn't have blamed her for you getting hurt.
Love you mom,
Yasha"
"NO." Kagome yelled trying to open the doors. She started to beat on the doors, "Open up Yasha." She tried to pry them open with her hands to no avail. Finally she thought of the crow bar so she ran to the shed and retrieved the crow bar. She ran back forced it in between the two slits before tugging, unfortunately nothing happened.
Shiho started to try and dig under the doors as Kagome tried to think of something else.
After trying that Kagome ran inside to find her mom, "Mom, is there a secret entrance into the well house?" she asked.
"Yes dear, we had to in case of a fire but I don't tell anyone about it." she said checking on the cake that was in the oven. "It is in the back left corner, it is hard to see though. Oh and it is very dark." She warned. She then perked up trying to think of the reason her daughter would ask such a thing, "Why did you want to know?" she asked.
"Thanks mom." Kagome said ignoring her moms question as she grabbed a flash light they kept near the door in case of power outages and ran back to the well house and went to the back left and started to feel around. It took her a few minutes but she found the back door. She slowly opened it up and went in.
Shiho ran around the back to go into the well house with Kagome.
Kagome looked over at the rig that Yasha had set up. He was clever…he had several sticks and bars on each side of the sliding doors as well as ropes tying the two doors together. There was no way she would have been able to get that without destroying the doors.
"Stay here, I will be back with that brat." Kagome whispered to the dog as she pulled out the jewel, "He is going to pay." She mumbled jumping into the well.
Shiho put her front paws on the well so that she could look down at the blue light that absorbed Kagome. She would wait for Kagome's return right at the well as she lay down next to it. She let out a whimper as she closed her eyes and fell asleep awaiting for the two to return.
This was a long chapter! I hope it makes up for me going so long without writing a new one! Between school, tests, and work I have been busy! In a few weeks I will be able to start putting up a chapter every week!
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