Inuyasha regashi chapter 7: Itaru and Meimei in the future

Inuyasha and the gang had returned to Kaede's village so that Kagome could go home to take a test. Inuyasha was as usual unhappy with the interruption of tracking down Naraku.

"Seriously, Kagome? Why now? Can't you do this later?" Inuyasha scowled.

"What did we talk about a few nights ago, Inuyasha? This is important. I was actually supposed to take this test two weeks ago. I'm getting off easy today." Kagome explained.

"Ughh! Hurry up and get it over with then!"

"Kagome, where are you going?" Meimei asked.

"Well, I go to school back in my time, so every now and then I have to take these tests so that I can advance to the next level in my education."

"Ohhh…." Meimei said.

"Good luck on your examinations, Kagome." Sango said

"May the gods assist you." Miroku blessed.

"Go Kagome!" Shippo cheered.

"Humph." Inuyasha grunted.

When everyone had said their goodbyes, Kagome prepared to jump into the well until,

"Wait, Kagome!" Itaru said.

"What is it Itaru?"

"I want to go too!"Itaru exclaimed.

"HUH?"

"Me too, Me too!"

"Umm I'm sorry you guys, but the well only works for Inuyasha and me. I don't think that it would work for you guys." Kagome said.

"Aww you never know until you try!" Itaru said.

"Please! We will be on our best behavior!" Meimei pleaded.

"Well, I…." Kagome started.

"You heard her! The well only works for Kagome and me!"

"awww!" Meimei complained

"Well, I'm off you guys! Bye!"

"Goodbye!" they all said. And with that, Kagome jumped into the well and was engulfed into a flash of white light.

"So what should we do now?" Shippo asked.

"Since Kagome is going to be gone at least three days, we should listen for any rumors of Naraku or the shikon jewel. That's all we can do for now." Miroku replied.

"Guess we should go back to the village." Sango said. The group turned around and headed toward the village leaving Itaru and Meimei behind.

"So they think that the well doesn't work for us, huh? Well they have another thing coming!" Itaru declared, jumping in the well. "Wait for me, big brother!" Meimei cried following after him. The both of them were engulfed in the familiar pool of light and landed finally at the bottom of the well. When they looked up it was dark. But they could hear unfamiliar voices. "Hey sis, you're back! Did you have a good time?"

"Yeah, I guess." Kagome said.

"How is Inuyasha?" the unfamiliar voice continued.

"As boorish as ever. But otherwise fine."

"That's cool. Do you think that he will come to get you?"

"Hopefully not too soon." Kagome chuckled.

"I really hope that he does! Because I have something to show him!"

"Oh really? What's that?"

"Gramps got me a SWORD! He says that now that I'm the man of the house that it is my responsibility to protect you all!"

"A WHAAA? That's not fair. Gramps gives you an awesome weapon but all he gives me is dried up animal parts…" Kagome said disdainfully.

"Oh you'll get something sooner or later!"

"Yeah, sure…"

"So are you going to school?

"Of course I am! Why would I come otherwise?"

"I dunno, to get rid of Inuyasha for a while?"

"Whatever Sota, I'm going inside."

"Okay, see ya!" the boy called Sota said.

"Sota? Father said Kagome had a kid brother named Sota." Itaru mused.

"This must be her home!" Meimei said.

"Let's go then!" Itaru declared.

The two children jumped out of the well and out of the well house. They emerged into the light. It was like nothing the two had ever seen before. The shrine overlooked a massive city with castle-like structures that reached the sky. The odor that wafted from the metropolis was rancid and strong, almost suffocating the two.

"Ewwww! What is that stench?"Itaru complained holding his nose.

"Let's go inside, its making me really lightheaded!"

The two jumped up to a window that had the strongest concentration of Kagome's scent. They spotted their target sitting at a table reading.

"What is it that she is reading?" Meimei whispered to her brother.

Itaru squinted his eyes to get a better look, but all he could see were strange signs and what seemed to be numbers.

"It looks like some kind of spell book. But what is Kagome doing with a spell book? She is a priestess!" Itaru answered. "Let's get a closer look."

"Kagome had finally sat down to her desk to study. "Ahh! Finally some peace and quiet so my mind can concentrate! It's nearly impossible to study over there with all the distractions I have to put up with!" she cracked open the textbook and started to read. But Kagome was unsettled. She had the very nerve wrecking feeling that she was being watched.

"Seriously, Inuyasha! I'm gone for not even ten minutes and here you are—WHAAAA?" Kagome said as she turned around. There wasn't just one Inuyasha, but two perched on her windowsill. "Hey, what's up?" Itaru greeted. Kagome fell down in dumbfounded shock to see the two inu-hanyou children right there in her window.

"WAIT…HOLD ON… HOW DID YOU…THE WELL ONLY WORKS FOR…!" Kagome stammered.

"See we told you it would work for us!" Itaru jeered.

"Yeah! Told ya!" Meimei echoed.

'Well so much for peace and quiet. Sometimes I think that the kami really don't want me to finish school…' Kagome thought disdainfully.

"What'cha doin?" Itaru asked looking over her shoulder.

"I was studying." Kagome mumbled.

"What'cha studying?" Meimei asked.

"Intro to Algebra." Kagome said.

"Inch-ro two Algae-bro? What is that?" Said Itaru looking at her textbook.

"It really difficult mathematics." Kagome explained.

"Can you teach us some?" Meimei asked.

"Umm it's really difficult stuff. You would first have to start with the basics…"

"Hmmm. Can't be that hard. Let's see…"

Itaru scrutinized the lengthy tome and reached for a piece of paper. "Okay, 3+2*5X(y-1)? Oh that's easy. All you have to do is carry over the 5x to the y-1 to get 5xy and 5x, multiply them both by two and you get 3+ 10xy -10x. Not that hard if you know what you're doin."

Kagome stared at the boy, dumbfounded. 'WHAAAA? How in the world did he figure that out?'

"See?"

"Ummm wow Itaru, who taught you all that?"

"Oh just my mother. She is really really smart."

"Your…mother?" Kagome said.

"Yeah, our mother was all about education and stuff. She made sure we could read and write and stuff. "Itaru explained.

"Oh wow! That's kind of her to teach you all that." 'Wait a minute…commoners, even nobles didn't even know about algebra! Something doesn't add up here…!'

"So in order for me to continue with my mother's wishes, I must continue my education in the best place possible! "Itaru exclaimed.

"Yeah!" Meimei exclaimed.

"I'm sorry Itaru, you can't just walk into a school and demand that they teach you, you have to get registered and a lot of other things. And…for you…it's just …complicated…."

"What do you mean by complicated?" Itaru asked suspiciously.

"Well if you haven't noticed, you don't see youkai or hanyou walking around in the open like you do in your time. If someone as so much saw you here at the shrine, who knows what would happen!" Kagome said.

"Oh…it's because I'm a hanyou, huh?" Itaru said dejectedly.

"I'm sorry… I don't have anything against you being a hanyou at all, it's just that other people do and I just want you and Meimei to be safe that's all." Kagome said defensively.

"Oh…" Itaru said. Itaru got up from his spot on the floor of Kagome's room. "Well. I guess I should forget about it…" Itaru said. "C'mon Meimei, we're bothering Kagome." Itaru mumbled. "Awww…" Meimei complained.

"Hey… wait you guys…" Kagome began. The two turned around to face Kagome with eager faces. "…you guys can sit outside the window for my classes. But nothing more, okay?"

"YAAAY!" Itaru and Meimei cheered.

~*0*~

Back in the feudal era…

Miroku and Shippo sat on Kaede's porch fanning themselves off with paper fans. Inuyasha sat on the roof of the same hut not doing anything at all.

"Its soooo hot…how can it be so hooooottt…" Shippo moaned.

"Well it is in the middle of July, so its nothing abnormal, but miserable nonetheless." Miroku sighed.

"Inuyasha, how can you stand this heat?" Shippo said.

"Well, I have learned not to complain about something you can't change." Inuyasha said nonchalantly.

"That's a laugh. Not too long ago, you were complaining about having fish again." Shippo snorted.

"Feh! Did you pay attention to what I said 'things you cant change' as in weather conditions." Inuyasha retorted. "Besides I can go to Kagome's world. They have some kind of magic wind machine that blows out cold air. They call it ayur-con-dish-ining."

"A magic wind machine? Do you mean they can control the wind kind of like how Kagura controls the wind?" Miroku inquired.

"umm I guess that's how it works." Inuyasha said lightly.

"speaking of which, where are Itaru and Meimei?" Shippo said.

"We weren't talking about them!" Inuyasha said.

"Yes, I noticed that they have been gone for quite a while now. Ever since Kagome left for home they did not follow us." Miroku wondered.

"Do you think that Itaru and Meimei went down into the well after her?" Sango piped in, emerging from Kaede's hut.

"I do not know for sure…" Miroku mused. "Inuyasha don't you think you could sniff them out and see for sure if they went down the well?"

"I can't for some reason…" Inuyasha said.

"You can smell their scent?" all three said in unison.

"Yeah, I can't smell them at all! I haven't wondered about it because the new moon is coming pretty soon and I thought that maybe it was just that…" Inuyasha explained.

"Hmmm. Well this is a predicament. Shippo, can't you smell them?" Miroku asked.

"I can't smell them either!" Shippo exclaimed.

"It's almost as if they are…ghosts…" Inuyasha wondered.

"GHOSTS! WHAT DO YOU MEAN GHOSTS!" Shippo said, fear lacing his voice.

"Apparitions don't have scents, since they have no mortal bodies. So their scent is nonexistent. Do you think that those children are actually vengeful spirits out to avenge the deaths of their parents?" Sango wondered.

"It's too hard to tell. And besides, if they were spirits, wouldn't Kagome have noticed by now?" Miroku replied.

"Yes, that is true…" Sango said.

"Well, if they are spirits that are trying to avenge their deaths, then it's not our problem!" Inuyasha snorted.

"Inuyasha! The spirits came to us! We should at least help them achieve their peaceful rest. They are like Kikyo, if you look at it a certain way"

"Gah, you don't know what you're talking about!" Inuyasha spat as he turned to jump off of the roof.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Shippo called after him.

"Who wants to know?" Inuyasha shouted as he continued running into the forest.

"I guess we struck a chord there…" Sango mentioned.

"Remind me to bring up lady Kikyo whenever we want him to do something." Miroku sneered.

(*A/N*): Soooo sorry guys! We had a really REALLY violent freak storm the other day and it uprooted like 5 big trees in my neighborhood (snapping power lines along with it, of course) caused a transformer to catch on fire ; not even kidding! so we had no power for a day and a half and no internet for like six days in like sauna-like conditions (F***ing 100+ degrees for A WHOLE F***ING WEEK and I live in Ohio) the whole township was out. But thank God that it came back on. I swear this summer is gonna be HELL in every sense of the word! But hey we are alive and safe, nothing of ours has been damaged. But enough of my sob story…

I apologize if these last two chapters have been crap. Im really bad at filler chapters. I guess with the intense heat, and all that has been happening, it showed in my work. So the scene in this chapter where they are all hot was inspired by that!

I promise when it comes to the action-interesting parts, it will make up for the crappy intervals.

Wow that was a long Authors' note!