The trees that whisper in the evening
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
"Young human, you said you were sent here from the future,"
Kagome looked up at the old tree; she really had to stop giving things away. "Hm, yes."
"Why?"
She tilted her head, should she tell him? "I'm not sure if I should tell you."
"Are you not here to change something?"
"Well, yes."
"Then speak up, child."
Kagome looked down. "There is a great evil that one will one day come."
"Child, there are many evil things; what makes this one different."
She shook her head. "There's just so much, where do I start."
"The beginning child."
"Naraku, his name is Naraku."
"Hmm,"
"Inuyasha, when he is 15, Naraku tricks him and the women he loves, they turn on each other, and not only does Kikyo die but Inuyasha is sealed to a tree, and the jewel is burning in her body and-
Kagome stopped, "The jewel!"
The tree rose a bark eyebrow. "What of it."
"The jewel will be burned in Kikyo's body; then it will be in my body!"
"I must admit I am a confused child."
Her heart sped up, "The jewel will be in me! This all started because the jewel was in me, I came back because I was pulled down the well, the demon bit it out of me, and then I shot it with an arrow!"
He listened to her,
"This time around, I need to be there when Kikyo dies. I need to know when it is in my body."
"And?"
"And, and I'm not sure," What then? Wait 50 years to let Inuyasha free, let him free right then? What?
"I need to be protected, Naraku will come after me once he is born, we have to stop Naraku- Damn it." Her brain hurt. "There are so many ways I can do this!"
"Child, tell me the ending."
She looked up, "Hu?"
"Start with the ending, instead of the beginning."
"They all died,"
"Who are they?"
"Inuyasha, Kikyo...Sesshomaru."
The tree was shocked, Sesshomaru, dead?
"Perhaps you should speak to the people who die; it is their lives too."
"But the only one who can help right now is Sesshomaru!"
"Then it is he who you seek."
"Um, did you not just see him? He wants nothing to do with me."
"He does not understand you; make him want something, tell him you know of this death."
"He won't believe me."
"He can smell a lie."
"I can't get him to listen."
"Make him."
"You suck, you know that, right."
He smiled at her. "Sesshomaru is still young; however, you knew him; he is not yet that way."
He was to her; she looked down the path he had taken, and she sighed, the tree was right, the only one who could help her now was him. She stood up "Fine." She stuck her chin in the air and walked away, the tree was pleased.
"Sesshomaru, wait!" She yelled as she went from a walk to a run, she had to catch up, but she knew he could hear her. "Sesshomaru, please, I need you!"
He heard her; he didn't stop, a human needing him, forget it. "Sesshomaru-sama!"
Well, that was a first, but it still did not stop him,
"You want power right, you're after power, didn't your dad ever tell you knowledge is power!"
This time he did stop; it was his mother who told him that, not his father, but it hit the mark.
"I am here," he told her calmly, and he watched as she fought her way through bushes to him.
"I need to talk to you."
"Talk,"
"Can't we go someplace,"
He raised an eyebrow,
"Don't look at me like that. It's not like I'm trying to warm your bed!"
He raised both eyebrows,
"Grrr, do you wanna know what happens to you and your brother or not."
"That is not for my benefit but your own, I care not."
She crosses her arms. "Oh, so you don't care that you die protecting me."
He narrowed his eyes,
"Why would I protect you?"
He did not smell a lie,
"I need your help, and you need to know what happens, I am here to save you."
"I do not need saving; you have told me enough to save myself."
"Wrong, me being here has already changed something, that won't work."
He looked at her. "How do I know you."
"We fight a common enemy together."
He turns to her fully, "And our relationship?"
Kagome blushes a bit, he catches it and growls a bit,
"Well, at first you try to kill me."
"Try?"
"Yes, you don't."
"Why?"
She stops her foot. "Look, can we go to someplace, please? This is gonna take a while!"
The wind blows, and it dances in his hair, he closes his eyes and lets it dance, in the wind, he hears a whisper, it's power calling to power, he feels her energy, the forest seems to be connected to her, and the wind whispered to heed her. He opened his eyes, "Follow me."