~Chapter 3: Was it Really a Dream? And the Threat to the Future~
InuYasha awoke with a start and the only thing he had on his mind was Kagome. He jumped out of the tall tree he had so restlessly been sleeping in and ran as fast as his legs would carry him toward the well and jumped in. His whole trip to the well and while the blue and pink lights swirled around him he could only think about that dream and if it really had happened. As the lights dimmed, signaling that he had made it through to Kagome's time, he jumped out of the old well and up the steps sliding the door open with such force that it nearly slid right off the track. InuYasha ran up the all too familiar yard and made his way up to Kagome's balcony. He gently slid the window open and looked around. His eyes had to adjust to the dark room as he gazed around, his eyes finally landed on what they were searching for as he walked over to Kagome as she sat in her bed crying. InuYasha could smell that she was afraid and he walked over to her and sat in front of her on her bed.
"Kagome, what's the matter?" He asked concern lacing every word.
As soon as the first word came out of InuYasha's mouth, Kagome knew she was safe once again. She lifted her head and fell into InuYasha's lap and cried into his chest.
"Oh InuYasha, I had the worst dream." She managed to say between sobs.
InuYasha wrapped his strong, protective arms around the frail young woman and comforted her.
"Do you want to tell me about it?" He asked, his voice so soft and gentle.
"You had turned demon and you killed me, Sango, Miroku, even Shippo." Kagome said as her sobs seized, and tears absorbed by InuYasha's haori. She didn't want to tell him the fine details because that would reveal her deep iner feelings and she just wasn't ready for him to know.
InuYasha then knew that he and Kagome had had the same dream and he knew all to well how scared she must have been.
"Don't worry Kagome, I'm still me, you're all right and every things okay." He continued to comfort her and stroked her hair lovingly trying to stop her tears and ease her fear.
Kagome finally quieted down and gently pushed away from InuYasha and gazed into his bright amber eyes. He always knew just how to make her feel safe, even if he never realized he was, but she was grateful that he did. She looked over at her alarm clock, it read 2:30a.m. Kagome laid back down and InuYasha pulled the blanket over her and their eyes locked.
"Thank you InuYasha." Kagome said with a little shake and a yawn.
"No problem Kagome." He said and then began to move toward the window and return to the Feudal Era.
Kagome saw him and gently grabbed his sleeve of his haori and gave it a slight tug. "Please don't leave." She pleaded, her eyes showing how scared she still was.
"All right I'll stay, just or tonight." InuYasha said softly. "But if your mom catches me and starts to yell, you're gonna get it when we get back" He said in his normal stubborn, arrogant tone. Kagome nodded as InuYasha retreated to a dark corner of her room and fell asleep to the relief that every thing was all right and Kagome was safe.
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On the other side of Tokyo, a man around 20 or so was walking out to his car. It had been a long night and he was exhausted from work. He unlocked his car door, pushing a button on his key ring, making his car light flash and give a little beep, beep. As he was about to open his door to get in, a flash of red caught his eye and the next thing he knew he was on the ground. Above him towered a man in appearance only his eyes were dark crimson accented with forest green pupils. His long silver hair hung around him and he was dressed in a tattered, worn red outfit. The man was on the verge of fainting form the site as the person beard his teeth at him, long fangs protruded from his mouth and saliva dripped from his mouth. The man began to panic.
"Help, some one please HELP ME!" the man screamed, terror evident in his voice.
"No one's here to help you." The attacker said, evilly as he growled at the man and raised his clawed hand.
Suddenly a taller man appeared, his appearance almost identical to this strange attacker. Only a few things set them apart, the taller man seemed to be around 22, his silver hair covered a dark purple crescent that marked his forehead as well as two reddish striped that decorated his cheeks. The man's amber eyes glared menacingly at the attacker and then he finally spoke.
"Leave now and never set one foot in this firm again."
Fear seemed to flash in the attackers eyes, but only for a brief moment before he seemed to vanish as fast as he had come.
"Thank you Mr. Kamori." The man on the ground said as he shakily started to lift himself off of the ground.
"It's all right Isha." Mr. Kamori said, "But home many times must I ask you to call me Sesshomaru."
"Yes sir." Isha said. "well I'll be going, I'll see you around 11 okay."
"Why don't you just take the day off, I have some one I need to inform of some developments I have discovered." Sesshomaru replied.
"All right then, call me if you need anything."
With that Isha got into his car and drove down the street as the first rays of light began to emerge from the horizon. Sesshomaru stood in that spot for a moment before he began to make his own way toward hi car. Unlocking the door he slide inside and started the engine. All the while he thought to himself, " Seems I should inform that miko of the threat now that I have gathered all of the information." He continued down the streets of Tokyo and headed toward the high school.
(A/N should I stop here????? Nahhhhhhhhhhhhh ^_^)
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Kagome's alarm clock went off and she reached over and tried to hit the snooze, only resulting in knocking the clock onto the floor. Kagome reached down and picked up her clock and groggily looked at the time. It read 5:20 and she almost screamed, she was late for school and she'd have to run to make it on time. Jumping out of bed, she quickly slipped out of her pajama's and threw on her uniform. She grabbed her school bag and ran down the stairs with her brush in hand.
"Mom! I'm late! I'm leaving all right, see you later and watch InuYasha for me." Kagome yelled as she hurriedly brushed her hair and placed it on the table by the door. She never knew that InuYasha was right in the kitchen and was laughing to himself at the way she was rushing.
Kagome ran down the streets and made it to her first period just as the bell rang. She got out her text book and pen and began her preparations for her test.
"Would Kagome Higarashi report to the office." The message came over the intercom and every one just starred at her.
"What have I done now?" She asked her self as she was excused and walked down the emptied hall to the office
"Did you see that hottie go into the office." She over heard a few girls chatting outside the office waiting to be seen by the principal.
"Yeah, he looked to be 20 something though, too old." Another chimed in with her comment.
Kagome sighed and opened the door to the office and approached the front desk.
"Hi, I'm Kagome Higarashi, I was called to the office." She said nervously.
"Yes deary," a plump old woman said from behind the desk, her glasses the size of dinnerplates sliding down her nose as she looked up, " there is a man here to see you, go to the side room. That is a conference room."
With that Kagome headed down past the desk and into the room. As she turned the knob, she nearly fainted due to the person standing in front of her and the sudden urge to run and scream for InuYasha as loud as she could was almost over powering her. She finally found her voice and said, fear hanging from every word, "Sesshomaru?" 'It wasn't possible, he couldn't pass through the well, how was he here?' Kagome thought to herself.
"Don't worry, I'm not here to hurt you or my little brother, but merely to give you information that could hopefully change the out come of what was started over 350 years ago." Sesshomaru said, in a serious tone.
"But how are you here." Kagome asked as she took a seat at the other end of the table Sesshomaru sat at .
"You know demons age slower than normal mortals, I have just simply survived these 350 years since we met." He said becoming frustrated, " Now no more questions, what I'm going to tell you , you need to listen to unless you wish to loose my little brother."
Kagome was interested and worried now, what could he possibly have to say? Even some thing that could help InuYasha? Thoughts like these ran all through her head but she simply nodded and sat back and listened to Sesshomaru.
"All right, once you get almost the whole jewel, and this will happen, Naraku will battle all of you and more than a plentiful army of allies. You will battle for about two days and much blood will be shed, yet in the end you and InuYasha's attacks combined will bring Naraku to his downfall. In an attempt to win, Naraku will release all of his power at once and this will create a power surge that will push every one so far back from the battle field if they didn't know where they were they'd be so lost they'd never get back. Well when this happens, you will be flung toward that old well and in the process drop the jewel, be transported threw it to this time and the well is destroyed." Sesshomaru was beginning to get to the most important part when Kagome interrupted him.
"But what happens to the others?"
"I'm getting there," he said, " well the blood from your wounds are all over the ground around the well and InuYasha goes to look for you, full jewel in hand. When he gets there and sees the remains of the well and your blood he completely losses it and grieves over the loss of you, assuming you're dead of course. He wishes to become a full fledged demon in order to escape from the pain and he too has survived the trials of time into this era."
"So that means, he could kill people here?" Kagome asked, her voice shaking.
"Yes, and I have confronted him many times, recently last night as he attempted to slaughter an employee of mine. But listen to me, you must not let Naraku release his final assault or this will be the out come and InuYasha will murder countless innocent people."
"Oh no, no, no, no, this can't happen. No InuYasha can't , he wouldn't." Kagome said as she started to cry silently.
"You don't believe me?" he asked thinking of the perfect example to stress the danger of what has happened, " Well over the years he's killed, no that doesn't fit something that monster did, he slaughtered many innocent people already. Have you ever wondered why your father hasn't been around since before you can remember? One night as your father was coming to your home, he was one of my employees, he came across a car accident that InuYasha had created and stepped out to help the couple that had been injured. As he came around the side of the car he saw InuYasha over their bodies and you can guess what his instincts told him to do, he murdered your father in cold blood." Sesshomaru was finished talking and let Kagome soak in all that he had said. He knew this was devastating for the young woman but she needed to understand the full extent of the course of history she had a hand in creating.
"All right Sesshomaru I understand." Kagome quietly sobbed as Sesshomaru stood up and made his way toward the door. "Sesshomaru." She started and turned around to face the man that had caused so much pain in the past.
"Yes." He questioned.
"You know you didn't turn out half bad, how, I mean back then, how did you go from being so against the thought of joining us to aiding us in the biggest battle the worked will ever know? Let alone helping InuYasha so many times?" she asked.
"Lets just say that people, no matter how small can help heal the pain and scares of your heart and lead you to see there's more to life than vengeance and fighting." Sesshomaru said, a light glaze edging over his eyes at the memories that flooding back to him with that simple question, and turned the door knob and left the room, closing the door behind him.
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