InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Decisions ❯ Chapter 7

Decisions

 

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Chapter Seven

 

---Kagome's Era, On the Other Side of the Well---

 

Kagome let out the breath that she had been holding when the blue light left and she was still in Inuyasha's arms. She looked up at him and saw that he was as relieved as she was. He picked her up and jumped out of the well. They made their way to the door of the well house and Kagome cautiously looked out to see if there were any shrine visitors around. There didn't look like there was anyone there at the moment so they made their way to the house and came in the door to the kitchen. Mrs. Higurashi was standing over the stove making dinner. She looked up to see who was coming in the door and dropped the spoon she was using to stir the oden that she had been making every night since Kagome had left just in case she came back that day. She had tears of joy and gratitude that her daughter had come home safe as she ran forward to hug her daughter saying, “I'm so glad that you came home safe!”

 

Inuyasha came in and closed the door behind him to make sure no one spotted him until he had on his trusty, irksome, irritating baseball cap. He leaned against the door until he smelled the oden. Then he crept over to the pot but before he could get very far, he heard a gasp and was suddenly enfolded in a sufficatingly motherly embrace. Mrs. Higurashi had been home when her daughter had come home and heard how all her friends had been absorbed or kidnapped by Naraku. She had thought that she would never see the half-demon again. Inuyasha for his part, while he felt that his great dignity and pride was hurting, he was secretly enjoying the embrace, as it had been a very long time since his mother had held him thus.

 

Mrs. Higurashi finally pulled away and demanded what happened. They repeated the story, minus a few of the more scary parts, as in Kagome almost dying because her soul was split, because, let's face it, mothers don't need more reason to worry than can be helped, especially not when their daughter is a time-traveling miko that fights demons and comes home regularly with injuries.

 

Mrs. Higurashi let all of that sink in. “So, you two might be stuck here once the jewel is complete and not be able to get threw the well again. Inuyasha, you will have to stay here at the shrine for the most part, if the jewel allows you to stay, and you are okay with this?” Inuyasha nodded, having thought through the pros and cons of his decision already. Mrs. Higurashi sighed. “I have to say that I'm glad that you will possibly be staying in this time. Kagome would be devastated if she had to give up every one of her friends on that side of the well.” She got up. “Well, I'm sure that you have some business with the jewel to take care of. I will finish making dinner. Oh, and Kagome make sure that you do that jewel fusion thingy away from any of the shrine buildings. You never know what will happen when you mess with ancient magics.”

 

Kagome and Inuyasha had to admit that she had a good point. Kagome gave her mom the herbs that she had gathered in the Feudal Era so that she could plant them for her since Kagome didn't have time at the moment. She actually had a really nice collection going. They went up to Kagome's room and to her desk where the shards were usually kept. Inuyasha looked all over the desk and on the floor, panicking. “Kagome, WHERE are the jewel shards?!”

 

Kagome smirked and reached for the bottle with the shard in it in the center of her desk. As soon as she touched it, Inuyasha saw it. He looked at her for an explanation. “I asked Kaede about standing barrier spells. It blocks the energy of the shards and is undetectable to anyone but the caster. It keeps anyone else from being able to see the shards or even know that a barrier is there. It is attached to the bottle so if they are knocked from the desk, then the barrier will still hide them from sight. If someone starts to set something down there, the space will make the person set the object a certain distance away from it. The barrier is also impenetrable. I tried to make sure all of the possibilities were covered.”

 

Inuyasha looked suitably impressed for a moment before feigning his usual bored expression and saying, “Let's get this over with.”

 

Kagome nodded and they left the house and went a suitable distance behind the well house. Kagome took a deep breath and uncorked the bottle and dumped the shards into her hand. Then she looked at Inuyasha and slowly took off her necklace and brought the majority of the jewel to meet the shards in her hand. There was a blinding flash of light as the jewel was made whole and then…

 

 

I know I'm evil. If anyone actually cared about this story enough to feel disappointed then I would feel bad, but they don't! So I feel perfectly fine. I think that the story is progressing nicely but there is still plenty more to go.

 

Until next time…