InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Future Push of the Past ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

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Chapter 3

A loud ringing sound broke through the silence of the morning.  This immediately caused chaos in the super-pink room that belonged to one Kagome Higarashi.  A young, white-haired man dressed all in red leapt to his feet wielding a massive sword in front of him while looking for the loud-ass youkai that was attacking.  A young, dark-haired lady groaned and rolled over on the bed.  Her arm stretched out and started blindly slapping at the bed-side table until she hit the top of the alarm clock, making the noise stop.

She groaned again once the noise stopped and threw her arm over her eyes.  “Ugghh… I don wanna get up…”

“Feh!  Next time just tell me to wake you up instead of using that noise-box,” grumped Inuyasha as he sheathed Tessaiga.  His ears were flicking continuously to try to clear them of the ringing.

“Sorry,” Kagome mumbled.  “Habit.”  She didn’t sound sorry at all to Inuyasha, and she just continued to lay there.  Her breathing started to even out again and he realized she was gonna doze off again.

“Oi!  Wench!  Isn’t that noise-box supposed to tell you to wake up?  Don’t make it tell you again!”

Kagome sighed, “Ok, ok, I’m up.”  She even sat up to prove her point.  She felt light-headed for a moment, but the feeling went away quickly.  Kagome thought that Inuyasha was real cute when he tried to comprehend her era’s everyday technology.  She couldn’t help but smile that he didn’t want the alarm clock to tell her to wake up again.  She slowly got out of bed and grabbed her clothes before heading to the bathroom to shower and get ready for school.  

Inuyasha kept an eye on her as she gathered her stuff to make sure she didn’t have a relapse of the strangeness from yesterday.  He had decided that since her family wasn’t home, he would be with her until she went to school (assuming she was well enough to go), then he would go back and check out the area where she started coughing to see if he could find anything.  If all went according to plan, he would be back here before she left that school-place and he could continue to keep an eye on her.  He hadn’t told her his plans because she kept insisting that she was fine.

Once he heard the shower running, he went downstairs to heat up some water for Ramen.  He didn’t know much about cooking in her modern kitchen, but she had long-ago showed him out to make his favorite food.

Once Kagome was finished with her shower, she headed to her room.  She was surprised that Inuyasha wasn’t inside, but she grabbed her bag and went downstairs.  She was very surprised to find Inuyasha in the kitchen with two bowls on the table and only one was in front of him.

“What’s this?” she asked to make sure that appearances weren’t deceiving.

“Breakfast.  Eat,” the inu-hanyou grunted between bites of his own breakfast.

“You made me breakfast?  Thank you, Inuyasha!”  Kagome didn’t even care that it was Ramen.  Just that fact that he made it for her was amazing.

“Keh.”

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As the couple inside the house finished up their morning activities, another very similar couple was parked on the street a little ways down the road from the shrine.  Both appeared to be in their early 30’s with dark hair.  The guy’s hair was around shoulder-length and was hanging loose and the woman’s hair was just a little longer.  There was fast food wrappers scattered about that showed that they had been there for awhile.

The woman reached up and began rubbing an ear on top of the man’s head that she could only see because she knew it was there.  He tilted his head a bit towards her hand to encourage her to continue.

“Hey, Inuyasha?  Why don’t you grow your hair out again?  I kinda miss it since I saw young you.”  

“Keh.  You know guys don’t wear their hair long anymore.  I thought we were trying to ‘blend in.’”

“Oh, you know we could just have Shippo modify your image charm.  Then I could enjoy it, and who gives a fuck about anyone else,” she grinned mischievously.

“Oi!  The language you pick up.  Someone’s a bad influence on you.”

She giggled, “Yes you are.”  She reached up and kissed him quickly.  Then she settled back down to watch the shrine.  “It’s about time she leaves for school, isn’t it?”

Inuyasha just shrugged, “I think it’s getting close.  Once she leaves and the idiot makes sure she makes it down the street he’ll go through the well.  Then we can start moving.  I just hope nothing gets fucked up.”

“Everything will happen that will supposed to happen.  Or something.  You know, that’s something that they don’t go over in those time travel movies.  How to talk about stuff that has already happened to you, but not the versions of yourself that you’re spying on.”

“Feh, there are a couple books that mention it.  Like The Hitchhiker’s…”

“No,” Kagome interrupted.  “Don’t even bring up that book.  You’ll be quoting the series for the next couple months if you do.”

He grinned at her, flashing a fang, “Ahh.  You just don’t have good taste in literature.  That’s a classic series.”

“You sir, are a mythological creature.  You’re not supposed to be a fan of science-fiction books.”

“Says who?  Is there a rule book I don’t know about?  If so, I think I’d be grandfathered in.  When I was born, there wasn’t a whole lot of science, much less science fiction.  Besides, if you think about it… it’s your fault.”

She laughed, “My fault?  How in the world is your liking sci-fi my fault?”

“Hmm, let’s see…  I follow this strangely-dressed girl down a dried-up old well and end up in a world chock-full of technological wonders that my medieval-era self has no idea of how anything works or what most of the shit even is.  Sounds like sci-fi to me.  Therefore….your fault.”

“Ok, I’ll give you that one.  But I’ll have you know that those sword and sorcery books I enjoy are your fault.  For the reverse reason.”

“Keh, I figured that would have been your cat’s fault,” he broke off of his teasing, “Oi, I think that’s her heading to school.”  

Sure enough, they saw a young Kagome walking down the stairs with a red-clad Inuyasha walking beside her in a baseball cap.  The Inuyasha in the car raised his camera and zoomed in to get a couple pictures.  The Kagome in the car just shook her head.

“What?  You were the one that wanted pictures,” Inuyasha grumbled.

She smirked, “And yet, you were the one who turned around because we forgot the cameras.”

“Keh.”

Once the younger couple reached the bottom of the stairs, the girl headed off down the street and through a wave over her shoulder to her friend.  The guy just stood there watching with his hands in his sleeves, making sure she made it safely down the road until she met up with her friends.  After that, he turned and went back up the shrine stairs.

“Ok, let’s give the idiot about 15 minutes to make it through the well, and then we can move out.  I’ve got my old fire-rat and we can get you one of your old uniforms.”

“Oh, Kami.  This isn’t a military mission.  And stop calling yourself an idiot.”

“Feh, might as well be.  It’s all top secret.  And I was an idiot back then.”

“Hmm, true.  But you became my idiot.”

“Bitch.”

“Your bitch.”  Kagome leaned up and kissed him again with one hand creeping up to his ear.  They had 15 minutes to spare, after all.

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-Past Kagome-

Kagome gave Inuyasha a wave as she left him on the shrine steps.  He didn’t wave back, but she could tell that he appreciated the gesture by the look in his eyes.  As she turned back around, she saw her friends Yuka, Ayumi, and Eri somewhat in front of her.

“Hey guys!  Wait up!” she called.  He friends stopped in shock that she was actually going to attend school that day.

“Kagome!” they all called out together.  “Are you sure you’re well enough to go to class today?  I heard that your appendicitis was getting real bad and you are close to surgery,” Yuka continued.

Kagome laughed a little nervously, “Yeah, well… the swelling has gone down and the doctors are optimistic that I’ll be ok without the surgery.” ‘Geeze Ji-chan.  Surgery now?’

“Does that mean you’ll be able to take the history test tomorrow?” asked Eri.

“Oh no!  It’s tomorrow!  Can I make a copy of your notes!”  Even though Kagome had remembered about the test, she hadn’t gotten any studying done and she wasn’t sure what the test was going to be over.  She didn’t have any trouble pretending to be freaked out.

“Here you are, Kagome,” Ayumi said as she handed Kagome a folder.  “I realized you hadn’t been in class and thought I would make a copy for you.  Plus writing everything down again helps me remember, so I’m helping myself too!” Ayumi smiled.

“Oh, Kami!  You are a life saver.  If I can do something for you, just let me know!”

“You can just buy me lunch at WacDonald’s and we’ll call it even.”

“Deal!  I’ll pay ya back tomorrow after school.  I have studying to do today.”

By that time, they had made it to school and proceeded to their classroom.  Once they took their seat, Kagome had to look around the room to see what book everyone was getting out.  She has been gone so long, she actually forgot what class they had first.

‘How am I possibly gonna keep up with all my classes with all the traveling I do?  I can’t stop going to the past, I have a job to do and I can’t leave Inuyasha.  But if I can’t even recall what class I have first, how can I remember all the stuff they want me to remember?  It’s not like I’m gonna use algebra to fire my arrows… Geometry maybe, but not algebra…’

Her teacher came in the class then, so she shook her head to clear her thoughts.  As she did, she got slightly dizzy again.  It cleared up quickly, so she began paying attention to his lecture.

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A couple hours later and Kagome couldn’t see straight.  Her head was spinning and there was a persistent pain behind her right eye.  She was also incredibly hot, and she felt like she was having menstrual cramps even though it was the wrong time of the month.  She had her head resting in a hand on her desk and felt like she was beginning to sweat.  In an effort to cool off she had pushed down her socks, tied up her hair, and was attempting to loosen the tie on the front of her shirt.

A few minutes later, she groaned at her discomfort, and then started giggling softly.

“Higarashi,” the teacher called her out.

She slowly looked up at him.  “I think I need to go to the nurse,” she said weakly.  Then she suddenly slumped forward and hit her head on the desk.

The teacher rushed to her desk and helped her up.  He saw that she had indeed passed out.  And here he thought she had been faking sick the whole semester.  He pointed to another student and demanded, “Help me get her to the nurse’s office.  Class, continue reading.  Grab her bag.”  The student does what he asks and helps him get her to the nurse’s office.  They basically had one arm around each of their shoulders and dragged her down the hallway.

When they reached the nurse, the teacher explained what had happened and suggested that she be sent home.  They laid her down on one of the beds and the nurse looked up Kagome’s file and called the number listed.

“Moshi, moshi.  Higarashi Shrine,” a female voice on the other end of the line answered.

“Yes, am I speaking with Mrs. Higarashi?”

“I’m sorry, she’s out of town for the week.  This is her sister, Sango Konnaninu.  Can I help you?”

“Well, it appears that your niece, Kagome will have to be sent home today.  She got extremely ill in class today and has passed out.  I know that she has been under a doctor’s care for awhile now and I think she should go back.  It looks like she may have pushed herself too hard.”

“Yes, she did mention an upcoming test and assured me she was fine.  That girl.  Am I on the list of people who can pick her up?  I’m not sure if Ma…my sister added me or not.”

“Hmm, yes I see you on the list here along with a Miroku Konnaninu.  Your husband?”

“That’s right.  Ok, well one of us will come and get her immediately.  Thank you for calling.”

The nurse hung up the phone and went to check on Kagome.