InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Brother's Keeper ❯ Brotherly Hatred ( Chapter 3 )

Brother's Keeper

 

Chapter 3

“Brotherly Hatred”

 

Kagome arrives at the bottom of the well in Modern Japan, ready to surprise her family by stopping by. She climbs out of the well, opens the well house doors, and is bombarded with sunlight because the sun is facing straight at her. I see the light! It burns!!! After her eyes finally adjusted to all the light surrounding her, she walked very quickly to the house, noticing that no one had woken up yet. She slowly opened the door, checks to see if she's in the clear, and tiptoes into the house, carefully closing the door behind her. She removes her shoes so that she won't make loud noises, and carefully advances to her room. When she finally gets there, she breathes a deep sigh of relief.

 

“What are you doing here?” a mysterious voice said. Kagome gasped, but then realized that had accidentally walked into Sota's room.

“Whoops! My bad, Sota.” Kagome replied, still shocked and now embarrassed.

“Still, why are you here? You're here two weeks early.”

“I forgot to pack more food. Don't tell mom I'm here yet. I want to surprise her.”

“Just like you surprised yourself?”

“That's not funny, Sota!”

“Well, I thought it was. Otherwise, I wouldn't have said it.”

 

Kagome gave him the `evil eye' as she marched out of Sota's room and into her own. She glanced at the clock and noticed that it was 8:30 AM. She tried to predict what the group was going to do while she was gone. Finally, she decided to leave at 9:30 AM, just to be on the safe side. The only problem was that when she finally made the decision, it was already 9:15 AM! Kagome rushed out of her room, into the kitchen, and panicked because her mom saw her.

 

“Kagome! I didn't you were back! Why are you here so soon?” she kept asking. As Kagome tried to come up with one answer after another, this gave Sota the perfect distraction. He snuck into Kagome's room, took a look around, and found what he was looking for. He grabbed the bottle of Shikon shards, opened it, and took one. He closed it back up, and set it back down, then snuck out as quickly as he could.

 

Finally, Kagome had gotten away from her mother's barrage. She packed lots of ramen, prepared some lunch trays, packed some food for Kirara, in case they ever found Sango, and tried to find room in her backpack for it all. “Man, Inuyasha's right. I probably don't need half the stuff in here.” She created enough room to place the food, grabbed some clean clothes and her bow with some arrows, and finally said her goodbyes. She ran to the well house, walked up to the well and jumped in.

 

Meanwhile, Sota is smiling at himself for getting away with taking a shard. His head was filling with glee. He can finally see his “big half-brother” where he lives. How cool! I get to be just like my big sister! But, I can't let mom know that I'm doing this. I have to come up with a lie she can believe, and I have to hurry if want to have a chance at following Kagome. “Mom, I going back in time…at the museum of natural history,” he slowly put together. Smooth move, genius, he sarcastically thought to himself. You're a real improv specialist now, aren't you? “There's this cool exhibit on the Feudal Ages. I thought I'd go there so I can understand what Kagome's talking about.”

“Come back as soon as you can.”

“I will.” I wonder why she didn't ask me a whole bunch of stuff. Sota then thought about the lie he told and thought, Maybe she's onto me. What if she read between the lines? I can't question that now. I have to go.

 

Sota walked to the well house, getting more and more nervous with each step he took. When he finally opened the doors, he took a good look at the well. He walked up to the edge, grabbed the Shikon shard tightly, and said softly, “Inuyasha, here I come.” With that, he took a deep breath, and jumped in. All of a sudden, the world around him changed from a dark small stone well, to almost as if being in space as he fell through the time-space continuum. He awed in amazement, repeatedly saying, “Wow!” When he looked down, he saw a square shaped light, getting closer and closer. He braced himself as he started to go through it. When he came out, he slowly floated to the bottom of the well. He started breathing more heavily as he realized he had done it. He has traveled back in time 500 years. He notices the vines on the side of the well and starts to climb out.

 

Sota struggled to pull his body over the edge of the well. “How in the world Kagome do this, especially with a heavy backpack on her shoulders?” he said. When he finally was able to get himself over the edge, he heavily exhaled, and looked around with astonishment. The shrine is gone. He was now surrounded by nothing but trees. He sat on the well's edge to take a moment and absorb it all. As he got off, he softly said to himself, “I guess I'm too late. Kagome must have taken off already.”

 

All of a sudden came “OSUWARI!!!” A huge tremor followed, almost causing Sota to loose his balance. When things settled down, he rolled his eyes to the heavens and said a little excitedly, “Thank you, Inuyasha!” He ran in the direction of the tremor. As he got closer, he could hear Kagome and Inuyasha arguing. But then, the yelling stopped. Sota got scared and hid behind a tree. Inuyasha sniffed around as Kagome wondered what was wrong. Then Inuyasha eyes grew wider. “Is that Sota, your pesky brother?” Miroku and Shippo both were shocked “Brother?” “That's impossible. He doesn't have a Shikon shard, and I've told him multiple times not to come here,” Kagome replied. Inuyasha walked into the trees and grabbed Sota by the sweater. “Well, I guess he didn't listen.” Everyone else gasped and Kagome had the biggest shocked expression on her face as all Sota could muster was an embarrassed laugh.

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