InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Changing the Past, Changes the Future ❯ Complicated ( Chapter 3 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

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Chapter 3- Complicated

`So, if I died in this time before, does that mean I was reincarnated into myself? Right, this is just too weird' Kagome or Tomiko as she was called, sat next to the sacred tree with her back against it. A week had passed since she arrived here. Thinking back to her dream she had the first night she arrived, Kikyo had worn clothing from the modern era in it, was it possible that Kikyo still existed in twenty first century Tokyo? She was trying desperately to make sense of the situation she was in.

Every time she started thinking hard about the whole thing, she thought of the American movie “Back to the Future”. She laughed softly when she thought of Doc explaining to her about the time paradox, like he did to Marty. She knew that the movie was fake, but with everything she had been through, she wondered if a time paradox really destroy everything? With a sigh, she ceased her laughter and continued to think about her situation. Anything she did here could change the future. She had to be very careful.

High in the sacred tree, a half demon watched the girl from the corner of his narrowed golden eyes. His legs straddled the branch and his arms were tucked behind his head. At first, he had been annoyed when the girl first showed up here. He hated it when people came around his tree. He usually chased them away the first chance he got, but she didn't make any noise or bother him, so he let her stay. There was something about her that made him want to stay close to her and protect her. Sure he felt that way about Kikyo, but she was his friend, so he watched out for her. With this girl, Kikyo's sister, it was totally different. He felt drawn to her and he couldn't control the force that drew him to her. He heard her laugh and thought for a second that she had seen him and was laughing at him, but then he heard her sigh, and knew that wasn't the case. Damn, she was weird! He tried to fight what he was feeling. She was just a stupid human. She was weak, helpless, fragile, and beautiful. Gods, she was beautiful. She was so far out of his reach it hurt to look at her. He couldn't believe he felt this way. He had never reacted like this to anyone.

He watched as she rose to her feet with her bow and arrows and walked toward the Bone Eater's well, humming a song he had never heard. He knew she wasn't a very good archer and even if she was, she might not be fast enough. He followed her through the treetops and watched her walk to the well. His eyes narrowed as she sat on the edge of the well. Was she going to jump in? She turned to face the clearing, looked around to make sure no one was watching, and lowered herself into the well.

Every night around dark, Kagome would take a walk to the well, climb down the vines and jump from five or so feet up. Every night the results were the same, nothing happened.

“Damn.” She thought of kicking the well wall, but didn't really want to hurt her foot. With a sigh, she grabbed the vines, hoping no one was in the clearing.

She was thankful that Kikyo and Kaede left her alone for her walks. Kikyo told Kaede that Tomiko was used to being alone, so for only two or so hours a day, they let her be. Kagome had no idea how she could explain her climbing out of the well to them. There was no way she could tell them the truth. She couldn't tell them that in a month, Kikyo, Tomiko, and Inuyasha would all be dead. Her hands reached over the edge of the well as she prepared to pull herself out.

She screamed as she was grabbed out of the well by a pair of strong hands. She looked into the gold eyes of a very annoyed Inuyasha. “I knew you'd act like that,” he sneered as he sat her on her feet. “You're just like Kikyo. You can't stand to let a half breed touch you.” He turned to walk away.

Kagome chased after him and grabbed his wrist. “Wait! I'm sorry. You just startled me.”

His eyes widened as he stared at the small human hand touching him. Never before had a human, other than his mother, touched him like that. For almost a year, Kikyo had been his friend. She was the only friend he had ever had and not even Kikyo touched him. He acted like he didn't care, but he did. It bothered him that the only person to treat him decent, was disgusted by him. Not even Kikyo, with her good, kind heart wanted to touch him. She just felt pity for him. He knew that, but he was just so tired of being alone that he didn't really care.

His eyes moved to her face. Wide blue eyes pleaded with him to understand that she didn't mean to hurt him. “Thank you for helping me out.”

He stared at her face and noticed the healing claw marks on her cheek. “What the hell happened to you?” His gruff voice wasn't as harsh as it had been earlier. Without thinking his hand reached up to cup her cheek. He was surprised when she didn't pull back from him.

`You hit me fifty three years from now and two weeks ago.' Yeah. Like she could tell him that. “Someone hit me.”

“No shit,” he replied. “Who hit you? A demon?”

She shook her head. “No. It was a half demon. I never thought he'd hit me, ever,” she told him. “But I guess I was wrong.” She smiled softly. Her voice held no accusation.

His eyes widened. “Why did he hit you?”

“I made him mad.”

“That doesn't make it okay, you know?” He jerked back suddenly. He folded his hands in the sleeves of his fire rat robe. “No one should ever hit a woman. I would never do it.”

Kagome nearly laughed at the irony of him saying something like that. `You're the one who hit me.'

“What did you do to him for it?”

“Nothing. He was out of control. He was half crazy.”

“Keh! That doesn't make it okay. I can't believe you'd stand up for the guy after he hit you.”

She shrugged and looked at him helplessly. “I love him.”

“What?” His voice was very soft.

“I…I love him.” She confessed to Inuyasha, looking shy.

“You love a half demon?” He clearly didn't believe her.

“Yeah.” She nodded with a slight smile on her face.

Inuyasha looked at her for a minute and began to laugh. “That's so funny! You…” He pointed at her. “Love a half demon!” By this time he was nearly hysterical.

Kagome turned her head away from him, before she jerked back. He was such an asshole! It didn't matter where or when she met Inuyasha, he was still a jerk. “You're such a jerk!” She stomped away, but couldn't control the tear that rolled down her cheek. More followed and she stopped trying to control her crying. She tried not to cry in front of him, ever, but she couldn't help it so she ran.

He instantly stopped laughing and his nose twitched as the scent of salt water entered his nose. His nostrils flared as it became even stronger. His ears instantly pinned back. Damn, he hadn't meant to make her cry. Now he really felt like a bastard. She had been hurt before and his treatment of her made it like he had reopened the claw marks on her face. He hated when women cried. It reminded him of when his mother would cry. Sometimes she would cry because of how he was treated, other times because she missed his father, but every time, he hated it when she cried. He instantly felt as worthless as his older brother had always told him he was.

He watched her start to run from him and he could hear her sobbing. Without a thought, he took off after her. “Wait! Tomiko!” He grabbed her in his arms and wrapped them around her. He was surprised when her arms wrapped around his waist and she cried against his chest. “I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you, Tomi.” He held her, lightly rocking her back and forth.

“I know. I'm sorry I'm crying all over you. Thanks for that too.”

He heard the laughter in her voice and looked down to her beaming face. Her blue eyes met with his molten gold ones and they both stared.

She stood on her tiptoes, pressing her lush body against his, and her lips lightly brushed his. She kissed him softly and licked his lips. Kagome had no idea if this happened before, but if Naraku was going to kill her in a few weeks, she had nothing to lose, right?

He gasped when he felt her tongue slid over his lips. He was stunned when her tongue entered his mouth. Her hands cupped his cheeks as she kissed him deeply and thoroughly. She was happy when he began to kiss her back.

A growl vibrated through his chest when she began to rub his ears softly. He took control of the kiss fairly quickly. His hands grabbed her hips tightly and he walked her back until her back pressed against the rough bark of a tree. He had never kissed before, but his instincts demanding him to take the bitch kicked in, and he listened to them.

His fangs nipped at her lips and tasted her blood. He nearly went wild. Her blood was so powerful. His claws dug into her hips and she jerked her mouth from his to cry out in pain.

“You're hurting me,” she told him, trying to move away from him.

He growled and held her still. He ground his arousal against her stomach. His claws punctured the fabric of her clothing. “Mine.” His voice was now a dark snarl. It was much more animal like than it had been earlier.

Kagome froze, she knew that voice. Her eyes regarded the magenta stripe on each of his cheeks. She calmed herself, because she knew he would react to her fear. Now, fearless blue eyes locked with the blue iris' of his red eyes. “Inuyasha.”

“Mine!” He barked.

She nodded at him. “Yours.” She appeased him. She tucked her head under his chin and rubbed the top of her head against it. She was clearly acting submissive toward him. She knew she couldn't let him get too far out of control, in this time, she had no Tetsusaiga to control his demon blood.

“Beautiful.” The demonic voice rasped as one of his claw hands caressed her face.

She smiled at him. “You're beautiful,” was her soft whisper.

He blinked as her words sank in. He pulled away from her so fast her head nearly spun. He turned with his back to her. “No, I'm not.” His voice was normal again. “How did you know my name?”

“What?”

“Before, you called my name. I have never once told you my name, so how do you know it?”

“Kikyo told me.”

“You're lying, but I don't care all humans lie. Especially to things like me.” He moved to walk away.

“No!” She chased after him and grabbed his sleeve again. “Please. I can't tell you how I know. You're not a thing, Inuyasha and you are beautiful. I know you can tell when I'm lying. You know I'm not lying to you.”

“You're weird, you know that?”

“Why? Because I think you're beautiful?”

“Tomiko?” Kikyo interrupted them.

They both looked at her guiltily. “Hi Kikyo.” Inuyasha blushed.

“Kikyo.” Kagome smiled.

“It was getting late and we were worried about you so I came to find you. Dinner is ready, little sister.” She turned and walked back toward the village.

Kagome smiled at Inuyasha and squeezed his hand. “Bye. I'll see you around.”

The two women left the half demon standing in the sunset, watching after them.

“What do you think of Inuyasha?” Kikyo looked at Kagome as they walked through the forest, early the next morning.

Kagome's blue eyes locked with Kikyo's green ones. “I think he's been hurt before.” Kagome chose her words carefully. She had no idea if Onigumo had become Naraku yet, but she wanted to keep her profile as low as possible just in case. She had always assumed that Onigumo had sold his body and soul to the demons the morning that he had, for all accounts and purposes killed Inuyasha and Kikyo.

That was before she thought about him killing Tomi. The whole set up was what Kagome had come to recognize as Naraku's trademark `I like to mind fuck you' deception. Except when it involved Inuyasha, Kikyo and Tomi, Naraku was a bit more hands on. `Yeah.' Kagome thought. `If hands on means he actually caused their deaths. Actually, he only killed Kikyo and Tomi, and had Kikyo seal Inuyasha.' Kagome could only guess that he liked watching former friends kill one another more than he like killing them himself.

“Hmm.” Kikyo led Kagome into an open field. “I have never asked you, but now I am curious. Where did you get those claw marks?”

“A half demon hit me,” she said.

“Did you kill him?”

“No. I couldn't have killed him.”

“You love him?”

“Yeah.”

“That's disgusting. Humans need to stay with humans and demons with demons.”

Kagome was shocked that Kikyo felt that way. “But what about the half demons? There aren't that many of them.”

Kikyo shrugged. “It's not my fault that their parents couldn't stay away from each other.”

Kagome gaped at Kikyo. Damn, she sure wasn't very understanding when it came to love or very forgiving when it came to half demons. Kagome thought it was kind of ironic that she had such disregard for demons, because in the future, it would be a demon witch that resurrected her and demons that brought her the souls she needed to keep her alive. Kagome knew if they kept on this subject much longer, she might change history by killing Kikyo herself.

“It's not the half demon's fault either.”

Kikyo ignored her. “I have a secret to tell you that only Kaede knows of.”

Kagome loved secrets, especially coming from Kikyo. “What is it? I won't tell anyone.”

“Tomiko, about a year ago, I met a bandit and we fell in love.”

'We fell in love. We fell in love! Oh my God! What the f...'

“Tomiko!” Kikyo grabbed her sleeve. “What's wrong?”

“I'm sorry, Kikyo. My mother was killed by bandits. It just shocked me.” Her eyes flicked away. She sighed, then looked at Kikyo. “Go on.”

“Not long after we met, he was hurt. I'm not sure how. He was burned, beaten, and I think he was tossed down the side of a hill.”

Holy shit! Talk about something that was meant to be. “Oh my!” Was the only thing Kagome could come up with. She hoped she sounded sincere.

“His name is Onigumo.”

`His name will be Naraku.' Kagome tried to look as sympathetic as possible. She guessed it worked because Kikyo bought it. “That poor man.” She nearly gagged as she said that.

“Yes. He is slowly recovering, but I fear that he will never walk again. He will live the rest of his live in that cave. That will be the place he dies.”

`I wish you were right, Kikyo.' That's when their location dawned on Kagome. She looked around the field and then her eyes locked on the cave. She froze and closed her eyes for a second.

“I bet you're wondering why I'm telling you this.”

`I already know.' Kagome said nothing to Kikyo.

“I want you to help me nurse him, Tomiko. Today, I'm bringing you to help me with Onigumo.”