InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Changing the Past, Changes the Future ❯ Twilight Zone ( Chapter 5 )

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Chapter 5: Twilight Zone

Kagome had decided that the best way to beat Naraku was to get to know Onigumo. Every day for the two weeks she went to see him after Kikyo's morning visits. She sat with him for about an hour, just talking to him. Well, they didn't really talk. He made lewd, depraved advances toward her, and she shouted at him about how he was a pervert. She was always careful to sit far enough away from him, so that he couldn't touch her. One time she slipped up and told him she'd rather fuck Jaken than him. He asked who Jaken was and she told him not to worry about it. She hated him more and more every time she went to see him. Having someone talk to a woman the way he did, might turn on Kikyo, but it surely grossed out Kagome. She would run from the cave each day fighting the urge to vomit. Most of the time she lost.

Today, Kagome hadn't gone after Kikyo's morning visit, she waited until it was a few hours before dusk to go see him. She had been busy with Kaede and the other children. Kagome liked to play with them, but they made her miss Shippo.

“Tell me, demon, do you still seek Inuyasha's life?”

Kagome froze at the voice. If she didn't know any better, she'd swear that was Kikyo's voice.

No. It couldn't be. Could it? And if it was, who was she talking to?

Nearly against her own volition, Kagome found herself creeping toward the area she had heard the woman's, she knew it wasn't Kikyo's voice.

Kagome found herself holding her breath as she reached a small area where she could see through the brush, into the clearing. Blue eyes widened in absolute shock as both her hands clamped over her mouth to stifle her gasp.

What the fuck! Kagome shook her head frantically and blinked her eyes, trying to make sense of the scene in front of her. Maybe the well had taken her to another dimension too. Or the twilight zone. She half expected that music to start playing anytime now. That had to be it. This was too unreal. Given everything else that had happened since her eighteenth birthday. Something like this made sense in a very fucked up sort of way.

Kagome knew without a shadow of a doubt that if the man with Kikyo wasn't so engrossed with putting on his own clothing, he would have noticed her.

How could Sesshomaru miss something like that otherwise?

She noticed the weariness in Kikyo's eyes as she watched the demon lord. They never left him as she began to pull leaves and twigs from her hair.

“Hn.” He started toward Kikyo, his armor still on the forest floor with Tenseiga.

Kagome rolled her eyes at the sound that escaped the demon lord. He hadn't changed that much in fifty years.

Before Kikyo could move away from him, Sesshomaru jerked her against his chest and clamped his mouth over hers.

Kikyo didn't fight him, but she didn't do anything to encourage him. She stood there, her body stiff, as the demon kissed her, then drew back slightly.

Kagome's hands dropped to her sides as her mouth hung agape. She could hear him sniffing…Kikyo's neck and hair.

“I have left so much of my scent on you and in you…”

Kagome blushed as Sesshomaru spoke the dirty words into Kikyo's ear.

“That he will suffer greatly with the knowledge that his woman gave her body to his brother.” He pulled away. “This will hurt him worse than if I had killed him. I look forward to watching him boil with rage and anguish. He will have to live with the knowledge of what his place in this world truly is. He will know that no demon or human could ever care for him. So, your answer is no. I no longer seek his life.”

What a dick! She had always known Sesshomaru was a prick, but she didn't think he was that much of an asshole.

Just how fucked up was that? Kikyo had slept with Sesshomaru, so he wouldn't kill Inuyasha and was in love with Onigumo.

Oh, the things you learned when your time portal malfunctioned and took you too far into the past!

Kagome slowly began to back away. She blinked and Sesshomaru was gone. “Where…”

A pair of large hands clamped on her shoulders and, before she had time to react, she was thrown to the dirt, at Kikyo's feet.

“Hey!” Kagome yelled at the demon. Her anger at what he did to Kikyo and to Inuyasha fueling her indignace. She really did know better. She was too pissed to care.

“Does this creature belong to you?” Cold gold eyes looked down an aristocratic nose at her.

Kagome wanted to plant her foot up his aristocratic ass.

Kikyo knelt next to Kagome, unaware of the younger woman's certainly suicidal thoughts. “Are you okay, Tomiko?” She helped her to her feet.

“I'm fine, Kikyo.” She glared at Sesshomaru as she brushed off her clothing.

“You're lucky I'm feeling magnanimous, girl, or your spying and insolence would cost you your worthless life.” He pulled on his armor and without another word, he was gone.

“After what you said the other day…Why?” Kagome whispered, trying to keep accusation from her voice. Kagome liked to think she would do the same thing for a friend if it came to it, but she didn't know if she could.

“You were right, Tomi. It's not the half demon's fault they exist. That beast wanted to kill Inuyasha. He also thought that I was Inuyasha's woman. That I could use to my advantage. I knew that I could give myself to him and he would leave Inuyasha alone. Lord Sesshomaru might be a monster, but he is at least honest. He will keep his word. Inuyasha has been through much in his life and will no doubt be furious, but a furious Inuyasha is better than a dead Inuyasha.” Kikyo started to walk away. “I'm going to bathe. Please stop at the cave and check on Onigumo for me.”

No wonder Kikyo had hated Inuyasha so much when the witch resurrected her. All the things she had gone through for him and she thought he had killed her sister and her. Kagome couldn't even fathom that type of betrayal and anger for a jewel.

Kagome watched as Kikyo walked toward the river, before she too was gone.

“I really must be in a parallel dimension.” Kagome shook her head and continued on the path to the cave.

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“Hello Onigumo.” She walked into the cave. The encounter leaving her shaken more than it should, she was on edge and feeling like being a bitch, she asked, “How are you feeling today?” Her voice held no hint of hatred or disgust. She was just being her normal, pure self toward Onigumo.

His brown eyes glared at her. “About as well as I can laying here on this fucking cold stone floor with a pair of legs that won't carry me.”

She ignored him, sitting out of his reach. He stared at her with unveiled lust. He liked the way the little bitch would shift in discomfort when his eyes were on her. Today, however, she seemed even more rattled than usual.

“What's wrong with you?”

Kagome's eye widened as she gave him her undivided attention. “What? Nothing. Why?”

“You have to be the worst liar I have ever met in my life.”

She gave him her sunniest smile. “I'm better at lying than you give me credit for Onigumo.”

“I would sell my body and soul to demons just to fuck you.” He was totally honest with her.

She put her hand over her heart and batted her eyes at him. “Why Onigumo, you are such a diehard romantic,” she told him. `Gag me.' She actually thought.

“Oh Tomiko. You're still here.” Kikyo breezed into the cave, looking as calm and collected as ever.

Kagome guessed one of them had to, because she sure as hell wasn't, even Onigumo noticed that something was wrong. Then again when all you had to do was observe the people who came to see you when you were trapped in a cave and notice their reactions to everything, you probably noticed that type of stuff more the usual.

“It was no problem.” Kagome stood up.

“I'm glad you've come to tend to me.” She heard Onigumo purr to Kikyo and she began to walk even faster.

Time seemed to fly by when she spent time with Onigumo. She was so bored this was becoming more of a bad habit than a plan to kill him. She scowled as she walked from the cave.

Naturally the whole idea of killing someone made Kagome shudder with revulsion. Especially since the person she wanted to kill couldn't walk. That wasn't very fair. But what was fair about the man Onigumo was and the half demon he would become? Was he ever fair? No. But Kagome wasn't him. She was nothing like him. That's where her problem came from. If she was someone like Onigumo, she wouldn't give killing him a second thought.

It's wasn't like she could go after him when he became a half demon. That wasn't exactly equal footing either. She wished she knew how far from now that was. She figured it was at least a week before Inuyasha and Kikyo betrayed each other. That was probably sometime this week or next week. She wondered if Naraku told Kikyo that Inuyasha killed Onigumo. The decision for Kikyo and Inuyasha to be together had to come a few days after Tomiko died. They wouldn't have decided that night. Part of Kagome hoped that she could go with Kikyo and be with her when she found the burned out cave. Then she might have some idea of how long she had before what could be the final showdown.

With a sigh, she began to move through the waist deep grass of the field. `Oh shit!' The thought crossed her mind when she the gravity of what Onigumo had told her slammed into her. He told her he would sell his body and soul to demons, just to fuck her. Great! Now she had really messed things up.

She looked up to see Inuyasha standing in front of her. She had seen him almost everyday since they kissed. “Hello Inuyasha,” she smiled at the half demon. “What's wrong?” She noticed the fury straining his visage. She knew what wrong with him. He had obviously found out about Sesshomaru and Kikyo.

“That's none of your fucking business, bitch,” he hissed as he continued to glare at her.

She sighed and shook her head. She thought they had been making progress. She knew why he was upset and wished she could explain the situation to him, but if Kikyo hadn't, Kagome wouldn't.

It wasn't her secret to tell.

“You're right. Sorry for trying to be a friend.” Kagome looked away. She knew with his nose, he could smell Sesshomaru on her clothes from when he had grabbed her.

“I don't have any friends.” He jerked his head to the side and tore his eyes from her form as if he couldn't bare the sight of her.

It always hurt when he said that. It didn't matter which time period she was in those words cut her deep. “I'm your friend, Inuyasha.”

“You say that now, but you're just like everyone else! Half is never enough! If ain't all human or all demon then it's nothing.” His hand ghosted over the marks his future self had put there. “Even you, the girl in love with a half demon.” His claws brushed the hair from her face. “I bet you never let him touch you. The way you act with me, you'd never let me take you. You'd let some asshole demon or worthless human bandit take you though, wouldn't you?” He whispered in her ear.

`I'm not Kikyo'

She jerked away from him. Her blue eyes raged at the man before her. “How dare you! You know nothing about me, if you can sit there and say those words!” Her voice cracked as she turned and ran from him. She was so mad she couldn't stand there and look at him anymore.

`I want to go home!'

Kagome tore blindly through the woods and ran until she collapsed at the rim of the well. She began to laugh as she realized what she had done.

`I hate this place. I want to go home.'

She touched the wood of the well with a reverent hand. “I want to go home.” She whispered.

Darkness was caressing the land when Kagome finally decided to head back. She couldn't sleep next to the well. What if tonight was the night when Onigumo became Naraku.

Then she'd really be doomed.

Kagome sighed as she walked back into the hut she had been sharing with Kikyo and Kaede. It was so strange. It looked the same as it would in fifty years.

“Tomiko!” Kaede smiled and ran to hug her. “Did you have a nice walk?”

“Yes, I did. I learned a lot about the area.”

Kikyo's flat smile was met with an equally deflated one from Kagome.

Kaede began to chatter, telling her older sisters about her day and the other children in the village, though neither listened to her. She didn't seem to mind as she peeled the vegetables for the stew Kikyo was stirring.

Dinner was eaten in relative silence. Kaede didn't quit speaking and neither Kagome or Kikyo spoke too much. They were both trapped by their own thoughts.

“I'm sorry, Tomiko.” Kikyo said, after Kaede had fallen asleep.

“For what?”

“For placing this burden on you. I'm sorry you came across Sesshomaru and I. I know you are friends with Inuyasha and to come across me with his older brother must put you in an awkward place.”

Kagome nodded and continued staring into the fire.

Kikyo sighed. “I'm going to sleep, Tomi. Goodnight.”

“Goodnight Kikyo.” Kagome listened as Kikyo settled down to sleep.

She was so confused. Everything was happening so fast and was so messed up. She just wanted to be back in her bed in Tokyo. She wanted to wake up in the morning and get ready for school. She needed to calm down. This wasn't helping anything. She knew from past experience that fighting with Inuyasha would be like fighting with a tree.

All the times she had spent away from home, she had never felt as far away from home as she did now.