InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Future Heart, Future Pain, Future Hope ❯ Chapter 40 ( Chapter 41 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

I still don't own a single thing....

And so it begins....

"Nagisa..."

Despite his reaction to her sheer beauty, Taro nodded his head in acceptance of her name. Turning around he dove back into the water, but not before she asked him the same...

"What is your name?"

Ignoring her question as he climbed out of the water, he watched in amusement as she rapidly turned around. Her skin flushed once more at the sight of his naked body.

Despite his slender form, he had a muscular physique that only years of fighting could achieve. And with his dark hair, wet and almost pin straight but for the edges curling, he was indeed a sight of pure masculinity....

"I don't have a name, but if you must call me something, call me Taro."

"Taro..." She replied curiously.

Turning around as he finished putting on his pants, he gazed at her across the river and raised an eyebrow. As her mouth opened and closed in admiration, he couldn't help feel an overwhelming sense of pride envelop him.

Still to keep her and himself on course, he closes off the delicious thoughts he has about this demoness, to resort what he does best--

He became cold and impassive....

Then, maybe she will leave him be.

"I am not carrying you across the river Nagisa."

Alook of indignation crossed her face at that, and she closed her eyes and disappeared.

Then reappeared, a moment later, beside him.

"Considering what I just saw, why did you not simply teleport yourself away from the bear demon chasing you?"

"I can only teleport myself small distances. Ten maybe twenty feet if I try real hard, thats all...." The demoness replied with irritation. "As you could have told by the size of the demon, that distance wouldn't have been far enough to get away. Or hadn't you noticed."

"True...I have one other question for you though." He questions, although he fights the urge to smile. No one has ever stood up to him before, like this and lived to tell the tale. The feisty demoness however...

"Oh?"

"How did you know about this shard?"

Nagisa looked away to avoid answering the question. Taro shook his head and proceeded to finish getting dressed. His mind intent on covering his tracks, he paused in mid-motion as she spoke.

"Others will come for it you know. The shard..."

"Why is that?"

"You do not know what that is?"

Shaking his head no, the demoness looks at him in complete shock. "That is a shard of the Shikon Jewel. What I want to know though is how you, a man, purified it? Thats only something priestesses can do."

Shrugging, he pocketed the shard as he removed the last traces of their presence from the area.

"I just found out as you did." He replied steadily. Mentally looking things over in his head, to be sure he erased all traces of their presence, he continued, "If you insist on coming with me, we must go."

"Why?"

"I sense others. It won't be long till they get here."

Taro walked into the forest. The girl looked after him thoughtfully for a moment. Nodding her head quietly as if in affirmation of something, she turned to follow the youth with a purpose.

Deep in the woods, an insect flew... its message delivered.

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Shivering, the miko from the future looks around with a puzzled expression as she came to.

"What is it Kagome?" Inuyasha asked. His gold eyes focused on her in concern. Worry was evident in the dark circles under Kagome's eyes.

"Didn't you just feel that Inuyasha. Feel the cold.....?"

"What do you mean?" Miroku interrupts.

"I felt something cold, almost like ice." She replies softly. "It felt like it was trying to freeze me where I stood. It was so cold...." She shivered uncontrollably with each word she spoke. Inuyasha took off his haori in response, and threw it around her shoulders. Wrapping his arms around her, he drew her close to his body.

Growling softly and reassuringly, he nuzzled her cheek. But despite the warmth of his own skin.

“Hers is like ice.... “ The hanyou thought to himself.

"Miroku she is freezing....her skin is icy. Its like her body has no warmth." Inuyasha stated as he held her even tighter. The slayer and the fox demon, who were listening with worry, moved rapidly to keep the fire burning.

Inuyasha laid Kagome down in front of the flames, and she clutched on to him. He nods his head gently in her silent pleas to stay with her. Growling with reassurance, the hanyou's eyes flicker red again and he begins to run his fingers along the circular markings on her lower back.

A few minutes later, Kagome was asleep....

Leaving the two alone, Miroku stood in deep thought. Sango couldn't help but approach him. "You sense something going on don't you. Something to do with yesterday..."

Nodding his head reluctantly, the monk looks at the miko and the hanyou... and the Fox who continued to look after her. "After what we discussed yesterday, I remember something Mushin had told me once....something about the connections that certain demons had."

"You mean the bonds?"

"Yes, now that I know what they are, I think because of who she is, the connection between Kagome and Taro....I don't think it has closed."

"How could they not be closed? Inuyasha and Shippo both are fine."

"Could it be because of their demon blood? Kagome is human as well as a miko." The monk stated quietly. "As a Priest...or Priestess in Kagome's case, we are more in tuned with the body and soul of all life around us. Considering the sheer fact that Kagome did something the normally a priest could do, is it possible that she is in fact drew that ability from someone else. And who else but someone she is connected to, someone like her son?"

"But that would have to be under the assumption that Kagome was pregnant all ready. Inuyasha and Shippo both told us, that Inuyasha and Kagome weren't due to have Taro for a few years."

"And I agree....but I think it it his presence that is affecting the situation Sango. I don't think he has to be born to affect her. I think he just has to be here...."

"Because of that connection...."

"Yes...as we already know, there is nothing like the bond between a mother and her child. What if somehow Kagome is picking up on something that Taro feels through that connection....and she can't help but react to it and the same for him! If Kagome can draw energy from him, who's to say he can't draw energy from her?"

"That means that Taro had to have exhumed a lot of spiritual energy....and the only thing that causes Kagome to get tired once in a while nowadays...."

"Is the finding of a jewel shard..."

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Two cliffies for the price of one....I am evil.....

Anyhow folks, as to this last bit here, I had a different ending intended but this somehow seemed to flow with a part later on in the story. And I also feel that with the constant hunting and fighting for jewel shards, I felt Kagome sooner or later has to run out of energy. We know that Kikyo does at certain points in the story, whose to say Kagome doesn't? What if they were at certain times drawing energy from each other through some kind of connection? Think about it..