InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Future Heart, Future Pain, Future Hope ❯ Chapter 46 ( Chapter 47 )

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

My right hand is getting back to normal...WOOHOO!

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Pain, Confusion, Regret....

Unaware of what is happening in the real world, Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippo are startled by this revelation, from the spirit fox, Youko Kurama.

“Naraku?” Shippo states with confusion. His mind already working out whatever went wrong from what he remembers. Finding nothing amiss as far he knows....

“Shippo, you would not know because you are in the past...time itself is protecting you from the changes. If you were to come back now, you would notice things have changed....”

Watching as the younger fox grumbles in annoyance, Kurama, in the meantime, sighs as he searches for the right words. Already his powers feel weakened due to the considerable distance of time he had to travel in spirit. He had lost a considerable amount of power because of those he had transferred before...albeit reluctantly.

Shaking his head though to get rid of stray thoughts, he returns to the problem at hand. “I can't say how its done or even when now, but in my time Naraku has been dead for a long time. You killed him Inuyasha. You and your pack working together killed him.”

“But now something is going wrong.” Kagome murmurs quietly, her mind whirling with the beginning of infinite possibilities.

“Yes....history has changed, people who would have protected you in the past are disappearing one by one. Already one who was there with your pack when you defeated him has vanished from this time, having been killed by him years before.”

“Who?” Kagome asked instinctively. Her own curiosity showing, the fox simply smiles in amusement.

“You know I can not say miko, it is not yet time for you to know. What little history we have now, must be preserved as is.”

“Feh! What can you tell us, then fox?” Inuyasha shouted. “How are we supposed to prepare for something, when we don't know what that something is?”

“Look Inuyasha, this much I can and will tell you, before I leave. You will need your brother.”

Sputtering at the sheer thought of Sesshomaru, Inuyasha is about to protest, when the image fades away. Confused and feeling himself alongside Kagome, being pulled into the real world. They awaken to find themselves alongside an equally irritated and puzzled Shippo.

“What did he mean, I will need my brother?” Inuyasha said with an annoyed expression. The Spirit Fox's last words ringing over and over through his skull. “I don't need that bastard for anything!”

“Inuyasha...what if we did need Sesshomaru?” Kagome whispered softly. Others in their pack having heard her words, gaze in astonishment as the hanyou's eyes narrow in what could only be repressed anger.

“We don't need that bastard, for anything!” He gritted out.

“Then why did we warn him about what was going to happen Inuyasha?” Kagome asked. “Why did we tell him what Shippo had told us, when we didn't need to then?”

“Because....” The hanyou murmured blankly. A look of confusion on his face. Honestly, why did he warn his brother?”

“Because what Inuyasha?” She quietly repeated.

“FEH! All I know is we don't need him.” Inuyasha replied in an annoyance. “I mean what has he done for us?”

“He has saved us Inuyasha, he saved us when you were....” Kagome trailed off. Her own mind not wanting to think about the consequences of her next words.

“When I was what....?” The hanyou questioned with irritation.

No one willing to speak the words, it finally takes the one person who can handle one of his tirades with wisdom and not force.

“When you were with Kikyo, Inuyasha.” Miroku said calmly. The hanyou looking up at him rapidly, the mere mention of the priestess who has passed on causing a reaction from not just him, but the miko as well.

“You still think about her don't you Inuyasha?” Kagome sadly states. “Even though we are mated and will apparently have a son in the future alongside Shippo, you still think about the past.”

Sango lets out a sound of warning to the hanyou, as does the Fox demon and Monk. But irregardless, it seems fate would have its way with cruel timing as the hanyou stumbles for an answer....

“Kagome, I...”

“Don't Inuyasha....don't.” The miko whispered without any emotion. “Your hesitation said it all.”

“Kagome I can't just forget my past!” The hanyou blurts out in protest.

“I know you can't Inuyasha. But you can let it go, but that's to hard isn't it. You can't let it go. You have friends, family, and someone who loves you for you. Yet you still can't let go of the past.”

Walking away into, the nearby forest at these last words, the miko goes off to be alone. As the hanyou moves to follow her, he finds a fox demon tackling him to the grown as a Monk blocks his path, while a Slayer disappears after her friend.

“Regardless of whether or not I adopt you Shippo, if you don't get off of me by the time I count to three, you will be wishing the Thunder Brothers had gotten to you.”

“You know you don't mean that Poppa.” The Fox demon states quietly. “You just can't go to Momma right now. No matter how much you want to.”

“Listen to him Inuyasha.” Miroku replies with a calm dignity. “I empathize with you Inuyasha, I honestly do in this case, as does Sango. It is hard to forget the past. But right now the past is the point. Regardless of whether or not she is dead as you have told us. Kikyo isn't dead to all of us mentally... especially to Kagome.”

“But I chose her, I love her. Doesn't that mean something! So let me go so I can tell her.” The hanyou screams as he tries to buck the fox demon off.

Gesturing for Shippo to back away, a moment, the frustrated Monk hits the hanyou hard on the head with his staff.

“OW DAMMIT!”

“Listen to me Inuyasha and get it through your skull. Kagome still freshly remembers you running off to Kikyo in the past countless upon countless times.” Miroku yells. “She knows that you love her and that you chose her as we all do. Its the fact that you still think about Kikyo is what bothers her. Let Sango tell her your side....”

“Why Sango! Why can't I...” Whispers a resigned Inuyasha. His heart pounding in fear as he can feel his beloved mate's unhappiness through their marks.

“Something tells me you already know Inuyasha why you can't.” the monk stated sadly. “Let Sango be your voice of reason in this....she is Kagome's best friend....”

Nodding his head reluctantly, the hanyou is relieved as the adult fox demon gets off of him. A resigned look on his features, he leaps into the nearest tree, sniffing for that elusive scent in hopes that when it returns, it is one filled with joy...and not pain.