InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Go Home Kagome ❯ Voodoo & Dreams ( Chapter 5 )

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

Five
 
Dinner was heaven. Kagome helped her mother prepare Sukiyaki, one of her favorites. Her mom never mentioned Inuyasha. She was full of questions about school, Atlanta and the US as a whole. She was already thinking of some sort of thank you present to send the Walkers for their hospitality to Kagome. Kagome explained she'd invited Boog down to the shrine and they hopped she'd be able to visit in the next year or two. Her mother became excited at the idea of meeting the girl who was so close to Kagome. Boog was already in her good book; after all she was a veterinarian too. And vets were the next best thing to real doctors in her mind.
 
The meal was eaten with chopsticks and Kagome loved not feeling out of place. Souta told her about his high-school graduation and University entrance exams. He was a member of half a dozen different clubs and an aspiring journalist.
Grandpa was the same grandpa. He'd hired a part time helper to keep up with the shrine. This could only mean the Shikon no Tama keychain/flash light charms were selling better than expected. He was angry that the nearby vending machines now included an Omikuji machine that sells fortunes. He felt it was encroaching on the Shrine's fortune business. He bemoaned the evils of a fast modern society with little traditional moral values.
 
Her mother's hair had the beginnings of light strands of grey. Kagome secretly hopped she wasn't the cause of the grey hair.
 
After dinner her mother presented her with a package that arrived in the mail a week ago. It was from Boog and postmarked over two weeks ago. She pulled it open and a tiny card fell out.
 
It read: Welcome home! Here's something to remember me by.
All my love, Boog.
 
Kagome tore into it and pulled out a DVD of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. She smiled remembering how she first watched it with Boog. Then she also found a CD, What a Long Strange Trip It's Been, the best of the Grateful Dead. They were Boog's favorite band.
 
Fatigue won over and soon Kagome was in her room lying on her bed watching The Holy Grail. While it was still funny, even if it was in English it'd been better with Boog. Her eyelids closed and sleep claimed her.
 
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
 
It was the night before she left for the US, Kagome jumped down the well one last time. She felt a bit like Alice down the rabbit hole. The well swallowed her whole than spat her out the other side. She was surprised when she pulled herself out and found Inuyasha sitting crossed legged on the ground facing the well. He would have made a perfect Cheshire cat, or dog, had he not been frowning. He wasn't going to see her off on her side of the well instead he waited for her to come to him. She shouldn't have been surprised. His head was harder than a sack of hammers.
 
“Inuyasha...?”
 
He looked up and said nothing.
 
“I needed to see you before I left.”
 
The wind caught his silver hair and blew it back over his shoulders. He leaned forward on his knuckles.
 
“Go home Kagome.”
 
He was always stubborn but today he was taking it to new heights.
 
“I know you're mad and I'm sorry. I should have told you. It was wrong of me to keep it from you. But this will be the last time we will see each other for three whole years. Please, Inuyasha. Don't be this way.”
 
He narrowed his golden eyes, knowing he should let it go but he felt she'd betrayed his trust. That one act proved how little regard she held for him. But then she was here, now with him. She cared enough to seek him out even though she knew he was angry and might abuse her with harsh words he would later regret. His face reddened as he glanced away breaking eye contact.
 
Kagome sat next to him tucking her legs under her body. He sorely missed her school uniform with its short skirt. Ever since she started university all she wore were those damned blue jeans.
 
“Have you thought about what I said before?”
 
He shook his head then contradicted himself, “Maybe.”
 
Kagome put her hand on his and his skin burned with the urge to reach for her or flee. “This school, this trip…they mean so much to me and my family. You are my closest and dearest friend. Distance will not change that.”
 
He turned his face back towards hers. “Yeah but you'll forget about me.”
 
To his surprise she laughed then leaned forward running her fingers through his hair. Inuyasha ducked before she touched his ears. “You are one of a kind Inuyasha! How could I ever forget you? How can there be anyone on this earth like you?
 
He rubbed his head. “I dunno but then you did seem to like that asshole wolf too.”
Kagome's hand froze in mid air. “What is wrong with you? You know I don't have feelings for Koga. Wake up Inuyasha! I'm here with you not him. But why does it matter? You're just like Hamlet! Poor spoiled prince, no one knows what you want or how you feel but we cater to your every whim! Well that ends today.”
 
She stood and put her hands on her hips. “Either suck it up and we can be friends or just walk away.”
 
Kagome waited and when there was no answer she spat, “Good bye Inuyasha.”
 
She turned and he leapt to his feet and wrapped her in his arms in a simple embrace. Her heart jumped but she reprimanded it and wondered, now what is he up to?
 
Then he stepped away. Kagome stumbled back to the well which was becoming a great gaping hole. “What was that?” she asked referring to the hug.
 
Inuyasha gave a thin shrug under his red kimono. “It's whatever you want it to be.”
 
She lifted her leg, bent her knee and snapped her shoe from her left foot. She held it for a nanosecond before lobbing it. The shoe caught Inuyasha hard across the side of his head. The sacred energy she charged it with knocked him to the ground. He was stunned. He expected to be `sat' not beaten with a filthy shoe.
 
Kagome hopped over to him, bent to retrieve her shoe and climbed into the well. Her jeans were gone and she was once again wearing her school uniform. Incensed Inuyasha yelled after her.
 
“Don't think this is finished! I will come for you!”
 
She panicked and began to climb instead of examining her change in outfits.
 
The well seemed bottomless and she continued to climb down into it. She was so angry that leaving Inuyasha was easier than she thought it would be. But Kagome knew later on she would feel the missing piece of herself she left behind in the well.
 
Kagome was still climbing down the well wall when she heard a high pitched chanting of the word “Nee” over and over.
 
She opened her eyes to see she was in her bed and King Arthur was bequeathing a shrubbery to the Knights of Nee. She rubbed her temples and reached for her bottle of water on the night stand. Her recollection of the last time she saw Inuyasha were very clear though there had been no Alice and Wonderland theme and he'd hadn't threatened to come for her, whatever that meant. Instead he'd hugged her and let her leave without a word.
 
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Summer of 2003:
 
Kagome loved her friends and her new `family' but she was going stir crazy with boredom. Now that the semester was over her mind was no longer distracted. Her brain whirred back to its usual fixation, Inuyasha. Boog suggested she find a part time job.
 
She found work at local coffee shop in the mall. The tips were nice but her evenings and afternoons were still empty. She lay in the pool during the afternoons reflecting on what it meant to be reincarnated.
 
Why were she and Kikyo so different if they were essentially the same soul? Kikyo hated her but they were closer to each other than sisters. If she was Kikyo's reincarnation did that mean everyone went from life to life continuously reincarnating?
 
If that's true than logically, Inuyasha's reincarnated form might be wandering this era leading a normal life. Would it be better to meet him here instead of pursuing him in the feudal era? The idea of a well behaved, modern reincarnated Inuyasha was too good to ignore.
 
Kagome became obsessed. She read book after book on reincarnation. The trouble was each book said something different. They hinted she should have some memory of her past life and she didn't. I wonder if this is because Kikyo isn't technically dead. That can't be it. She certainly died before now, 500 years in the future. No matter what she's dead in this era. So is Inuyasha… A chill ran its finger down her spine and she pushed the thought away.
 
She decided to visit a physic who claimed to understand past lives. Kagome knew there were frauds but she'd seem so much magic she was willing to give it a chance. The woman's name was Fey and she dressed like her name. She wore a flowery wispy peasant shirt and the whole office was decorated in fairies.
 
Kagome commented on the fairies and the woman expressed a great interest. So much so Kagome had the feeling she should leave and take her money with her. But she was already seated so she decided to give Fey a chance.
 
The large red headed woman clasped her hand in hers and closed her eyes. “You've lead many past lives…you are the late Queen Cleopatra.”
 
At this declaration Kagome stood, thanked the woman and left.
 
Florence was a small town and Boog quickly learned of Kagome's visit to Fey. She suggested she go see a woman who lived off Hampton rd. “Her name is Tammy and she does all sorts of things. If she's a scam artist than she will at least make sure you get your money's worth.”
 
Tammy was tall, thin and her skin was the color of roasted coffee beans. She was dressed out of Vogue and was striking enough to have modeled. Instead she worked out of her kitchen while she kept an eye on her four children. Kagome already felt at ease in the small homey kitchen where dried herbs hung from the ceiling.
 
Tammy's specialty was Voodoo. Kagome balked at first but Tammy insisted she stay and talk for awhile.
 
“What are you looking for?” She asked while pouring two tall glasses of sweet tea.
 
“Umm, I think I knew someone, from before. I need to know if that person has been reborn here in this time.” It sounds so crazy!
 
Tammy glanced up at her. “You are a holy woman?”
 
“Yes.”
 
“You've always been a priestess, it is your calling.”
 
“I haven't felt called lately.”
 
“You know of your past?” She sat across from Kagome at the round wooden table.
 
“Yes but I wasn't the same person…”
 
“No you wouldn't be.” Tammy gestured with her hands as she spoke. “Everyone has two souls or two parts.” She held up two fingers. “The first soul is called Gros that is your life force and it changes with each life. The second soul is the Ti Bon Ange. It leaves you with death and goes on. That is the part of you that has lived before. You are odd. You seem to be sharing your Ti Bon Ange.”
 
Kagome was fascinated. “That makes a lot of sense. Do you think you could help me find…him here?”
 
Tammy laughed. “Your lover? He has not found you, are you sure he is looking?”
 
“I don't know.” Kagome admitted and looked down at the table. She drank from her tea glass and noticed Tammy had added mint to the glass.
 
“What is his name?”
 
“Inuyasha.”
 
“He is more than human isn't he?”
 
Kagome nodded.
 
“He feels…almost canine…” She dismissed her words with a wave of her hand. “No matter he isn't here.”
 
Kagome's eyes went wide. “How can you be so sure?”
 
“He is the one connected with your Ti Bon Ange. He exists in
this time but he is the same as before not reincarnated. Baby I'm sorry. I know things aren't they way they are supposed to be.”
 
Kagome's eyes welled with tears. “Isn't there anything I can do?”
 
Tammy gave a kind smile. “Yes girl, you can listen to your mama and let him be. You can't fix a man who doesn't want to change.”
 
 
 
Notes:
 
Boog isn't a self insertion. She is meant to represent that one crazy life long friend we all meet when we go away to school.