InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Wish ❯ Unexpected Delays ( Chapter 5 )

A/N: Hi guys! Sorry it took me so long. This chapter was giving me alot of trouble. I think it turned out alright in the end though (crosses fingers).

 

Quick note: Whenever you see something in parentheses with astrixes (*something*), this is just something I thought and put in. All other parentheses (something) are in the story. I

have no idea if i spelled those long words correctly. Eeps. ^_^;

 

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Chapter 5

Unexpected Delays

 

When Inuyasha finally regained consciousness, he quickly realized one thing: he was in pain. `Damn wench. `Sit'-ting me so many times. What did I do wrong?'

 

But of course he knew what he'd done. He had practically thrown her down the well, without a way to get back, and went gallivanting off for two months. Well, it hadn't really been `gallivanting', but Inuyasha was willing to bet good money that was how Kagome would see it.

 

What he had actually done was make preparations for his wish. His plan was to find a way to bring everyone, Sango, Miroku, and Shippou, to Kagome's time. Of course, Kirara and Kohaku were welcome to come as well. And for that, he would need someone on the other side of the well. So Inuyasha implemented his master plan. Phase One: Find Sesshoumaru.

 

The trip its self was pleasant enough, but tracking down his brother proved to be almost impossible. It was sheer luck that Inuyasha happened to catch the scent of Rin and Jaken. The toad was not happy to see the hanyou and almost exploded when asked where `that bastard of a brother' was. Thankfully, Sesshoumaru appeared soon enough, and after a few regulatory insults and threats, Inuyasha made his proposition.

 

He was surprised when his brother voiced that the idea had some merit. He was further bowled over when Sesshoumaru freely offered his assistance. When asked why he was being so helpful, Sesshoumaru's response was, “The girl, Kagome, has show courage, compassion, and great patience towards all living things. For this alone, she has earned my respect. My assistance, she earned through her ability to put you in your proper place with but a single word.”

 

Inuyasha had wanted to slice his brother in two for that comment, but he also had to admit that Sesshoumaru had a point. Because of Kagome, he was a better demon, a better human, and a better hanyou. Because of Kagome, he had learned to accept all aspects of himself, and to no longer think that this one was weaker or this one was stronger, but as a whole, each side was both weak and strong in their own fashions. Because of Kagome, he had learned that everyone deserves a fair chance in the beginning. He would never just suddenly trust random strangers he just met. No, that would make him stupid, but he would give them an opportunity to prove themselves trustworthy. Because of Kagome, Inuyasha now had a reason to live his life.

 

After detailing Sesshoumaru's role in the future, Inuyasha made his way back to Kaede's village. The old hag wouldn't be joining the expedition, due to the fact that the village needed her and that she was just a little too old to be starting over in a new place and time. Shippou, of course, was delighted at the chance to visit Kagome's world. When it was explained that the `visit' was permanent, the kit merely asked if he would be staying with Kagome. Receiving an affirmation, Shippou simply grinned and started making up songs about living with Kagome.

 

Phase Two: Convince Sango and Miroku. Both were accustomed to items from Kagome's time, but neither was enthusiastic about uprooting entirely. Luckily, Inuyasha really only had to persuade Sango that the wish was a good idea for the houshi to agree as well. The hanyou's tactic involved psychiatrists, which Kagome had explained to him one night after a rather nasty encounter with Kohaku. Her mind at peace with thoughts that the move to the future would be better for Kohaku, Sango agreed. As expected, when enlightened of the slayer's change of mind, Miroku was quick to jump at the chance as well.

 

With all the people in place, all that was needed now was the Shikon Jewel. Inuyasha kept it with him at all times, trying to think only the purest thoughts (*snorts with laughter*) he could. It was a little difficult, especially when dealing with Sesshoumaru, but he managed and the Jewel had remained pure. On the agreed day, one week after Kagome had been sent home, Inuyasha, Sango, Shippou, Miroku, Kohaku, and Kirara all arrived at the Goshinboku to meet Sesshoumaru and put Phase Three: Travel Through Time into motion. Once reassured by Sesshoumaru that all would be taken care of for their arrival, Inuyasha and company, save Sesshoumaru, gathered around the Shikon Jewel.

 

Inuyasha had taken every precaution and had written out exactly what he was planning to ask the Jewel. Sango, Miroku, and even Kaede had each gone over the wish with a fine-toothed comb in search of any flaws. Finally, after every last detail and every possible loophole was covered and plugged, Inuyasha was confident enough to proceed. Taking the Jewel in hand, Inuyasha cleared his throat and spoke his wish.

 

No one was entirely sure how the jewel would grant the wish, but the blinding flash of pinkish light wasn't really a surprise. Everyone, Sesshoumaru included, had to cover their eyes from the glare. There were no words spoken, only an immense feeling of acceptance pulsing through the light. Gradually, the brightness began to fade and Inuyasha could vaguely see the construct surrounding the well. A quick check established that all persons (and firecats) were present and Inuyasha sighed in relief. They'd made it.

 

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“Is he okay? Do you think we should call a doctor?”

 

“What happened to Higurashi-san? She was standing over there just a moment ago.”

 

`Wait. She left?' Inuyasha's brain was still completely scrambled from all the `osuwari'

commands Kagome had unleashed, but he managed to process that last statement fairly quick. He groaned loudly, as he attempted to remove himself from the crevice he was currently lying in. He made it to a kneeling position before having to stop and let his youkai blood diminish his headache. `No, not headache. Major explosion in brain is more like it.'

 

The crowd of chattering students and faculty was beginning to get on his nerves. `Time to move away from these idiots and go find Kagome.'

 

Inuyasha's eyes and mind finally stopped spinning in anime-esque swirls and he was able to stand. Choosing to ignore all people and property damage around him, Inuyasha made his way down to the first floor and out the front doors. Once outside, he leapt to the top of the building so he could remove his disguise.

 

`I'm actually really glad I asked Sesshoumaru to help. Otherwise I wouldn't have gotten this new toy.' Inuyasha smirked down at the watch adorning his wrist. It had a simple black band and was rimmed in silver. Little black numbers dotted the face as the second hand ticked rhythmically. But the watch's basic design was not what Inuyasha liked about the device. What he liked was the illusion spell that was cast into the mechanics. The spell allowed the wearer to set what he wanted his appearance to be and, as long as the battery worked or the watch was in contact with skin, take on that appearance. Sesshoumaru had given him this watch the first day he and everyone else had arrived. Shippou also received one, although his was a little more colorful.

 

Slipping off the device, Inuyasha felt the magic surrounding him like a second skin fade away. Gone was the polite, platinum blond, hazel-eyed human youth of modern day Tokyo. In his stead was a surly, silver-haired, golden-eyed hanyou from five hundred years in the past. Inuyasha blinked his eyes in the bright sunlight, for the spell also dulled his demonic senses, making it easier for him to live in the human world. Air and noise pollution were offensive to his keen nose and ears. Taking a deep breath of toxic city air, the hanyou couldn't help but feel relieved as he flopped down on the roof of the school and proceeded to lie on his back staring at the blue sky.

 

True, the wide-open spaces of his native environment had changed drastically since the Sengoku Jidai. However, Inuyasha wasn't homesick. At least, not anymore. When his friends and he had first arrived in the future seven weeks ago, every single one of them had felt an astute pang of separation anxiety. The feelings hadn't lasted long; a couple days at most, due to the fact that none of them really had much to call home or family, save for their rag-taggle group.

 

Miroku's father had died when he was young and Mushin was better at being a drunken letch of a monk then a father figure. Sango only needed Kohaku and, since her family and village had been avenged, she had no real ties to the abandoned slayer fortress. Shippou had viewed Kagome and Inuyasha as his surrogate parents shortly after revenge had been carried out on his father's murderers, so he would follow them to the ends of the earth. As for Inuyasha… Inuyasha had decided long ago that Kagome was home, hearth, and family to him.

 

Inuyasha sighed. `Two months. It's been two months since the last time I held her, smelled her, argued with her. I hadn't realized how much I'd missed her `til today.' He pushed himself into a sitting position, bracing his weight on his hands behind him. `The last seven weeks have been hell.'

 

He chuckled as he thought back to Sango and Miroku's first experience with a car. Sesshoumaru had met the group at the Higurashi Shrine, as he and Inuyasha had agreed. He had been living among humans for the last five hundred years and was going to be the one to help the others adjust to modern life. Inuyasha already had a firm grasp on the concept, but hey, every little bit helps.

 

Since they had left the well house, the older slayer and the houshi had been jumping at every unfamiliar sound. Inuyasha had already heard all these noises before so nothing was surprising him. Shippou, Kirara, and, amazingly enough, Kohaku were taking all the new sights and sounds in stride. Inuyasha supposed that being the “brainless” minion of a shape-shifting, power-mongering bastard of the scum of the earth was enough to desensitize anyone to the most bizarre occurrences, even is said minion couldn't remember a dang thing. At the bottom of the main shrine stairs was Sesshoumaru's limo. According to Kagome, only very rich people could afford such vehicles, so evidently Sesshoumaru had done very well for himself the past five centuries.

 

Seeing his two friends startling at the sight of such a large “monstrosity”, as Miroku dubbed the limo, was funny in and of its self. Further hilarity ensued when Sesshoumaru briefly explained the use of the “monstrosity”. The two humans, who had collapsed on the stairs from shock, turned a deathly pale at the thought of entering such an obviously dangerous contraption. Even Inuyasha paled slightly, for he had never been inside one of these vee-ickles before.

 

Many threats and much coaxing later, all six (plus firecat) of the limo's occupants were calmer and beginning to slowly accept their new surroundings. As the chauffer (otherwise known as Jaken) drove into downtown Tokyo, Sesshoumaru began to outline how things were going to be. He had leased the penthouse next to his own for the friends to live in and had arranged for a tutor of sorts to come and help all of them to understand their new lives. A psychiatrist, specializing in repressed memories, would be on-call for Kohaku's benefit. Shippou would start elementary school the coming fall, while Sango would attend the local high school with Kagome, giving both of them plenty of time to prepare. Sesshoumaru had already decided that Miroku should come and work for him at his Fortune500 Company, InuWest, Inc., as a real estate consultant. In other words, if a piece of land Sesshoumaru wanted to buy had a curse or was haunted, Miroku would go in and solve the problem. He was to be paid a healthy retainer's fee and work was surprisingly abundant, especially if his new boss allowed him to work for other companies.

 

Inuyasha also planned to go to Kagome's high school, but starting specifically on the girl's birthday. He chose this date, no earlier and no later, for two reasons. One, no matter how badly he wanted to see her, Inuyasha still had a lot to learn about the modern age. This deadline was a little extreme, but he figured if he tried really hard, he'd be ready. And two, he had said he wanted to surprise her for her birthday. He didn't want to ruin his “present” by showing himself to soon.

 

`Hm,' Inuyasha frowned. `Kagome did seem more upset than happy to see me.' He promptly smacked himself in the head. `Well, duh. I'd be mad too, if I was her.' Inuyasha rotated his left shoulder, trying to get the kinks out of his muscles caused by placing too much weight on his arms and multiple sits. After switching and relaxing his other shoulder, he stood and arched backwards, cracking his lower to mid-spinal vertebrae. He than twisted his neck side to side, receiving a couple of tiny pops. A short jog in place and shaking his hands out finished up Inuyasha's stretches. He was now primed and ready to face Kagome`s Wrath.

 

Crossing his fingers, he quickly whispered, “Here's hoping she's calmed down enough.” With that final statement, Inuyasha bounded off the roof and towards his doom, er, the shrine.