InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inu-yasha: The Modern Adventures ❯ The Well ( Chapter 1 )

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

Inu-yasha: The Modern Adventures

Authors note: This will be a long storyline, so be prepared for
that. Since this storyline will mainly take place in modern
times, Kagome's family will be a very important part of the
story. So, I will be naming her mother and grandfather. Also:
Most of my other stories do NOT apply to this. (When and if a
story does, I will inform the reader.)

Kagome is 17 years 6 months old at the beginning of the story. 2
and one half years after the beginning of her and Inu-yasha's
adventures.

Summary: The adventures of Inu-yasha and Kagome on her side of
the well. There are dangers in the present time. And now those
dangers are after Inu-yasha and Kagome. Inu-yasha/Kagome

Warning: language and Violence. (Sexual situations in later
chapters.)



Chapter one: The Well

The place: Feudal Japan

"DIE, FUCKER!" Inu-yasha screams, as he flies in the air at the
huge twenty foot tall Oni-demon, that is attacking Kagome for the
jewel shards, he swings his sword through the Oni's chest,
killing him. The Oni falls to the ground on top of the Bone
Eaters well, smashing the wooden wall of the well.

The Oni had the misfortune of attacking Inu-yasha and Kagome, as
they were having their traditional, ‘I need to go to school!/No!
You don't!' argument in front of the well.

"Inu-yasha!" Kagome screams, as she points at the bits of rubble
that flies out from under the Oni's body, "the Well!" Tears well
up in her eyes, instantly, as she panics at the thought of the
well's destruction.

Inu-yasha lands on the ground on the other side of the dead Oni,
he grins nastily, his fangs showing, and yells, "Great! I
Finally won that argument!"

"SIT, BOY!"

THUMP!

"SIT, BOY! SIT, BOY! SIT, BOY!" Kagome screams as she turns and
runs toward the God Tree.

"Go after her." Miroku hisses at Sango, as he runs toward Inu-
yasha. Sango nods, and picks up Shippo and runs after Kagome.
They had been off to one side watching the fight between Inu-
yasha and Kagome. The fight with the Oni was over quick enough
that they didn't need to move to help Inu-yasha.

"Wench!" Inu-yasha hisses in pain at the bottom of his crater. He
lifts his head, as the spell begins to wear off. "Ouch!" he
hisses, as Miroku's staff hits his head.

"I would suggest, Inu-yasha, that you pray to whatever gods that
will listen to you." Miroku begins to speak, "And I suggest you
pray that the well shaft is intact. So all we have to due is to
remove the rubble, rebuild the top of the well and the well still
works."

Inu-yasha, grimaces as stands up. The crater he is in, is one of
the deepest he remembers, especially for only four ‘sits'. ‘Fuck
‘ He thinks, ‘She's really pissed.' He looks in the direction
that Kagome ran off in. Miroku moves into his path, shaking he's
head. Inu-yasha grimaces again.

"Let Sango and Shippo talk to her." Miroku says in a soft voice.
He raises his eyebrow, "unless, of course, you are suddenly
eloquent enough to apologize to her." He pauses, then says, "And
you do know that she'll want a real, spoken and heartfelt
apology, this time."

"Feh." Inu-yasha mumbles as he looks at the ground.

"Ashamed?"

After an instants pause Inu-yasha snarls, "No, monk, I'm trying
to figure out where to throw the Oni's body at." Inu-yasha and
Miroku look around and begin to clean up the area.


At the God Tree


Sango finds Kagome sitting down in the roots of the God tree,
hugging the tree and crying. Shippo jumps off Sango's shoulder
and slowly approaches Kagome. "Kagome?" he whispers.


Sango thinks, ‘All the times that she's been understanding and
compassionate for us. Now is the time for me to be understanding
and compassionate'

Kagome looks at him, her eyes red with tears, she grabs him and
hugs him close. Sango sits down next to her, placing her giant
boomerang off to one side. She reaches out and pulls Kagome to
her. "Cry on my shoulder, my friend, Kagome." She whispers.

Kagome cries as Sango and Shippo hug her.

Minutes pass before Kagome begins to sniffle and stop crying.

"Everything will work out." Sango whispers.

"No!" Kagome cries. "The well is gone!"

"Maybe." Shippo says, "it's just the top of the well is gone,
Kagome." He shrugs. "Maybe we can remove the body and rubble and
the well shaft will still be there. You know, like when Inu-yasha
shoved that tree down the well and blocked it."

"And it'll still work?" Kagome whispers.

Shippo swallows and nods. "Yes."

"Sango?" Kagome asks.

Sango nods. "Kagome, if there's one thing that I've learned from
you, it's to look on the good side about things. So." She pauses,
then continues, "let us fix the well, then try it, before we
assume it's broken."

Kagome hugs Sango tightly. "I'm afraid." She whispers.

Sango hugs her back. "Don't be, Kagome. We'll be here for you no
matter what."

Shippo hugs Kagome as he whispers, "Yeah."

Kagome swallows hard and nods. She closes her eyes and thinks,
‘They're right. I have to be strong.' She releases her death grip
on Sango and leans back against the God Tree. She sighs, heavily.

"When I see Inu-yasha," Shippo growls. "I am going to get him."
He holds out a hand and extends his claws. "He should have known
where the body was going to fall and forced it to fall somewhere
else."

Kagome looks at Sango, concern shining in her eyes.

Sango shrugs and replies to Shippo's statement. "He probably
thought that he had no choice, Shippo. From my experience, he had
to attack then, or let the Oni reach Kagome."

"He could have grabbed her, when the Oni appeared and got her out
of the way." Shippo grumbles.

"Shippo, he was pissed off when the Oni appeared." Sango remarks.
"You know he sometimes goes looking for fights after Kagome
leaves."

"He does?" Kagome asks.

Sango looks at her and nods. "Not all the time, Kagome, just
sometimes."

"Yea, especially after some of the nasty fights." Shippo adds.

"And he attacked the Oni, instantly, to get rid of his
frustrations?" Kagome asks.

Sango nods. "Although most of the times, he just sulks in the God
Tree. It's only after the really bad fights that he goes out
looking for something to attack."

Kagome grimaces as she thinks, ‘So if we hadn't been fighting,
the well would still be there.' She sighs, ‘I've got to do
something to stop the fights. Maybe that old ‘count to ten'
trick.' She mentally shakes her head, ‘I've tried that before and
it didn't work. SO. . . . Is that a reason not to try it again,
and this time try harder? NO.'

Kagome nods her head. ‘I'll try it again, then. Hopefully this
time, it'll work.' She narrows her eyes, ‘and this time, I think
I'll explain that trick to Inu-yasha, maybe with both of us using
it, it'll work.'

"Kagome?" Sango asks, she can see that Kagome is thinking hard
about something.

Kagome gives Sango a slight smile, "Just thinking about ways to
stop the fights."

Sango reaches out and squeezes Kagome's shoulder. "If anyone can,
It's you, Kagome."

Kagome sighs and whispers, "I just wish that he hadn't had
sounded so glad that well was destroyed."


Sango and Shippo grimace. Sango says, "You know him, Kagome. He
never thinks about what he says . . . " She trails off.

Kagome nods. She licks her lips. "Should I give him a chance to
explain?"

"No!" Shippo cries.

Sango allows a lopsided grin to appear on her lips, "you always
do."

Kagome's mouth twitches into a grin.

Sango then says, "but, if I were you, I'd force him to stew in
his own juices for a while. And, make sure that when he does
explain, he includes a real apology. Not one of his, ‘Feh. I
meant something else.' Apologies."

"Yeah." Shippo agrees.

Kagome nods. She thinks for a couple of minutes, then smiles. She
grabs Sango and Shippo and starts to whisper in their ears.

The next day, at the Bone Eater well, early morning.

Everyone worked through the night cleaning and repairing the
Well. (They borrowed some work tools from the village.) Since
Kagome did not want Inu-yasha or her to use it, until the well
was fixed, Sango and Miroku did the cleaning of the well shaft.
Inu-yasha did most of the rebuilding of the upper, visible part
of the well. Kagome helped out, until she hit her thumb with a
hammer, (her klutz factor is working), and she bruised a finger,
after that Inu-yasha didn't want her to do anything.

'He is taking his time.' Kagome thinks, as she watches Inu-yasha
gently place one of the newly cut pieces of wood in place, like a
3-D jigsaw puzzle. 'No. He is putting the well back together
again from his memory.' Her right hand goes to her mouth and she
starts to suck on the forefinger. (She had jammed it earlier when
the hammer slipped.)

'He memorized the position of every piece of wood and stone in
the well.' She continues. 'It means that much to him. Is it
because I'm his 'shard detector' and the well is needed to get
me? Or is it me? Please, whatever god that is listening to my
thoughts, please let it be me.'

Midmorning

"I think it is ready, Kagome." Miroku says as he looks down the
shaft.

Kagome looks at the Well and concentrates on her Miko abilities
like Keade taught her to do. (A few months ago, as it became
harder and harder to locate shards, Keade hinted that if Kagome
learned some traditional Miko detection spells/abilities, she
could apply that knowledge to help her locate Jewel Shards. Since
then, Kagome, when she has time, has been practicing. She has
been able to improve her previous abilities to see supernatural
things and has added to that the ability to see the personal
auras of what is around her. And it has improved her Jewel Shard
detection ability to a degree.)


She looks at the well. She, instantly, grimaces, closes her eyes
and turns away.

"Kagome?" Sango asks in a concerned voice. The others, including
Inu-yasha, were about to say something, she just beat them to it.

She shakes her head and says, "Sango. There is a massive amount
of magic around the Well and I wasn't prepared for it."

"Oh."


"So the well still works." Inu-yasha grumbles.

Kagome shakes her head, again. "I can't tell that, Inu-yasha,
just that there is a lot of magic here."

"Unless ability."

Kagome glares at him and angrily says, "I've only been using that
ability for a couple of weeks, Inu-yasha, Ok. I'll get better at
it."

"Yeah, right." He replies in an offhand manner.

"I've gotten better with my archery, Inu-yasha. I'll get better
with this as well." She replies heatedly.

Inu-yasha bristles and he is about to say something, but Miroku's
staff hits his head. Inu-yasha spins around, his fist forming.
Miroku whispers, "I thought that you were going to apologize to
her, not make her mad."

Inu-yasha opens and closes his mouth soundlessly. Then he says,
"Feh." In a loud tone.




Into the silence following Inu-yasha's ‘Feh', Shippo asks Kagome,
"Are you sure that you want to go first?"

Kagome turns and glares at Inu-yasha as she replies, "Yes.
Absolutely sure." Her eyes heat up as she meets his stare. She
waves her hand a nearby Inu-yasha crater. "I won that argument
earlier."

"Feh." Inu-yasha says with his arms crossed against his chest.

"How long will you be gone?" Sango asks.

Kagome licks her lips, "If the well works." She pauses. "Today is
Saturday. I want to use today and tomorrow for some intense
studying. I've got tests on Monday and Tuesday. So. . . .
Wednesday morning."

"Your fucking tests end Tuesday afternoon, bitch. Be here by
sunset Tuesday, or I'm coming to get you." Inu-yasha hisses.

Kagome narrows her eyes and steps onto the edge of the well.
"Wednesday morning, dawn."

"Tuesday, sunset."

"Inu-yasha, we're not going anywhere Tuesday night, and I'd like
one last bath and to sleep in my bed." She pauses, then,
"Please."

Inu-yasha shakes his head.

"I'll be better rested and so, I'll be able to travel further on
Wednesday."

He growls, deep in his chest. "Fine Wednesday. Dawn. And I mean
it. And you're not getting a break until lunch."

Kagome pauses, and then she nods.

‘And now,' Kagome thinks, ‘It's time to try the well. Just do it,
Kagome. Don't think, just do.'


She smiles and points to her bag, which is lying a few meters
from the well. "Could you please get that for me, Inu-yasha?"




His eyes shift to the bag, and he takes a step toward it.

then . . .

"Bye! Sit, boy!" Kagome cries as she jumps into the well.

THUMP!

Everyone lets out a sigh of relief when a blue glow appears in
the well and Kagome vanishes.

"Now!" Shippo cries as he runs toward the still subdued Inu-
yasha.

Inu-yasha grunts as Sango jumps on his back and holds back his
arms, pinning him for the moment. Inu-yasha twists. 'Sango is
strong, but I'm stronger.' He thinks as he breaks her grip, only
to realize he was fighting the wrong person, as Shippo's stone
fox statue lands on his neck, pinning him to the ground.

"What the fuck!" Inu-yasha screams as he tries, unsuccessfully to
remove the statue.

"Kagome made us promise to make sure that you stayed here for at
least a day." Sango says as she stands up, brushing herself off.
Miroku slips up next to her, to help her, of course.

"Pervert!" She slaps Miroku.

"There was dirt!" he says. "I was just trying to help you get
clean."

"When I get free, runt." Inu-yasha growls at Shippo.

Miroku bends down and places a spell scroll on Inu-yasha's mouth,
sealing it. "Inu-yasha. You're going to be trapped here. If you
yell and scream, you'll attract demons and such. So, I'm sealing
your mouth to protect you."

"mmmhhhmmm . . . "

"And here, I thought that you just didn't want to listen to his
curses." Shippo remarks.

Miroku smiles.

"Kirara," The cat demon nods. (While the others were busy
repairing the well, she was patrolling around, guarding them.)

Sango continues with, "you and Shippo, stay with Inu-yasha."
Sango orders. "The monk and I will take the tools back to the
village and get some food. We'll be back in a little while."

"Maybe a nap as well?" Miroku suggests, "We have been up all
night."

Sango purses her lips together. "Maybe. Let's talk about that on
the way to the village."

Miroku nods.

Shippo asks, "you mean I get to protect him?"

Miroku nods.

Shippo grins . . . an evil grin . . .

After Sango and Miroku leave, Shippo walks in front of Inu-yasha,
his hands behind his back, with that same evil grin on his face.
Inu-yasha glares at him. Shippo says in a sly tone, "You know,
Kagome left her bag, and in it, was this." He pulls out the
finger painting set that Kagome brought for him to play with.

Shippo's grin grows. "Three guesses as to who will be my canvas."

the End chapter one

Chapter two: Mrs. Higurashi

Preview.

She quickly opens the door and enters the house. "Mother?" She
asks in a trembly voice.

Even with most of the lights on, the house feels empty.

There is a lingering smell of cigarets near the door. She sees
her mother sitting on the sofa in the living room. A book, it
looks like one of the family's photo albums, is clenched against
her chest. On the low table in front of her is a half-empty glass
of water and an unorganized pile of papers.

Her mother is crying, softly . . .

"Mom?" Kagome asks, again, in a louder voice, "What's wrong?"


Author's Note: I have no idea when I'll be updating, there is no
set schedule.

Since this story will be set on Kagome's side of the well, I
decided to give you, the reader, a short scene with everyone
before I concentrate only on Inu-yasha and Kagome.

Will this story have demons in the future? Yes. But, I'm not
planning on introducing them quickly. First I want to explore a
bit about Kagome's family. (It'll be probably 10 chapters, if not
longer, before any major scene with a demon occurs.)

Questions about details about future demons? You'll just have to
wait on the answers. (Although, I will state up front that
Sesshomaru will be in the future. Anyone beyond that . . . grin.
You'll just have to sweat it.)

Pairings: Inu-yasha/kagome (I am planning some twists, of course)
Miroku/Sango. (Although, since this is going to set on Kagome's
side of the well, their scenes will be limited, sorry.)
Sesshomaru/guess/guess/guess. (Yes, I am planning three different
females to be involved with him.)
Kouga/Ayame (very small parts, sorry.)


thank you for reading
jeff shelton