InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Just a Little While ❯ Just a Little While ( One-Shot )

With dull thump, barely noticeable to any but him, his feet touched the bottom of the old well on her side of time. He looked up at the dark beams that supported the roof to the old well house, he sighed, ‘would he ever see the bright blue of the sky again?’ He easily leap out of the well and perched on the lip. He ran a calloused and clawed hand through his silky silver hair. ‘Silky because of the shampoo she brings for us.’ his golden eyes reflected the dim light that her family left inside of her whenever she came home, so it wouldn’t be dark and gloomy. With a careful step down off the edge of the well he buried his toes in the hard packed soil that made the floor. He had promised to come back here and notify her family, since she no longer could. ‘They will kill me, I will never see the bright skies and the clean scent of the forest will never grace my nose again.’ with a loud sigh the hanyou squared his shoulders and clenched his jaw as he climbed the short flight of stairs to the wooden floor around the well. The floor groaned as if in agony as he walked over it. He slid the door open and flinched at the cheery sky over the house he was starting to dread. ‘How am I going to let them know what had become of their daughter, their sister, their grandchild.’

Her brother was joyfully kicking a ball with black and white spots around several old buckets and a broom. He kicked it hard and it flew over the broom and he jumped up and down in joy as he waved his arms about. Suddenly his bravado left him and he stepped back into the well house. He gulped as he gathered his resolve and stepped once more onto the shrine grounds. The boy had turned to go after his ball and InuYasha briefly thought of dashing for the door. As he was poised to flee, the child turned to him with a wide grin.

“InuYasha!” he exclaimed in glee, it had been a while since he had seen the boy, she had told him he was gone in a camp during the summer. He forced a toothy grin on his face, no need to worry him.

“Hey runt.” he spoke gruffly. Only she would know the tone as one of his walls to keep emotion at bay. ‘will he hate me for taking his sister away?’

“Where’s sis?” he asked with the ball in his arms, he looked around InuYasha to the well house.

“Is your mother home?” he asked Souta, ignoring the question. A look of complete horror crossed his face and InuYasha’s ears fell flat to his head, so flat they hid in his hair.

“What’s the wrong with sis?” He dropped the ball and grabbed onto the rough fabric of his clothing.

“Is she home?” he repeated, sadness in his voice. He felt like he was going to an execution in which he was the one to be beheaded.

“Yes, where is Kagome?” he shrieked, he freaked out as he started the desperately grab at InuYasha as if the shirt held the answers.

“Souta?” the gentle voice of his mother called, a hint of worry in her voice. “Oh InuYasha, Is Kagome with you?”

“He won’t tell me where she is!” Souta cried as he turned and ran to his mother, burying his face into her apron. She looked up at InuYasha in alarm.

“Where is my daughter, InuYasha.” she said harshly, more harshly then she might have intended. He gulped and took a step back. His ears flattened even more to his skull. He looked to the ground and at his dusty brown feet. “I will not ask again young man, Where is my Daughter?”

“She can’t come back.” he said it with a whisper, a whisper felt but not heard.

“What do you mean she can’t come back?” Her mother said shocked. He looked over at her, his golden eyes misting over with unshed tears.

“I made a mistake, and she can’t come back.” he said again in a whisper.

“What did you do.” It was a statement more then a question. She looked at him with accusations in her brown eyes, so much like Kagome’s it scared him.

“I didn’t mean to, it’s my fault she can’t, she asked me to come here to tell you,” he spoke as he looked at the ground.

“My god, sh-she’s dead isn’t she?” Kagome mother said as a sob rushed out. “My baby girl is dead.”

“Sis is gone?” He looked over at InuYasha with wide pleading eyes and he knew at once it had taken the wrong turn. He cursed at himself for not being better with words.

“No, she’s not dead.”

“She’s alive?” her mother questioned as she let go of Souta and grabbed InuYasha by the hair that was hanging down by his cheeks. She pulled his face to hers, a dangerous half demon with the power to crush her, close to her own face.

“Yes, she sent me to give you this, knowing I would mess it up.” He gulped as she released his hair, a few silver strands stuck between the fingers. He handed her a piece of paper from one of her ‘note books’ as she called them.

She opened it and read it, her expression going from relief to joy to anger to pure disappointment. “She can’t return for nine months? Is that what you were trying to say? By telling us that it was your fault?” he simply nodded. “Why didn’t you just read it to us?”

“The writing is different then my time’s I can’t understand much of it.” he admitted as he realized she wasn’t going to rip his throat out.

“Would you like me to read it to you?” she asked gently.

“I think I know what is about, but yes, I would you to.” He asked gently his ears making an appearance.

“Dear Mama, I am not dead, and since I know how InuYasha is with words have decided to write this letter out should he mess up. I love him, mama, I really do and now that the quest for the shards are done and Naraku is dead, we are at peace. Miroku and Sango have gotten married and are expecting a child in 8-9 months. When they married me and InuYasha did too. I want a formal ceremony in my time with my family but I was afraid the well would close before we had the chance to get married. I am sorry for doing this without your permission mama, but I hope you will bless our marriage. We married one month ago and I have discovered I cannot pass through the well. I have missed my period this month and I figured why I cannot pass. I do not mean to disappoint you by getting pregnant but I am happy. I know that InuYasha will never be alone again. He has me, our unborn child and Miroku, Sango, their unborn child and Shippo to stay by his side. It was our choice, and it is by no means his fault although he seems quite adamant about it. I do not regret what we shared, only happiness. I wish you can understand what is has been like for him. I only wish is that my child has ears like his. Love Kagome.” She finished.

“She doesn’t regret it?” He spoke.

“No Kagome has never regretted much of anything.” She sighed as she folded the paper up and stuck it in her apron. “I give you my blessing, it must have been a beautiful wedding.” A thought stuck InuYasha then.

“She had a thing that took pictures, a little box.” he fished around in his sleeves and pulled out a disposable camera. He handed it to her. “she was using it all night and she taught the monk to use it.” she held it and smiled.

“I will get these developed then. InuYasha can you stay for a bit? I have some shopping to do and will be back in a bit.” She said and InuYasha nodded. He and Souta sat on the steps to the house as her mother came back arms full of bags InuYasha stood to take some inside and she told him to sit.

“This is a video camera. It takes batteries so she will not need to charge it.” She smiled and continued, “Here are the tapes for it and the extra batteries. I want every moment recorded of my baby girl.” he nodded not sure what a video camera did.

“This is a book for Kagome. And some vitamins she will need. The rest are the supplies she normally gets. I want you to come back with the videos every month.”

“I will Mrs. Higurashi.” he said as he took all the bags and stood.

“Keep my daughter safe and love her with all your heart.”

“I will Mrs. Higurashi.”

“Please call me mama, you’re my son now.” She said as she hugged him. “I will you and her in a little while then, 9 months isn’t so long.”