InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Mourning of the Bloody Valentine ❯ Envisioned ( Chapter 23 )

A/N: Okay thanks for a whole bunch of great reviews! I didn't think that people would accept Kouga's death so easily...ah, he wasn't very important anyway. My friend Mel will kill me when she finds out I killed him off, so I'll just keep this hush-hush. Okay my Microsoft font is working again so everything is better now! Alright! I'll start up just so you can see what happens to Kagome and InuYasha.

Mourning of the Bloody Valentine

Chapter Twenty-Three : Envisioned

I peered out the window as the rain came down heavily on the silver minivan's windshield. I looked at InuYasha, who smiled gently at me as soft music leaked out of the radio.

I bent back the car seat, and rested comfortably.

"Going to sleep?" InuYasha asked, `keh'ing. He looked at me, raising an eyebrow, "You're so lazy."

"Correction: You're so lazy. And besides, you're driving, so I can rest."

"Keh."

I closed my eyes with a small smile, and drifted off into a peaceful slumber.

I was back home, by the Goshinboku tree. I was sitting with my back against it, when a boy ran up to me. The sun was in my eyes and I couldn't see his face. I could make out baggy clothes he was wearing, and a big grin on his childish face.

"Kagome! Kagome!" He cheered as he danced around me.

I sat glumly still.

"What's wrong, Kagome!" He exclaimed, stomping on the black ants scurrying on the pavement.

"Daddy's leaving." I said sullenly. My mind was racing, Why was I back to this time?

"Oh." The boy looked disturbed. "MY dad left after I was born." He said slowly.

"Really?" I looked at him sadly.

"Yuh-huh." He nodded quickly, "And it doesn't hurt here," he pointed to his heart, "anymore."

I nodded; glad. "Hey...my friends said that if you make a promise with someone with blood, you have to keep it."

"Really?" His eyes widened and mouth dropped open. He suddenly looked at me. "You wanna promise somethin, Kagome?"

"...Okay!"

The next bit was a blur of getting a knife from my kitchen without Mom noticing.

Later, we both sat in the well house on the shrine grounds. When we heard Grandpa coming, we both jumped inside the dark Bone Eater's Well. We sat there in the dark, and he took the small knife and cut a slanted slit on the pad of his thumb. He cut my thumb for me too, and before we pressed our fingers together, he said to me.

"We promise on our blood to..." He looked lost.

"To...to...to love each other..." I blushed and he darkened too.

"And to...find each other later years from now?" He asked slowly.

"And to be together forever!" I smiled and we pressed our thumbs together.

I stirred for a second, and remembering the last piece of my dream, looked at my right thumb.

Everything looked normal before the slanting scar became visible. I squinted for a second, and dropped back to sleep.

"Bye Kagome!" He waved to me as he ran off, turning to wave.

"Don't forget our promise!" I yelled back.

"I won't!"

"Good!"

"And Kagome! One day I'll come back for you! ..." He was silent for a second. "I love you!" Blushing, he ran off.

I stood there, red and shocked. I shook my head and headed back to the house filled with arguing with a sad sigh.

Two hours later of deep sleep, I woke up when InuYasha pulled over at a gas station.

"Kagome..." He said, arousing me from sleep.

"Huh? Where are we, InuYasha?" Somehow his name just rolled off my tongue so easily.

"Gas station," he said, his eyes soft. He smiled largely at me, to which I laughed and unbelted myself.

As I walked into the shop and he pumped more gas, I stretched and looked through the food on the racks. I gulped hungrily looking at the cold sandwiches and box lunches of rice and cold chicken and fish.

InuYasha must have known my hunger, because as he walked in to pay the gas, he handed me a 2000 yen bill, with which I bought enough food for the rest of the day.

We snacked on chips and dried noodles as InuYasha kept driving.

"Say, InuYasha, where are we going?" I asked, my mouth half way full.

He shrugged. "I know a place."

I immediately raise my eyebrow, "A place for what exactly?" Was he trying to lure me into some sex trap? Well, I wasn't exactly ready to give myself up!

He noticed my puzzlement. "Oh, just a kind of safe house."

"Really."

"Hm." He grunted his reply. "Yeah, it's an old place my Ma owned and Sesshomaru just hasn't had enough free time to sell it off yet. And it's...memories, too ya know. My family lived there for a while."

"Oh? For how long?" I licked the chip dust from my fingertips, wary of the scar on my thumb. I reached for another bag of groceries and ripped open another chip bag.

"Several years. Yeah."

I decided not to press the matter. No matter how close we were, there were always some things we didn't have to tell each other. If we knew everything about one another, our relationship would be pretty boring.

It was silent in the car except for the crunching of chips and slurping of cold green tea.

"So..." InuYasha started, breaking the comfortable silence, "How was your family?"

I thought for a second, and swallowed the chewed chips in my mouth.

"Well, I guess you've never met my brother."

InuYasha nodded silently and glanced at me to encourage me to talk.

"Well his name's Souta and he's ten. Or eleven. I can't remember, but anyways, I have my mom, too. And Buyo, my fatty catty." I smiled at the memories.

"Yeah, I had my mom and a brother too." InuYasha agreed, "No fat cat though."

"What about your dad?" I found myself asking. I knew this must be a sore subject since he hadn't mentioned him, but I asked anyway.

"Well..." He cleared his throat, "He left when I was born. Didn't want another kid to stiff up his sex life."

I nodded, "Yeah my Dad left after Souta was born. He came back for a while after, when I was 15. But he...left again a year later."

InuYasha frowned, "Why'd he come and go?"

I chuckled sarcastically, "Well when he came he was different. Not the loving father that left us because of `work'. He...was different."

"Whaddya mean, Kagome?" he looked concerned.

"He was mean to Souta, he slapped Mom once. And he touched me sometimes..." I mumbled, knowing InuYasha's acute ears would pick it up.

"WHAT?" The minivan swerved because of InuYasha jerking his over to my direction.

"Yeah. I told my Mom, and she kicked him out."

"That's...good...for your Mom, I mean. Now that's he's gone. That bastard."

"InuYasha..." I warned.

"So...where does he live now?" he asked innocently.

"Whoa, no more pulling anything violent. It's in the past...he could've done worse...so just don't make it more than it is?" I pleaded.

"It IS serious, though Kagome! I care about you and this is bad!" He said gruffly.

"I know, but it's over. And you didn't honor that last promise, InuYasha. I don't have much of a reason to trust the rest of your promises."

"Yeah I know." InuYasha sighed tiredly. "I'm sorry."

I couldn't help but snort. "That won't really help right now, InuYasha."

"Then why'd you agree to come?" he said huffily in reply.

"Cuz I love you stupid." I stated calmly.

He was silent, and a big grin spread on his face. He looked at me sparkling gold eyes. And I couldn't help but smile back.

We chatted about nothing in particular for the next half hour, and he finally stopped the car outside this small apartment building with only 3 floors.

He smiled, looking out the window, "We're here!"

I hopped out happily and grabbed InuYasha's arm to go and unlock the place and take a look around. I smiled hopefully to him as he knocked on the door to a weird rhythm.

The door creaked open after a moment, and someone opened the door.

I gasped.

A/N: Yay, nine pages! I'm so happy I was able to accomplish so much already! As you know, school is starting soon, and I'm hoping really hard to finish this? But its not likely. But, I'm still hoping.

Okay thanks for all the reviews! And i'm looking forward to more!

Ja ne.

-Katana