InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Not Forever ❯ Chapter 3 Thoughts and A Surprise ( Chapter 3 )

Not Forever

by Lor

First Fan Fic

This fic is getting a MAJOR make over. I'm slowly changing the format of every chapter. It'll probably seem like a first fic still since I can't change things too much otherwise the entire fic would be changed. Which creates quite a challenge.

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' .... ' thoughts

" ..... " dialogue

~ ...... ~ flashback

Chapter 3

Thoughts and a Surprise

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It was a dark, cloudless night outside the Higurashi shrine. The light of the moon was the only light; casting eerie shadows over everything the light touched. A thud coming from the well house causes the birds in the nearby trees to scatter into the sky. The thud was caused by Kagome, who struggled to climb from the well with her heavy yellow backpack at her side. She swung herself over the lip of the well and onto the well house floor causing a cloud of dirt to rise around her feet. Slowly, Kagome began to walk towards the well house door into the yard.

`Inuyasha was right. I would have ended up hurting myself if I had tried to carry this thing to the well by myself,' Kagome thought to herself as she dragged her backpack behind her on the ground before she stopped suddenly. `Creepy, Inuyasha was right! Never thought I'd see that!' she thought with a small laugh as she returned to her trudging towards her home.

`I wish Inuyasha was here so I wouldn't have to carry this any farther!' Kagome thought with an exasperated sigh. She looked over to sliver of light coming from the doorway of the house, and then she saw her younger brother Souta standing in the shadows of the house. "Oh dear brother!" she called to him her voice filled with happiness that would worry anyone. Souta slowly walked over to her a look of surprise on his face. "What are you doing home?" he questioned her. "Mom said that you wouldn't be home for another 3 days," he added coming to a stop in front of her. "I changed my mind and decided to come home early. I need to study and we haven't gotten any leads on shards for awhile. So here I am," Kagome replied trying to lift up her backpack onto her shoulder.

"Oi, Sota could you carry my bag for me?" Kagome asked watching his facial expressions. She could tell by the look on his face that he was going to refuse. "You know Inuyasha would like it if you helped me....." she added slowly, watching a smile appear on the young boy's face at the mention of his hero's name. "Sure!" he cried as he picked up Kagome's heavy backpack and began to stumble towards the house. If someone saw him from the street they would think he was a drunken humpback. Kagome smiled as she followed behind him, "Little brothers are so easy to manipulate," she whispered into the night. The two walked into the house the door shutting the night out behind them.

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Soon after Kagome and Souta entered the house they walked into the kitchen. Souta dropped Kagome's bag in the kitchen with a loud bang, causing the entire house to shake in the process. "Okaa-san guess who is home!" Souta yelled as he began to rummage in the refrigerator for a can of soda. Kagome walked over towards the kitchen counter while trying to stretch out her shoulder in attempt to get rid of the ace carrying her overweight backpack caused.

Her Okaa-san's footsteps could be heard in the hallway, "What Souta?" As soon as she stepped into the kitchen she saw her daughter and rushed over to wrap her in a big welcome home hug. "Oh Kagome I've missed you so much!" Then she quickly backed up, a look of worry crossing her face, "Why are you home so soon is something wrong? Are you hurt? Are all your friends alright?" "I'm fine Okaa-san," Kagome responded with a smile, "And everyone is alright. I just came home hoping I would be able to study for once." "Alright," her mother responded, her voice telling her daughter that she didn't believe the excuse but was going to let it slide.

"Dinner will be read in an hour why don't you go upstairs to get cleaned up," she suggested instead. "Alright Okaa-san. I'll go get a quick shower," Kagome said with a wide toothy smile as she left the room. Her footsteps could be heard moments later hurrying up the stairs. Souta sat down on the counter as he sipped from a can of Pepsi, "Why do you really think she's home?" "She probably had another fight with that boy with the cute puppy ears," she replied walking over to the stove to finish preparing the night's dinner. "And please get off the counter Souta dear, it isn't a chair," she lectured not even turning around to see him as she spoke. "Ah, Okaa-san!" Souta wined as he slide off the counter and ambled into the den to watch TV.

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Kagome sat on her bed, wearing fluffy pink kitty PJ's with matching pink fluffy slippers. She was attempting to towel dry her long raven hair, the only light in the room is a silver and blue lava lamp in the corner of the room on her desk. `I wonder what Inuyasha is doing right now? He was being so sweet when I left,' she thought with a giggle. "I wonder if he's still standing there with that adorable look of shock on his face," she whispered quietly to herself with a giddy smile at the memory.

Out of the blue Kagome hears a crunching noise come from the tree outside her bedroom window. She slowly got up from her bed and walked towards the window dropping the towel on the floor. Kagome shook the tangles from her hair as she reached the window and looked outside. She notices a dark form and began to open her mouth in a piercing scream when she realizes who it is. A sigh of relief escapes her lips as she says to herself, "It's only Inuyasha."

Kagome stretches up to open the window, her PJ shirt rising enough to show a sliver of skin. "What are you doing here?" she asks him as she steps out of the way so he could climb in through the window. He proceeded to climb in and stood there simply looking at her. The light reflecting off Inuyasha's silver white hair, and his ears made him look adorable, so Kagome couldn't help but smile at him. "You asked me something before you left camp and I wanted to give you an answer," Inuyasha said to her quietly.

Kagome's smile disappeared, a slight look of worry appearing on her face, "Oh. And that would be?" She nervously tucked her hair behind her ears. "You said you wanted to know what I consider you as....." he paused to nervously gulp as if he was dreading what his words might cause. "What Inuyasha?" she asked gently putting a hand on his arm trying to coax the answer from his lips. "You're not just a shard detector to me. Your much more then that," Inuyasha said, his eyes rising to lock with hers. "I love you Kagome."

Kagome stood there stunned for a few moments. Inuyasha took it as a cue to leave and began to climb back out the window. `I guess she doesn't feel the same way....' he thought sadly to himself his ears drooping in despair. He began to close the window behind him as Kagome came out of her shock. She rushed to the window so he wouldn't close it. "I love you too Inuyasha," she said with a wide heart felt smile. Inuyasha instantly returned the smile, "I know." And with a nod he closed the window and disappeared into the night.

"Did that just happen?" Kagome whispered to herself in disbelief. She leaned to peer out the window to see Inuyasha enter the well house, the moon light reflecting on his hair. "I think it did....." she whispered to herself with a wide smile watching his form completely disappear into the well house. Then Kagome sat back down on her bed and began to brush her hair before going down to dinner, her smile never fading.

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Back in Feudal Japan Inuyasha climbed out the other side of the well. He stood there for a few moments, his feet crushing the soft grass under his feet as a gentle breeze blew through his hair. "Did that just happen?" he whispered to himself. He looks back at the well with a smile before he headed back to the village. `Guess it did..."

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Nearly ten minutes later back in her time, Kagome skipped down the stairs to the kitchen with a smile that could power all the lights in Tokyo. "Kagome, why are you so happy?" Okaa-san asked as she rinsed her hands clean in the sink. "I....um.....I'm just happy to be home and clean for once!" Kagome fibbed with a small laugh before she noticed the look of disapproval on her mother's face. "Un, Okaa-san I do bathe when I'm in Sengoku Jidai but it's different there I just bathe in a hot spring or river." Her Okaa-san raised on eyebrow at her daughter's response but decided to let the conversation end.

"Dinner is ready, dear. Would you please go get your brother. The last time I saw him he was watching TV in the den with your grandfather." "Okay Okaa-san," Kagome obediently replied as she left the room in search of her little brother. "SOUTA DINNER IS READY COME EAT BEFORE I EAT YOUR SHARE!" she called trying to get him out with as little effort as possible. Souta came bounding into the hallway scaring Kagome, causing her to jump back in fright from his sudden appearance. "You'd think with all the youkai you've seen and killed that you wouldn't be so jumpy," Souta said with a laughing smirk and ran off with Kagome running behind him wanting to beat him within an inch of his life. "I'm going to get you for that Souta!"

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The next morning Kagome awoke in her bedroom. Sunlight shimmered into the room through her window followed by a gentle wind rustling the white curtains. She sat up in her bed with a smiling remembering Inuyasha's visit the night before and looked out the window into the tree. `Maybe I'll go back this afternoon. Get an hour or two of studying done...' Kagome thought to herself pushing the pink sheets and comforter from her body. She slid out of bed and wandered over to her closet to pull out her clothes for the day. Just a few minutes later she walked over to her desk with a yawn and began to pull one of her school books from her backpack to begin studying. "The sooner I get this studying done, the sooner I can go back," she says to coach herself into getting amerced in her biology book.

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That very afternoon around two o'clock Kagome walked out her back door with her pack filled with new supplies. Even with the new supplies it was considerably lighter then it was the night before. She had discovered that Shippo had put rocks in the bottom of it hoping she would decide to stay due to it's extreme weight. "Bye Mom, bye Souta, bye Ji-chan!" Kagome called back to her family with a wave. It was a beautiful day, and she hoped it would be the same once she crossed through the well. "Take care Kagome! Say hi to that boy with the cute ears for me!" her mother called causing Kagome to roll her eyes. "Bye Onee-chan," Souta yelled to her with a wave before re-entering the house. "Bye!" Kagome walked towards the well house and opened the door being instantly amerced in it's darkness as not much sunlight was able to get through the few cracks in the walls and roof. `I hope everyone is still alright,' she thought to herself as she perched on the edge of the well ready to jump in. A moment later the familiar and welcome blue light began taking her back to Sengoku Jidai.

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-Lor