InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Power II: Running ❯ Another Surprise ( Chapter 5 )

Chapter 5: Another Surprise

LOOKIE!!! I got another one done! What do you know? So, here it goes.
Thank you for the generous reviews. I will answer all questions that I can at the end. Yasmin gets a special thanks, she was the first one to review both chapters. THANK YOU ESPECIALLY YASMIN!!!!
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RyuuAngel


They touched down right outside the shrine steps and Kagome headed straight for the house. The rest went to follow, but Sesshoumaru stopped them and followed her alone. He stayed back just a pace or two behind her, staying close, not sure what they would be seeing. Kagome climbed the steps to her house and took a deep breath before entering the house. She met that horrid stench she knew she would and swallowed back a sob. Sesshoumaru heard it and came up, putting reassuring arms around her. She rested back against him for a moment, gathering herself to see what she knew was there. He unwrapped his arms, knowing she was ready, staying close. She once again saw the puddle of dark liquid that had dried on the floor. Deja vu sliced through her, making her stomach want to come up. She took one, then another step closer to the kitchen, where she knew they lay. She slowly turned to look into the room she always thought of as her mothers. It was where she had spent most of her time, baking and reading and even watching TV since she could see it from in here. Kagome choked back a sob at the sight of her dead family. Her brother had a bullet hole in the side of his head, in his temple. His skull was cracked on the other side where the bullet had hit and gone right through at the close range. Her mother's head was almost detached from her body, the slice in her neck so deep. Kagome let the tears flow down her face and kneeled down next to her mother and brother. She lovingly tucked the hair behind each of their ears, smiling through her tears. They were dead, another who had been killed over the Shikon. Everything eventually went back to the jewel, everything. She hated it with all of her heart; she wanted nothing more than to obliterate it.

`If you had never known the jewel, we would have never laid eyes on each other.' His voice drifted casually into her mind and she realized he was right. If the Shikon had never been in existence, she never would have met Sesshoumaru. Her heart warmed thinking this and she smiled up at him with wet eyes. He stood, proud and regal as ever, waiting for her. She turned back to Souta and Mama and kissed them each on their cheeks. Their cold, hard skin received her parting gift with nothing, they did not feel it. More tears dripped down on them, and she sat back on her heels. Something occurred to her and she easily picked up her mother's limp, stiff body.

"Sesshou? Could you take Souta for me?" She whispered in a cracking voice. She was still terribly angry at what those men had done to her family. She stood and opened the door, maneuvering the dead weight through the door. She heard Sesshoumaru pick up her brother and start after her, shutting the door behind him. She made the journey over to the door to the well house quickly, Sesshoumaru on her heels. They entered to see Riasha and Jax looking at them with worried, then shocked expressions to see the two dead over their shoulders. They could smell Kagome on them and realized that these were people from Kagome's time, her family. They stood respectively back when she jumped into the well, surprised when a weird, dark light enveloped her. Sesshoumaru went after her, also disappearing to astonished looks. Shortly both returned and jumped to the top of the well.

"You're going to have to each hold onto one of us to get through the well and onto the other side. Riasha?" Riasha walked to her and they held onto each other's hands as they jumped simultaneously into the depths of the well. They landed on the other side of the well and jumped to the top to make room for Sesshoumaru and Jax. Kagome was staring at the well, trying not to look at the bodies of her dead mother and brother. Tears prickled at the back of her eyes and she blinked rapidly to try and clear her vision. They had other business to take care of right now, she had to be strong like she used to be. Jax and Sesshoumaru's presences hit her and they leaped up out of the well. They landed lightly next to the two women.

"Sesshoumaru, can you take care of them and explain where we are and why? I need to give my grandpa back his soul and make sure he's safe." She stared at him through red-rimmed eyes as he nodded curtly. She silently thanked him and jumped back into the well, sending him a last glance before she disappeared over the lip.

Sesshoumaru stood worried about the part demon-miko that had just left them. He really didn't want to let her go. What if she got into trouble and he wasn't there to help her? What if she got hurt? He shook these thoughts from his head. She would've left either way, she wasn't the type to be held down and treated like a weakling. He might have thought her pretty strong for a human before, but now he thought of her as an equal, or maybe even more than that. He knew that if she really wanted to, she could probably kill him. He had watched her with Kanna, the extreme power and control. Her aura radiated deadly and precise power, beyond any he had ever felt before. For a moment, when she had been in the sky surrounded by the light from the mirror, that moment when her eyes had snapped open, she looked like some beautiful omnipotent goddess. She filled the clearing with her power, a neutral power, unlike her miko energy. That power felt pure and toxic, where the taint of her spirit now felt calm and almost rippled. It had the same power as miko energy, but it did not send chills down the youkai's backs. Riasha was the only one who Miko Ki did not bother, she was half miko. That power added to her sense of knowing things sometimes, an intuition of sorts.

Riasha was wondering what Kagome was exactly. She had become so strong… She wasn't mortal. Of course, the demon blood made her immortal anyway, but even her human part had the feeling of more than a human. She was immortal on an impossible level, even her human self was indestructible. Riasha somehow knew that if anyone of them ever tried to kill her, they would fail miserably. She could probably kill any of them with a simple thought. But the girl was not the type to ever wish that on anyone, except a very limited few. She had even spared Kanna's life. She could feel Kagome in her conscious, always there, like a little light that refused to go out. Jax could feel it too, so could any perceptive mind. There were very few of these. Sesshoumaru had always been able to feel her there, inside of him. Very few others recognized the feeling they got within them, or understood it. There were a few who knew about her now, minds that had traveled beyond the brink and come back again. They felt her and knew what she was, a messiah, a goddess. Very few knew what she had come from, only that she was there. Shippou, in his youth and ignorance, did not understand that the new thing that nagged at the edge of his conscious was Kagome. It never even crossed his mind. All that he knew was that his surrogate mother had become powerful, more powerful than any other being he knew of. He was a little awestruck by her, she glowed a light gentle purple hue all of the time now. All of the clothes she had on were now that color, turned that way by the power that stirred in her body.

Sesshoumaru began to explain what was going on. First, he had to have Shippou and Riasha put up a barrier to make them invisible and without presence. He got a message from Kagome and buried the bodies near the Go-Shinboku, keeping the barrier up all the while. It would keep anybody from seeing or sensing them. After all, it would not be a good idea for any of them from this time to see them. Another Sesshoumaru was here somewhere, and if he was correct, the well had taken them farther back then just the normal exact 500 years… he had the feeling that they were just a little bit farther back than that, at about the time Kagome and Inuyasha had been looking for shards of the Shikon No Tama.

His theory proved right. Kagome in her school uniform appeared out of the shrubbery, riding her bike; here it was the early hours of morning. Sesshoumaru explained what this Kagome was doing here to the others, and watched the girl. She was glancing around her nervously, as if watching for something.

"Clear." She whispered. "Here goes!" Finally she started pedaling her bike, as fast as possible, toward the well. A red streak beat her there and stood between her and the well. Kagome slammed on the brakes and skidded to a halt a mere foot from Inuyasha. Inuyasha had the superior grin of his on his face.

"What's your hurry, Kagome?" he said in a cool voice. He scowled. "Not so fast! You're not going anywhere until you hand over the shards of the sacred jewel!" She gripped her chest over her heart.

"In my era girls have to go to school and it just so happens that this girl has a huge final tomorrow to study for! My attendance is so bad I might fail the class even if I ace the exam …What are you doing?" She screeched. Inuyasha was balancing a rock above his head, one foot propped up on the well.

"What does it look like? I'm going to cover the well for good! then you won't be able to go to that strange era of yours. GOOD RIDANCE!" Inuyasha had just gone to throw the rock when Kagome yelled the hanyou's weakness out.

"SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT!" Inuyasha twisted this way and that with the commands before falling face-first, the rock landing hard on his back. Kagome had wheeled her bike closer and had a hand on the well lip. "Stay boy, I'll be back in three days. Don't even think about following me!" With that she disappeared into the well. Eventually the sit commands effect wore off and the hanyou rolled the rock off of him, cursing fluently. He left to go in the direction of the village, wincing from the sit commands that were still wreaking havoc on his back, not to mention the rock that had landed on it.

Sesshoumaru could hear the laughter behind him and couldn't keep a smile off his own face when the girl had tactfully `sat' the hanyou to get past him. Jax had fallen to his side, grasping his ribs and laughing to the point of tears. Riasha had laughed so hard she had not been able to stand up straight anymore. Sesshoumaru could not keep a large and goofy grin off of his face as he watched the stupid hanyou. He chuckled and shook his head as his half-brother limped away to nurse his wounds and pride.

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Kagome landed lightly on the bones and dirt of the other side of the well and looked up to see the familiar old shack roof. She jumped up out of the well and immediately took off in the direction her grandpa was, careful to keep herself invisible to keep from having people noticing her jumping quickly toward the aura. It was weak, but she could still feel it clearly and hoped it would not be too late. If his body went without his soul for tool long, it would reject it when it pooled into him. She raced faster, feeling as if she was also slipping not only through air, but also through time. It startled her at first to realize she had slowed time again, but she had. She would not be too late.

A tall building came into view, a large skyscraper; it was where her grandfather was. She slipped inside among the unknowing people, they would never know. She was moving so fast, and they were moving so slow, they never saw her. She made her way down stairs and found the last door locked with a sign indicating on staff was allowed here. She quickly dismantled the lock and took the knob completely off of the door, to find it was also secured with a visual eye scan. It was supposed to be impossible to get into unless your name was Dr. W.G. Taylor, or if you were with him. Kagome sighed and concentrated on that person, getting a mental picture of him. She found what she was looking for and imagined what his eye would be like. It appeared in her hand, bloodless, just a deep blue with dark gray rimmed eye.
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People all gasped and watched as a man, a doctor, fell to the ground, his hand over his right eye. He was whimpering in pain as his other deep blue eye with a gray rim fluctuated in pain. People tried to get him to move his hand to see what the problem was. One of them finally succeeded and saw an empty, bloody hole where an eye should have been.

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Kagome held the eye to the scanner and the door opened to admit her. After she went through it closed and she found herself in a dimly lit room. She sent the eye back to its owner, sick at having to do that to him, and let her new, sharper vision search out the room. There were gadgets and other scientific equipment scattered throughout the room, making it seem cluttered. On the far end there was a curtain that she strided toward and ripped open. She gasped to see her grandfather strapped down, and deathly pale. She quickly sliced through the straps, freeing him, and put her hands on his chest. His soul traveled down her arms and into him, making him glow. When the glow had disappeared his eyes shot open and he took a sudden breath. Kagome smiled, truly happy to see him alive.

"What happened? Where am I? What's going on?" He said, sitting up as quickly as his arthritic body would permit. Kagome helped him up and lent him some energy from her spilling resource.

"Gramps, do you remember the story I told you about Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru in the feudal times?" He nodded, of course he remembered. She would be gone for weeks at a time and return to go to school for a day or two before she was dragged away again. He remembered most the time she had come back from there and never gone back. She had eventually told him all of it. Her voice whispered in his ears as she helped him stand wand walked toward the door.

"Sesshoumaru's back, and I'm now his mate." Her grandfather turned to look at her in shock as she hurried him down the hall, explaining everything that had happened to her since she had found him again. After a half an hour, very summarized explanation, he was fully informed of everything, including the death of his daughter and grandson. He was full of grief, but knew it was not her fault. She tried to get him to come to the Sengoku Jidai with her, but he refused and said he would stay in the house. Nothing she said would sway him so she gave up and took him into the house. Even his human nose picked up the stench of blood and death.

Kagome stilled and shushed her grandfather as she heard the sound of a man's footsteps in the house. She told Gramps to wait there and quietly started to investigate. She slipped into the doorway of the living room where the unsuspecting burglar was pilfering her house. She glared at him before rushing at him silently to flip around and slam him against the wall just hard enough to knock the wind out of him. She took her arm and pinned both of his, bringing her body close to avoid a kick. He was, efficiently pinned and she snarled into a hauntingly familiar face with golden eyes and silver locks of hair framing it.

"Inuyasha?" Her confused voice echoed through the room as surprised amber eyes stared angrily into her own purple tinted orbs.

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HOLY SHIT! I think People are going to get mad at me for this cliffy. I just couldn't help myself. It is way too much fun! God, I'm a bitch to you guys.

Ah, now that's quite a revelation. Is it really Inuyasha? Who is this guy, huh? HAHA! *singsong voice* "I know who and you guys don't!" But you'll soon find out if you haven't already guessed. Chocolate to anyone who can guess the answer. Put it in the review, please, take a guess. Come on, chocolate…? UH, how about wishes? I'll grant wishes. Everyone likes wishes. Believe it or not, there are people out there that DON'T LIKE CHOCOLATE! Amazing huh? It never seizes to perplex me. *Shakes head in disbelief*

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