InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Reflections of What Might Be ❯ Tricks and the Hidden Well ( Chapter 2 )

Reflections of What Might Be

Chapter 2: Tricks & The Hidden Well

~Disclaimer~ I do not own InuYasha in any way, shape, or form

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"Miroku!!! Wake up!!" Sango cried out. Miroku refused to answer her request and stayed unconscious.

"We need to do something! Do you know how to perform CPR?" Kagome called out to Sango.

"Yeah, I'll get right on it!" Sango leaned down and towards Miroku, their lips meeting, allowing Sango to breathe air into him. She pulled back and started to press down on his chest repeatedly to get his body working again. She moved down towards him again to breathe air into him once again. When their lips met this time, Miroku's hands flew up and caught Sango's face, and he held her there while Miroku took advantage of the situation to gain a strong lip lock with Sango. Needless to say, Sango was just a bit surprised.

After a few seconds, she finally reacted. She cried out, her lips still linked with Miroku's, "MMMMPPPHHH!!!! HENTAI!!!!!" The only other sounds to be heard was Kagome's laughter and a ear-splitting crack as Sango's open palm met with Miroku's face.

"Itai!!!!!!!! Is that how you treat a man after bringing him back to life?? I feel so abused..." Miroku exclaimed.

"How dare you do that to me you jerk, I was really worried!" Sango cried at him, on the verge of tears. "If you do that again, I guarantee you'll regret it, Houshi-sama!"

"To which are you referring, my dearest Sango. Dieing, or to kissing you?" The ever-clever monk responded.

"Both, you creep..." <* Thank the gods he's alright at least.*>

"You had us worried, Miroku-sama, we found you buried under all these branches. We thought the tree might have crushed you. By the way, how did you know the tree was going to fall on my room?" Kagome asked.

Miroku sat up to answer her question, "I first heard the trees' trunk cracking. It was really drawn out, and I realized a tree would be falling soon. I also remembered that your and my room's are on the side of the house facing InuYasha's Forest, and if the tree fell towards the house, it would come down near one of the two rooms. I knew you were in Kagome's room, and I didn't want either of you to get hurt."

"I have a question. Where did all this bizarre weather come from? You saw the weather report, didn't you? It never said anything about severe winds, so why did that happen?" Sango said thoughtfully.

"She has a point. The heavy winds and rain did seem to come out of nowhere. And speaking of that, where DID that awful weather go?" Miroku suddenly asked.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, Kagome-sama, that since the tree fell through your house, the foul weather that plagued us earlier, has since disappeared. Look at the sky." Miroku pointed up through the whole in the wall. "You can easily see the moon in the night sky. Plus, we can no longer see, hear, or feel the wind or rain."

*There's something else going on here, I'm not sure what but it doesn't seem right. But it's fading away…as if it's linked to the weird weather…I got a bad feeling about this.*

Miroku was right, the weather had faded and gave way to clear skies. There was about a quarter of the moon visible in the night sky, providing a little illumination. What was visible, on the other hand, was the shattered remains of the well house. One whole side had been completely crushed by the giant tree.

"The well house." Miroku said meekly.

"Maybe we should go check it out," Sango suggested.

*But the well house is off limits, and gramps usually isn't wrong when he warns of demons. Although, we should go see how much damage the well house has taken...* "Yeah, lets check it out." Kagome agreed.

The three made their way through the wreckage that was once Kagome's room, and headed to the well house once they had made it outside.

"It looks like this place is pretty screwed over. I'd hate to be the one to have to help clean this mess up." Sango said quietly.

"Arigatou, Sango-chan." Miroku and Kagome both replied dryly.

"Gomen," Sango said sheepishly.

Kagome opened what was left of the sliding door, and proceeded inside. Kagome was slightly shocked to say the least. She had never seen the inside of the well house before, so she didn't know what to expect. What she didn't expect was there to be a small flight of stairs that went below the ground level outside the well house, to where there was a well. The same well that Kagome's grandfather had warned both her and Miroku about several times against going towards. Embedded in the ground were several skeletons, belonging to creatures none of the trio could identify. They were mostly buried, but a few parts of the skeletons stuck up out of the ground.

"Creepy place. Look at all the skeletons lying around." Kagome exclaimed. "No wonder gramps tries to stay away from the well, he probably doesn't want to dig up the bones when he goes around cleaning the shrine."

Miroku spoke up from near the well, "Kagome, I thought the well was dry, although this is not the case. Why were we told it was dry if it was not?"

Kagome responded a bit cluelessly, "What do you mean, the well IS dry." She paused. "Isn't it?" Kagome walked towards the well and looked inside it. "Well I'll be, it isn't dry after all."

"Well let's not jump to conclusions, maybe the well filled up with rainwater?" Sango started to say. "It was raining pretty heavy earlier, maybe the well got filled from that."

*It sounds reasonable, but it couldn't have been raining that hard over that short an amount of time to fill the whole well, something else must be going on here…wait. What's that?*

Kagome's brow's furrowed in concentration, as if something in the water was calling to her, trying to steal her attention. She focused in on the water, ignoring her friends completely.

Miroku and Sango stood there, wondering why Kagome was still staring into the waters in the well.

"How long is she going to keep staring at that? Kagome-chan, come on! Let's get out of here, this place is creeping me out." Sango said while grabbing her friend's shoulder to gain her attention. Kagome shifted left towards Sango, only to reveal that the young miko was no longer capable of moving on her own. The look on Kagome's face was blank, her eyes devoid on of life. As Sango noticed this, Kagome's body drifted more heavily towards the elder girl, forcing her to hold Kagome up

"Houshi-sama! Help me, I can't hold her up myself!" Sango cried out. Miroku complied and moved over to help support the girl he considered and little sister. Sango and Miroku carried Kagome back towards the house, each holding one of Kagome's arms over their shoulder. Once they had gone inside, they brought Kagome over to the couch, and lay her there to rest.

"What happened to her?" Sango asked, wondering why trouble just seemed to be following them that night. Starting with Kagome's playful game of who-can-flirt-more-with-the-monk, then the tree falling through the house almost crushing them, and finally Kagome having lost consciousness in the well house.

"I haven't the faintest clue, Lady Sango. We can only hope that whatever happened to Lady Kagome will wear off soon and she will awaken. Until then, all we can do is let her rest and regain her strength." Miroku replied, looking down at his adopted sister.

Little did either of them know, at that moment Kagome's rest was anywhere from peaceful or restful. And when she would awake, she would not have recovered any of her strength.

~Owari~

~A/N~ Ok so I'm evil, sue me. I dare ya, I got an army of lawyers ready to go…*looks behind himself confidently, only to see his lawyers have abandoned him*(insert sweat drop here)…but their on a lunch break right now, so leave me alone for a while! Hee,hee,hee…umm…Don't worry! I got another kick@ss chapter coming up almost literally after this one, so just move onto the next chappie! But not before reviewing…I live off of reviews like a parasite…they give me the strength to write more and give you people more good stories.

And don't worry, we'll be meeting InuYasha soon enough! but don't expect him to be able to talk next chapter, k?