InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Remembering You ❯ Destiny ( Chapter 2 )

Author Notes: um… no one is reading this fic are they? I had a total of 1 review, I plan to continue for this 1 person but since this fic is just starting out I would like your opinion in if I should continue this. Does anyone even like the idea? Ok, so no one knows the idea yet but you'll see more or less by the end of this chapter or the next one. . . this chapter is more a conversation with explanation, ppl we're still in introductions, bare with me. . .well I hope you guys read and review~ enjoy~

Disclaimer: Inuyasha and everyone else in the cast doesn't belong to me

". . ." dialogue

`. . .' thoughts

(. . .) author's useless commentary

Destiny

By Hoshi-ni-Onegai

#warning: cuss words come up here and there b/c that's Inuyasha's character and I tend to cuss in real life. . . sorry#

There was Inuyasha sitting with his back to the well gazing at his charred right hand. Kagome used her miko powers to make him let go and now his hand was burnt, because he was half demon. `Would it have been different if I was human?'

"No, it would have been different Inuyasha." During his musings Inuyasha did not notice that Midoriko and the others had joined him in the clearing.

Still looking at his hand he whispered, "Why?"

"Why what Inuyasha?" Miroku worriedly asked his friend.

"Why would it end this way? Why did she ever pass over to this time? It's just as if she never came here. She's over there, no memories of us and with the Shikon no Tama with her. Why did you bring her here? To make fun of me?! Laugh and point at the stupid hanyou who grew to care for a human girl that he couldn't keep?! Was it a game to you?!" Inuyasha rose, so did his rage. His eyes were firing with fury and his clawed hands fisted to the point where blood was dripping to the ground due to his claws sinking into his palms.

"I don't control any of this or anything that occurred." Midoriko answered.

Inuyasha continued yelling, "Then who the hell does?!"

"Amaterasu-sama." (Sun-goddess in Japanese mythology, ppl I am going to give her more powers than she usually gets. Why? Because I like her. ^o^)

"What? She had nothing better to do than fuck up my life?"

"Do not speak badly of her until you hear the message she told me to tell you."

Miroku looked at Midoriko surprised, "A message from Amaterasu-sama?!"

"Yes, about Kagome and her calling."

"Why tell us?! We're never going to see her again!" Inuyasha snapped at Midoriko.

"But you will see her again and will assist in her calling. Like you did for her first one."

Everyone looked at Midoriko in shock and the silence was thick until Sango spoke, "First one?"

"I did not wish to tell Kagome, but she was the `densetsu no miko' for the Sengoku Jidai. She wasn't meant to be it for this time period but since Kikyou died a replacement was needed. Amaterasu-sama decided someone was needed. The next `densetsu no miko' was Kagome from the future and so we connected the two times with the well."

"So Kagome-sama was her reincarnation?" Miroku inquired.

"That seems to a misinterpretation you went along with. No, Kagome is not the reincarnation of Kikyou. Kikyou stole a part of Kagome's soul to live. Kikyou walked this earth the second time without a soul of her own."

"Then where is Kikyou's real reincarnation?" Sango also asked.

"Kikyou became a kikyou, a bellflower, she lives in the mountains she's an immortal flower put to rest there." She faced Inuyasha directly now, "While alive she did much for the world. The Shikon no Tama was put into her care, even though it was not a destined requirements. She was cremated with the Shikon no Tama with her, it then passed to the rightful soul, Kagome's. Kagome is the reincarnation of something else, something much more powerful. . . Kikyou's assistance to the world was greatly appreciated and so she is eternally resting, as she wanted."

"Then she had been reincarnated all this time? How did the Kikyou that rose from the dead, well. . . rise?" Sango, along with everyone else was slightly confused.

"That walking corpse was made with the bones and dirt from Kikyou's burial sight. A body never forgets how it died or the emotions it had during its life. Anything that happened with that corpse is nothing. She was a hallow shell only with memories; it had a borrowed piece of soul that did not pertain to those memories. It would have been best if it was rid of in the beginning when it rose."

"I knew Kikyou-nee-sama was not one to return with a sole purpose of revenge." Kaede looked towards Inuyasha, "Inuyasha, she did not wish to take you to hell. You have repented for what has occurred, I am sure that is enough for her. Let her go."

Inuyasha was frozen with his head bowed, there was so much that needed to sink in. `Everything that happened after Kikyou rose meant nothing. I wasted all this time feeling obligated towards her when she was already at rest. I used the time I could have had with Kagome.' With that he whipped his head up as another piece of information sunk in. "I get to see Kagome again?! When?! How?!"

Shippou bounced around merrily tears streaming down his face, "Kagome~!"

Midoriko looked at Shippou amusement apparent on her face, "There is a catch though."

Inuyasha slumped down, "Of course there is."

Miroku hit Inuyasha over the head with his staff, "Shut up Inuyasha. What is the catch Midoriko-sama?"

"You have to live until her time."

Everyone with blank faces: ". . ."

Inuyasha was the first to respond yelling, "How the hell do we do that?! I maybe a hanyou but 500 years is going to put a toll on my body. I do age you know." The ending was said with dripping sarcasm.

"Houshi-sama, Kaede-sama, and I are not meant to meet her once again?" Sango, grasped that humans were not meant to go along with this, spoke in a tone of sadness. The youkai also realized this and looked with sympathy to the three humans then at Midoriko.

"Amaterasu-sama is willing to alter your aging so you can meet Kagome once again without worry."

Everyone was baffled but Inuyasha was the one that spoke up, "Alter our aging?"

"Yes, she will make it so that you age one year for every one hundred. Meaning your body would only have aged five years by the time you meet Kagome 500 years from now."

"I get to see Kagome. . ." A rare genuine smile tugged at Inuyasha's mouth.

"But do not forget, she will not remember you. Amaterasu-sama forbid you to reveal yourselves until five years after she returns from the well for the final time."

"She won't remember?" Inuyasha looked crestfallen once again.

"She will need your help non the less."

"We help her and that's it? We go on living knowing about everything that happens and she lives on oblivious about us?"

"When she finishes her second calling she will be given the option of forgetting everything that occurred for her second calling."

"So we meet her then we're back to her not knowing us."

Sango tried to be optimistic despite Inuyasha's usually glum mood. "Can we meet her afterwards and live our lives with her?"

"How will we explain the youkai without scaring her and putting her in further danger?" Miroku pointed out with his logic.

Shippou had stopped bouncing awhile ago and was now wailing, "Kagome~!"

"Be quiet Shippou. . . just be quiet." Inuyasha's eyes hidden by his bangs, his voice was coated with sadness. Midoriko for the first time since she appeared showed emotion and looked at Inuyasha with pity.

"There is one way of her remembering. . ."

With this comment Inuyasha's head shot up with hope shining in his eyes. "How?! I'll do anything!"

"It's not anything you can do. . . it's predetermined."

Inuyasha slumped against the well again. "Let me guess, by Amaterasu-sama?"

"No, this is something even she cannot control." Midoriko stared right into Inuyasha's gaze, "Soul mates."

His eyes widened, "What?"

"The moment your soul meets hers again, if she is willing and is your soul mate, her soul can will her to remember. Everything."

Inuyasha looked hopeful for a moment but he was skeptical in an instant, "What do you mean `if'?"

"There is a possibility that she may not be your soul mate and she must be willing to remember."

"Like persuading her?" Miroku brought the attention back to the group and not only on Inuyasha.

"No, her soul will know if she wants to remember or not. But you will know if she is your soul mate Inuyasha."

"How will I know?"

"You'll know it in 500 years." At this point Midoriko's image started to fade away, "Oh, and there are certain others that will assist in the calling; therefore, their age will be altered as well."

"Who?!" Inuyasha exclaimed afraid that she wouldn't hear.

"You will meet them over time." With that she was gone.

Silence engulfed the group until Inuyasha turned around and looked down the bone eaters well. "Gohyaku nen. . . mattete kure Kagome." (translation: 500 years. . . wait for me Kagome)

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A/N: Did I confuse anyone? If I did just ask me for clarification.