InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Road To Forever ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

Author's Note: I started writing the prologue to this fiction a few years back, before the manga had ended. Naraku has been defeated but the wish has yet to be made on the jewel for reasons given later in the chapter. I had started this piece of fiction and never finished but after reading some of my old work I decided that I would run with it and post it. Chapters will be short and updated whenever I get the time. Reviews are always welcome, as long as you have a valid point and not just random flaming.

 

DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Inuyasha or any of the characters created by Rumiko Takahashi. I do however own the title, chapters, plot and characters in this fan fiction that were made up by me and never introduced in the manga or anime.

 

Rated M for future lemony goodness (you have been warned). Some content not suitable for those under 18 or for those who are uncomfortable with adult themes and sexual situations.

 

" " : talking out loud

 

' ' : thoughts to oneself

 

Italics: thoughts, flashbacks or dreams

 

Bold: Inuyasha's demon thoughts

 

* * : sounds or actions

 

The Road to Forever

 

-Prologue-

 

Summer was coming to an end. The leaves in the trees displayed a warm mosaic of red, gold, orange and yellow mimicking the colors of the sky as the sun was drawn nearer to the horizon. The smell of grilled meat and cooking fires lingered in the air. Inuyasha filled his lungs with the cool evening air and turned his head towards the direction of the sweetest sent that he had ever known and had grown to love and need over the past years.

 

"Inuyasha, are you coming in? Dinner's ready", the woman with ebony hair and chocolate eyes asked stepping through the doorway of the modest hut.

 

Inuyasha smiled and walked towards the woman, wrapping his red-clad arms around her swollen belly. He could hear the soft thrumming of the pup's heartbeat and even though it had already been a couple months since he had first heard it, it still pulled his heart strings every time the sweet percussion reached his ears. In all the years that he had lived, he had never imagined that he could ever be as happy--that life could be so perfect--as it was now. He nuzzled her neck and inhaled her scent deeply cherishing every minute and looked into her eyes once again. "I love you so much......."

 

"Ka...go...me....", the half-demon slurred turning over in his sleep across the pink bedspread.

 

Kagome turned her head back from her desk where she had been studying her math notes towards the sound of her name. She smiled, seeing her tough-as-nails protector smiling while cuddling her pillow in a blissful sleep. 'I wonder what he's dreaming about, he looks so happy,' she thought to herself.

 

Pulling her thoughts away from the sleeping hanyou she turned back to her studying. Tomorrow she would have to take her final exams for high school, and although she wasn't nearly as worried about passing as she was about her entrance exams a couple years ago, she still wanted to do well and make her family proud.

 

Kagome and her friends had a hard time defeating Naraku two years prior. She and Inuyasha still had yet to make the wish on the Shikon no Tama. After Naraku was defeated over a lengthy battle the group had decided it would be best to wait until Kagome had finished high school before making the wish in the chance that Kagome would be stuck in the feudal era forever. It was going to be hard saying goodbye to all of her family and friends she had in the modern era, but Kagome knew deep down where she belonged and that was at Inuyasha's side.

 

As it came closer and closer to the date where she would be finished with her studies, Kagome was growing more and more apprehensive. It wasn't leaving the modern era that bothered her, but the one thing that seemed to be on everyone's minds and yet no one seemed to want to talk about it. 'What will happen if instead of being cast into the feudal era forever, the jewel makes me stay in the modern era?' Kagome couldn't seem to stop this thought running over and over through her mind. It had been two hours since Inuyasha's distraction from her studying and she still hadn't made any progress.

 

'Great, it's already midnight. Ohwell, I might as well go to sleep, it's not like I'm going to get any more studying done tonight, I can't stop thinking about what tomorrow might bring,' Kagome thought walking across to her bed. Silently pulling back the covers, she laid down on the bed beside a sleeping Inuyasha. Staring at the back of his head as he slept facing the wall she wished that she could be by his side forever.