InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ To Perish Once More ❯ Chapter Two: Wish ( Chapter 2 )

To Perish Once More: Chapter Two: Wish

-Jasmine Fields

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"Mama! It's been awhile since Kagome has returned home…and this time, it looked like she wasn't gonna come back for awhile!"

Souta protested the departure of his sister for the third time this month. She had only stayed for two or three days each 'visit' home. He held his head up for her when she hopped down the old well. He sure didn't feel very brave. Maybe he shouldn't have worried quite so much, but then, he wasn't able to witness for him self how she fought on the battlefield with Inuyasha and all their friends.

Didn't she know that she was missed - at least by Mama, Gramps, and him self?

He was very proud of the fact that he had been able to loiter around Kagome's classroom to solicit, beg, and bribe the older students into getting homework assignments and finals' reviews for the end of the school year to Kagome on his own merit. He really did hope everything was going well 'in the past', but he also realized the increased burden of his idol's comings and goings. His video game playing was merely a distraction of the sorrow lodged in his heart.

Fortunately, every time 'big sister' returned home, he was able to be genuinely content and even managed to avoid thinking about her next venture away from home…away from Tokyo.

This was, after all, where she belonged....wasn't it?

He sighed. Mama was cleaning up from dinner again…alone…for the second time this week.

Kagome's presence did bring a certain…oh, what is it called?

Sunshine?

Dumb word. Too girly of a term.

Dumb sister.

When would her adventure be over? When would she come home for good?

"Souta! Dear, are you alright?"

"Yeh, Mom. Sorry. Just thinkin'," he replied.

"Is it about Kagome?"

"I guess," he sputtered his upset.

"Both of my children are growing up so quickly…you know, Souta, we will see her again soon, right?" Mama said trying to smooth over his frustration and seeming despair of her departure so soon after returning.

'But, what if she doesn't?'

He left the unspoken question loom around his brain before scampering upstairs to start the beginning of summer vacation. He wished that this summer would promise some time for her to relax in their era.

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"So, how long do you think Kagome will stay in our era before she returns to her country this time?"

"We'll see, Shippo," declared Miroku, "she seemed pretty excited from the look on her face and Inuyasha seemed relieved, to say the least, that he wouldn't have to take her back to her world for awhile."

"So, did she say anything about her 'school work'?" Sango inquired, using the foreign word, although the meaning was not lost to her.

"Something about getting good enough marks to get her to the next higher level," Shippo offered.

"I'm relieved. She was concerned and at least her life can be at ease," breathed Miroku, "for awhile, anyway."

Miroku glanced down at his right hand. Time was short. At least for him. The evil aura in the air was oppressive and his hand had been throbbing for weeks. A visit to Mushin's temple and a few herbs had merely and only temporarily dispelled the pain from growing.

The warning in his heart was not so easily dismissed. His heart was troubled. On the one hand, his journey would end one way or another and he was willing to accept his demise, as it were. So long as his Sango lived, he would joyously, without regret, protect her future at the cost of his own life. On the other hand he would never, of his own accord, accept defeat just yet.

'So much to live for…' he spared a thought.

But, there was still hope that stirred in the deepest confines of his soul. He was under no illusion that his fate would be tested the next few weeks. Naturally, he did not wish to die. His heart was captured by a certain taijia and he intended to live to the fullest before he passed from earth.

There was a certain quality of the aura emitted by a certain future woman that passed on tranquility to the worst of enemies.

Inuyasha was subdued in her presence.

Sesshoumaru had saved her from an atrocious confrontation with poison and the Shichinichtai.

Naraku himself had not taken to physical violence against Kagome….

He hoped it would never come to that. She was, after all, his friend and the link to meeting the love of his life. She had ways to tame the most lethal of beasts…and still the most perverted of hands.

He sighed. He didn't want to think about this.

'Too bad the fates aren't thinking along the same lines.'

He didn't know if he could ever ease the affliction he sensed in either of the women's souls, but the Sango was a rare gem and he determined to love her in any way he could think until the end of his days. The friendship Kagome offered was incredibly valuable. Eventually she might have no choice in her destination…her future. What a paradigm of forgiveness and generosity. And the contraptions she brought from her country!!!

He smiled to himself and brought his hand around Sango's backside….

'Ah, this is heaven!'

He wished his heaven could be forever. Mortality sucked.

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