InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ To Perish Once More ❯ Chapter Nineteen: Legend ( Chapter 19 )

To Perish Once More: Chapter Nineteen: Legend

-Jasmine Fields

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"Sit, boy."

Owww.

What did I do now?

All I did was agree with her when she wanted to return.

He pointedly mentioned her renewed determination, recently, to return to the `past' for the remaining jewel shards.

After all, she had been reluctant in the beginning when he would come for her…back when he didn't trust her - back at the first when his senses were all turned around, when he was hardened from the half-life he thought he lived.

But it was odd.

It was incredibly rare that she redoubled her efforts to return with him to the Feudal Era…in his mind, at least.

She said she heard a story while visiting that old geezer.

He wondered, really, at its significance.

Then, she went to that damn school of hers and discovered that story wasn't just myth.

Supposedly, she determined that there was some kind of information needed back in Kaede's village…more important than loitering around here.

Damn the old man…

Certainly, he was a case for disaster.

First, he scared Kagome witless - while he was in that…that hospice - oh what is it called, again?

Growling, he recalled Kagome's undercurrent of fear rippling off her in waves when the doctors and nurses wouldn't permit her to enter her grandfather's room. He, him self, witnessed the shrine's old priest hooked up to all those `modern' medical gadgets and gizmos, and had been concerned about his health until he took a sniff at his body.

Obviously grandfather time fought an illusionary demon of sorts.

Now, he's telling his version of past tales of historical happenings.

Supposing it couldn't be helped, he had traveled back and forth between Kagome's era and his own for the past two weeks and was itching to return...on a more permanent basis.

All the traveling was starting to give him a headache.

But then again, he could sense Sango and Miroku's satisfied relief with every one of his departures.

He was rather suspicious of their shared relief and brooded on ways to approach the subject without incurring the ever present wrath of Kagome.

Picking up Kagome's treats and backpack, he sighed, taking her hand while dropping into the Bone-Eater's well.

Never one to linger at such foreboding, he ignored his own blood freezing with the anticipation of future events in exchange for focusing on how he would antagonize Shippo when they arrived.

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I can't believe Gramps wasn't that bad off!

Not that she was complaining, since she was merely grateful for that fact.

He really had me going!

Not the stroke that her family feared.

It was only a bad case of heartburn…

Thank goodness.

Something in one of her grandpa's stories nagged at the back of her mind, while she attended school that day.

Normally, a shrine story would have been tossed aside and ignored, except the fact that the teacher in both her history and literature classes brought her attention to specific points that she now agonized over.

What were they again?

She was kicking her self for not recollecting the exact details while disclosing the newly acquired information to Inuyasha.

It was a legend of love, bitterness, darkness, jealousy…

It held all the elements necessary for making an interesting mark on history - with enough romanticism for literature's sake.

She couldn't absorb everything in her classes the way she intended, and was particularly distraught over a piece of information that she learned and wasn't quite familiar with during her travels to and from Feudal Japan.

She needed to talk to Kaede.

...as for Inuyasha - he sure asked for it.

He didn't have to be so rude!

Of course, with this new plan developed in her mind, there would be cause to return home.

She'd have to travel back to her modern time, soon, to focus her studies on learning all she could about this legend.

Even the name of the legend would be a great start!

Why didn't I pay attention in class today?

I'm gonna so be burned!

Her friends would kill her for borrowing their notes so frequently, she convinced her self.

Bidding farewells to her family, she trotted alongside Inuyasha as they made their way to the well house.

Apart from finding and fighting Naraku, she had a feeling that learning everything possible about this legend was more involved than juvenile love. She just knew it was a major key in the grand scheme of things.

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