Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Then and Now ❯ Retuning to the past ( Chapter 6 )

Then and Now

 

 

 

 

A/N: Hey all. Sorry that this chapter wasn't up sooner. I took my disk over to my friend's house to upload chapters 4 & 5 onto AdultFanFiction.net(which didn't work for some reason) and I left it there >.< . And again, I'm sorry to the FF.Net readers, the system won't accept symbols, like I use when Youko's talking, so if it's confusing because you can't tell Youko's speech, it's really not my fault.

 

 

 

 

Chapter 6

 

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"Well, here we are. You'll have to hold my hand, the well won't let anyone but Inu Yasha and myself pass otherwise." Kagome instructed as she and the human-fox sat on the rim of the centuries-old structure.

 

"I have nothing against that," Kurama stated, giving a soft squeeze to Kagome's hand making her blush.

 

"Kagome-Kaa-san! Are we going yet?!" Shippo called out, just walking into the wellhouse.

 

"Yes, Shippo, we're ready." She said, offering her other hand. Shippo jumped into her arms, ready to go home. The three jumped in tandem into the old well.

 

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Sunlight poured in from the top of the well when they landed in ancient Japan. Kurama's senses were nearly overwhelmed by the myriad smells that assailed his senses in the unpolluted air. Plants that no longer existed perfumed the midafternoon air, and the scent of his fellw youkai, including a few that were almost non-existant in the modern era due to their docile natures abounded in this place.

 

"Kagome! What the fuck have you been doing, being gone a whole week?! And how fucking DARE you seal the well?!" Came a harsh voice from above, snapping Kurama out of his reverie.

 

"I was taking a test! I needed time to study without you interrupting me and dragging me back! What is it? You can seal the well whenever you want but I can't?!" Kagome was fuming.

 

"Kagome-chan, perhaps we should get out of the well before you continue this argument, ne?" Kurama asked, not liking seeing her so upset. Inu Yasha finally noticed Kurama then and growled at his use of the familiar honorific. Kurama held Kagome around the waist and using the vines already growing on the well, lifted them to the surface. Kagome was amazed. She'd never imagined plants being used in such a way. Kurama gently set them both down keeping his arm loosely around her, allowing her to move away if she chose but showing that she was also more than welcome to stay near him as well. She chose to stay. This did not go unnoticed by Inu Yasha.

 

"Kagome, who the hell is this?!"

 

"My name is Kurama. I'm a friend of Kagome-chan."

 

"Kagome-chan? Who the hell are you to call her something so familliar?" Inu Yasha demanded.

 

Kurama looked at Kagome as if asking what to say. "He's my date." She answered for him.

 

"Date? The hell is that?"

 

"I'm courting her."

 

"The HELL you are!!! I didn't give permission for anyone to mate with my shard detector!"

 

"Inu Yasha..." Kagome said in a too-sweet tone.

 

"Ooops....Kagome, don't!"

 

"Osuwari, osuwari, osuwari, osuwari, osuwari, osuwari, OSUWARI!!! Who do you think you are deciding who I can date and who I can't?!"

 

<She's beautiful when she's angry, too...But I don't think I'd ever want to be on the recieving end of that, though.>

 

For once I agree completely.

 

"Kagome-chan, perhaps we should go find your other friends and give him some time to cool down...or at least regain conciousness."

 

"Yeah, Kagome. Let's go see Sango and Miroku." Said Shippo who had been astoundingly quiet up to now.

 

"(Sigh) You're right. Let's go!" She smiled brightly at Kurama, gently leading him towards the village.

 

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"Kagome-chan, how are you? Did your, ah, test go well?"Sango asked, hugging the younger girl happily when she entered Kaede's dwelling.

 

"I think so. I'll find out in about two weeks."

 

Kurama stepped into the hut, smiling gently at the two friends. "Ah, Sango-chan. This is Kurama, he's a friend of mine." Kagome began her introduction.

 

"Kurama, this is Sango. She's a Taija and one of my best friends."

 

"Pleased to meet you, Sango. I hope we may become friends." Kurama greeted, bowing slightly.

 

"I hope so, too." Sango returned the gesture.

 

Kagome smiled, glad that the older girl was getting along with her handsome companion. Kurama saw this and smiled back at her. Then he leaned in and gave her a soft kiss on her cheek. "I do hope that you and I may be a little more than 'friends', though," he whispered quietly in her ear, making her blush.

 

Sango delicately cleared her throat. Inu Yasha chose that moment to walk in, fuming. He didn't say anything (after all, he'd just gotten a week's worth in "osuwari"s) but he was giving an extraordinarily hateful glare to Kurama, who studiously ignored it.

 

"So, Sango, where's Miroku?"

 

"Oh, he actually got one of the village girls, you know Yuriko, don't you?, to agree to 'bear his children'. Then her father made them get married."

 

"Yuriko!? Oh, Sango-chan I'm so sorry! Wow, though, I didn't realize how much I could miss here with only being gone a week! Are you alright?"

 

"I'm fine. Actually I wasn't that upset when it happened. I guess I sort of knew that it would never work out between us."

 

"Well, that's good, I guess. I take it he's not really on the team anymore?"

 

""He's been discussing it with the girl's father. I don't know if they've come to an agreement yet. We're still friends, though. Actually it's easier being friends with him now that he's married to someone. As much of a lecher as he is, he has enough honor not to be unfaithful to his wife."

 

"I'm glad, then."

 

The door behind them burst open suddenly, as a man in a black robe with a purple sash and a rosary around his left hand entered the room, smiling. "Kagome-sama, I had heard you'd returned from my father-in-law and I wanted to see if it was true. Are you well? You look a bit different, glowing, in fact...you're not pregnant, are you?" After that the monk said nothing as four fists collided with his skull, rendering him unconscious.

 

"Baka hentai." the taija said under her breath.

 

"That's Miroku, the one we were talking about a minute ago. He's a good friend, even if he is a lech." Kagome explained for Kurama's benefit.

 

"Ah. Why does he have a rosary around his hand?"

 

"It's cursed. The hanyou we're trying to keep the shards of the Shikon no Tama from put a curse on his grandfather and it passed down the line to him. If we don't defeat Naraku, he'll be sucked into the hole in his hand."

 

"I'm sorry. Perhaps I could assist you part-time. I know this era quite well, and I do have a knack for finding jewels, myself." He took Kagome around the waist, "I found you, didn't I?" he whispered.

 

Kagome blushed. Aside from Kouga, no one had ever complemented her so much. And it didn't irritate her for some reason that he stayed so close to her. She felt very safe with the reformed thief. "Alright, why don't we head out on a short journey tomorrow. I have to be back in two weeks to see if I passed my exams, and tonight Kurama and I need to let our families know where we'll be."

 

"Keh. Whatever." Was Inu Yasha's only reply as he stalked out of the hut.

 

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Okay, sorry again about the wait, I got the disk back(obviously) and then the computer in the dorm couldn't find the server for five days(oi). Anyway, thanks to my reviewers, you guys are what keeps me going. You're the best!

 

Ja ne.