Chapter 1: Now and Then
Kagome stood alone, watching the rain fall, its angry splatter hitting her large window and slowly sliding down. She looked at the large city below, the night lights a blur from the rain. She stood there in socks that were too big, white CK high cheek bikini cut underwear, and a crop oversized cream sweater that read 'cat'
She fiddled with her necklace and as much as tears threatened to come up, they didn't. She was in such a hard daydream that she didn't even know if she was or was not crying. She took in a ragged breath, her soul was restless. She wanted to sleep, but it wasn't going to come even if she begged.
She looked at her messy bed.
They say you can be addicted to a certain kind of sadness, she knew it to be true. She wondered if sadness followed her like a sick puppy or was it that she called for it with a loud whistle of her lips.
He wasn't there, he wasn't coming, he was far off someplace with someone else.
How foolish of her, she didn't learn the first time.
Kagome sprawled on her bed and slowly laid out and tucked her arms under her pillow. It was her own fault, her heart's fault, sometimes she wished she could pull it out and hide it like Naraku, Kagome snorted.
That was so long ago. Her mind went back to them, her friends. The jewel had thrown her back after the battle and for 2 years she had not seen them, she thought that was painful, but once again fate said 'here, hold my beer' Kagome snorted again,
The well sent her back and she was so happy, even if Inuyasha was married. She stayed for a while and even watched over Rin, that's when the small conversation with the Western Lord started. They didn't last, the jewel pulled her back again and then threw her back again. Back and forth, push and pull, that's what everything in her life did, not just the well.
One thing stuck out at her, they were never here when she returned and she decided that she no longer cared about fate or what was or was supposed to be. When it sent her back again, she told the one person that didn't really know her all that well.
Him.
Everyone else already knew the problem was most were human, or half-demon. Inuyasha's half-heart would give out long before reaching her time.
He came when she did, and she would tell him something else, show him something else. Soon after the well started being funny, what would be a few weeks for her would be a few months or years for them, perhaps something changed, but the wells magic was becoming too unpredictable, she didn't trust it.
Kagome rolled over, her long legs bent and her flat tummy stretched, showing she was still pretty toned, she sighed, it was her own fault.
Her last visit, she went looking for him, no one else. She asked him, told him.
"Will you not live?"
"I will not die so easily,"
"But, you're not there, every time I return, you are not there."
"Perhaps I am and do not wish to be found,"
She had turned from him "I thought we were friends, and least I'd like to think we are,"
He had stayed silent for a moment, "I will not indulge your needs Miko, I am not my brother."
She sighed "You're right, maybe I am being selfish," She turned around "But you aren't there, I would know."
He narrowed his eyes at her,
"I'm going back, I don't know if I'll return, the wells magic is too unpredictable" She looked down, then back up at him "I guess, this may be goodbye"
"You have returned before,"
"This is not my place."
"Then perhaps the future is not mine,"
She turned and began to walk away "It wasn't."
She vanished.
When she had returned, everything had changed, and he was there when she came from the well house.