From across time
by Ryuu no Taiyo

Chapter One

I watch the place where I saw you for the first time, five centuries ago.

I think a tear fell down my cheek.

I wipe it away quickly.

You hated it when I cried.

You said it hurt you when you were the cause of such pain.

I won’t cry anymore. At least I’ll try.

Not too far, I can hear little children laughing happily, and I’m reminded slightly of the little boy I used to hug every night, taking the place of his real mother.

I don’t know where you are now.

But you better be all right.

To think that I see you there, in my dreams, unobtainable, yet there, smiling at me, or crying, you ask me not leave you alone.

Do you remember when I made that promise?

That I would always be there to protect you?

I failed.

I won’t always be there.

You are in a world where I can’t follow.

No matter how much I want to.

I went to school today.

It was incredibly boring.

Compared to all of our adventures, all of our trials, this life is pretty dull.

I miss it.

I miss the thought of having to be ready to go to the feudal era, or to have to hide from my friends, and when gramps told all these weird sicknesses that I ‘had’, just so I could come back here with you.

I miss you so much.

The new moon is tomorrow.

It’s going to be my first time without you in a long time.

How long was it?

I saw you for the first time a year ago.

And I saw you for the last time three days ago.

Kami knows how much I miss you.

And Kami’s the only one who knows.

I wish I could tell you though.

And even with the reincarnated miko’s arrival, you, and only you, had a place in my heart.

Why did you leave?

I spent the whole night crying. I couldn’t believe it was finally over.

After all that time...

Half of me knew it was going to end, and was looking forward to it.

The other half never wanted to leave your side.

But you have her.

Do you even realize I’m gone?

Do you even realize I’m not coming back?

The brat asked me again where you were.

He doesn’t know your not coming back yet.

But when I didn’t hit him, he knew something was up, and the monk knows something’s wrong.

But I can’t bring myself to tell them.

Only the old baba knows. She figured it out by herself.

I miss you.

I could scream it out to the world.

I MISS YOU!

But would you hear it?

I tried jumping down the well.

Nothing.

Nothing nothing nothing!

I started crying.

I cried as hard as I could.

I couldn’t help it.

I really couldn’t.

In a way, it’s better you can’t see it.

I miss you most of all.

I’m crying again.

I miss you...

I woke up last night.

Something was wrong in the air.

I could smell it.

It was very similar to your scent actually, yet so distant.

Then it clicked.

I ran to the well.

You weren’t there.

The others had followed.

They saw me break down.

I think they figured it out.

The kit started bawling. The taijiya tried comforting him a bit.

But he knows, and he just lost his second mother.

I could hear crying in my sleep last night, after coming out of the well.

I couldn’t believe, but I think I recognized that cry.

Is he all right?

Please tell me he’s all right!

Kagome...

InuYasha...

And in the nights that followed, two people would always dream of the other, heart reaching out, breaking the distance and time that separated them.

Hoping that one day, fate would take them into consideration.

And let them live together.

InuYasha...

Kagome...

A love that could never be...

Or could it?

He was still sitting, staring at the well, since the day before, when he had thought having smelt her coming back.

But he should have known.

She wasn't coming back.

He looked down at the grass, and heard the wind gently brushing through the trees.

He was alone again.

And the person he cared for most wasn't in his time anymore.

I sit, back against the God Tree, staring at the sky wistfully, wondering if you were staring at the sky too, wondering if I was ever going to see you again, or if I'd ever hear your voice...

I shed a tear or two.

Every time I think about you, look at the sky, look at the trees, hear a dog bark in the park, see a channel on TV...Everything reminds me of you.

Everything.

This morning, I even saw a girl reading a book about the Feudal ages.

It took me a lot of effort not to cry, not to run home and never go out or show my face again.

Mama is very worried.

She keeps on asking me about you...

She still doesn't get the fact that I won't be going back. It's like she keeps on forgetting.

Why?

Why did they torture me? Send me back in time to meet you, then wrench me back and break my heart?

Someone hates me up there...

I saw her again in my dreams last night. I only slept for a few minutes, but I saw you. You were crying, and asking why you couldn't come back. I tried to reach out to you, but something was pulling me back.

When I woke up, I ran to the well and jumped down.

I was practically hysterical.

The thought of you crying that badly over me...

Don't cry over me Kagome.

The Kitsune watched the silver-haired Hanyou walk on the hills, looking over at the village.

He was so...calm these days.

Not at all like the old InuYasha.

It was like he was...

Words could not describe the emotions that lingered around what once was a happy, active village.

Shippo himself couldn't believe she wasn't coming back.

To him, it was like loosing his mother all over again, to Miroku, a valuable friend, to Sango, it was more than a friend, it was her own sister, and to InuYasha...

Shippo put it in the most blunt words he could find, but also the simplest and easiest comparison...

It was like losing a mate to InuYasha.

He knew that they both had denied their closeness as this, but Shippo wasn't completely stupid.

He too wanted Kagome to come back...

As the evening turned into night, a serene miko made her way through the forest, carrying bow and arrows.

And behind her trailed a group of flying soul-catchers demons.

"I have come InuYasha. It is time."

AN: I revamped this chapter and joined the old chapter one and two in this page.