The Boy Who Overcame Time
Chapter 4

As they reached the top of the hill, Inu Yasha stopped the bike. His hand moved to rest on hers that were wrapped around his waist. "We're here." He said softly.

"This place it looks familiar."

"It should, it's Sango's old village. Come on I'll show you their graves." He lead her to a small shrine, she could tell that it was well maintained. Even though it was very old there were no chips, or scratches in the mortar. "Sango, I brought Kagome to visit, as I promised." he whispered as he brushed off the few leaves on the top. "Kagome, I'll let you have a few moments with them." Silently he walked away, pausing at the motorcycle to grab his bag.

Kagome knelt before the shrine and began to cry. She had always known that her friends from the Feudal Era were dead in this time, but seeing their graves made it all to real. It had been easy to convince herself that they just lived in another province so she wouldn't have to face their deaths. She wasn't sure how long she sat there when she heard footsteps behind her. She turned towards the steps "Inu Yasha?" Gone were the modern clothes and the ponytail there he stood the way she had always known him fire rat haori, enchanted bead necklace and his beautiful silver hair flowing down his back and at his side the Tetsusaiga.

"I need to tell you a story." He said. He didn't move toward her just stopped ten feet from her with the sunset behind him standing with his arms crossed in front of him. "Over a thousand years ago I met a girl, her name was Kikyou. I thought for a long time that she was the only girl for me. Then we were pitted against each other by a demon named Naroku. Would you let me finish, please." He stopped her before she could say anything, "I ended up pinned to a tree for fifty years. Then another girl came and released me, you" he smiled at her. "When Miroku told us the story of how Naraku had killed a priestess I knew that I had to avenge her death. I even thought for a while I might still be in love with her. Then I realized that she was a poor substitute for you. You, Kagome, are the only one besides my mother who was always beside me, or cried for me.

After you purified the jewel, I left. Not to, as Sango later explained you thought, give the jewel to Kikyou or even to go to hell with her, but to tell her good-bye. I came back and you were gone and the well was sealed. Miroku, Sango, Shippo and I made the journey here. I made a request of Midoriko and she granted it." He tossed her the Shikon Jewel. "You were the one to make the wish. I will always be near you. I will always protect you." He took a deep breath. "Kikyou wanted me to use the Shikon Jewel to become human. I thought at one time I wanted to be all demon. Now all I want is to be what you want and need me to be."

Tears fell unheeded down her cheeks as he finished. As she opened her mouth to answer him a single gunshot rang out. She gasped as Inu Yasha looked at his chest and fell forward his black hair fanning out around him. She stumbled towards him, desperate to reach him. As she was about to reach him a hand grabbed her and pulled her away.

"HOJO?"

"Yes. It's me. How could you? This guy just shows up and you DUMP me? Then you go off with him? You're mine! We're going back to Tokyo now."

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It had been hours since Hojo had forced into his car. She only half listened to his ranting. Over and over she heard Inu Yasha "Now all I want is to be what you want and need me to be." then the crack of a gunshot and his falling forward, his black hair.... THAT was it, his black hair, she looked out the window of the car and saw for the first time that there was no moon. Inu Yasha was at his weakest. Fresh tears rolled down her face.

"Stop crying. You are mine, and always will be. I did some investigation on this Miroku Yasha. Yea, he has money, did you know that he and his brother own half of Tokyo? No one knows where they came from, they've just always been there."

A warmth filled her hand. Opening her clenched fist she saw it, The Shikon No Tama. She hadn't dropped it. As the warmth of the jewel filled her she felt the strength of who she was, the girl who had defeated Naraku, the girl who had stared down Sesshomaru, and the girl who when this was through would be Inu Yasha's wife. She sat straighter in the car seat and looked towards the east knowing the sun was about to begin to rise. With its reapperance would come her mate. If he had lived through the night she knew Inu Yasha would be on his way to rescue her. She looked at the boy next to her, now she understood why Inu Yasha had always called him boy, who had shot him and kidnapped her. When she spoke her voice was full of hatred and venom. "I am not nor was I ever or will I EVER be yours. You do not own me. NO ONE makes decisions for me. And I refuse to be frightened by a little boy, even if he does have a pistol." Kagome wiped away the last of her tears. She was finished. Finished being scared. Finished being a victim. From his seat beside her, Hojo's arm swung slapping her in the face. "So now you show your true colors. You can't control so you hit? Feh." Not realizing how much she sounded like her mate at that moment. She calmly rolled down the window and spat blood. "Oh dear you caused me to bleed, do you know what Inu Yasha will do to you now?"

"WHO THE HELL IS INU YASHA??"

"Oh I apologize. You know him as Miroku Yasha." She smiled even as she winced from the pain in her lip where her teeth had cut her lip from his slap. "Since you investigated him, would you like to know the truth about him? Inu Yasha's mother was a beautiful princess of the Imperial Court of Japan, his father the demon lord of the Western lands. He is their only child. He does have an older half brother, Sesshomaru who is full demon and I believe using the name Kenji. I met him when I fell through the hidden well at my families shrine on my fifteenth birthday. Oh he hated me at first, because I looked so like his first love." she chuckled and continued, "But slowly over the years he softened. We had a mission to complete. Did you honestly believe my grandfather's stories? Do I look sickly? Did I ever? Think fool. I was sick yet my muscle tone was improving, I was tan? Feh. When the mission was completed, he left - not for the reason I thought - but I came home. He wasn't able to follow so he had to wait. Wait for me to be born, wait for me to grow up, wait for me to finish what for him long been finished." She turned her head to look at Hojo and sneered, "He has waited a thousand years for my answer and you shot him."

Even through his jealous rage, Hojo became worried that Kagome was unbalanced. Yet she continued. "You shot him, and on the one night it could actually hurt him. And you think I would ever consider being yours? I am the Protector of the Shikon No Tama, I am the mate of Lord Inu Yasha and you will release me now." As she touched the dashboard of his Toyota a spark leaped from her fingers, the cars engine sputtered and died. When the car stopped she calmly stepped out and started walking back the way they had come, she knew he was coming she felt his presence on the morning air.

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