To Which Future Do You Return, Kagome?

By. Tate Icasa

Part One

The Future As It Shouldn't Be

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, Kagome, or any of the other original characters. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi-sama, not me. Don't sue.

A/N: Ok, Inuyasha said something really stupid about Kagome going back to her own time for good, one time too many, so she decides to take his advice.

"Kagome, wait!" Inuyasha shouted.

"No! I'm going back there whether you like it or not!"

"Kagome, I didn't mean-"

"I don't care!" She said, suddenly turning. She thrust the vial of Jewel Fragments at him. "Goodbye!"

He grabbed her arm to stop her and began to drag her away from the well.

"Unhand me, Inuyasha!"

He ignored her.

"Sit!" Thud! "Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit!" When she was satisfied that he wasn't going to try and stop her she slung her bag down into the well and jumped down after it.

"Wow." Shippo observed, hopping onto Inuyasha's back. "You sure made her mad. Maybe you should go after her."

Inuyasha stood, knocking the young Kitsune to the ground. "Feh. She'd 'sit' me a dozen times before I got out of the well. Stupid girl, she'll be back in a couple of days anyway."

"Are you sure? She looked really mad."

"She'll come back." Inuyasha said again. He leapt up into a tree.

Kagome sat down hard in the bottom of the well and began crying softly.

/I can send you back./ Said a voice in her head.

What? No!

/Are you certain/

Yes.

/As you wish, Kagome Higurashi./

She heard a sound above her.

"Sota?" She called. "Grandpa?"

A head poked over the side of the well, but it was not what she expected.

"Jaken!" She exclaimed in surprise.

"It is you!" he said, sounding just as surprised.

"What are you doing in my time, toad?" she asked, standing up defensively.

But Jaken was gone, muttering excitedly to himself.

Kagome looked around and realized that there was no way out of the well. After a few moments she heard footsteps.

"Who's there!"

"-and I'm sure that it's her my Lord-"

"Jaken." said a cool, calm voice, effectively silencing the toad. A silver-haired head appeared over the well.

"Sesshomaru!" Kagome gasped.

"The human girl who used to follow my brother around." Sesshomaru said. "Who would have thought that you actually did return to your own time."

"What are you talking about?" She demanded. "And why are you in my time?"

Something dropped down into the well. After a second or two her mind registered that it was a rope, and she climbed out of the well.

She looked around her. There was no Shrine, only the same forest she had just left, only it was much larger.

"What? This isn't my time!"

"You lived 500 years after the Jewel was shattered." Sesshomaru stated. "This is indeed your time. It is simply not the one you left."

She blinked. "What does that mean?" She asked warily.

He turned and began to walk away, Jaken scurrying to follow.

"Hey! Where are you going?"

"If you do not wish to die, follow me and be silent."

Is he kidnaping me? She wondered. Oh well, maybe this way I can get some answers.

She frowned slightly and trailed after Sesshomaru.

After a long while they arrived at a large castle.

What is this place? She wondered. She opened her mouth to ask and snapped it shut again, remembering Sesshomaru's command to be silent.

Jaken fumbled a bit with the crank, as it was taller than he was, but slowly, the large wooden drawbridge lowered.

Sesshomaru walked across it and into the castle, and Jaken and Kagome followed.

"Now we may speak without being overheard."

"Good." She said impatiently. "Now, are you going to tell me what happened to the world?" She shrieked.

"You have a very shrill voice." He observed.

"Well good!" She shrieked again. Something hard hit her shin. She jumped, with a slight yelp at the sudden pain.

"That is no way to speak to Lord Sesshomaru!" Jaken berated her, holding the Staff of Two-Heads in his hands.

"You little toad. . ." Kagome began.

"Jaken. Give me the Staff."

"B-but my lord-"

"Now, Jaken."

Jaken sullenly handed over the Staff, and was rewarded immediately by a bonk on the head with it.

Sesshomaru turned his attention back to Kagome.

"What happened to the world?" She asked again, as calmly as she could manage. "Who did this?"

Sesshomaru regarded her levelly for a moment. "You did."