The Passing Of Love Through Time (An InuYasha FanFiction)

Their Okurimono

This is an original story so if you copy without quotes or call it your own it is plagiarism.

Anything written in italics is thoughts that belong to the characters.

Last time on The Passing Of Love Through Time . . .

Kagome and InuYasha made it back to their hut, the evening breeze blowing through the door and windows as InuYasha set Kagome down on the cot, covered her with a blanket, and started a fire. InuYasha quickly made himself some soup before cleaning up and putting out the fire. InuYasha then washed his face and readied for bed before climbing into the cot, holding Kagome close to his chest as he drifted off. But Kagome was not going to have a peaceful dream tonight . . .

Chapter 5

Kagome's Dream

Kagome was standing in the middle of InuYasha forest, with the sacred tree in front of her. The autumn leaves swirling around her as the wind blew the scent of a waterfall and peppermint. The mark in the bark still there from where Kagome had released InuYasha from so long ago. Except a branch had grown out of it with a single white flower bloomed at the very tip of the branch. And in the next moment, there she was, Kagome's daughter. She was perfectly balanced on the branch on the tips of her toes, smiling down at her mother as the wind blew her long silvery hair out of the way of her face. Revealing familiar, soft, chocolate molten eyes.

She bends down, and using the branch like a diving board, jumps off and does a single flip and lands gracefully in front of Kagome. In her sing-song voice which is barely over a whisper, she says, "Hold out your hand." Kagome followed her instructions, and in her hand two necklaces were dropped. They both were almost identical to the one that was hanging around the girls neck. It was a small oval crystal that had no distinct color, it seemed to always change color. It hung just over her heart wrapped with a white ribbon, the ones in Kagome's hand had a gold ribbon and the other had a light pink ribbon.

"What are these?" Kagome asked her daughter in confusion.

"These are Kanjo no Kesshos, or Crystals of Feelings. This way you, dad, and I can communicate without the need of sleep. I thought it was the perfect gift, I need to go now so keep them close to your heart." She said and smiled, then she disappeared as the scene changed.

Now Kagome found herself in a dark room, with a wooden floor. She could hardly hear a thing but she smelled something awful. Then small torches lit revealing a horrible sight. She was in a small wooden room, the floor was covered in blood. But the most horrible thing of all is what was hanging on the wall, her friends. But they were chained no the wall by daggers, and hung by thorny vines, and the worst part of all, they all had their eyes open showing lifelessness in them all. A scream was heard, Kagome looked away from the horrifying artifacts on the wall only to find something that made her heart stop.

There at the other end of the room was her daughter, beaten, bruised and bleeding. Being held with a dagger to her neck by Naraku. The girl screamed and struggled, "Mom!"

"No don't touch her!" Kagome tried to run forward, but she was restrained by chains that had found its way around her wrist. Naraku just laughed his dark, evil laugh that Kagome knew well. He threw the girl to the ground raising the dagger above his head. Then everything went in slow motion, Naraku's dagger coming down, Kagome's tears falling all while the girl, the target of the dagger screamed, "Kagome!"

"Kagome!" InuYasha's voice finally broke through the nightmare and caused Kagome to sit bolt upright as the tears continued to fall from her eyes as she took in the familiar surroundings. She was back at the hut, on the cot, in InuYasha's arms. She looked up to meet with InuYasha's eyes filled with concern, and not nothingness.

"InuYasha!" Kagome sobbed, as she buried her face into InuYasha's already soaked chest. How much was I crying? She clenched her fists tighter, but flinched when she felt a pain coming from her right hand. She leaned away from InuYasha and slowly opened her hand. There, sitting there in the palm of Kagome's hand, were the Crytals of Feelings. Kagome's eyes bulged in amazement.

"Kagome what are those? And are you okay?" She looked up at InuYasha who had bewilderment and concern in his eyes.

"Yeah," she sighed "Yeah I'm fine InuYasha." She sniffled and wiped her nose with her sleeve. "These are a gift from our daughter." She said as she placed the jewel with the gold ribbon around his neck and the pink one around hers.

He smiled and hugged her close, he still had many questions but they could wait for the morning. He kissed her forehead then gently brought them both down against the pillows, Kagome's eyes already started to droop. "You can tell me all about our little okurimono after you get some sleep, right now try to relax." Kagome's eyes slowly closed and her muscles relaxed as InuYasha stroked her hair.

He called her our 'okurimono'. He called her our gift. And she is, she is 'our little okurimono'. What a perfect name for her. Okurimono.

Those where the last few thoughts that went through Kagome's mind as she drifted off into a peaceful dreamless slumber with InuYasha at her side, holding her close as the sun just started to rise.