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The Lucky Ones
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The Lucky Ones
By Terri Botta

Disclaimer: I don�t own
Inuyasha. Sole copyright belongs to Viz and Rumiko Takashi. I�m poor so don�t
sue.

Rating: R for later chapters.
Pairing: Inuyasha/Kagome,
Miroku/Sango
Summary: Sometimes Fate hands
you a gift you never thought you�d ever get, and it�s up to you to accept it
for what it is.
Feedback to:
tci100@psu.edu
Website: http://www.wordsmiths.net/Botta

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Chapter Thirty-Two

Within the
first week of returning to the village, Kagome had answered her own question
about where all of Tokyo�s trees
had gone. It seemed that Inuyasha was hell-bent on cutting the whole of �his�
forest down in order to build her house. He felled huge trees and stripped them
of their limbs and bark, giving them to the village woodsmiths to smooth and
polish. Then he set about preparing the foundation, showing her where the first
support logs would be sunk into the ground and marking the perimeter of the
dwelling.
Seeing the
preliminary preparations for the house, she was struck by an odd sense of d�j�
vu. Inuyasha had chosen a home site that was exactly on the land where
her house in Tokyo stood in the
Modern Age. What was so disturbing about that was the fact that years ago
Jii-chan had pointed out markers on the concrete around their house that
defined the foundations of a much larger structure that had once occupied the
place where their house now stood. What she now realized was that those
foundation markers were for house, the one Inuyasha was
building for her, and that she would live in both houses that occupied
the same space, just five hundred years apart. The thought was actually very
unsettling to her because it was obvious that the house Inuyasha had built her
did not
exist in the Modern Age, but yet it should have weathered the centuries with
the way he was building it. She made a note to ask Jii-chan if he knew what had
happened to the bigger house.
The house
went up quickly with a hanyou as its primary builder. He did not need sleep or
much extra help, and the frame and most of the roof was completed within two
weeks. In fact, most of the delay was due to Inuyasha having to wait for the
human artisans to finish with things like the shoji, polished logs and carved stone
shingles. Luckily, there was a lot going on in the Modern Age that kept calling
them back to Tokyo, and that kept
Inuyasha from going ballistic with impatience.
Kagome
turned eighteen and there was a party that she went to with her friends, and
then she came home later for more �birthday sex.� She was pretty sure if her
mother hadn�t figured out that she and Inuyasha were lovers beforehand, she
knew now because her headboard had slammed against the wall a couple of times
in their enthusiasm, and she�d also run into a mostly naked Inuyasha coaxing
his son to use the toilet instead of going outside the �den.�
The other
major milestone was her high school graduation, and no one was more shocked
than Kagome that her schooling was now officially over. She didn�t know if she
was going to go to college, but she decided that she had time to make that
choice and opted to take a year off to get her life in the Sengoku Jidai
settled first. Inuyasha and Yukio came to the ceremony. She could see them
sitting on the roof of the school, looking down over the proceedings. He knew
to wait for her signal before coming down and was dressed in a new set of
modern clothes Mama had purchased for him. The moment the ceremony was over and
she made sure she had hetualtual diploma in her hands, she waved to them and he
was by her side almost instantly. Now that she had officially finished high
school and had her diploma, there was nothing the school administrator could
say about her baby.
Ayumi was
there, saw Inuyasha with Yukio, and came running over to see them.
Unfortunately, Eri and Yuka had come to the graduation as well, and their jaws
dropped when they saw Kagome with the man they had met at the house that one
time with
a toddler that looked just like him. It also didn�t help that they were wearing
identical outfits, complete with matching hats. The girls tittered, stared and
turned eight shades of red when Inuyasha stood up close to Kagome, put one arm
around her and grinned as the toddler reached for her and very clearly called
her �Okaa-san.� Their embarrassment increased when Houjou appeared just behind
Ayumi�s shoulder. Apparently, he had come to the ceremony to watch a cousin
graduate.
Kagome
braced for the pissing contest between the two males, but it never came. Houjou
sized up Inuyasha and Inuyasha sized up Houjou, and they both seemed to silently
come to an agreement that fighting over Kagome would not be a good thing. The
only comment Houjou made was something to the extent of �Be good to her. She�s
a good woman.� to which Inuyasha heartily agreed.
After
graduation, everyone went to a post-graduation party to mingle and say their
final good-byes to their classmates and teachers. Kagome made a token
appearance but left after thanking all of her teachers, opting instead to
attend her own private party back at the shrine. Mama prepared a special meal
and all of them gathered around to give Kagome gifts and celebrate her
achievement. Inuyasha seemed especially nervous and she thought it was because
he didn�t have a gift for her, but then he shyly presented her with a necklace
made of small polished beads the same color blue as her high school uniform
strung on a very thin braid of his hair.
�I thought
yhoulhould keep wearing blue even though you won�t have to wear that uuu-neee-form anymore,� he said.
At first
she was so shocked she didn�t know what to say and he thought she didn�t like
it. The crushed and wounded look on his face cut her to the quick, and she
scrambled to reassure him that she loved it very much. She asked him if he had
made it with his own hands, and he blushed and replied that it had been a joint
creation between himself, Sango, Miroku and the trader who brought the beads.
She put it on immediately and kissed him senseless right in front of everyone
else. Then she announced their engagement, and Souta rolled his eyes and said
it was about time.
Mama gave
them a knowing smile and Jii-chan said they had to pick a date to reserve the
shrine. Kagome pouted and said she wanted to get married in Hawaii like all the
other Japanese girls dreamed, buat iat idea was shot down when Inuyasha asked
�What�s Hawaii?� and Mama asked �How will Inuyasha handle flying in a plane?�
Visions of him creating a scene when they tried to take Tessaiga from him
filled her mind and she quickly nixed the Hawaiian wedding. Jii-chan told her
he could probably reserve the shrine run by a colleague in Yokahama that had a
lovely view and nice gardens.
By the time
her birthday and graduation were over, two months had passed and Kagome was
starting to wonder what Kikyou had meant by �soon.� The Shikon no Tama was
complete and she wore it around her neck, never taking it off. The fully
re-formed jewel attracted twice as much trouble as the shards themselves, and
Kagome was very eager to be rid of it so the village would stop being put in
danger by youkai hunting for its power. It seemed that every other day a new
threat arrived that Inuyasha had to deal with in one way or another, and while
her hanyou was overjoyed to have things to kill in order to work out his
frustrations about thewneswness of human woodsmiths and stone masons, she was
terrified for the villagers every time one showed up.
Finally,
almost ten weeks since they had last seen her, Kikyou arrived in the village.
The return of the undead miko who was sister to Kaede caused quite a stir, and
the town was in a state of chaos for most of the day. When things calmed down,
Kagome, Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, Kaede, Kikyou and the village headman all sat
down together to discuss the fate of the jewel. It was decided that Inuyasha would
make his wish upon the cursed jewel. If the wish was pure and good, it was
believed that the jewel would vanish from the world and that Midoriko�s soul
would move on. Inuyasha said he knew what he was going to wish for, but he
would not reveal the details of it to anyone, not even Kagome.
Kagome was
concerned about the wish, but more so about something Kikyou had said to her.
She asked Kagome if she was prepared to make the sacrifice she would be asked
to make, and explained that the time slip would probably stop working once the
jewel was no longer in existence. Kagome hadn�t really given the jewel�s
connection to the time slip much thought recently, but the undead miko�s words
struck home, and she begged that they put off the wish for two days so she
could go home and prepare her family for the possibility that they might never
see her again.
�I�ll go
with you and bring the pup. Your mother has been good to me and I would like to
say good-bye. And she�ll want to see the pup one last time,� Inuyasha told her
as she headed nervously for the well.
�One last time� Is it really
possible that I might not be able to return?�
�Thank you.
I�ll� I�ll feel better if you�re there to support me. This is going to be very
hard for me.�
�You must
bring whatever you think you will want from your room. Fill several bags and
I�ll carry them across while the well still works.�
�Whatever I think I�ll want? How about
everything?� she thought, but didn�t say anything. Instead, she just nodded
and gave him a small smile.
Yukio,
wide-eyed and quiet because he knew his parents were upset, clung to Inuyasha
and looked at her with a worried expression on his little face. She blew him a
kiss and touched his nose, making him look cross-eyed at her finger.
�Go see
Mama-baachan?� she asked.
At the
sound of the name, Yukio cracked into a huge grin and he clapped his hands.
�Mbaacbaachan! Mama-baachan!�
�And suddenly he is all smiles and
all is right with the world because he�s going to see his grandmother and she
will give him candy,� she thought wryly.
Inuyasha
held Yukio close to his chest with one arm and put the other around her as they
leaped into wellwell and passed through the time slip.
�If I�m trapped in the Sengoku Jidai, I�m
certain I�d try to send a message to Mama and Jii-chan telling them what
happened. But how would I do that? I could leave a message in the well� I know!
I could have Inuyasha carve a message in the well for Mama and Jii-chan, and
tell them where to look for it. But� if I get trapped in the past and ask
Inuyasha to carve a message, wouldn�t it be here in the Modern Era?�
�Inuyasha?�
she asked as he went ahead of her to leave the well house.
He stopped,
still holding Yukio and looked at her. �Yeah?�
�If we get
trapped in the past and I ask you to carve a message to Mama and Jii-chan in
the well, wouldn�t it be here now?�
He blinked
and she could see the wheels turning. �Huh?�
�If we get
trapped in the Sengoku Jidai, and I wanted to send a message to Mama and
Jii-chan here by having you carve a message in the well, wouldn�t that message
exist here now because we would have carved it back
then?�
she explained.
�So� if the
well stops working, you�ll ask me to carve a message into the wood letting your
mother and the old man know what happened.�
�Yes. I�ll
ask you to carve a message�� She looked at the rim of the well, and pointed to
a place on the inside of one of the sides. �Here. So� theoretically if we get
trapped in the past, there should be a message right here.�
She looked
around, examining the wood inside the well, but didn�t see anything. �Inuyasha,
can you look?�
He came to
her and handed her Yukio then carefully inspected the inside of the well
himself.
�I can�t
see anything.�
A shiver of
hope ran through her and she smiled. �So, if there is no message, then the well
must not close.�
Inuyasha
thought for a moment. �But there is no way of knowing if this is the same wood
as the well in our time. That well may have been rebuilt or replaced with new
wood.�
Her heart
sank. �Oh.� Then she spotted something that lifted her spirits. �No� this is
the same wood. Look here, this is where you and Miroku repaired the edge that
was damaged when you shoved a tree down the well that one time,� she said,
pointing to a section of the well rim that looked different from the rest.
Inuyasha
inspected the section and nodded. �Yeah. It must be.�
did close but that she was trapped in the Modern Era while he
was forced to stay in the Sengoku Jidai. She shuddered at the thought and shook
it off as quickly as possible.
�Mama-baachan!�
Yukio�s voice greeted happily and she knew that her mother was home.
�Tadaima!� she announced as she came in
through the genken, leaving her shoes on the rack.
Inuyasha, barefoot as always,
preceded her and she joined the both of them in the kitchen.
�Okaeri nasai,� Mama greeted,
already taking a laughing Yukio from his father. �How�s my big boy?�
�Good! Good!� Yukio replied, hugging
her.
�Bad,� Inuyasha corrected. �He�s
been running rampant and getting into everything.�
Mama giggled. �Toddlers do that. I
remember when Kagome was three and managed to get herself trapped on the roof.
I still don�t know how she got up there.�
A vague memory triggered in her mind
at the sound of her mother�s words. She saw a brief flash of white and heard a
deep, throaty chuckle, then the feeling of flying high above the trees but yet
knowing she was perfectly safe. A little frown crossed her face as the memory
faded and she couldn�t get it back.
�Heh, we�ve had to get him down off
a few roofs, haven�t we, Kagome?�
She shook off her feeling of
disconcertion and smiled at him. �Oh yes we have. Like most dogs I know, he can
go up, but he can�t get down,� she teased.
�Oi!� he huffed, but she just
giggled and kissed him on the cheek.
�I must say I�m surprised to see the
two of you so soon,� Mama said.
Kagome lowered her eyes, remembering
why they had come. �I know Mama. We� we wanted to come see you and Jii-chan
before Inuyasha made his wish on the Shikon no Tama. There�s� there�s a chance
that the well won�t wafteafter the jewel is gone.�
�I� I see,� Mama replied carefully.
�But� but I don�t think it�s going
to close. I know if I got trapped on the other side I�d try to send you and
Jii-chan a message carved in the well, but there�s nothing there. That is the original well, isn�t it?�
she added quickly.
�As far as I know,� Mama answered.
�I�ll talk to Jii-chan and ask him
just to be sure, but I think if I left a message in the well back then, it
would be there now. You know, like in movimovie Back to the Future, when
Marty wrote Doc that letter in the past, Doc had it with him in the future and
knew to wear the bullet-proof vest.�
�But� wouldn�t you have seen it
already if it was there?� Mama asked, nodding.
�Not if I didn�t know what I was
looking for. Inuyasha�s writing is very unique and he uses the old kanji.�
�Oh?�
�You should see his writing, Mama.
It�s beautiful; just like the ancient ink paintings.�
�Oi, it�s not that nice,� Inuyasha corrected, blushing.
�It is. Don�t be so modest.�
Mama turned interested eyes his way.
�Really? Would you be willing to address the invitations then?�
�Eh? Invitations?�
�To the wedding, dear. We send invitations
out about two months in advance, and it�s best to have them addressed by hand,�
Mama clarified. �I would do it myself, but if your writing is as nice as Kagome
says it is, the envelopes would look nicer if you wrote them out. It�s not
typically something a man would do, but��
�I�ll do it,� he replied. �If it�s
what Kagome wants.�
He looked to her and she nodded,
smiling happily, then frowned at her mother.
�But Mama� you know we want a small
wedding. Just close family and friends. I know it�s tradition to invite as many
guests as possible but��
Mama nodded. �I understand. I�ll
keep the guest list under fifty.�
�Fifty?! Do we know
that many people?� she gasped.
�Well, there are a number of family
connections that would be upset not to get an invitation. They most likely
won�t come though.�
Kagome sighed and her heart stopped
pounding. �I hope not. Unless we get married at night on the New Moon, Inuyasha
is going to have his ears, and regardless either Yukio or Inuyasha is going to
have to wear a hat.�
Mama beamed and fluffed Inuyasha�s
hair. �I was thinking a full Western-style tuxedo with tails and a top hat.�
�I�m not wearing anything with
tails,� Inuyasha snorted.
Kagome snickered. �Not those kinds
of tails. The coat is long in the back. I�ll show you pictures.�
He just blinked at her.
�Anyway all these details can be
worked out later, after we know the well stays open. In the meantime, we just
want to spend time with you, Souta and Jii-chan, and I need to pack some things
from my room to take with me just in case the well does stop working. I should probably do some shopping too.�
Mama nodded. �I�ll make Oden for
dinner.�
�Oden!� she exclaimed and hugged her
mother. �Thank you, Mama. That would be wonderful.�
�Oden,� Yukio repeated, smiling.
�Ramen?�
Mama rubbed the toddler�s ears.
�Ramen too, for my good boy.�
�Oi, what about me?� Inuyasha
growled.
Mama rubbed his ears too and soothed
him. �For you too of course, Inuyasha.�
�Feh.�
Kagome laughed and then she and
Inuyasha went up to her room while Yukio stayed with his grandmother. She
pulled out two soft-sided suitcases from her closet and filled them up with
clothing and other items that she did not want to be without should she get
trapped on the other side. She made a mental note to stock up on toiletries,
ramen noodles and condoms when she and Inuyasha went shopping.

After she was finished in her
room, she and Inuyasha went downstairs and Kagome helped her mother in the
kitchen while Inuyasha played with Yukio in the living room. Every now and
then, the toddler would get away from him and coming running in, laughing his
head off as his father chased him about. Half the time, she thought Inuyasha
let him get away just so they�d both get attention from her.
Dinner was the promised Oden and
ramen noodles for her hanyous, and everyone enjoyed it. Afterwards, Kagome sat
with Jii-chan and told him of the possibility of the well closing after
Inuyasha made his wish. She asked him if any messages had ever been passed down
through the Higurashi shrine that could be from her, but the old man shook his
head. He also confirmed that the well in the well house was the original well
and had not been rebuilt as far as he knew. His answer brought her a great deal
of relief, but another of his answers made her wonder again about what was to
come.
Jii-chan had no idea what had
happened to the original house on the property, only that it had been gone for
his whole lifetime. He, like her mother, herself and Souta, had been born into
the house that now stood on the old fouion,ion, and there were no pictures or
descriptions of the house that had once occupied the same space. Most houses
were destroyed by fire, and she worried that a youkai or other attack had
burned the house down many centuries ago.
�See� Jii-chan says the posts for
the original house were here,� she told Inuyasha, pointing to a marker in the
concrete around her house.
She and her adult hanyou had come
outside after dinner for a little bit of fresh air because Inuyasha didn�t like
to be cooped up inside for too long.
�So?� he replied, crossing his arms.
�So, these are the foundations for
our house, Inuyasha. The one you�re building in the Sengoku Jidai. It�s not here and no one knows what
happened to it.�
She saw him follow her train of
thought, but the conclusion didn�t seem to bother him as much as it did her.
�Yeah?� he said.
�Don�t you wonder what happened to
it?�
�Does it matter?�
�Huh?�
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