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Through The Well	By : TheKaytla Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 25850 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 9
Disclaimer: I do not own the series Inuyasha, nor its characters.They are property of Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan, Yomiuri TV, Sunrise, and Viz. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Chapter List
- 1-One
- 2-Two
- 3-Three
- 4-Four
- 5-Five
- 6-Six
- 7-Seven
- 8-Eight
- 9-Nine
- 10-Ten
- 11-Eleven
- 12-Twelve
- 13-Thirteen
- 14-Fourteen
- 15-Fifteen
- 16-Sixteen
- 17-Seventeen
- 5
- 6
- 7
Chapter Six

Inuyasha stepped out of the hut into the dwindling sunlight. He found himself surprised as he glanced at the fiery orange sky; he hadn't realised it had become so late. Not that it particularly mattered. Perhaps when he went back to where he came from, it would be full daylight again. Whatever the case, he wouldn't see the moon on this side of the well.

With Sesshomaru and Koga's youki bright and powerful to his right, Inuyasha determinedly turned left, toward the trees. He had no need to see them, did he? Not at all. He didn't have to give Sesshomaru a chance to do anything weird again, and no way in hell did he have to put up with the jackass wolf. They weren't his problem.

Besides, what the hell was he even supposed to say to them? There wasn't anything to say. Not from his point of view, anyway. He wouldn't remember the things they wanted him to remember... and he was pretty sure some of the things they wanted him to remember would never, ever happen if the world was sane.

He remembered the kiss, put to the back of his mind earlier, and shuddered a little. Definitely not.

With that in mind, he deliberately set off away from Sesshomaru and toward the well. Time to get back to a place where Sesshomaru hated him, he hated Sesshomaru, and all parties involved were very, very happy with that arrangement. To a world that hadn't been somehow turned on its head.

But before he'd taken even three steps, small hands gripped one of his and forced him to stop. Inuyasha turned slowly, meeting the eyes of Rin. Well, after he misjudged the distance and ended up staring at her belly for a moment before he remembered she was a lot taller than before.

"Not that way, silly!" she said cheerfully with a bubbling laugh. "They're over here! Come!"

While she tugged on his hand, Inuyasha held his ground stubbornly. Like hell he didn't know where they were, but he supposed he couldn't call the kid a dumbass like he would Shippo. Why did there have to be different rules for girls and boys? Why couldn't he just thump them all and be done with it?

"Look, kid..." he began, trying to get his hand out of her grip, but she was clinging on tenaciously. "I really have somewhere to be, so... if you wouldn't mind letting go..."

Her grip only tightened, which he hadn't even thought possible. Shit.

"You can't leave!" She sounded scandalised and, he noticed, a touch afraid. His ears twitched and lowered a bit. "What if it takes you forever to come back again? Or... or what if this time you never come back?"

Her eyes began to fill with tears. Fuck, fuck, fuck, Inuyasha thought.

"Everyone will be so sad if Inuyasha never comes home," she continued morosely. "And Lord Sesshomaru hasn't seen you yet! He'll be so sad! So Inuyasha has to stay!"

She chose a really poor argument there, he thought drily. But her tears, trembling and mere moments from spilling over, hit him like fists. Hastily, he crouched down to eye level, trying to ignore the villagers who were starting to stare at them.

"Ok... I promise I'll be coming back, all right? But there are some things that are wrong and I have to go try to fix them. So I have to go now, before it's too late."

Great. Now he was lying to a child whose only crime was to be just touched in the head enough to like his brother.

Rin blinked up at him, and a small tear fell from one eye. Gruffly, he wiped it off with the sleeve of his haori before it made his guilt even worse.

"Without Lord Sesshomaru? You always used to go together," she said with obvious confusion and made Inuyasha blink.

"Huh," was all he could manage. He refused to think about that. He didn't need anymore unanswered questions crowding inside his head. "Well, this time, it's different, all right? This is something I have to fix on my own. But we'll see each other again. I promise."

There. That wasn't really a lie, was it? Chances were, he'd run into Rin somewhere or other back where he was meant to be. It was just all in the wording. And it seemed to do the trick, because she finally let go of his hand and smiled trustingly up at him. That was a sneaky little punch to his conscience, but he made himself ignore it and get to his feet.

To look directly into Sesshomaru's eyes.

"What is it you must do, Inuyasha?" the daiyoukai asked quietly.

Shit. He'd forgotten the bastard could be sneakier than a ninja when he wanted to be. And Inuyasha had been so focused on making the girl stop crying that he hadn't noticed his youki coming closer. Both of them, actually, because he noticed Koga was standing to Sesshomaru's right and slightly behind him.

The wolf was staring, eyes wide and mouth slightly agape. It would have been comical if it didn't creep Inuyasha out a bit. That wasn't the look of someone who'd seen an enemy for the first time in years. No... that was something else entirely, and he had no desire to find out what the hell it was. He hastily switched his attention back to Sesshomaru.

"Just something," he replied flatly. "And no, you can't come with. I'm doing this alone. You can all just wait here."

He didn't know how long they'd all be waiting, though. In spite of himself, that made him feel guilty. Even if everything was upside down in this world and it was freaking him out, it seemed they all cared... somehow. How long were they going to stay here, wondering what had happened to him, before he was able to do something to change the future?

The longer he stayed here, the longer it would take, he decided. And every minute he wasted on this side of the well was a minute where he might miss the chance to change things. For all he knew, Kagome could come back tomorrow. She'd need his help.

"I have to go now," he said simply as he turned away from them. He broke into a run, and in seconds, he was sprinting through the trees, a blur of red and silver to any who happened to see him pass by. A few seconds more, and he knew he wasn't alone.

He growled as Sesshomaru fell into step with him, effortlessly finding his way through the trees despite looking at Inuyasha, not where he was going. When his feet touched down in a clearing wide enough, the hanyou skidded to a stop, drawing the Tetsusaiga in one fluid motion. Sesshomaru stopped opposite him, his eyes lingering on the blade for a long moment before meeting Inuyasha's gaze.

"I told you," Inuyasha spat, "that this is something I'm doing on my own. You weren't invited. If you get in my way, I'll cut you down."

"And I asked you what it is you need to do. You have yet to answer," Sesshomaru replied calmly, without drawing his own blade. He seemed even more unfazed by Tetsusaiga's presence than usual. Like he didn't expect Inuyasha to use it.

Well, if that was the only way to get his point across...

His knees bent and braced, then he sprung into action, leaping across the clearing with a hard, fast downward arc of Tetsusaiga. Focused as he was, he saw the minute widening of Sesshomaru's eyes - he really hadn't expected it, Inuyasha thought - before a slender hand shot down and unsheathed a sword, the blades meeting with a loud clash just in the nick of time.

Inuyasha landed lightly on his feet and pushed his advantage, putting every ounce of strength he had into breaking Sesshomaru's defence. But he had to admit, he was looking at Sesshomaru differently in spite of himself. He was crossing swords with a youkai who was, according to Kaede, not an asshole. Someone who had helped him, who had tried to erase his pain.

It was a foreign concept to him. Beyond foreign, so that he didn't really even have name for it. His brother had been a chief supplier of his misery for longer than he could remember. But different as she was, he still trusted Kaede's word. He found himself unable to really be angry at Sesshomaru. Annoyed at being interfered with, certainly, but his usual instinctive anger at the mere sight of him was absent. It was a strange feeling to not be able to almost taste his hatred for this youkai.

He forced himself to put it aside. He couldn't take on anymore confusion or he might lose his fucking mind. But as he leaned forward even further, he realised something else was very wrong with this situation.

"The Tenseiga?" he said aloud in confusion, his brows furrowing.

"You think I would draw the Bakusaiga against you, Inuyasha?" With one hand, he held Inuyasha at bay, never giving up an inch, but he simply held it there. He didn't push forward or counter. That kinda pissed Inuyasha off.

"Why not?" he countered, still trying to push through with brute strength alone. "You've tried to kill me with Tokijin more times than I can count. What's special about this sword?"

Sesshomaru's brows drew together ever so slightly. Inuyasha wondered if that might be as close as Sesshomaru came to looking confused. "Tokijin?" the daiyoukai asked, rolling the name on his tongue. "I know not of this sword, nor how I would have come to possess it. Nor why I would use it to cause you harm."

Inuyasha pushed off Sesshomaru's strength and landed nimbly on the other side of the clearing. Warily, he sheathed Tetsusaiga, and watched as Sesshomaru did the same with Tenseiga. Shit, more questions. He didn't need anymore fucking questions. Couldn't just one fucking thing be as he remembered it, for the sake of his increasingly fragile sanity? What kind of sick, fucked up joke was this place?

"Just... leave me alone! Let me do what I have to do. It doesn't concern you."

He took off again, speeding staight toward the well. He was pissed, but unsurprised when he felt and saw Sesshomaru following again. The asshole could be as stubborn as him sometimes.

Inuyasha caught his first sight of the well through the trees. It looked like it was almost falling apart, a bit more rundown than he was used to seeing it, and more vines crept along the weathered wood. He hadn't noticed that when he'd climbed out of it. He supposed a decade of neglect had taken its toll on even this.

As he broke through the tree line, Sesshomaru flew over his head and landed in front of him, forcing him to stop abruptly or barrel headlong into the daiyoukai. Since close proximity with Sesshomaru was something he didn't want to risk any time soon, he slammed on the brakes as hard as he could, leaving huge skids in the grass behind him.

"What the fuck was that for, you bastard?" he snapped, glaring at Sesshomaru as he backed up a few more paces, just to be on the safe side. There would be no more kissing.

"You sought the well," the daiyoukai said, completely ignoring his outburst. "Why? It has allowed no one to pass through it for nearly a decade now. What are you trying to do?"

"Yeah, well, that's changed." Knowing he probably wouldn't get around Sesshomaru until he explained at least some of what was happening, he decided on disclosure. It couldn't hurt, after all; he'd be changing all this just as soon as the ass got out of his way. "It's active. For me, at least. I came here through the well. And now I need to go back, because nothing's like I remember it and I don't belong here."

"You came... through the well," Sesshomaru repeated, and again his slim silver brows drew together a fraction. "From the past? I don't understand --"

"I don't care if you don't understand," the hanyou interrupted flatly. "I have to go back. Simple as. I can't stay here where nothing makes sense and everything's all fucked up. I want to go back home." He drew in a deep breath. "Now let me pass."

He could see a struggle of some kind on Sesshomaru's face, but forced his eyes away. Just because he could somehow read Sesshomaru's expressions still didn't mean he needed to; he didn't want to know what was going through the daiyoukai's mind. He cautiously side-stepped, hand on the hilt of Tetsusaiga, but Sesshomaru remained still. Relaxing a fraction, Inuyasha walked around him entirely and finally braced his hands on the rim of the Bone Eater's Well.

As he put a foot on the edge, ready to hop inside, he felt Koga's youki in the trees. He tensed for the jump, then found himself pausing. "You can explain it to the wolf," he said gruffly. "If Kaede hasn't already. And... tell Rin I'll be coming back." It was the best he could do now.

"Yet you know this is not the truth," Sesshomaru said quietly, almost softly behind him.

"It will be," he said decisively. Inuyasha made the mistake of looking back over his shoulder, and felt another small blow. Sesshomaru's face was as composed as ever, but his eyes... All Inuyasha could think was that they were grieving. If he hadn't known the daiyoukai better, he might have thought he was on the verge of tears.

He turned away quickly. Damn it, he hadn't wanted to see any shit like that. That's why he hadn't looked at Kaede after he left the hut. And Sesshomaru was the last person who had the right to make him feel guilty about leaving them all behind.

"Take care," he muttered without thinking, and threw himself into the cool and dark of the well.

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Don't go, Inuyashaaa D:

I still really, really, really like writing Rin. Her bits just breeze by. And writing Inuyasha not having a clue how to deal with kids just tickles me endlessly XD

I've been on a roll with this fic. Chapters seven and eight are complete and thus shall be updated in the near future. ^^

Until then, enjoy. <3
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