They need you by sweetest angel

Prologue

So, to start with, I don't own Inu Yasha, even if I would love to. But no. All the original characters and everything (the well and the sacred tree, and all the hair and the cutest ears in the world to the panties of our heroin) are the propriety of Rumiko Takahashi. She is the genius, and I'm just...nothing! But I hope you will like my story. :)

IMPORTANT FF.net : someone pointed out that I had made a lot of mistakes in my first chapters, so I re-read them, and I'm ashamed to say that this person was totally right. Therefore, here's the RE-POSTED prologue of the story. I hope it is a little bit better. The others chapters will be revised soon.

THANK YOU TO RHAPSODY FOR YOUR REVISIONS AND CORRECTIONS. Take care.

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PROLOGUE

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She woke with a start. One of those dreams, yet again. She woke up, tears in her eyes, sobbing uncontrollably; sweat ran down her forehead and back, making her shiver. The first time, she didn't think it had meant anything. He was dead. The dreams haunted her, brought on by her mourning, she thought. Repeatedly. And exactly when she needed his presence the most. He appeared to her each time it became too difficult for her to be in this world, with nothing left in the other. Those dreams comforted her, until reality sank back in. Nobody would come for her now, and it was too dangerous for her to go there alone... Now, everything became normal again,...

He said to her that he would never leave her alone, that he would always be there for her. But today, he revealed to her that such may not be true and that she may never see him again. He made her promise several things before disappearing. They need her over there again. Even if he wanted to stay with her in their 'little paradise', she needed to live her life and strive for her destiny once again, to move on. He didn't want to her to stay alone because of him, which was odd if you through back of how he had always reacted when someone of the opposite sex came too close to her in the past ... But Things had changed. To be able to speak to him from time to time reduced her sorrow, her loneliness, made it just tolerable. Sometimes, it was difficult to breath, to continue to live, knowing that he wasn't at her side anymore and would never be again. All her dreams of the future ended that day, when she lost him.

Of course, she had her family around her, but it was not the same. They couldn't really grasp how much this time beyond the limit of the time, all those precious moments with her friends, with him meant for her, were her everything. Before, her life was full sometimes too full but now, there was nothing far more terrible than the over stuffing of before. The only things left were her dreams. Her dreams, it was odd to think she started to know him, to really know him, after his death, to know what he was too afraid to show for risk of being hurt before, to know how his life was before Naraku.

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Little by little Kagome fully awakened and finally made the decision : today she was going back to the Feudal Era.

When he said that he was in danger, like the others like him, she made the only decision possible. However, after almost a full year later, would he want to speak to her? After all she gave up to him. She gave up everyone after InuYasha died. Going back over there was too difficult at the time, but now she didn't have any other choice. She prepared her things, the yellow back bag, which had an unthinkable size, would see the trails again. The most difficult thing would be to convince her family that she must go back 500 years in the past and for that she had to stay and explain every thing that had happened a week after she was back in her time until the promise.

She went down after her shower and took everything necessary for her travel in her bedroom and the bathroom : sleeping bag, clothes, pajamas, underwear, shampoo, conditioner, first aid kit... The list went on and on, but it would all fit in her faithful old, yellow backpack.

Souta, Grandpa and her mother were already in the kitchen. When her mother turned around to greet her and saw her with the infamous yellow bag on her shoulder, her words died in her throat, and she dropped her spoon. That bag,... That bag hadn't been out of her closet for almost a year, and she noted that it was full; her daughter was leaving again.

When she saw the stunned look on her mother's face, shaded with a touch of fear, Kagome asked them to not interrupt her until she finished. The tense atmosphere in the kitchen hung heavy around them, suffocating. During their breakfast, she tried to explain everything: the dreams, the danger for the others, the promise. She explained some of the things she learned by the dreams of InuYasha. Leaving some details secret, what she knew, even where he was now, he wouldn't want anyone to know.

When she finished her tale, she said to them that she was going back because they needed her, he needed her, the one she left behind alone, for too long already. What happened after surprised her. They believed her. It was the last thing she thought would have happened after she opened her eyes this morning. She was prepared to have long discussions to no end to persuade them of the necessity of her returning. No need of that, apparently. But, she could see their fear for her in the eyes of all the members of her family, even if they tried to hide it. They were doing that for her, she realized, and because they knew her well enough to know that she wouldn't back down and let people die if she could do something. She could feel a warm feeling coursing through her body at the trust her family had in her.

Her grandfather said that it was rare, but some mikos had visions or more precisely premonitory dreams, only the most powerful mikos. He was so proud of her, his grand daughter was really powerful.

Her brother was really excited, his sister was about to save the world again, and she was going back to the world of youkais, hanyous and humans. The world he would like to see. The world of his idol, the one person he respected as much as his family: InuYasha, his Inu Onii-Chan.

Her mother smiled. Just smiled. Kagome was disturbed because her mother didn't seem to be angry at the decision at all, quite the opposite in fact.

She passed the table and went to embrace her only and very special daughter tightly. She was afraid, afraid of the danger of this other time without someone to protect her like it was before, but she tried to reassure while saying herself that her daughter was really powerful and was able to defend herself and especially thinking that he would never send her into the past again if he didn't think she could be safe. So she tried with all her will not to show that her heart was beating wildly at the idea of the departure of her daughter. She knew her daughter, she saw in her eyes that she was fearful at the idea of returning, but was determined to follow her destiny. She would not let her down.

Kagome couldn't trust her ears, when she heard her mother say that she was proud of her and only asking to come back from time to time, like she had before, to make sure she was ok.

Apparently, no one was that shocked that she took the decision to go back over there even if they had a good idea of the reason why she didn't want to do it before. Her mother acknowledged too that she believed in her because during the first dream she saw Kagome speak when she was sleeping, knowing that her daughter never spoke during her sleep before, and it was strange, like as if Kagome was speaking to someone. She cried a lot saying it couldn't be true, that it was impossible, just a dream. But what shocked her especially was that when she was doing that during her sleep, a pink light surrounded her. Her mother explained that she didn't talk about it because she didn't want to push Kagome to speak of that before she was ready.

Consequently, Mrs Higurashi prepared some food that her daughter would need during her travel. She packed the lunch that she was starting to prepare and other fresh food from the refregirator like fruits. When she was done she went to the closets and packed instant food and some candies and energy bars. All in all, almost everything that was there. She added a flashlight, matches and other things that could be needed in the past. During that time, Kagome was trying to understand what was going on while eating her breakfast. She could hear her grandfather asking if it would be long before her mission was completed this time and was already exited at the idea to find new diseases for her. He was scary sometimes.

After some last embraces and promises to be careful, she jumped in the well leaving her anxious family behind. A familiar light surrounded her, a sensation of floating so poignantly familiar. Seconds later, she touched the bottom of the well. Very slowly, Kagome climbed out of the well and paused a minute on the edge. Finally, she was back, in the time, the clearing that she saw for the first time, almost three years ago: the Feudal Era.

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Author notes:

So, what do you think? I hope to read your commentary very soon... but before that, thank you for your reading. You didn't fall asleep during your reading, right? I hope not, :)

Sweetest angel.