Chapter Two

Kagome stares at me a moment. She looks as if she's trying to understand something. Then, she shook her head.

" Nice to meet you Akki Maru."

Sango, Shippo and Miroku also said that it was nice to meet me as well. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I was loved. Kagome then handed out the cooked fish. At first, when she handed me mine, I didn't think I could move my arm to grab it but amazingly, I did. I ate it very slowly, savoring the flavor. All the fish in my time were poisonous and in eatable. The only thing I could eat were other demons, and raw meat has no flavor, especially when they are all muscle. After I had finished my fish, everyone else had finished long before me, Kagome asked me a question.

" Where are you from Akki Maru?"

I lowered my head in thought. How could I tell them I'm from the future? They would probably think I was crazy. They probably wouldn't believe me. oh well, I can't lie. I guess I'll just tell them I'm from the future.

" I'm from the future…"

I look up to see all of them looking at me. they were just staring at me. I think they are trying to decide what to say to that. I hope they believe me. I'm not crazy. I never was and never will be. I silently wait for their reactions.

" So… that's why you were in the well. That makes sense." I was surprised that Kagome believed me.

" What year are you from." She asked.

I thought a moment. I would be able to tell them when I knew what era I was in now.

" What era is this?"

" The Sengoku Jedai."

I calculated the amount of years were in between mine and this one.

" About Ten Thousand years from this day."

I looked on in wonderment as all of their jaws drop, even that evil boy inuyasha. This lasted for about a minute or so. I was growing tired of their state of shock. The silence was driving me crazy.

" What's the big deal? Don't you all time travel?" I asked with annoyance in my voice.

Kagome was the first to speak.

" Me and inuyasha are the only ones who can time travel through the well. And we only go Five Hundred years into the future. I didn't think it was possible to travel that far into the future."

No wonder they were in shock. I thought they were a group of people from different times. Apparently, Kagome was the only one in the group who was from another time.

" Why are you here?" asked sango.

I thought a moment. What could I say. They probably don't know who I was running from and they probably wouldn't understand my reason. What the hell, I'll tell them anyway.

" I was running, running from an enemy. I jumped down the well in hopes of stopping him from ever existing. He is the ruler of the future earth. I'm hoping to stop him from taking control of it. That way, millions of people and demons would still be alive. Including my parents."

I waited a moment so they could absorb the information I was giving them. I was about to continue when Miroku asked a question.

" Who is the ruler of the earth in your time?"

I thought a moment. I had only heard his name once or twice but I did know it. After I had gazed through all my memories, it came to me.

" Naraku… I think? Yeah, yeah it's Naraku."

I saw their faces turn pale white at my answer. Inuyasha was the most surprised out of all of them. He jumped up and demanded an explanation.

" Don't we kill Naraku? We do kill Naraku! Right?"

I stared at him a moment before answering.

" You weren't made a legend for nothing."

" But you said Naraku was the ruler of earth! If we kill him, he can't rule over earth!"

" As I said, you weren't made a legend for nothing. I didn't mean you killed Naraku. I meant that you were the only one to ever stand up against him in my recorded history."

" Then, what happened to us?" asked sango.

" Naraku killed you all. If I remember my history well, he killed all of you except Kagome because she could track the jewel shards. After the jewel was complete though, he killed her as well."

No one moved. They were in shock again. Even inuyasha froze. The fact that they would all die at Naraku's hands was apparently not what they had wanted to hear. I waited for them to respond in one from or another. They didn't move. I was beginning to think that maybe that what I told them had killed them but I could still hear their heartbeats. I waited a few more moments before I grew annoyed again. I hate silence. Silence means danger and I hate danger. That feeling of weakness just made me want to puke.

" Is he a hanyou?" came inuyasha's shaky, stunned voice.

I looked at him a moment. I bet confusion covered my face as I answered him.

" No, he's a full demon. I didn't know he ever was a hanyou."

The silence continued. They just were completely shocked at what I told them.

Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, they began talking again. We talked for hours upon hours before we settled down for bed. Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Inuyasha where all asleep when I finally began to drift off. Then, Kagome began to talk to me again.

" Akki Maru?"

" Huh?"

" Is the future really as horrible as you say?"

" No…"

" Thank goodness."

" It's worse."

" What do you mean?"

I thought a moment on what to tell her. What details would she like to hear? There were so many things I could tell her but I didn't know what to say at that moment.

" What are the people like?"

I thought a moment longer on her new question. Have I ever met a human before today?

" There aren't any people, only demons."

" What happened to all of them?"

" Naraku killed them all."

" That's terrible. If there are no people, then it must be a very awful place to live."

" Yes, it is. The air is polluted with miasma, the water is poisoned, all the good prey died out centuries ago, but worst of all, most don't even live to be one year old. They die from the miasma or are eaten by other demons."

" How did you survive this long? You're what, 16?"

" No, I'm 19. The reason is because unlike most demon young, my parents stayed to protect me and to ensure that I would live to be as old as them."

" What happened to them?"

" My mother was killed by a disease, I was five. My father trained me in battle, strategy and weaponry. Basically everything you need to know to win in a battle against any foe. He died a month ago. He was killed by Naraku."

" I hate to pry but why did Naraku kill your father?"

" I don't mind. He killed my father because he was almost as powerful as Naraku and he had something Naraku wanted desperately. But he didn't get it. My father gave it to me before Naraku got there and told me to run to the bone eaters well. I asked no questions and just ran for dear life."

Silence filled my ears as Kagome thought about what I had said.

" That's terrible, I hope you kill him and take revenge for your father."

" If I kill him here in the past then that future will never exist, everything will be different. My father never would have died and he would be waiting for my return."

" Will you still remember what happened?"

" Of course, I'll be the only person unaffected by the change."

" Cool, I think. Well, I'm tired, good night Akki."

" Good night, Kagome."

With that said, Kagome curled up in her sleeping bag and I grabbed my leather trench coat and used it as a blanket and we both surrendered to the darkness of sleep.