To the End

Due to the many requests for one, I've decided that To The End will have a sequel, called This Lifetime Around. I’ve mapped it all out and written most of it, it'll be 20 chapters long (well, okay, 18 with a prologue and epilogue...), and I've already completed prologue-14 and the epilogue. Hit a major writer's block on 15 in early January, then, as some know, I got really super sick, and haven‘t had the chance to get back to it since. Once I get off my ass and finish the last few chapters, I'll start posting. I'm only waiting until then because I don't want to hit another block and leave the story hanging for a really long time. That’s exactly what would have happened if I had posted as I wrote. Kind of pathetic that I've been writing it since late November... but whatever.

Regarding that, I'm a little upset because I've been reading Comrade In Arms by Personification of Fluff (which I totally recommend, along with the first two stories of that series, Dressing Wounds and Complete And Unconditional (FFnet)), and it seems similar to TLA. Very different in ways, but some similarities are there. So I get this feeling that when I eventually post TLA, someone out there is going to scream plagiarism, even though I've been at this for months, and I've never once had contact with Personification of Fluff, so there’s no way either of us would be able to rip the other off before the stories are actually posted. I think the thing that just bugs me about it is that I was hoping to be original, and I‘ve been planning this story for a long time, but it’s hard when someone else unknowingly comes up with the same ideas, even harder when that author carries them out so well that I fear my own story will suck. I guess mostly, I just don’t want to be accused of ripping someone else off when I’m not guilty of it.

More about This Lifetime Around: It’s an AU fic, set… Oh crap, five years, I think? after To The End. Well, five years from the time Kagome came back through the well after what happened with Inuyasha and Sango… otherwise, it’s like 505 years after their deaths… or something. I forget. I wrote it down somewhere. Anyway, Inuyasha and Sango are reincarnated into Kagome’s world. Kagome is attending her third year at Tokyo University. Kane (Inu’s reincarnation) transfers from a Kyoto school to the university, and Eien (Sango’s reincarnation) comes from Nagoya to Tokyo U, and the three meet up again. Kane and Eien live ordinary lives, with no memories of their past selves, until Kagome introduces them. From the moment they meet, they have cryptic dreams and visions and struggle to find out what it means., while Kagome tries to find happiness of her own.