Scars of a King
**DISCLAIMER- Scars of a King is purely fictional and a fragment o1f my own mind. Some of the Inuyasha lore from the show will not be used in this fiction. This is based purely from the anime, and whats not covered there probably won't be in here. I do not own Inuyasha nor do I have rights for him or the show. Those things belong to Rumiko Takahashi.**
**First Chapter note: Scars of a King is a mature fic, because it will cover mature topics and situations. Most of those situations (smut, primarily) will NOT be posted to this website, but I will inform when those chapters arrive and are cut. There will be a link to the Archive of our Own copy of this fanfic, and they will include the uncut versions. Now that that is out of the way please sit down and enjoy the ride. **
Chapter One
It was dark, the stars filled the sky in a beautiful pattern that no one knew. In Kagome's future, they could never see the stars like this. In her past the stars spoke, flew, and had emotions. Now…they are still. She looked up at the crimson moon, and knew they would be coming soon.
Everyone at the campsite was asleep, even Inuyasha, whom was asleep on the ground beside her. He had fallen asleep while sitting around the fire, and strangely enough, wouldn't wake back up. She figured it was because tonight was the night. The night she would return home, to the past. She lay a note next to him, one that explained what she could. Then Kagome placed a barrier around the campsite, the pink of the barrier illuminating the space around them. The moon was now a deep reddish pink, which still lit up the night sky.
They would be coming soon.
Kagome sighed and climbed out of her sleeping bag with the silent grace and agility that she had purposefully shoved into the dark depths of her mind many years ago when she went to the future. She covered Shippo's sleeping form, and kissed his forehead one last time.
She sat close to the dying fire, and a lone tear rolled down her face. She would have to go back. She would have to leave her friends, she would have to leave him. She wasn't ready, yet at the same time, she was excited to be herself again. To feel the power ripple beneath her fingers. Yet, she probably wasn't ready for the mark to be back, branded into her skin.
She missed her friends from the past, and the life she had led there. The future was nice, and she met amazing people here. She fell in love here. With him.
The flames illuminated her eyes, and she felt the fog in her brain roll back even more. She wished she could've told them, and that she'd known sooner to tell.
Her head shot up at the sound of the leaves crunching in the distance. A twig snapped, and then she heard a faintly familiar voice.
"Kagome?"
Kagome grinned as she leaped out of the barrier and hugged her old friend. The girl she had known since birth, the girl she had trained with. Hikari.
Hikari's arms circled around Kagome, and she whispered in her ear. "It's good to see you again." Kagome pulled back and smiled brightly. Hikari smiled back, "I'm so glad you remember me again." They let each other go and took a step back. They had another visitor.
A very familiar man stepped foreword beside the warrior whom was her friend. His long white hair went to his feet, and striking golden eyes lit up his face. Sesshomaru.
Kagome remembered when those eyes, young with age, were still innocent. So innocent. Sesshomaru looked down at the girl who was sent to the future, his friend.
"Well, we meet again Miko." He said, his voice in a distant monotone.
"It's good to remember you too Sess." Kagome said, pulling away from Hikari and facing him.
Sesshomaru's eyes clouded a bit, "It's strange it took this Sesshomaru this long to remember such a familiar face." He show his head, as if to avoid emotion, while Kagome looked slightly pained. "Where do we need to send you?" He said.
She shut her azure eyes and whispered, "Before the war. Before the death of the queen. That was…a time when things were okay."
Sesshomaru, whose face had hardened more with every word that slipped from her lips. "Alright then."
Sesshomaru produced a red crystal.
"Drop it into the well when you are ready. You know what to do"
Kagome nodded at him and bowed, her right leg sweeping out behind her as she curtsied to her prince.
Sesshomaru's face screwed up in a frown. Then he swiftly turned, and was swallowed up into the darkness of the trees. Hikari followed him, but not before giving Kagome one last long look. Her blonde hair was the last thing Kagome saw as the darkness swallowed her up too.
Kagome looked one last time at her slumbering friends under the pink barrier she had put up. Kagome, clutching the crystal that caused to much damage, looked once again at the life she was leaving behind. Her friends lay asleep, unaware of the exchange between her, Sesshomaru, and Hikari. The barrier would dissolve at sunrise. Until then, no one got in. No one got out.
She hoped they would get her note.
She turned the opposite direction from the trees, and broke out into a sprint towards the well. If she could build up to the speed she had back then? She could be there in a matter of hours.
But it has been so long...it might take a day, at the most.
The wind whipped through her ebony locks as she ran through the forest. She tapped into the power buried deep within her lost lonely soul.
She saw a bit of red tint her vision, before returning to normal as she ran. She ran for her home, her past.
Kagome's eyes fell onto the well not long after. The light of the sun was brushing against the edge of the horizon. She walked up to the well, running her hands over the tops of the wooden sides. Feeling the wood beneath her calloused fingers reminded her of the castle she resided in. The village that burned down so many years ago. She breathed in the smell of the Bone Eaters well, remembering it's name all to well now. Before pulling the crystal out of her bag, she tossed said bag to the side of the well. It wouldn't be needed where she was going. She took the red crystal in her small, delicate hands, and infused power into it. The power was quickly turning the crystal from red to a deep black, and the more black it got, Kagome held it over the well. Then it shattered.
Kagome jumped into the swirling black abyss that was the well. She felt the blackness curl around her body and swallow her up. Before dumping her into a different time.
Inuyasha hated sleeping on the ground. Laying down and sleeping without having his head or chest elevated made him have horrible dreams. Terrible dreams of his mother and the village from when he was young. That was the only time in his life Inuyasha slept on the ground, and it seemed that his body had a natural reaction against doing it. Especially since when he slept on the ground in the woods, he was awoken to knives and youkai. So as you can imagine, when he woke up on the ground surrounded by a pink barrier he was not happy.
He awoke, groggy and drenched with sweat. It must've been early in the morning because the sun still hasn't risen, and he felt a presence missing from his right side. Kagome. The air felt stagnant without her presence. It was unnaturally cooler outside, and while some of that was because of the fire. Mostly it felt as if.. Kagome had gone back to her own time. He looked around anxiously after coming to this realization.
Her sleeping bag was deflated, and held no body. Except for Shippo's whom was still fast asleep. The monk was asleep across the camp, all curled up in a ball. The slayer was next to him with her foot resting on his chest, keeping him away.
'I guess even in her sleep she knows that monk is up to no good.' Inuyasha thought, before getting up to inspect the area and look for Kagome.
The barrier was holding strong, and he rested his hand near it, feeling for her energy. It wasn't there. He was strangely calm. Why would he be calm in a situation like this? How was she holding up this barrier when she wasn't anywhere in sight? So many questions ran through his mind and he turned to look at her sleeping bag, when a piece of paper on the ground caught his eye.
Kagome awoke to festival lights in the distance. She was on the ground, passed out against a tree before the grand ball of 1144.
This is where the time loop began and ended, and started again. She blinked her eyes which where thick with sleep, and the music just starting to play rang through her ears. She sat up, and it all came rolling back to her. The time loop, her time in the far away future, in the modern day, and Inuyasha. Her heart ached when she thought of him. She clutched her chest, and felt her eyes fill with tears. She quickly shoved them down and sucked in a breath. She was ready to be who she once was.
Kagome stood and sprinted towards the back entrance of the castle. She slid open the creaky wooden door, and the smell of fresh blueberries filled her nose. She walked farther in, remembering the place she once called home. A hand tapped her shoulders, and the scent of flowery musk filled her nose. She don't know how he managed to smell like both but after all, Sesshomaru wasn't a normal person. She whipped around, her heart clenching to see the boy in front of her. He was young, unhurt, his mother alive and his father still there. Sesshomaru's eyes were still cold, but you could see the warmth he radiated…used to radiate. She jumped forward and hugged him. She didn't care if he threw her down, muttering about mortals, but still. She missed this Sesshomaru, her old friend.
"Kagome you don't have to hug me." He strangled out.
She just held on tighter, "I've missed you."
Sesshomaru smirked and rolled his amber eyes, "I've been with you all day." Kagome smiled and let go, her feel hitting the metal ground with hardly a sound. Finally for the first time that night, Kagome looked down at her clothes. A red dress, with a black corset, embroidered with lace. Her shoes matched her corset, back, except they were slippers, with no heel, but had ribbons attached riding up her legs. Smiling she looked up at him and held out her arm, faking a snotty accent, "Would you care to go with me to the ball good sir?" Sesshomaru snorted and linked his arm with hers, "Why of course Kagome, of course."