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A/N: This story is from my old account (Moriko Kinzoku) I am moving my old stories here.
I own nothing.
Kagome was sprung back to the future before Naraku was even killed. There were no books on Inuyasha's victory. She had no idea if her friend's successfully destroyed Naraku.
How many of her friends lived through the battle, if any?
The last thing she remembered was blacking out when Naraku sent his miasma at her. She woke up in her era.
She assumed Inuyasha took her home and took the jewel shards with him. She was lost to his world forever. She cried for months. She longed to see anyone from the past. She would even settle for Naraku if that was the case. But after five years. There was no hope to know the truth.
Kagome had just got a new job at a nursing home. She was a nurse. She had been there two weeks and was currently going through the new admissions.
There was only one today. His name is Katsuro Takuma. Kagome sighed. This would be alot of paperwork.
She starred at the first name of the new patient.
'Victorious son.' She thought of the name meaning. It intrigued her.
With her clipboard in hand, Kagome walked into the new patient's room. She stepped foot in the room and his bed was on the left. She saw amber eyes look in her direction. Her eyes widened as she dropped her clipboard. But quickly picked it back up. She looked at the man again. He looked like a normal human, but he had amber eyes. He also had grey hair.
"Mr. Takuma?" She questioned.
"Hn." He said with a nod as he looked at the girl. He recognized her.
"I hope your sanity is not as loose as the clipboard you hold in your hand." The old man said.
Kagome gave an awkward laugh as she rubbed the back of her head.
"Sorry I'm a clutz." She said.
He nodded.
Kagome paused for a minute. She looked at her clipboard.
'Why would he bring up my sanity? The only time I was close to possibly losing it was when I wasn't able to return to the past.' Kagome paused in her thoughts.
'Could he secretly be Inuyasha?' Kagome wondered to herself. But the shook her head. Now she did sound insane. Inuyasha was probably long dead.
It truly hurt her heart to think of the possibility of her first and only love being dead. Kagome looked to the man's left arm.
'He has two arms. It isn't Sesshomaru.' Kagome thought. But the amber eyes threw her off. She was almost certain she had seen them somewhere.
"Girl," He said.
Kagome looked up with a smile.
"Sorry I was thinking of something. My bad. Um I have came to see if you needed anything." She said.
"Hn." Was his reply. He moved his feet to the left and leaned back more.
"Please sit." He said as he gestered toward the foot of the bed.
Kagome thought back to the word 'sit'. She had missed Inuyasha dearly and if she could do it over, she would not have sat him so much. She had tried for so long to force the memory away of her past, but she couldn't. Everything reminded her of everyone she knew from the past.
Kagome looked at the man and nodded. She walked over and sat down on the foot of his bed.
"What did you need me to get for you?" She asked. She was curious as to why the man asked her to sit down.
The man looked at her with his amber eyes.
"You seem sad. What purpose could you possibly have?" He asked.
Kagome looked down in her lap. She intertwined her gloved fingers.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you." Kagome said. She hasn't talked about the past much since she came back. But she was at the point where she didn't want to hold in the pain. She wanted to let it out.
But she couldn't. Not with this man that could possibly have more sanity than her.
She couldn't talk to her family. Seeing them made the pain come back. Everytime she saw Souta it reminded her of Shippo.
"Try me." He said with a smirk. Kagome looked at him turning her head toward him.
She opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out. She looked back down into her lap.
Katsuro looked at the broken girl in front of him. It had to be Her. She never even said her name.
"What is your name?" He asked her. She looked up at him.
"Kagome," she said with a smile.
His eyes widened slightly.
It was her! She couldn't know he was Sesshomaru. He didn't want to have to tell her about Inuyasha.
He did want to know if she remembered.
He was so glad that he found someone from his past.
None was left.
They were all gone.
"Bird in a cage. How unique." He said to her. She smiled. But then her smile faded.
"I use to know someone that reminded me of you. She was a child when I met her. She was brave and kind-hearted to all. But she had a very rough childhood." He said to her. She looked up at him.
Of course he was talking about Rin. But she didn't know Rin well enough to know that.
The thought of Rin made his heart ache in loss. He missed her dearly.
He was nearly five hundred when the battle with Naraku started. But now, almost at one thousand years of life. It is coming to a close. He didn't have age marks, no. He looked the same. But his life was almost over. He had a concealment spell on him that would last until they buried him. He never found a mate. And that made his life span drastically shorter. His beast was withering. Lonely and unsatisfied.
Now that he knew Kagome was alive and the last person from the feudal era. He now knew that it all happened. That it was not a past he came up with from a dream or something.
It was all real.
She was real.
He wanted to tell Kagome who he was but he didn't want to hurt her anymore than she already was.
"Go ahead and tell me. I will not judge or think you are delirious." Sesshomaru said.
Kagome looked into his eyes, looking for any sign of deceit. She found none. She situated herself better on the foot of his bed. She was barely taking any space.
Kagome was suspicious of this Katsuro. She was familiar. She would find out how.
She looked at him in the eyes.
"Six years ago I was in my family shrines well house. My cat would not come out and my kid brother wouldn't go get him. My cat was near the well. I walked down the stairs to pick him up. And I was pulled into the well by a creature that was after a jewel that I had in my possession. It was embedded in my side." Kagome paused to look at Katsuro's face.
"Continue, it was just getting good." He said. Kagome nodded.
"I was pulled five hundred years in the past. In feudal era Japan. I climbed out of the well when I noticed the creature was gone. I ran for the tree that was in my shine, five hundred years in the future. When I got there, a boy was being held to the tree by an arrow." Kagome paused.
"In the future, I had always wondered where the scar on the tree came from. But in that moment I knew exactly where it came from. I looked at the boy and wondered how he got there. I had no idea that he and his love was deceived." Kagome had a tear run down her face.
"The half demon Naraku was once a human who was dying from burns covering his body. He sold his soul to demons to live to hopefully get the chance to be with Kikyo. Inuyasha was sealed to the tree I just spoke of. He and Kikyo loved each other greatly. But Naraku tore them apart. Naraku wanted the shikon jewel. Kikyo was it's protector fifty years before. But when she died at Naraku's hand, they burned it with her body and that's how it came to be in me. I am her reincarnation." Kagome looked at Katsuro.
"Do i sound crazy?" She asked. He shook his head no.
"Please, continue." He said.
"I looked at the boy, Inuyasha. The first thing I noticed was the ears. Of course I questioned weither they were real or not. Later that day I had been brought into the village nearby. After an hour of sitting there I heard crashing outside. It was that same demon from earlier. So I ran to draw it away. When I got near Inuyasha again. He woke up on his own accord with the arrow still in his heart."
"The demon ripped the jewel from my side. I shattered the jewel soon after on accident trying to save a human child. And that was how our journey began. Over the course of three month me and Inuyasha found four other people that traveled with us. Shippo, the little fox kit I adopted as my son had lost his father to the thunder brothers."
"Sango, the demon slayer and Kilala, her fire cat traveled with us. She lost her village to Naraku. Her brother kohaku was under his control. Miroku was a perverted monk. He tried to grab Sango's rear any Chance he got. She hit him over the head with her giant boomerang. Miroku had also had a curse from Naraku. It was a wind tunnel he had in his right hand. We may have had a strange group, but we were family." Kagome said. She had tears rolling down her face.
It took all of Sesshomaru not to hug her. But he wanted to hear what she thought of him. She hadn't said a word about him.
"Take your time. And for the record, I do not think you a fool." He said to her. She wiped away her tears.
"Inuyasha had these subjugation beads. I told him to sit and the beads pulled him to the ground head first." Kagome gave a small laugh.
"But then there was Inuyasha's full blooded demon half brother." She paused.
Sesshomaru's full attention was on kagome.
"He was ruthless, evil even. But then his Ward Rin came along. I didn't know her well but I believe that in time, she changed him for the better. Sesshomaru would do anything for her. He would protect her with his life. Rin had already died twice." Sesshomaru interrupted her.
"How can someone die twice?" He asked.
Kagome beamed with a smile.
"Tensaiga was a sword if healing. It was said that only someone with a kind heart couldn't wield it. Inuyasha never believed Sesshomaru could do it. But I did. Even if he was evil."
"Koga a wolf demon was the cause of Rin's death the first time. When I first met him, he captured captured me because I could see the jewel shards. They were what Naraku was after. He wanted the whole jewel."
"I was hit by an attack from Naraku. He sent his poison miasma at me. I blacked out. All the people I told you about was there for that battle. I woke up in my era." Kagome said as she sobbed into her hands.
"It's been five years! I never got say goodbye! I have no idea if they lived!" Kagome cried.
She looked at katsuro. Her eyes widened. Realization hit her.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to push my troubles on you! You probably think I'm crazy." She said.
Sesshomaru leaned up. He wiped a tear from her cheek with his thumb.
"Things are not as they seem, miko." He said. Kagome sprung to her feet.
She was in shock. Did he just say miko? No he couldn't have. She didn't say anything about being a miko.
She grabbed her clipboard.
"I will check on you first thing in the morning." She said. Her face was red from the tears she shed.
She turned and walked out.
When she got home and laid in bed. Who was he? She turned over on her belly. She cried into her pillow. She fell asleep.
The next morning she had her clipboard. She walked into Katsuro's room.
"Mr. Takuma?" She asked.
"Hn?" He said. He was relaxing on his bed.
"How did you know I was a miko?" She asked.
"Do you have paper and a pen?" He asked. She nodded and handed him the clipboard with a pen. There was a blank piece of paper.
Sesshomaru drew a small crescent moon on the bottom right hand corner. He handed it back to Kagome.
"Think of this as a gift. To know that you are not alone in this world. Just like you was not alone in the last." Sesshomaru said. He looked into her eyes as he said it. She looked at the crescent moon. She clasped her hand over her mouth.
"Sess-Sesshomaru," she said. She started to shake as tears rolled down her face.
"Your alive!" She said. She jumped forward and hugged him. She was gentle though. He didn't fight her hug. He sat their as he let her hug him. She cried on his shoulder.
She pulled back when she noticed something odd.
"How did you get your arm back?" Kagome asked him.
"I got my left arm back after a fight with Magatsuhi. The evil within the jewel. But Naraku wasn't dead at that point." Sesshomaru said.
"Your alive." She said softly.
He nodded.
"How?" She asked.
"I am the only one. Inuyasha said you lived in the future. He did say how far. I looked for you. But I found out you were here. So I decided to stay here." He said.
A tear rolled down her face.
"What happen to the others?" She asked.
"Do you really long to know? Are you sure that is something you can live with even if you don't like the results." He asked. Kagome nodded.
"Who first?" He asked.
She would ask about Inuyasha last.
"Koga?" She asked.
Sesshomaru sighed.
"He mated the one they called Ayame. They passed on one century ago. They were satisfied. The wolf demon attempted to beat Inuyasha to a pulp for sending you back." He said. Kagome nodded. She gave a small smile.
"S-Shippo?" She asked. She was nervous about his answer.
"He mated Rin. Her life span expanded to his. I was truly greatful to the fox kit. He grew to hate Inuyasha. He believed that Inuyasha brought you back here because he didn't want you around any longer." Sesshomaru paused.
"He and my Rin died recently. Maybe a decade ago. The kit truly missed you." He said. Kagome nodded. More tears ran down her face.
"Kagura." Kagome said. Sesshomaru stiffened.
He looked down. His grey bangs covering his eyes.
"A month after you disappeared, I came to accept my feelings for her. I had courted her for one year. When Naraku found out. He was angry. He killed Kagura in front of me by crushing her heart that was outside of her body. I watched her body fall to the ground. She disintegrated into miasma. I couldn't save her. Just like I couldn't save Rin the third time." Sesshomaru said as he clenched his teeth together. Trying to hold back the tears.
That's when Kagome remember Kagura situation. When Naraku created her, he made her so her heart was outside of her body. So she could never run. She would never be free. He could squeeze her heart while it was in her hand and cause her to fall to the floor in pain. It was a brutal fate.
"Kikyo?" Kagome asked.
"The part of your soul that was in her followed you after a month of you being gone. Inuyasha was never the same after he lost you both." Sesshomaru looked down.
"Miroku?" She asked. Sesshomaru looked at Kagome.
"His wind tunnel consumed him. The ratcoon-dog was sucked in with him. Inuyasha had to place a barrier around everyone. I held back the slayer. When you left, my pack joined with Inuyasha's." Sesshomaru said. Kagome nodded.
"Kilala?" Kagome asked.
Sesshomaru smiled. "The fire cat still lives. She is in my home. Rin and shippo's pups have the house now. They would love to meet their grandmother in time."
"Sango?" Kagome asked. She started to cry again.
"She died of a broken heart. Her rage assisted greatly in defeating Naraku. Naraku killed her younger brother by ripping out the shard. I couldn't revive him." He said.
"Naraku?" Kagome asked. Sesshomaru sighed.
"The only ones left to assist in the final battle were Inuyasha, the slayer, myself, the cat, Shippo, Jaken, Ah-Un, and Koga." He paused.
"Naraku was killed mainly by myself, Inuyasha, and the slayer. Our rage struck true. Inuyasha wished away the shikon jewel. We sent our attacks at once. Naraku was dead and gone. The slayer lost her Hirakotsu in the process." Sesshomaru said. Kagome nodded.
"Jaken and Ah-Uh?" She asked.
"They both died of old age. Still loyal to me." He said.
"What about Myoga and Totosai?" She asked.
"They also died of old age." He said.
"In-Inuyasha?" Kagome asked shakily.
"He and the slayer attempted to court. But she died before he could try. Inuyasha looked to me for guidance. I trained him with a sword. I got to know my brother. And I saw him as a great Allie. Inuyasha died of old age. Two centuries ago." He said.
"Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked. He looked at her. It was then he realized she was talking about him.
"I never mated. When Inuyasha died. I guess the excitement did too. Fighting was boring so I cared for Rin and Shippo." He said Kagome nodded.
"Why did Inuyasha send me home?" Kagome asked.
"For your protection. You were out for a month due to Naraku's miasma. When I couldn't hear your heart beat at its Normal pace I told Inuyasha since he couldn't hear it as well. He took you home. He prayed for your recovery. And now after five hundred years I Sesshomaru, lay before you as an old man." He said. Kagome hugged Sesshomaru. She cried on his shoulder.
Sesshomaru rubbed her back soothingly.
After a month the two became closer. Best friends even. They were inseparable. That was until kagome got a phone call from work.
She answered the phone.
"Kagome, It's Mr. Takuma doesn't have long." Eri said.
She hung up the phone. Kagome rushed to grab her keys and got in her car. She sped to the nursing home. She ran into Sesshomaru's room and slowed to a walk when she entered.
He laid on his bed. He looked in Kagome's direction. She sat on the bed next to him. He gave a small smile.
"I would've d-done it all o-over again, if I could've gotten to k-know you as a friend l-like this." Sesshomaru said. He raised his hand and rested it on the side of her face. His other hand held hers. He held a paper in his hand that was clearly mentioned for her.
"Ka-go-me, it w-was you and R-Rin that taught me kindness. Rin had an earlier effect. And you have changed me more in one month then I ever thought imaginable. It was an blessing to be your Allie instead of your enemy in the end. You and Rin were the strangest humans I had ever known. But it was strange enough to make me whole. I Thank you for that." Sesshomaru said. He let go of Kagome's hand and brought down his other hand. Kagome hugged him until she didn't hear his heart beating anymore.
He was gone.
Kagome cried into his chest. Her past was gone along with Sesshomaru. Eri walked in.
She saw Kagome crying. She rubbed Kagome's back soothingly. Kagome cried hysterically.
"Let me drive you home. I can get the funeral date for you soon." Eri said. Kagome hugged her friend as she stood.
Eri took kagome home and dropped her off. Kagome walked in the door and fell to her knees. Paper in hand she opened it.
There were three names.
Sakura
Taro
Katsumi
At the Bottom Sesshomaru wrote a note.
Kagome,
By the time you read this I will be gone from this life. I see you as a friend and I understood why Inuyasha kept you around.
When I first met you, I hated your guts for being able to hold my father's sword when I couldnt. But now I realized that i was ment to live this long to find you. To help you find closure.
These are shippo and rin's pups. They have been waiting to meet you for some time. The cat awates you as well.
I can't stop wishing for time to wind backwards. For time to go back five hundred years. For me to be injured some how and be forced to except your care. I believe that would be the only way my pride wouldve allowed your help. Only then would I have fell madly in love with you.
Love,
Sesshomaru.
Kagome let out another sob. She cried into her hands. Why did this have to happen?
The next day kagome mustered all the strength she could gather. Sesshomaru left his address at the top of the note.
Kagome knocked on his door. It was a rather big mansion. A boy with red hair and brown eyes opened the door. He gave a warm smile. Kilala was on his shoulder. She meowed when she saw Kagome. Kilala then jumped down her shoulder and rubbed her face against Kagome's.
"Kagome I presume?" He asked. Kagome nodded. Taro's smile faded. The foxes all looked about the same age. They all looked to be about twenty in human years. So she assumed from how old Sesshomaru was, that they were at least two hundred.
"Grandfather and father spoke so much of you. Your welcome into our home and family. Please come in." Taro said. Kagome smiled slightly then walked in. She met Sakura who had red hair and green eyes. And she also met Katsumi. She had brown hair and eyes. They were all a mix of their parents.
Another month had past and Kagome went to his funeral a day after he had passed on. Kagome missed Sesshomaru dearly. She had believed that if Inuyasha didn't make her leave, none of this would've happened. That her absence caused a chain reaction.
Kagome had visited her mother, brother, and Grandpa. They were not angry at her for staying away. They were so happy to see her.
The half demon foxes cared for Kagome greatly. Even though she would only have a humans life span. They still treasured her.
Kagome made her way to Sesshomaru's grave in the graveyard. His tombstone had a crescent moon on it. She knew that he was with Inuyasha and the others. She knew they were watching over her and the three fox kits. Kagome kneeled down next to Sesshomaru's grave. She looked at it.
'Things are not as they seem, miko.' Kagome remembered Sesshomaru's words.
"You were right. You may be gone now. But when I pass on. You will be the first person I find in the next world. If I could go back in time I would. Just to see you one last time. I would do it all over again just to be near you. If we were friends five hundred years ago, I would've fell for you just as much. But I'm sure you already knew that." Kagome said as she ran her hand alond his grave stone. Tracing his name.
His grandchildren used his real name on the stone and for that she was greatful.
She couldn't wait to see him again.
"You were right."