PrayForTheFallen: Alright I know that I have no finished Children's Intentions but I had to get this idea out. And I know that I put All In One Week on hold and I'm sorry. Either way this is Indefinite Infatuation. I don't know how many will read this but it is another Kagome Sesshomaru pairing. I will feature a good amount of songs in here. Mostly Cascada, Nickelback, Saliva and Sugar Cult will be used. Either way enjoy the first chapter and please review if you want me to continue this story.
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Disclaimer: I officially announced that I own nothing but the plot. The plot alone is mine; everything else belongs to someone else.
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The sun is a sustaining star that is the very basis of the solar system. Although the earth is one hundred and fifty million kilometers away it still heats the sun. There are various uses for the suns' light. Some use it for energy; others for sun bathing and, the most common usage, people use it for light. In this particular instance the most common usage for the sun is, in fact, being used.
A group of travelers walked along a dirt road. The suns rays lit up their faces and made the day better. As the group six traveled further their happiness never once faded.
The day neared its end as the travelers' set up camp.
Here is where are story begins.
"But Kagome I'm not tired." Shippo, a fox kit, whined to his surrogate mother.
Kagome, the kit's surrogate mother, rolled her eyes and tucked the yawning child into her sleeping bag.
As the kit snuggled in she turned around to see her companions setting up camp.
"I'm going to take a bath." Kagome announced, grabbing her bag.
No one made any complaints, and if they had wanted to they didn't announce their complaint.
Kagome walked through the forest to the hot spring she had seen earlier. She loved the Feudal Era at night. The way the moonlight hit the water, the way the tree's swayed and, of course, the way the breeze wasn't too cold or too warm.
Kagome quickly looked around and disrobed, slipping into the hot spring with a pleasure filled sigh. She put up a small, weak barrier. Just enough strength was put into it to allow her to close her eyes and relax.
As she lay in the water, with her head leaning against the side, she knew of no greater pleasure. She knew she could not stay long so she relaxed for a few mesmerizing moments and then proceeded to wash her hair and body.
Using the products from her time she furthered the unique scent that was Kagome. The aroma of fresh rain and vanilla, the combination was lethal.
As she got out, dressed and took down the barrier she instantly knew something was out of place. She rushed quickly back to camp to find everyone there…everyone but InuYasha. The small sound made from above, accompanied by a soft glow, indicated to her where the hanyou had gone.
Kagome was used to it by now. She knew she was nothing to the hanyou, nothing but his locater of the Shikon No Tama. She was nothing but a naïve girl who had fallen in and out of love with him.
The hurt had withdrawn and the love had withered but she felt a small pain when he would leave to go see her. She knew there was nothing she could do and she knew that choosing to love him as a brother, rather then pursue her romantic love for him, was the best way to get over him.
Kagome slipped into her sleeping bag beside her kit and sighed in a mixture of emotions. The pain was small but relevant, the anger was there but irrelevant and then there was a cluster of other emotions that came with the territory of getting over your first love.
As she slipped into a dreamless sleep she knew tomorrow would be different, it always was when he left.
The sun awoke the sleeping beauty from her slumber. The hanyou was back and all was well, or so one would think from first glance.
Kagome stood up and stretched as her comrades awoke.
Sango, Kagome's best friend and trained demon slayer, smiled at Kagome and stretched as well. Miroku, Kagome's perverted monk friend, got up as well, attempting to touch Sango's rear.
Than there was InuYasha, the hanyou. He looked dazed and less aggravated than normal. Kagome knew only few things could put him a mood like that and she had a feeling that her assumption as to what had transpired the pervious night was correct.
She started to prepare breakfast, ramen as usual, and pushed her thoughts away for the time being. Shippo awoke at the smell off food and hopped onto Kagome's shoulders.
"Morning Shippo did you sleep well?" Kagome asked her kit.
Shippo nodded and took the first bowl of the cooked ramen. Everyone ate in a comfortable silence.
"We should get moving." Kagome offered.
"I quite agree Kagome; I feel we have lingered here to long." Miroku announced, letting his hand wonder.
Kagome slapped the perverted monk and continued to eat her meal.
The group set off after.
"Kagome, have you…" InuYasha started but was but off.
"West, three." Kagome replied.
InuYasha nodded and took the lead.
That's how it always went. He would disappear. He would come back. He would ask for any new leads. She would tell him. They wouldn't talk for the trip. And that's how it would go. Then they would fight. Then he would disappear and everything would start again.
"Are you alright?" Sango asked Kagome.
"Yeah, just a little tired." Kagome told her.
"I understand. But, look on the bright side, if we get the three jewel shards we should be ahead of the game and he can't complain." Sango offered.
"It's not the jewel shards I'm worried about." Kagome sighed, shaking her head.
"Then what's wrong?" Sango asked her.
"We're going west." Kagome told her.
"Oh, well, there's a chance we won't be 'caught'." Sango replied.
"There is a chance but it's very low. We can't afford to be attacked by him while we're trying to battle a three shard demon, it won't work." Kagome sighed again.
"I hear you but, we can hope." Sango replied.
Kagome nodded.
The two girls walked in silence for the next few moments.
"Your hair looks nice today Kagome, very shiny." Sango announced, breaking the silence with a comment that was completely random.
"Thanks Sango." Kagome replied, laughing a bit.
The two girls smiled and looked ahead. InuYasha was leading with Miroku beside him and Shippo on his shoulder.
"I think Shippo's exited." Sango announced.
"Yeah, but I don't want to get his hopes up." Kagome told her.
"Well if we do, in fact, run in to him he usually has Rin. At least while he and InuYasha are fighting they can get some play time in." Sango offered.
"Yeah, I suppose so. It's apparent that he knows we're going west." Kagome replied.
"Those two are so cute together." Sango chuckled.
"They really are." Kagome laughed as well.
The casual conversation continued with the two girls when Kagome suddenly got a shard aura.
"InuYasha, there's a shard coming towards us." Kagome announced.
Everyone got into a ready stance as a spider demon came at them.
Kagome released a sacred arrow at it and pierced it in between the eyes. The shard fell out as the demon fell to the ground dead.
Kagome's aim and bow and arrow skills had greatly improved but InuYasha was shocked that she could take down a demon in one shot. He scoffed at her and mumbled something that sounded like 'lucky shot'.
Kagome sighed and picked up the shard piece, purifying it and combining it with the hunk of jewel around her neck.
Sango congratulated Kagome on her great shot and smiled at the thought of having another jewel shard in their possession.
"Well that was a productive day." Kagome announced playfully in an official tone.
"Yes and you are one step closer to the grand prize." Sango laughed.
Kagome had bonded with Sango over the years. She had been there, in fact, for three years. She had grown as a person and shared her knowledge of certain things with her friends. She had finished high school and chose this era over her own, sealing the well.
Kagome and Sango had been sitting by the fire talking when they noticed InuYasha's presence was gone.
Sango said nothing but was inwardly disgusted. She knew where he went, she knew what he did and she knew that he was a jerk. She stayed with him on his hunt for the shards, only because of Kagome, but had lost all respect for him.
Kagome yawned and signaled that she was going to bed. As she climbed into the sleeping bag with Shippo she drifted into a dream filled sleep once again.
Kagome shot up in her sleeping bag the next morning. She was the first one up. She let out a shaky breath and wiped the sweat from her face. Her dream had been a nightmare. It's not that she wasn't used to having them but she knew what they meant.
There had always been a fifty fifty chance that her dreams would come true. And most of the time they did, that's why dreamless sleep was what Kagome liked.
The dream that she had endured made her want to cry.
She had foreseen a situation, per the norm. The situation itself wasn't the most horrible part it was the thought of it. Someone had been in a life or death situation with the three sharded demon and she didn't know what would happen but she had a feeling it wasn't good.
Kagome got up and quietly snuck off to a stream nearby to splash some water on her face. As she did she noticed that she wasn't alone.
"Kagome-Chan!" An exited Rin exclaimed coming and hugging her.
'Damn it.' Kagome thought.
"Hello Rin, you're not out here by yourself are you?" Kagome asked.
"Indeed she is not." Sesshomaru icy voice announced.
Kagome couldn't help but have tingling sensation spread up her spine. As much as she hated it the fact that a person's voice could be filled so much ice was exciting. He made her feel like she had just been hit with a snowball in the morning of a humid day.
Rin ran off as Kagome stood up.
"What is your purpose of being in the west wench?" Sesshomaru demanded.
Kagome rolled her eyes, his arrogance made her want to slap him.
"Oh great and mighty lord I am extremely sorry for trespassing to find the same shards as the notorious Naraku and attempting to stop him. Please do not let me proceed and instead kill me now." Kagome replied sarcastically.
Sesshomaru growled menacingly at her lack of respect and mockery yet found that it was somewhat appealing. All around him usually walked on pins and needles while she let her emotions show.
"Kagome-Chan is Shippo-kun here?" Rin asked Kagome.
"Yeah, do you want to see him?" Kagome asked her.
Rin cheered and followed Kagome back to her camp. The first thing Kagome noticed was that InuYasha wasn't back yet, which was odd and somewhat appealing.
"Rin!" Shippo announced running over and began to play with her.
Sango and Miroku eyes Sesshomaru but did nothing, they were on his lands after all.
Kagome heard a rustle in the bushes near the children, who were a few feet away. Shippo had jumped away when the light of a wind scar came through the bushes. Kagome dove for Rin and rolled her out of harm's way. InuYasha burst through the bushes and noticed that he had inflicted a small wound to Kagome's arm.
Kagome was so angry she started to glow, her wounds healing instantly.
"What nerve you have! You disappear and then return, attacking blindly and have your stupid attack aimed for a child. Who the hell do you think you are InuYasha! SIT!" Kagome yelled.
InuYasha landed so hard on the ground he was knocked unconscious. Kagome was furious. She had been angry like this before and she didn't like her. Her miko abilities told her to purify everything and it took her a lot to suppress the urge.
Shippo ushered Rin away to play as Kagome turned and walked into the woods.
Sesshomaru had watched the scene unfold and didn't know what to make of it.
"Does this happen often?" Sesshomaru asked, letting his curiosity get the better of him.
"InuYasha disappearing happens very often. Kagome getting that angry and storming off, well that doesn't happen on a regular basis. It would be best to leave her be for a bit." Sango announced.
She noticed that Sesshomaru had left after she had said the part after Kagome and sighed.
Miroku and Sango looked at each other than down at the ground, no pity for the hanyou relevant.
Kagome was walking at a regular pace and looking down at the ground, angry at everything. She was angry at InuYasha for everything, she was angry for loosing it in front of Rin and Sesshomaru and she was angry that she had let that happen in the first place.
She was so angry and preoccupied with the ground that she hadn't noticed Sesshomaru's presence until she had walked right into him and fell back on her ass.
She looked up with a glare but softened her gaze when she saw it was Sesshomaru, which made him wonder.
She got up and dusted herself off.
"What do you need Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked him casually.
"I have come to inform you that I will be joining your little group. I too, indeed, wish to defeat Naraku, I have not forgotten what he has done to Rin and I have not forgotten what he has done to me. I know that the hanyou will not agree but it is not his choice." Sesshomaru announced.
Kagome really didn't care at the moment. Her brain had processed what he had said and, being a logical thinker, she knew that he would be a good asset to the group.
"Will Rin be staying as well? It would be in best interest to permit her too." Kagome asked him.
"Yes she will be staying." Sesshomaru replied.
"Than I have no reasons why you shouldn't be permitted to join us. Although you have attempted to kill us in the past, as has InuYasha done to you, I know that we can overcome that to defeat a common enemy." Kagome told him.
Sesshomaru was intrigued by her intelligence. He rarely heard females, demoness' and humans alike, speak with such intelligence.
"Is there anything else I may assist you with?" Kagome asked him, now calmer than ever.
"No I do not need to be assisted in anything." Sesshomaru replied.
Kagome nodded and turned back, intending to go back to camp.
Oddly enough Sesshomaru decided that it would be in his best interest to return back to the camp as well so he allowed himself to walk beside a human.
Kagome was so caught up in her own thoughts; it was like she had spaced out and she didn't even notice Sesshomaru walking beside her. But he noticed her. He noticed the way the sun reflected off her hair and how her eyes sparkled when she was deep in thought. He scolded himself for noticing such things but knew it meant nothing. At least he thought it meant nothing.
The two walked into camp to find an unconscious monk, an angry Sango and no InuYasha.
"He came too a few minutes after you left. He was angry and left, he said he wouldn't be back till tomorrow and to be ready to move." Sango sighed.
Kagome rolled her eyes and laughed slightly, joined by Sango. They always laughed when InuYasha left out of anger.
Sesshomaru also noted that Kagome's laugh was nice, unlike Sango's small chuckle.
Sango and Kagome stopped laughing and looked at each other, both realizing everything at the same time.
If Sesshomaru stayed, which Sango thought he would, camp life would be interesting. Kagome turned and looked at Sesshomaru, noticing the slight sparkle in his eyes that vanished when he noticed her looking at him.
Yes, interesting indeed.
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PrayForTheFallen: Well that was the first chapter. The chapter I had planned went a different way but I know I can just put it into chapter two. Either way review guys if you want more. Lots of love to you all.