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Story Summary: A curse drove them apart in the past. Now their future rests on the dubious origin of a half-mark.
Chapter Summary: Sesshomaru is preparing for Kagome's birth.
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When the Future is just here
Chapter 1:
Inevitability
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Five hundred years from Feudal Japan, on the very same lands, power had shifted in favor of technology. Human had grown in exchange for the extermination of weaker demons. Now, the world was mostly controlled by humans. No longer did a bow and an arrow or a sword served to make you a place of your own. No, now it was money or an automatic gun.
A young black haired woman, with a round belly, walked alongside a brown haired man silently. The couple held hands; a content smile adorned each of their faces. They were deeply in love, or so it appeared. After some more minutes of walking, the couple finally stopped before a clinic, watching the sign before entering.
After an hour, the woman was called inside by the doctor, and her husband silently followed. Their anxiousness and curiosity could easily be smelt in the air, easy for someone like him anyway.
The woman put on a white clinic cloth, her still small, yet round, stomach was easily visible. After small talk, the doctor began to place a slimy gel over the woman's stomach. A laugh escaped the woman as she explained that it was very cold, but her husband touched her hand and held it firmly, showing his support.
After that little incident, the doctor made a soft joke and proceeded to place a strange yet complicated machine over the woman's womb. Seconds later, an image appeared on the monitor, yet it was very dark and hard to discern.
The eyes of both parents looked anxiously at the image as the doctor looked at it carefully. He seemed to be anxious about the pulsing of the baby inside the womb. He accurately moved the machine with his hand searching for something, however, only a single small creature was seen.
"Is there something wrong?" asked the husband, in a voice filled with concern, his hand still gripping his wife's and the other was playing with her short black hair.
"I am not sure" replied honestly the experienced doctor. "It's a baby girl, I am sure."
"A baby girl? But the ultrasound from before said that I was carrying twins," she explained confused.
"I know" said the doctor softly, his hand stroke his beard. He was having second thoughts with this particular case. "But there is only one baby" he finally said, equally confused.
"What does that mean then?" asked the husband.
"It's only a supposition," said the doctor as he looked at the concerned couple, "but there is no doubt that there are two pulses instead of one. In theory, it means that your daughter has…two hearts."
A few hours later, the doctor had asked for more regular visits and some more tests to understand the miracle that was the Higurashi child, the couple was finally able to escape the obnoxious clinic.
On the way to the Higurashi Temple, a strange man with incredibly long silver hair intercepted them. He had been following them from the clinic, the woman had felt him, had known that a demon had been curious about them. None made an offensive movement, both parties wanting simply to engage in conversation.
"How can we help you?" asked the woman cautiously, and she made her miko powers flare to show him her identity.
The silver haired man nodded and allowed his golden eyes settled on them "Fear not for your child," said the demon slowly. "She will be born healthy and she will be stronger than yourself in way of her miko powers," explained the demon. "I have come to offer the medical service at my disposition for the rest of your pregnancy, and should you wish so, for the rest of your lives" he said seriously.
"Why would you do such a thing?" asked the husband, his hand pulling his wife a single step back, hovering protectively in front of her.
"Because she, Higurashi Kagome, is the reincarnation of my mate" he said simply "I am Lord of Japan, son of the great Inu no Taisho, Sesshomaru".
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Many human years later…
Few from a demon's perspective…
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"Lord Sesshomaru," the squeak of the toad demon called even before the shogi screen came open to show a ridiculously small green demon on a brown robe and a big envelope on his diminutive hands "The files you have been waiting for just arrived," the voice explained somewhat shaky.
The silent figure of the silver haired demon that was currently sitting facing the window slowly turned towards the servant demon and glared at it. "You are late, Jaken," the demon Lord muttered coldly, with hidden anger.
A startled gasp left Jaken and he immediately bowed to the floor "Forgive me my Lord!" he cried frantically "The messenger came late…humans are so unreliable and the traffic on this hour of a day and—"
"Jaken, your excuses are wearing my patience," he commented fisting his hands "Hand over the files and be gone".
"Yes Milord!" cried Jaken and hurried to his master's side. The green toad demon extended his shaky hands towards his lord while his big round yellow eyes stared at the floor frightened.
The envelope was snatched from his hands and the demon Lord swiftly stood up and walked to the wall tall window of his house. Deftly long fingers made their way as he pried the envelope open and carefully took the papers onto his hands. His golden eyes looked at the papers apprehensively, his vision clouding slightly as his attention was taken away from this moment and into the privacy of his inner thoughts.
Jaken took this opportunity and silently escaped the room, leaving his Lord to his privacy, fully aware of the wrath of his Lord when he was interrupted when in such a mood. Last time that he had unknowingly interrupted him, his Lord had killed him, and only revived him out of pity four hours later, and the truth was, he didn't want to repeat the experience any time soon. It was horrifying, what if Sesshomaru-sama didn't revive him the next time?
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Sesshomaru silently regarded the information on the first sheet of paper and a small smile crept up on his lips. Straight A's. In Biology, Pre-calculus, History of Japan, English and Calligraphy. The tall demon Lord dropped on his cushioned seat, his muscles and whole body getting a pleasant and foreign feeling and he was about to enjoy every single second of it. Pride.
His Kagome was an excellent student at age fourteen, and the former years as well. How had he not notice her worth before on the Feudal Era? Maybe he had noticed, but had been too stubborn to admit it.
Another small smile invaded him and he couldn't hold it hidden. This was something common, it didn't serve to startle him, every time he as just glimpsed at her he would get this obnoxious emotions. So, he didn't fidget as he took out of the envelope a pair of pictures of her. Her hair was long and black, though shorter than Rin's. Another difference between their hairs was that Rin's was unmistakably straight while Kagome's was wavy and shinier. However, what always caught his breath was not her hair, no it was another thing. The sheer will, the determination, and the innocence and purity of her miko powers that her blue eyes so perfectly reflected. It was the soul, the source of her and it left him breathless, once and again.
Fate was playing him, as always. But he was not going to lose, he was Lord Sesshomaru and he would succeed. Once again he found himself making that very same promise, the one he had been setting his future upon.
His golden eyes once again fell on Kagome's picture and he felt a pang of anxiousness. It was hard, to leave her alone and to not make any type of contact with her. She was his mate, or better say, half-mate. She was born with his mark, however, she was unaware of this, for he had never been in such closeness to alert her human senses of this. He couldn't, not now. Not yet, there are things fate needed her to do before anything else concerning him.
What was more troublesome was that tomorrow was going to be her fifteen birthday and she would soon begin her quest to the Feudal Era in order to save the world from Naraku. She was going to be unreachable for him during that period of time. He would be left on this Modern Times waiting for her safe return, waiting for things to go smoothly, for her to not fall in love with Inu-Yasha and for fate to remain the same and not play a foul trick on her and take her life.
Waiting was bothersome, waiting was difficult. He just wished that he could go down to her shrine right now and swop her up on his arms and bring her to his home and care for her here. To get her to mark him as her mate in order to be fully mated, that is what he really wished for. But he knew better, he couldn't do any of it, it would compromise his possible future, and he couldn't risk it. He could not put his mate in risk.
Sesshomaru shook his head in resignation. He was possessor of vast powers and unlimited riches, but against fate, he was nothing. He had no escape of this cruel wait. His eyes once again fell on her picture and soon enough, the reality became blurry and foreign while his memories of her began to flare to life. The past he shared with her, the hunt for the Jewel, the fight against Naraku.
He wasn't going to lie; he was having second thoughts about this. Would it really be so wrong for him to take Kagome as his mate right now? Would it change everything? If so, would it be for the best or for the worst?
He still remembers the first time he laid eyes on her in the Feudal Era… but that was another, more complicated story. He just hoped his past self did as he did, try, without success, to kill the young miko, or else, it would be the death of him.
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To be continued…
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JeniNeji's Note:
Thanks for all those who have stayed with me all this time,
and sorry for the long wait.
Hope you liked the first chapter!
LJ Prompt: Second thoughts
Word Count: 1718
Warnings: This is the first chapter of a new serial named When the Future is just here. This is the part that follows my first fanfic, When the Past is the Future.
For those who haven't read it, don't worry I am trying to make it as understandable as possible. :)
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