Do you remember?
(SessXKag)
Part one. Sometimes the past follows you ...
She stood there in a small clearing holding a small child in her arms. Her long midnight blue/black wavy hair was swaying in the gentle breeze, the tips just barely touching the small of her back. Her heart shaped face looking at the crescent moon, pain on her face and a deep longing in her eyes. Her blues eyes clouding over with unshed tears.
"I can't go back to that place, not now." She whispered, glancing down at the sleeping child in her arms. A head full of silver and a chubby toddler sleeping face greeted her sight, the pale face hiding golden blue eyes. Blinking away the tears and shifting the toddler she continued on the walk to her car.
The birthday hike had been a success, well mostly anyway the only incident had been when they came across him.
Unfortunately he saw her, she had turned quickly and ushered the slower parents away before he could possibly even get a glimpse of the child he denied over two years ago. His child, the only child her should have, her baby. The one he quickly denied barely even know ing of her existence, her baby.
She had gotten lucky and only a few of the other parents had saw him, they immediately started herding the small group of children away. She even saw one of the parents slyly tossing a oversized bonnet hat on a silver head hiding the striking resemblance to the man she was about to face. Many of the parents who knew of her turbulent past keeping a keen eye birthday girl. When she turned back he was there towering over her small 5'3 frame. He was still just as tall at 6'7, his build still muscular and fit but not overly bulky. His jaw strong, nose noble proud and perfect on top of his perfect slightly full lips with his sharp amber eyes staring, burning into her own. Pale skin that complimented his long shiny moonlight silver hair, that was held back by a simple hair band that fell to his calves. She looked away quickly.
"Why are you here?" she asked softly.
"I am forced to be a participant of this pregnancy hike or risk loss of stocks" he answered in a deep dark smoldering voice.
"Ohh so that slut is pregnant. Is it an actually pregnancy or a fake one like last time?" she asked, her words surprising a calm considering the deep anger she harbored for the women mentioned.
"Yes, about that I was very wrong. My father refused to let me out of manor. He had that nut job Miroku ward the home so that i couldn't leave the grounds for six months. After the sting wore off and I ca-" he saying before being cut off by a huffing puffing five month pregnant women.
"Sesshomaru-Kun, why did you run off like that? Were supposed to be taking all the flat routes and not anything like steep hills, why did you come up here?" That woman was heavily pregnant began questioning her grating high pitched voice getting higher and taking on a whine before noticing the dark haired beauty. "Oh why are you talking to this slut didn't she cheat on you with that Inuyasha?" Her question designed to hurt only got a sigh of irritation from the women and a deep glare.
"Oh gee golly me, why don't I go and talk to him. Cuntbag go suck a dick not in the Tashio family. You are a life ruining whore and while i don't like you I will cut your fucking throat if you speak to me out the side of your fucking neck again. I might not be there to show you how a proper Alpha female is supposed to act but you best believe that I am still that fucking female." Kagome's anger and sarcasm were slightly unmated in that moment. She knew and he knew that every word she spoke was true. "I don't go around sleeping with married men and trying to trap them with children that aren't theirs, nor do I sleep around when in a relationship. If you thought you were referring to me with that slut comment you need to look in the mirror. Now if you'll excuse me I do have a birthday to celebrate. Sesshomaru it's a shame you listened to this female instead of using your head, and I do mean the one on your shoulders.." And with a slightly smug smile on her face she turned on her hill and walked toward where she last saw the others.
"Stupid bitch who does she think she is." The red eyed dark haired woman growled while trying to grab Sesshomaru hand.
"Kauri. Do not refer to Kagome as such she is your alpha as she stated. It will do well for you to remember that. This behavior alone has gained you another 3 months in side house with the maid service. Keep it up and you will not ever return to corporate office. At this rate your child will be five before you put that basic Bachelor's degree to any use." And with that he walked back the way he came to leave the annoying woman known as Kauri to get back on her on. 'I don't think anyone that we know of has a birthday this time of year besides Rin and her birthday was a few weeks ago…' He thought as he started going through a list of known associates and their birthdays.
***
The bushes swayed together for a minute before the woman reappeared her head down as emotions filtered across her face. Smug anger warred with pure delight and joy as she got closer to her baby.
"Kagome?" a tall dark chocolate haired woman with warm hazel eyes asked worry clear in her voice.
"Sango-chan, I will tell you later. Maybe lunch tomorrow" Kagome answered a small smile on her face. "Where's Kari and the others?" she asked looking around.
"They are around the corner in the next clearing and Kari is of course bouncing for joy and is running wild of sugar. Me and a couple of the other parents all set up the pavilion and laid out the food, snacks and presents. The cake is still in the cooler." Sango answered joy in her tone and a splash of delight and a dab of worry on her face. A secondary nod let Kagome know that lunch would be a go.
A bright smile instantly lit up on her face. Kagome followed the trail and ran around the corner with obvious joy. As she rounded the corner burst into the next clearing a small silver haired blur with the oversized an bonnet flying off slammed into her body with a loud happy scream of "Mommy!" which she hoped he didn't hear.
"Come on baby it's time to eat or else it will be really late when we get open the presents and get the yummy cake Uncle Sanji made. Alright guys time to party! Let's see whose kid crashes first, once they are out or at least getting close we should head out. Hopefully we can have a less difficult trip home! Thank you all for coming to celebrate Hikari's second birthday!" Kagome exclaimed as she directed the first statement to the silver haired girl referred to as Kari.
*** A few hours later***
One of the parents watched the now 2 year old as she and Sango put all the decorations, leftover food and gifts for the toddler in her car. Having the children pick up the discarded gift wrapping while the parents cleaned up the rest of the pavilion was a great idea and a wonderful way to tire them out after the last bit of cake an hour ago. Kagome decided to take another small walk to help tire out the two year old on the last dregs of her sugar rush. As they were finally nearing the park entrance she easily swooped up the tired child and cradled her to her bosom and started singing a soft undescriptive lullaby.
"Mommy?" the child asked sleepily. Wiping a chubby fist over her tired eyes. The sleep eyes looking up at her.
"Yes baby." She responded softly taking, keeping a small humm in the back of throat.
"Where's daddy? Can we go see daddy? Does daddy even love me?" the girl asked her gold/blue eyes blinking heavily clouded with sleep. He hands clutching the soft flowy shirt of her mother during a big yawn.
The humming got caught in her throat stopping her for a moment as her breath caught in shock. This was a question she hoped would not surface. A question she was hoping that wouldn't be asked for a while, a question she didn't have the answer to or want to answer. A question she couldn't really face after seeing him only 4 hours ago.
"Kari, your daddy is busy so we can't go see him. He travels a lot for work. Once he gets the time he will show up and it will be like a dream for you." She answered completely avoiding two questions all together.
A few minutes later and she was holding a sleeping toddler and staring at the moon. The sun not quite set yet, but the moon glowing brightly anyway. 'What will I do? Will he start trying to see me again? Will I even say no? Will I forgive him and let Kari be hurt as well? Should I forgive him for what he didn't do? For not chasing after me. He did say that Inu-Papa kept him confined in the house… but still emails and a phone call. Even what he did not say.. If I say yes how do I go about making this happen… Should she even know of her daddy? I'll call Inu-Papa and Mama tomorrow and see what they say, maybe it is time for her to meet him while she is still young a bit of visitation so it won't be a big deal when she's older and it's a bit too late for her to be okay with.' she thought staring at the moon. Continuing her walk she found herself in front of her somewhat expensive car a 2013 cloud white Lexus ES. Putting Kari in her car seat and making sure she was secured she started the car was ready for the near hour long drive home.
Twenty minutes later her phone rang and she answered out of habit not even looking at the number that was displayed, a number she still had saved. Even still the only person that called her after 8 was Sango and occasionally her and Sango's oddly connected to both families Miroku.
"Hey Sango, if you're calling to check on us were fine. Karis sleeping and we're Still about 30ish minutes to the house." She said after clicking answer on her steering wheel. Glad she had Bluetooth, just for an ease of access and all that fun stuff.
"Who is Kari, Kagome?" A voice she hoped never to here again asked through the speakers of her car.
"Sesshomaru?" she questioned. "How did you get this number?" Her body tensed in a panic as she glanced frantically to the back of car, a slight relief washed over her when she saw her daughter still asleep.
"You can't stay hidden from me. Even with my father's interference. Who is Kari?" he repeated completely ignoring her question.
"Your daughter." Was her stony reply. She didn't give him a chance to process before continuing on "Do not call me again and stay away from us. I will speak to you when I am good and ready." She stated coldly at the end before hanging up.
A few minutes later she muttered "I need to call my lawyer, Inu-Papa, Mama and Kikyo…..I need a drink." A thirty minutes later she was exiting the highway and turning down her street and before long pulling into her driveway completely missing the black Benz besides her usual spot.
***T.B.C.***
Hey this is a revamp of the original. I recently found myself working on the last 2 chapters and when I went back to read the previous chapter it did not flow well together and some chapters had a lot of conflicting information. so this is a rewrite of chapter 1. Chapters 2 & 3 will be posted in the next few weeks chapter 4 & 5 about 3 weeks after that and chapter 6 will be posted in about 3 months or so.
