This one is for Sugar0o just because it's Sesshoumaru/Kagome! Enjoy!
"It's her." The whispers had already started, but she paid them no heed, after all, she was use to them by now. "The commoner." She tossed her hair over her shoulder as she passed the many dark haired inu youkai, not caring for their opinions any more. She held her head high, allowing her long flowing tail to curl around both of her shoulders, much like Inu no Taisho's alpha female did with her mokomoko. Unlike the royal family, Kagome chose to store her additional power in a tail rather than something she would simply carry around. She had always liked the idea of a tail, anyway.
Some speculated her way of holding her tail was to hide the fact she bore no markings. They couldn't be farther from the truth. It was a way to hide that she had one, on the back of her neck. The mark of Midoriko's curse. The Shikon no Tama had imbedded itself in her, forcing her to forever carry the burden of protecting it.
Her nose lifted into the air as she proudly made her way into the palace. If she hadn't made that wish, she would still be human, and with InuYasha. However, the wish had been made, selfish as it was, and there was nothing she could do about it.
"Why would they call upon her? I heard she was their knew seer."
InuYasha now never existed, and never would. She had seen it in a vision: Izayoi and InuYasha both died that night, before Inu no Taisho ever even knew they were in danger. At the time, she had rushed forward, screaming for him to help Izayoi, but they had not believed her. Sesshoumaru had looked down at her, informing her that her words were a sign that she was a traitor. Later, they would try to get information from her, attempting to torture her.
Sesshoumaru's acid had moved, seemingly on its own, surrounding her, but never touching her. She confessed that the Shikon no Tama would not allow them to kill her, as it's guardian.
That caused a whole new set of questions, but she would not talk to Sesshoumaru or his mother. It took three days, but she looked Inu no Taisho in the eye and told him the truth. "A miko I am, but a demoness as well. A hanyou boy stole my heart, and crushed it, in my pain I had wished to have never met him. My wish was granted, and I hate myself for it." Her chin lifted in the air, despite the fact she was bound and naked. "I killed your son."
When she reached her destination, Kagome lifted her elegant kimono slightly as she turned to face the crowd, never allowing the cold mask to fall.
"On this day, we have defeated the dragon clan head: Ryukotsusei. This battle would have ended in disaster if it weren't for the Throne's Seer. I acknowledge her skills, and her loyalty to her alphas. To act against her will result in death." Inu no Taisho said, standing.
The celebrations began shortly after, and Kagome found herself heading to her rooms, unwilling to participate in such celebrations. She knew Inu no Taisho wished for her to find a mate, however, she was sure she could never love another. InuYasha had stolen her heart and died with it. As she reached her rooms, she allowed a tear to run down her cheek.
She had truly killed him, and there was nothing she could do about it.
Her heart clenched and she began to change herself, having dismissed the handmaidens given to her long before. She would not be waited on hand and foot.
She pulled on a pair of billowing white pants, much like the ones Sesshoumaru wore. Her top was made of fire rat fur, and was an altered version of what InuYasha had worn. It wrapped around her tighter, accenting her curves to an extent, and had slits in the side, leaving fabric to drape down to her knees in front and behind her. Around it's middle was a white obi littered with red cherry blossoms and a single blue moon that rested over her belly button.
She turned and left her rooms then, a passive mask in place. She made her way to the roofs and stared up at the moon.
She had expected him to follow, as he and his mother still did not trust her, nor would they. They didn't accept her role in the pack, because she had secrets. She turned slightly, nodding towards him.
"Lord Sesshoumaru." She acknowledged, but he narrowed his eyes at her. She did not pretend to smile, she simply shook her head. He was always like this.
"This Sesshoumaru demands you tell the truth." Sesshoumaru said and Kagome's eyes drifted over to him.
"I have."
"You are no seer." He said, his knuckles cracking. "Your power is nothing without the Shikon no Tama."
Kagome turned to him. "I will not lie, part of it is because of the Shikon no Tama, but not borrowed nor taken." Her eyes drifted back to the moon. "The Shikon no Tama is nothing but a burden." She seemed to glow under it's light, but he refused to notice such things. She was beautiful, but she was not worth his time. She was scheming, she had to be. She was simply too willing to do as asked, too willing to become a tool. He did not, would not trust her.
Sesshoumaru stared at her for long moments. "Then what is it you wish."
Kagome's eyes turned to him. "I wasted my wish, it resulted in nothing but misery." Her eyes locked onto him. "Though, I suppose, you are happier now than you would have been."
Sesshoumaru bared his teeth. "You know nothing."
Kagome shook her head. "If that were true, Lord Sesshoumaru, then perhaps I could find happiness once more."
"You wish for more power." Sesshoumaru said, lifting his nose. "Disgusting."
Kagome smiled softly. "I guess it could be considered that, in a way." Her sapphire eyes drifted closed and she, for the first time, truly smiled. "Love is the greatest power I have ever come across."
Sesshoumaru scoffed. Kagome's eyes locked onto his, for the very first time, as they reminded her of InuYasha's. Her eyes softened. "I wonder if he would have grown to look more like you with age..."
"You speak nonsense." He said and Kagome sat down, for once letting her tail loose.
"I suppose I do." She paused, allowing herself to chuckle. "I suppose it wouldn't hurt to tell you, after all, once upon a time you were involved as well."
He stared down at her, frowning. She was a strange one, but maybe if he got her talking she would reveal to him her plan.
"Once upon a time there was a ningen girl..." A story? How...childish. "She lives several hundred years from now, in a place I am unsure exists any longer."
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at her, a story of the future?
"This girl was like any other ningen, weak and timid, yet she held a power inside of her. She had been born with the Shikon no Tama inside of her body, as the reincarnation of a priestess yet to come." She paused then, thinking. "Truly, I wonder if the priestess will come any longer, as the cause of her death is no longer available. No matter."
"Get on with it." Sesshoumaru snapped, and she smiled.
"You get more patient with time, I see. One day, this girl who had never seen a youkai, was pulled into the distant past by one. That is, our future." She paused again. "I'm unsure how far into the future, I had never known his age, it was hard to tell..." She shook her head. "She met a hanyou, one by the name of InuYasha."
Sesshoumaru's intake of breath was telling. He knew that name, his father had been planning to name the hanyou that name.
"He saved her from certain death, never knowing she would be the cause of his. They faced many trials..." Her eyes glowed a pinkish hue as she stared up at the moon. "And in time she came to love him, even though he was in love with another. The very priestess who's soul was reincarnated as her own." She stood again, adjusting an arm to keep her hair out of her face as wind blew.
"They pulled together a group, mismatched and crazy as they were, to bring down a great evil. An evil that would have never risen up if it weren't for her mistakes." She smiled. "They even went up against the hanyou's older brother a few times, but never did truly defeat him but once." Her eyes drifted to his arm. "He lost a limb, but it never hindered him. Truly, it was only lost due to his inability to see that the need to protect could cause his brother to rise in strength." She looked up at him, his face unbelieving. "Ah, but the brother joined the group int he end." Her eyes closed. "It was due to his help the great evil had fallen, but he could never have guessed that the girl who loved his brother would make a mistake."
Kagome's arms raised, cupping an imaginative Shikon no Tama. "The hanyou unfaithful, she raised the cursed bauble up into the air and made a wish. 'I wish I had never met InuYasha!'" She paused for a moment, her eyes dark as her hands dropped, and she looked at her palms with a sad, pitiful look. "In order to make this happen, she would have to be able to protect herself and the jewel." Her eyes drifted to Sesshoumaru.
"She was reborn as a demon, and no matter how hard she tried, she could not change the truth." She smiled a sad smile, and her head tilted slightly as tears gathered on her lashes, even though her eyes were closed. "She had killed the one she loved." Tears ran down her cheeks, but she still smiled. "And now she is cursed for her selfishness, never to die, never to forget, forever the guardian of the jewel, and forever without InuYasha."
He said nothing as she turned from him, leaving him to his thoughts as she went back to her rooms, no longer taking comfort in the moon that shone overhead.