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Anyways… I know I take a long time to update. I always start a new chapter but then I have tests and homework… it all gets vary tedious.
Anyways enjoy!
Addy Eli
Chapter Two: Siblings of the Future
They entered the small clearing silently, from her shoulder the wolf carried a small collection of hares, their feet tied to the others. No one noticed the Inu returning with more firewood as Kagome knelt by the fire to heat the water. Dropping the prey for her mother the wolf jumps up to the tree, her tail dangling down as she stretches onto the branch to sleep. Sango joins her sister-like friend, rubbing at her shoulder as Kagome finds the fat hares already cleaned and ready for cooking other than the hair.
"Are you sure you are alright Kags?" The slayer kneels beside her as Shippou comes to them from the house.
"Yeah, I have just been thinking… this place looks amazing… if I have my girls here I won't want to leave this place." She sighs. "I also don't see me naming my girls such simple names."
"Yes, you would find something about them to name them, Kai, Sai, and Nai does not sound like you Kagome." Shippou slumps beside the bag, grabbing a lollipop from the side pocket. "I bet they are false names."
"Indeed." The Inu states from behind the three. Her gold eyes shift to the wolf, whose legs and tail swing with the breeze. "We were told not to supply our real names."
"Why?"
"Because you name us based on what you think of us." Her nose turns into the breeze as she senses the return of the three males. Miroku being in the town close by acquiring food for their new location. "Kai and myself will be staying until you have delivered. To help protect you from any attacks."
"Have you been here before?" Sango hears the demons approaching. The Inu pup nods. "Kago is there a reason that the wolf is keeping her distance?"
"Because of the night I spent in the hot spring with Sesshomaru." She brushes the conversation aside lightly.
"You are incorrect okaa— young Kagome." The Inu murmurs as the wolf rolls from the branch to land on her feet and approach them. "She is still getting used to the Kouga from our time passing away and being able to see him again since our last spring."
"I had no idea…" Kagome smiles as Kai stops next to Sai. "Kai… I'm—"
"No. Don't I know you had reasons to be curious… Ji— Sai I need to get away for a few hours… hunting those weak little rabbits did nothing for my thoughts." The Inu nods, a silent agreement reached as the demons break the tree line. "Sesshomaru-sama, would you humor this one in a spar?"
"I find the request suitable… shall we find a clearing some distance from our present location?" Nodding they disappear in a whirl of dust from the wolf's feet lifting off. Kouga turns, his tail wagging as he gives chase to watch the battle. InuYasha approaches, resting near the fire with the women and Shippou.
"What have you been talking about?"
"Nothing really… Sai, how old are you?" Kagome pats the ground for her to sit with them at the light. "Do I have gray hair yet?"
"You look much as you do now, the only gray hair you might have is from trying to raise three separate demon pups at the same time." She turns the hare on the spit. "Shippou was a great help to distract the half-breed for you, and when she stopped falling for his tricks he and Kai got very close."
"What?" Shippou calls emerging from the large yellow sack behind Kagome. "Did you call for me Kago?"
"No Shippou… and no candy before you eat real food!" She snatches the lollipop from him as he pouts. "I said no… come sit here so I can keep an eye on you." He leaps into her lap happily.
"So Kago… about this whole situation…" InuYasha rubs at the back of his head.
"Don't worry InuYasha, you and Kikyo can keep rolling in the grass for all I care… but our daughter will know her father for all his strengths and weaknesses. You might as well go tell her what is going on, the others and I will be fine without you." Her anger flares to the hanyou.
"Kagome I don't want to leave your side… this has really opened my eyes."
"No it hasn't, you will run to her soon enough." Sai murmurs knowing that Kagome heard the comment. "Apologies Kagome, I should not insert myself into your conversation."
InuYasha stands, growling at the pup and heads for the woods. With his departure the women and kit sigh before pulling the meat off the fire. Dividing it up Kagome sets the kettles over the hot stones to boil the tea water. The battle in the distance echoed into the clearing, metal on metal, magic slamming into magic.
By midnight Kagome had curled into the bed in the house with Shippou pressed to her stomach and Sango sleeping on the cot against the opposite wall. Crickets play as the demons sit guarding the entrances. Closing her eyes she revisits the events in the hot springs with a certain demon lord.
Sesshomaru could smell her arousal through the reed mat dividing the sitting room from the sleeping area, his body reacting on its own accord. His molten gold orbs close as he tries to make the effect disappear. With a wicked smile Sai turns from her father to the mat into the sleeping area, knowing what her mother was remembering.
"Milord… I might suggest that you know her desire for you."
"Silence."
"She is a strong miko, she has pure-bloods… save the hanyou whelp, who could not have been changed to the seed being tainted." Her fangs glisten in the night like a beast giving chase to fleeing prey. "She would make a fitting mate for the other lords not to deny."
"Why are you so silent?" Kouga rests a hand on his future cub's shoulder.
"It is hard for me to see you… so young and healthy since in my time you have been gone nearly a year."
"A year huh?" He sighs. "You has been leading the clan in my place while you decide if you can take over?"
"Ayame of the North… she was your mate. She also misses you deeply, howling to your spirit every night." Looking into the stars she lets a tear fall down her cheek. "She told me to get the pain from my system before committing to the tribe. I can hear her howl in my heart… it would not be fitting to call with that since you are alive."
"How did I die?"
"I am not allowed to tell you… mother fears altering the future if we give too much information."
"That's Kagome for you… fearing the destruction of the future…" The wolf prince chuckles, slapping the young wolf on the back. "You look so much like me… but I can see Kagome in you so well."
Through the trees eyes shifted from the young wolf to the house, aura's rolling for it in waves. With a wicked smile the beast turns and sprints through the forest to its waiting master. The message written and placed into the canister on its scarred chest. The beast emerges into a clearing scarred by battle to find a figure waiting for it, one that was not expected.
A cliff hanger? Brings people back for more I hope.
If I drank coffee or soda for that matter I would probably be able to write much faster…
Pleasant Readings;
Addy Eli
