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A Sesshomaru & Kagome Courting Story
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It had been five days sense Kagome told her group the story of who she really was and five days sense Sesshomaru had announced that Inuyasha was now to take his rightful place as Prince of the West and join the two groups together as one pack, Then all would come to stay at the ancestral Inu Demon home in the western lands. Even if things seemed to be going well the group now stood in front of the bone-eaters well and Kagome set at the bottom crying as she was denied passage back to the time of her birth. Inuyasha looked at Sesshomaru and gave him a look that said 'Do something she needs you.' But Sesshomaru raised a single brow then turned and walk away. Inuyasha shook his head and muttered aloud. "Baka cold-hearten breasted brother, Says he knows Kagome but he don't know shit about woman." Miroku now gave Inuyasha a look that said 'And you do?' Inuyasha only response was a roll of his eye's as he jumped in to the well to try and comfort Kagome. At the bottom of the well Inuyasha found Kagome with her head tucked in to her knees and her arms warped around her lags as she sat there crying. "Why dose it hurt so much?" Kagome whispered so softly that if he was not half Inu Demon he would not have heard it.
Inuyasha sat next to Kagome and warped his arm around her shoulder and pulled her close. "It hurts now and it will for some time, But Kagome can you truly say your unhappy? Is a life here with us so bad? I thought that you and the ice Lord are going to go live happily ever after? Would you really want to give that up? What if you could go back? What if you go back and you get stuck there instead of here? You know what I think Kagome? I think this just proves you belong here with us. I'm not say not to love your family or not to miss them but be thankful for the time you did have with them, Be thankful that you do have a life here and people that would give any thing to call you family." Inuyasha said as he ran his hand up and down her arm and slowly her cry started to die down. "But don't you see Inuyasha? All these things you say I have here are uncertain. Inuyasha what if who I am now is not who Sesshomaru love's. Living that life I did changed me. I remember exactly who and what I was but look at me I don't act like any kind of legendary Miko. I use to act so different Inuyasha. I was...I was." She tried to find the words but Inuyasha just shook his head. "You ware what that time made you, Things wear different back then even compared to now. I'm sure you acted some thing like Lord Frosty dose now, But I'm kind of glad you don't now. I think I would have got sat a lot more then I do now." He said jesting.
Kagome looked at him and shook her head tears just waiting to fall. "That's just it Inuyasha, I'm outspoken, childish at times and my emotions are more intense then I ever remember them being be for. Not only that Inuyasha, Sesshomaru has also changed. He's more withdrawn then he use to be. There was a time when his laughter would echo threw the palace. These pass few days have been killing me inside. I deeply want to express the love and joy I feel for him, But I have to stop my self and remind my self that things I may find acceptable now he could vary well find inappropriate. I'm not a baka Inuyasha I now he left as soon as I started crying. Not only that when I asked him if he would want to come with me he said no. What if I did go home and did get stuck there? Oh no what if that was what he wanted? Maybe that's why he doesn't want me? What if he was hoping of getting rid of me?" Kagome asking hysterically as she let her fears add to her already over worked mind. Not only had she just lost her only way back to the only mother she had ever truly known and the rest of her family and friends.
Kagome had also just regained all her memory's of her past and unlocked all her past power as well. Inuyasha was amazed that she had been holding it together as well as she had., Not only must it be hard on her mind to process all her old memory's but the toll it must have on this her young body keeping all the power she had gain by the time she created the jewel must be eminence. Kagome was crying harder now and saying something but even Inuyasha could not make it out. "Kagome! Snap out of it right now. That's it that ass hole should be down here comforting you if he really cared. Come on Kagome I need to go for a run and your coming with me." Inuyasha told her as he crouched down. Kagome gave him a look that said 'You did not just tell me what to do'. But be for she could say any thing Inuyasha interrupted her. "Just come on." He said as he pulled on her hand.
Kagome got on Inuyasha's back and then in the blink of a eye they ware out of the well and Inuyasha was running and leaping threw the forest. After what seemed like no time Inuyasha and Kagome ware a few miles away from the well and village. Inuyasha let Kagome off after they entered a small clearing and a small swill came from Kagome as she saw the hot springs. She turned and looked at Inuyasha with a wide smile but then some thing else showed in her fetchers as a fire rose in the depths of her eye's. "SIT BOY!" Kagome shouted. "You Knew there was a hot spring so close to the village this whole time and never told me. I swear if I didn't want you to go get my things so I can take a bath I would sit you so hard..." She trailed off as she turned to the springs and started setting a barrier up. "Kagome?" Inuyasha said as he push him self up against the spell. "Go on Inuyasha and get my bag for me, I think this is exactly what I need. Well talk more after my bath, That is if you still want to talk." She said as she started taking off her shoes. Inuyasha left and returned shortly with Kagome's big yellow backpack. Then after dropping it off ware she could reach it he stood guard and patrolled the area.
Kagome took her time washing and after sat in the hot springs letting it calm her troubled mind. At some point she had come to a revelation, Inuyasha had been right she had live the last seventeen years living the life of a normal 20th century girl and now that she did have her memory's back why could she not use them and become like she once was. So Kagome sat there reliving her past memory's and comiting her self to be the woman she once was. Inuyasha was started when Kagome approached him from behind. "What the hell Kagome, Since when could you ever sneak up on me wench?" Inuyasha said as he got ready to carry Kagome back to the village. But Kagome continued to walk pass him. "I will not be travailing in that manner anymore Inuyasha. I have my own means of travailing." She said as she focused her Miko powers to feet and they started glowing. Inuyasha watched in amazement as Kagome took off in to the treetops and leaped from branch to branch like he had always done and soon she was out of sight. "Hay wait for me!" He yelled as to took off after her.
They had just made it back to the village by the time Inuyasha had caught up to Kagome and jumped in front of her and stopped her dead in her tracks. "Kagome what the hell was that? And why the fuck are you acting all weird?" Kagome shook her head. "Inuyasha you will move out of my why. I do not have the time to wast on your own curiosity. I must see to some thing be for my Lord returns." She said as she placed her hand on Inuyasha chest. As soon as her hand touched his chest Inuyasha felt a small shock of Miko power. It was not enough to hurt him but in made him jump out of Kagomes reach and she used it to get pass with out any further trouble. Kagome headed straight for the hut that had been built just in case she could not return home. Once in side she changed in to the Miko robes that she had once hated so much, She then exited the hut and head to the blacksmith's all the while knowing Inuyasha was watching her from afar.
At the blacksmith Kagome bought one of smiths finest swords and the infused it with her own power, After that she started to head for Kiada's hut but be for she could reach it she ran in to Sango and Miroku. "Lady Kagome you look radiant in your Miko robe's." Miroku said. "Yes Kagome it's has been a vary long time since I had seen you ware them and is that a sword?" Asked Sango. Kagome bowed to the both be for she said a word. "Lady Sango, Monk Miroku I request your presents at the Lady Kiadas this evening and if you would be so kind as to let Inuyasha know as well. You will find him around the bin and to the left." Kagome said and then walked away. Sango and Miroku looked at each other wide eyed and be for they could come out of there daze Inuyasha leaped out in front of them. "Inuyasha what's wrong with Kagome?" Sangome asked. "I have no clue but it all started a little bit ago after I took her to the hot springs." He told them. " I had thought Inuyasha that the hot spings was your plan in a attempt to cheer up are Lady Kagome?" Asked Miroku. "Yeah well I had thought it worked to, She was starting to cheer up after I had left her and stood guard. Then when she came out she snicked up on me then took off in to the treetops and started leaping and running faster then any human I have ever seen. Even faster then the hentia here." Inuyasha explained. "Well she did say she wanted as to meet with her this evening, We will just have to wait and hope she well explain her self then." Miruku said as he made a grab at Sango's rear only to end up with a red hand imprint on his face.
It was starting to get dark and Inuyasha was starting to think Sesshomaru was not going to return any time soon. But before he could think any more on that mater he heard his name being called. Turning to see Miroku and Sango as they headed for the old Mikos hut, Jumping down from his perch he joined them. As they entered the hut what they saw made each of there jaws drop, There sitting in the hut was Kagome but she had put a barrier around her self and it glowed so brightly that it lit the hut as if it was on fire. Kiada was sitting in front of her fire pit tending to a pot of stew when she looked up at them. "Ye have made it here just in time. Kagome should be coming back to us shortly and the supper is just about done." She said as she started to had out blows. "Hay Baba what the hell is Kagome doing?" Asked Inuyasha. "The child had told me little but said she was going to be training. Once the child put up the her barrier...Well to be truthful I do not now." She said shacking her head. Just then the barrier drop and Kagome open her eye's there once bight blue eye's not look dull and emotionless. "Good you all are here. Sit and once we have finished are meal I will tell you all of my plains for staying here." Kagome said as she got up and dusted off her Miko robe's, Then joining them at the center of the hut to partake in the meal.
"Bull shit wench your going to tell me right now why the hell your act like this and I'm not going to take no for a answer." Inuyasha barked out. Kagome just looked up at him and to everyone's shock nodded. "If that is what you want then fine Henyou." She said coldly but it was not how she said it that had them all gasp, It was the fact that she had just called Inuyasha who was her best friend a Henyou. "Lady Kagome I can not believe you have ever call Inuyasha that and it is far to out of character for you to do so." Miroku stated. "You are right it is out of character but you will see that I am not as I once was. You see I have come to a collusion that I know you will find rather hard to expert. I have relived my past life over with my own mind and I will now draw on my past trainings to be the woman I once was. With this I will have a far better control of my emotions and power, tho as you can see it has also altered my personalty as well." She said as she started to fill her bowl. "Way on earth would you go and do that you Baka." Inuyasha shouted and the other nodded with his statement. "Yes Lady Kagome I find it vary disturbing that you would change your self like this when you have so vary often stated that you only wanted to be yourself and not any one else in one way or another." Miroku asked.
"For one resign and one resign only monk. I am now what I have once been when I was with my Lord." She said ad she started to eat her meal. "That Miko is a falsehood. Also this Sesshomaru find's your change in behavior most disturbing." Said Sesshomaru as he entered the hut. Kagome set her bowl to the side and stood up, She the crossed the room to stand in front of Sesshomaru and then bowed. "My Lord I am sorry to displease you, But this is no falsehood. This is how I once was and I am now. Dose it truly not please you?" She ask lowly and with out emotion. "Miko this one has no doubt that this was how you once were at the end of your last life. But this is not the way this Sesshomaru remembers you. You must have changed after you left this one's home for this Sesshomaru remembers you more like that of the girl Kagome with more training." He told her as he reached out and hooked her chin and raised her head to see in her eye's. What he saw was troubling, Her once bight and loving eye's now dull and cold. 'Her life once she left us must have been a hard one to have changed her so.' He thought as he looking in to her unchanging eye's. "This Sesshomaru would preferred you as you were when this one left this morning, As the Miko Kagome and not this harden warrior created by the hardships you had to live with. Is there a way to bring back this one's chosen mate back?" And with a few blinks Kagome's eye started to brighten but tears soon started to fall down her cheeks. Sesshomaru then wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close as she started to cry harder.
"I...I was so afraid. I had thought you left me...That you didn't want me...I didn't know what to do." She cried in to his chest. "For that this Sesshomaru is sorry. But it was this one's thought to make you happy." He said as he with drew and reached in to his sleeve and handed her a blue jewel. "W..What is this Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked as the rest of the group looked over her shoulder to look at the gift. "This my Kagome is this Sesshomaru's courting gift to you." He said in a matter of fact type of way and every could have sworn they saw laughter dance in his eye's. Kagome looked up at him with a look of confusion on her face. "It's vary beautiful Sesshomaru." She said as she held it up. "Silly onna it is not meant to be beautiful, it is meant to take you threw the well one more time so that you may say your goodbye's to your family then return to this Sesshomaru." He told her. Kagome screemed in delight and hugged her Lord still jumping up and down like the school girl she was. "Thank you...Thank you..Thank you." She said happily with pure joy in her voice.
That night Kagome told Sesshomaru how she felt and how she didn't know if he would except her the way she want to show her love. He told her that he would except what ever she wanted to give him and that thou he had to changed he would try to show her the same. The rest of the group smiled as Kagome crawled in to his lap like a kitten and rested her head as they talked in to the night. No one doubted the Inu Demons love for there little Miko as his eye's gave away the grate joy he felt even if it did not reach his face. Kagome fell asleep in the lap of the man she loved that night and smiled in her sleep as she dreamed of her Lord and the life that they would have together.
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