Happy Thanksgiving!
In celebration I've decide to post this now instead of over the weekend!
Thanks to all those that have reviewed so far. It means so much to me! 3
I'll try to start answering everyone next time I post a chapter.
Enjoy!
P.S. I own nothing except my original characters and my plot.
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Last time….
Walking over to his aunt, he laid a hand on her shoulder and said, "For now, I recommend you getting some sleep as well. Tell Kagome first thing in the morning."
Removing his hand he made his way out of the study, pausing as soon as he passed the threshold and turned back to his aunt.
"Anyways, I'm sure that mate of yours would enjoy a night alone with you. I've never seen a more desperate man that when I laid eyes on him earlier. What, have you been living with the girl as well?"
"Sesshomaru, one day you will know everything. For now, watch that smart mouth. I can still whip you."
Laughing louder than he had in a long time, he simply waved and continued to his room.
Tomorrow shall be an interesting day, that much is clear.
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Kagome sat in her room listening to nothing but the quiet noise of the servants (at least, that's what she assumed they were) bustling around the hallway. At first, she had been in too much shock to think about much of anything, now she felt like everything was coming back to her.
In the span of a day I have lost everything I once had. Now I am far away from where I once called home, in a strange castle, awaiting information from someone I don't know.
Tear leaked out the corners of her eyes, but after a few trails we're visible on her face she wiped them away.
Crying will get me nowhere. I'll just have to make the best of what I have. At least I have someone to stay – for now at least. At home, well, I no longer have a home.
And that's when it truly hit. She was alone. Utterly alone with nowhere to go except for where she was at. Tears began to pour down her face and sobs racked her body.
Curling into a ball, Kagome laid there sobbing her heart out until in the early hours of the morning. Sleep finally overtook the girl; her dreams taking her to a place where she walked in a field of flowers with a man with silver hair and golden eyes. A place where she wasn't looked at as a freak and something to almost fear; no, this place she was accepted and wanted. It was a place she never wanted to leave.
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Kimiko woke just before dawn broke. Wrapped in her mate's arms she laid still for some time, relishing in the mere feeling of her head being pillowed on his chest and his arm wrapped around her waist. It wasn't something that happened much in the past 20 years. Eventually, though, the early morning sun began shining through the big window that took up much of the wall next to the bed. With it, came the realization that today was the day she needed to tell Kagome what had been happening to her.
I cannot tell her everything. I don't want her to have to keep secrets, that alone is my burden to bear.
But what can I tell her?
"Kimiko, I can practically hear your thoughts. What is it that is causing you so much worry mate?" Came the gruff voice of her mate that had just woken from a deep sleep.
"Takao, my mate, what is it that I should tell Kagome? I cannot tell her the truth, not for my sake, but for hers. Sesshomaru must not know that she was once fully human and I cannot expect her to lie to him. It is not a burden she should have to bear. But she will want to know why she had human parents and why no one in her family ever had any association with demons."
"Tell her you found her in the forest. That you know no demon couple would take an abandoned child as their own, you know how we are. Tell her you sealed her powers in hopes that she would have a normal childhood and that you kept watch over her. We were not yet mated when this transpired, or you would have taken her as your own. But that over time it became apparent that the necklace would not continue to seal her powers. Tell her you brought her here to your nephew's castle so that she can be trained to control herself. It's close enough to the truth that most of it isn't a lie."
"How did you become so smart?" came the astonished response from the female in the room.
Laughing, Takao brushed a hand down the length of his mates back. "I always have been. What, don't tell me you never notice?"
Shivering at the touch, Kimiko answered, "You sure hid it well."
"There's a lot of things I hid, let me show you one more" Takao said as he pulled Kimiko under him.
Wrapping her arms around his neck as he began to trail kisses down her neck, Kimiko let herself become lost in her mates lovemaking.
I'll let Kagome sleep a bit longer.
That was the last coherent thought she had.
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Sesshomaru woke to sunlight streaming through the window at the far end of his room. Rolling over, he tried without success to block out the rays. Sighing, he rolled back over on his back, putting an arm behind his head and the other over his eyes.
I really need to learn to put fabric over that window before I retire for the night.
Slowly moving his arm away from his eyes, he sat up and stretched, his arms going above his head and his back straightening out.
Grabbing the robe that hung over the post on the head of his bed, he pulled it on and got out of bed.
Walking over to where his vanity, though her would never, EVER refer to it as such, he grabbed his brush and ran it though his hair until all the remains what was once knots were gone. Grabbing a tie, he reached behind his head and tied his hair back.
Might as well keep it out of my way if I have to train the girl my aunt brought me.
Shaking his head he moved over to where he kept his clothes and dressed himself, not bothering to put his amour on.
Walking out of his room he made his was to his dojo, intent on getting a good warm up in before he met up with his aunt.
Hopeful she explains everything to the girl. I wish not to take too long in starting her training. The sooner we begin the sooner we finish and she can be out of my hair.
I don't want her to be out of our hair. There is something about the girl. Something that draws us to her. We must find it out.
Quiet, it's far too early to hear your whining.
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Kagome, once asleep, did not move until she heard the door to her room opening and someone walking in.
"Kagome, dear, open your eyes. It is time for you to know why you are here and why you were never like the rest of you village" came the soft, female, voice.
Realizing how familiar the voice sounded Kagome turned to face the direction the voice came from and opened her eyes.
Standing before her was a woman of medium heights, with long, caramel colored hair, honey eyes, and a crescent moon on her forehead.
"Who are you?" came her reply.
"Kagome, my name is Kimiko. Before you ask, I am Sesshomaru's aunt and I am also the dog that has been your companion all your life. It is one of the three forms I can take and yes, I am a demon. A inu-youkai to be exact. Before you ask your questions, let me tell you why you are here. As you could already tell, you are not like everyone you grew up with. That's because you are not human, but a inu-youkai like me. I found you when you were only a few days old in the woods next to where you grew up."
"You found me? I'm a demon?" came the whispered response from Kagome.
"Yes. I took you and I would have kept you myself, but I was not yet mated and had no way to provide for you. At that time I had no home, but roamed the area. I kept you long enough to tell what kind of demon you were and to realize that there was no way a inu-youkai family would take you. Demons are not ones to raise children that are not flesh and blood of themselves. My only choice was to place you in your village and hope the family I gave you to would raise you as one of their own. To do that I had to make you appear has human as I could. That's why that necklace you wear, ever wonder why you could never remove it?"
Kimiko watched as the girl in front of her nodded her head before she continued.
"It has sealed you powers, in essence, making you human. Only, it never sealed all your powers. That's why you could communicate with dogs and why the older you got the more and more your appearance changed into that of a demon. Yesterday, when your adopted father disowned you, I knew it was time to take you and help you become the demon you always have been. I would try to train you myself, but I do not know what kind of powers you will display when that necklace is no longer sealing the away. I am not strong enough to keep you from hurting yourself or someone else, let alone train you to control your powers. My nephew, Sesshomaru, is. As a favor to me, he will train you and help you."
Sitting down next to Kagome, Kimiko placed a hand on the girl's shoulder and said, "Please know I never meant to hurt you. I feel as though this is entirely my fault. I will make it right; I swear that to you Kagome. Please, trust me enough to let me make it right."
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There you go, the reason (at least the reason that is reveled now!) that all this is happening to Kagome is revealed! I know you're all wonder what the REAL reason is. Well, that will come in due time.
What do y'all think? Like it? Dislike it? Lemme know! =D
And I know I may have grammar and spelling mistakes, but I don't have a beta to revise it for me. Any of you interested?
Hope everyone enjoys you Thanksgiving!
Good luck black Friday shopping for all those that partake in that.
(I will be, so we shall see how that goes. I've never done it before!)
