Time Heals All
Chapter : 4
Today was Kagome's birthday, she was turning twenty three. She smiled as she sat on the same tree she had climbed just two days before. She had made this place her getaway. This was were in the past two days she came to think.
But today she brought along a small note book and a pen. She sat there in the early morning writing her thoughts in the small black book. She was writing when her brother came to the base of the tree and called up to her, asking if she would like to go along with him to pick up Kanna.
Not wanting to disappoint her brother she climbed down the tree and followed him to his car. The two got in and away they went to pick up Kanna.
When Souta pulled into the driveway of Kanna's house she gasped. It was a huge house, of course smaller than Sesshoumaru's... wait why was she thinking of Sesshoumaru. She shook her head and got out of the car along with Souta and the two of them walked up to the front door.
Souta rang the door bell and stepped back to wait for someone to answer the door. The door suddenly burst open and Kanna flew past Kagome to be engulfed in Souta's embrace.
"Hey, Kanna!" said Souta as he swung Kanna around.
Kanna looked over to Kagome and smiled, she had a slight blush to her and Kagome smiled at her. The three then walked back to the car and drove off toward town. Souta was taking Kagome out for a little birthday party with his friends.
He drove up to another one of his friends house and told Kagome and Kanna to wait in the car. The two sat there and just chatted while Souta was in his friends house.
"Souta told me yesterday that your birthday was today... so I went out and bought you a gift," said the girl as she pulled out a small box from her bag.
Kagome took the box from the girls hand and ripped the wrapping paper and opened up the little box to find a small dolphin necklace. Kagome looked up at Kanna and pulled the younger girl into a hug.
"Souta had said that the dolphin was your favorite animal."
"Thank you Kanna," said Kagome as she put the dolphin necklace on.
Souta chose that moment to enter the car.
"Hey sis, do you mind if me and my friends take you out to a day on the beach? I mean you are twenty three and much too old for one of mothers home parties."
Kagome smiled, Souta was right she didn't want her mother to make her a party. If her mother was in charge of that she would surely be having paper hats and little blow thingys. As much as she loved her mother she decided to let Souta and his friends take her to the beach.
"Okay! That would be great!"
"Okay. We'll stop by the house to tell mom and get our swimming stuff."
Souta pulled up to the shrine and the two of them headed in to get their stuff and tell their mother that they were off to the beach for the day.
After getting all their stuff they ran back to the car and headed off to the beach to meet the rest of Souta's friends who had gone ahead to meet them there.
It took them over an hour to get to the beach. But they were happy as soon as many of Souta's friends greeted them. Kagome knew Kohaku, he was Sango's younger brother. But the one with red hair, she had no clue to who he was.
"Hey sis! I want you to meet Shippo."
"Nice to meet you Shippo," said Kagome with a warm smile.
"Listen, why don't you two go and change and we'll meet you out in the water."
"Sure!" Kagome agreed with her brother.
The two girls took their time walking to the change rooms. Over the past few days Kanna and Kagome had become really close friends. Kagome was happy that Souta had found a kind loving girlfriend.
After fifteen minutes the girls were done changing and heading out to the water. They had spotted the boys and decided to ambush them. Kagome walked into the water and dived under, she came out of the water right in the middle of the three boys splashing them with the cool ocean water.
Just after Kagome, Kanna had jumped on Souta and taken him underwater with her. Kagome laughed at the annoyed look on the two boys' face and just dived back into the water.
Kagome and Kanna were tired of swimming and had decided to go to the shore and sun tan for a while. But the boys had a better plan. As the girls laid in the sun the boys had borrowed little pales from two little boys and filled them with water. Souta and Kohaku snuck up on the girls and just as Kagome was going to tell the person to get out of the sun, cold water had splashed all over her body.
She screamed at the sudden coldness and jumped up to chase Kohaku around.
"Kohaku! Wait till Sango hears about this!" joked Kagome as she ran after the teen.
Evening came and Kagome told her brother to wait just one more hour for her. She had wanted to take a walk around the beach before they left.
Agreeing on waiting for her for an hour, she went out to walk on the beach alone. She took off her sandals and walked in the nice warm sand barefooted. She loved the feeling of the sand between her toes.
She had walked around until the sun had set and realized that she had kept her brother and Kanna waiting. She start to run back toward the way she had come and when she came to the parking lot she found it had few cars and not one was her brothers.
She just turned around and was about to dig for her cell phone when she realized that she had left it in the car to recharge. Oh how stupid could she be! And how could her brother just leave her like that? So she was about half an hour late, but that didn't mean he had to leave her behind like that.
She sat down in the sand and looked up into the sky. Why was everyone treating her like a piece of dirt? Even her own brother had left her behind.
A tear slid down her cheek, and soon after another one followed. She rested her head onto her knees and let the tears fall.
"You didn't think they would leave you, did you?" came a familiar voice.
Kagome knew that voice, she got up and flung herself into him. He was surprised, but slowly wrapped his arms around her. She then realize that he was the one who had sent her brother home and got her all worried and sad.
"Sesshoumaru! You jerk!" yelled Kagome as she turned around to look out onto the ocean.
Sesshoumaru chuckled and walked up to her and took her hand in his and walked towards where he had hidden his car. He then let her hand go and told her to close her eyes.
Kagome slowly close her eyes and when Sesshoumaru was sure she had her eyes shut and couldn't see anything he walked up to his car and unlocked the door. He pulled something out and walked back over to Kagome.
"You can open your eyes now."
Kagome slowly opened her eyes and was staring straight into the blue eyes of a puppy. She looked up into Sesshoumaru's eyes.
"Is he for me?" aske Kagome.
"Yes I bought "her" for you," said Sesshoumaru as he looked into Kagome's eyes. "Happy birthday... Kagome,"
Kagome then hugged Sesshoumaru almost crushing the husky puppy between them. She then backed away from Sesshoumaru and took the puppy from him. She smiled down at the little bundle in her arms and kissed it on the tip of its nose.
It was at that moment that Kagome noticed Sesshoumaru had come all the way from the city which was a little over four hours drive. Then here to the beach which was a little over an hour to get, just to see her. But maybe she was jumping to conclusions.
"Would you like to go for a walk?" came the cool calm voice of the Sesshoumaru everyone else knew.
Kagome looked up at him and slowly nodded. The two walked in silence for what seemed an eternity before the silence was finally shattered by Sesshoumaru.
"I think we should be getting back... I left Rin with your mother and she will be wanting to see you."
"Yeah... " was all Kagome could say.
The two walked back to the car, once again in complete silence. Neither Kagome nor Sesshoumaru knew what to say. For Sesshoumaru it was driving him mad, he always knew what to say. So why now, did he not know what to say?
The drive back to her house was so quiet and unnerving. She couldn't help but shake a little every now and then. She didn't know what to think of Sesshoumaru... not when he was acting like this.
At last they pulled up to the shrine, but all the lights inside were off. And in the driveway was Sango's car. Kagome was so happy that Sango had made it. She would have to wait until morning to talk to Sango though, seeing as how everyone was asleep.
She got out of the car and headed towards the house. As she got to the front door she stopped and looked behind her. Sesshoumaru was just standing by his car.
"We have plenty of spare rooms in the shrine... you are welcome to stay here the night."
She looked at Sesshoumaru and watched him for five minutes before he finally nodded his answer. He got his keys from his car and walked up to the door by which Kagome was standing and waited for her to go inside.
After showing Sesshoumaru the room in which he could spend the night in, Kagome headed to her own room at the end of the hallway.
She didn't know what time it was but she knew it was late. She got up and walked to the kitchen to get a drink of water. Taking a look at the clock while she was there.
It had read three in the morning. She sighed and decided to head outside to the tree she had ocuppied for the time she had come back home.
But instead of going to the tree she changed directions and headed for the hill on which she had been on the other day. Reaching the top she stared up at the starry sky before her. She then sat down and started to think about the past two years she had with Inuyasha.
The thoughts weren't very good and he hadn't been home most of that time. Staying out for nights, even days at a time. Blaming it on work, she knew he was with "her" that whole time.
A tear made it's trail down her cheek, followed by many more. She sniffed and whipped up the tears.
"So your crying over Inuyasha again?"
Kagome jumped and then calmed as soon as she saw it was Sesshoumaru. He sat beside her and he too looked up to the starry night sky.
"How did you know I was here?" asked Kagome.
"I was in the living room when you made your way out the door."
Kagome sighed yet again and looked behind her to the shrine. Her family was there, her mother, her brother, her grandfather, and newest yet Kanna.
She had everything she wanted, yet she felt she was missing something. She didn't know what it was but she felt empty without that something.
"Sesshoumaru?"
"..."
"I'm not going back to the city, it's over! I can't take it. I'm gonna stay here at the shrine with mama and jii-san and Souta."
"At last... you're finally putting an end to this," said Sesshoumaru. "Kagome..."
Kagome watched the stars, waiting to here what Sesshoumaru had to say. Only he wasn't saying anything.
She turned her head to look at him but was met by a kiss. She should have found this so wrong, but instead it was like setting her spirit free.
This is the longest chapter I have written yet! LOL I am pretty proud of this chapter... although some parts here and there seem rushed to me. Perhaps one day I will go back and fix it up. But for the time being I am content with it. I hope you like this chapter.