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Chapter 3
The sky alone was enough to remind Kagome that she was in a different world but on top of that, everything felt different. The ebb and flow of the whole world felt...off to her. As she tried to adjust to this world, it didn't take long for Hiei to reach his beloved's home.
"The Western Cathedral?" Kagome's confusion was obvious in her voice. Why would Hiei, the heir to the East take her to the Western Estates? So many questions begun to build within the middle aged woman.
"You know this place?" Hiei asked, his shock hidden by the control he had masted in his many years of training. It was one of the few locations that had moved from the now Human World to the Makai. Maybe she had seen it in her travels in the past.
"I lived here for almost a year. Over five hundred years ago, while I was training." Kagome said in awe of how little the Cathedral had appeared to have changed from the outside, in five hundred years and its move to the Makai.
A large aura approached them at a great speed. The owner of said aura stopped before the guest that his intended was bringing to help aid them. Golden eyes soften as they took in the now older Kagome. She had barely aged since had last seen her. Maybe it had not been that long since she was torn from her friends...and himself in the past. "Miko, it would appear out paths have crossed again."
Kagome bowed in respect to the Western Lord with a smile on her lips and tears in her eyes. "It does, Sesshomaru-sama. So you and Hiei?"
"Only if you can help us."
Kagome smiled at her old friend, took the few steps between them, and hugged him tightly. "I will do my best for the two of you."
Hiei never expected that Sesshomaru would have been the lord that trained the scrap of a miko, but rethinking her tales of her time in the past it made sense. Sesshomaru had once told him that he took in a human ward and later helped train the girl that took down Naraku. Many details of the their two different stories coincided, he had been blind not to connect the two. Now to see them together, it was as though the wool was finally pulled from his eyes.
"Well I need a library full of law text and time to sort through them." Kagome said with a smile to her new clients. That would be how she would have to view both men, less she fell into the trap of unfinished emotions. Her heart could not survive another like break.
Sesshomaru nodded, offering his arm to escort her back to the castle, "I have also selected an assistant to help you."
Hiei could not help but watch how comfortable the two were together. They felt like old friends to him, not the former lovers he knew them to be. The darkly dressed youkai followed behind, listening to their conversation and acting as guard for the rest of their trek back to the safety of the castle's walls. Yes, the Makai was more stable than it had been in centuries with the tournaments and the set up of a ruling king, but it was still a dangerous place.
At this Kagome shook her head. "I fear your kindness will be a waste. I rather do my own research, anyone else will be a distraction, or they may not see the importance of something and skip over it. I would like to get started now, if possible."
"Of course, I will lead you to the library and I will have your room prepared for you. I am sure you rather enjoy your former space during your stay."
o.O
Volumes and text littered the large desk that Kagome had taken as her own to work from. She had notes and pens stacked up in her attempts to try and find the woman's law unjust or at least a way in which the two lords should be allowed to mate, but there was nothing. Mating for love in the Makai was like marriage for love in Asia, it was not something practiced until the middle class was devolved and that was only recently. There were so few laws pertaining to it, that none of them pertained to the case at all.
Sighing, Kagome stood up to stretch her back only to hear it pop in protest. How long had she been sitting hunched over the table? Deciding it was time for something to eat she walked to the door to be greeted by a small fox kit that reminded her so greatly of Shippo, she scooped him up without thought. The kit smiled and hugged back with vigor.
"Lady, you smell really nice." The child's voice whispered into her ear.
"Thank you, my name is Kagome." The woman held the kit back so they were looking each other in the eye.
"I know, Papa has shown me your picture before. My name is Taka."
Kagome narrowed her eyes at Taka slightly in question. She knew Sesshomaru's house was filled with drawings and paintings that told the story of his people, but a picture of her make no sense in any way. Sesshomaru also wouldn't have a fox kit son, it only left her with more unanswered questions. Her train of thought was quickly cut off by the growling of her stomach, leading to her and the kit laughing.
"Taka, do you know where I can get something to eat?"
"Yes, I was sent to get you for dinner. Lord Sesshomaru, and Lord Hiei wanted to talk to Papa and Momma."
"Dinner sounds like a good idea. Would you be so kind as to lead the way?" She asked as she set him back on his own two feet. The young kit knew the castle better than Kagome did herself, the boy must spent a lot of time here with his father, whoever that shall be. Kagome smiled, the boy really loved his parents it would seem but he keep asking Kagome questions about herself and how she was going to make the up and coming mating of the Western Lord work, she could not get any information out of him as to who his parents were.
The dinning room had changed little in the last five hundred years, but now there was electric lighting and western style seating. It would appear that Hiei was not only lord that had traveled to the modern human world. Taka walked over a chair that was close to the head of the table and pulled the chair out for Kagome. Bowing to the kit she took her place at the otherwise empty table. Taka ran around and took the third chair on the opposite side and smiled to Kagome. "Don't forget to stand when the lords enter. Papa will have me train even harder if we don't."
As if that were a cue the doors opened and both lords entered followed by a young couple who must have been Taka's parents. Kagome stood and Taka ran to the woman, with her white hair and dark markings she was indeed beautiful.
Hiei took the chair beside Kagome and Sesshomaru at the head of the table as it was his home. The couple took the first two chairs to Sesshomaru's left, Taka taking his third seat again. The unnamed couple both kept looking Kagome over as though debating what to say to her.
"Do I know you two?" Age was hard to judge in youkai and maybe these two had met her in the past.
"Kagome-chan, it is not a surprise you do not recognize us, even if Taka looks just as his father did at that age," the woman spoke with a soft smile. The kind of smile only a mother could give when talking of their children.
"Shippo?" Kagome asked the man beside his mate.
The male's face broke into a great smile to hear her say his name. Soon Kagome was in the young man's embrace. "You have barely aged Kagome. When Sesshomaru-sama said he had a guest I would like to see, I jumped to come and see you, for whom else would it be?"
Kagome pulled back to look at the kit grown to a full adult kitsune. He now stood well over a head taller than herself. Turning to Shippo's mate she looked into the beautiful woman's eyes. "Kirara." Another nod of confirmation. "You found a humanoid form, there must have been a great cause."
"No, I just grew powerful being in your group and wanted to be part of your world. Shippo and I became close over those years of me perfecting myself. We mated shortly after and here recently were blessed with Taka."
Dinner progressed with everyone catching up and eating a wonderful meal. Kagome all but fell in love with the young Taka, who began to call her Kagome-chan from the get go. The one thing that did not get mentioned was Inuyasha.
After the final battle he was angered by the attention that Sesshomaru was showing "his" Kagome. She had received a gash on her right upper leg and the taiyoukai was wrapping it for her, just briefly a claw went higher than required and Inuyasha happened to catch the exchange of looks. Here on a battlefield his brother, half-brother, was trying to steal his woman from him.
If one were to ask Inuyasha two days prior to this event how he felt about Kagome, the truthful answer would be that she is his younger sister. Now that Sesshomaru was making a move at her, she belonged to him. It was the only excuse that he needed to break their peace. The younger inu attacked and again the never ending war was on. Kagome's screams were not enough. By blasting out the last of her power she could spare, finally caught their attention. "Stop you stupid inu. I can't stand to see you fight. Maru, catch me." She fainted completely drained. That was the last time she saw either son of the Great Inu General.
When Kagome awoke again, she was on the future side of the now sealed well. The world was safe again, and she was alone in a world without magic or youkai. She never got to say goodbye to any of her friends, the lover that was willing to defend her honor, or the best friend that she would never get to reestablish any kind of relationship with.
o.O
Kagome walked into the past once again today. Other than the modern comforts, the room she lived in during her last stay here was all but the same. The coloring and even the style of the bed all remained. Slipping out of the day clothes and into a simple tank and shorts, Kagome set on the bed and drew in a deep breath.
Being here brought back memories and feelings for both of the men she was trying to help mate each other. Tears fell from her eyes. She would forever be forced to lie to any man she choose to date, her children would think her adventures just fairy tales or bed time stories, and she would forever not know what happened to her one time hero who ran off into the woods simply due to his deep jealous nature. But both Sesshomaru and Hiei knew her stories to be true. Sesshomaru having been in many of them. They were from the same world she traveled. No other would ever understand.
No, she was not the girl who fell down the well, she was Kagome; lawyer, officer of the court, The Shikon Miko, a strong independent woman that sometimes had an issue paying her rent on time. Kagome was all those things, and in love with two youkai. It really did not matter, they had even stronger feelings for each other. And when she found their answer she would return home and complete her human cases leaving the Makai as another story to tell the children, children she may never have.
It took Kagome only eight days, one day over one week, to find the answer to Hiei and Sesshomaru's problem.
o.O
Many clans have found themselves short in numbers of women, leaving many males without a chance to mate. To insure that this will not break out into infighting, two males may mate the same female than mark each other as mates to create an equal and solid bond, as the males will now be equals and the best brothers-in-arms a pair can become.
o.O
That was the answer, Kagome placed a bookmark in the book and checked the time. Two thirty four in the morning, the news would have to wait until tomorrow.
Frustrated tears that would not stop falling, caused Kagome to sleep ill rested and troubled. When it was just Hiei and Sesshomaru she could bear them leaving her behind, but now a female youkai would enter their lives. A woman that would only wish for their titles and power. That was something she could not bear to watch. She would return home today, after announcing her success to the lords.
End Chapter
A/N: Before anyone says anything about Kagome being a super crier or some other OOC crap, read this. She is almost thirty five years old in this fic. She is alone, no boyfriend or anything and the only two males that she has ever had any real feelings for are mating...each other. Any woman would cry a little when they were alone in their own room.
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