My Neighbor
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Warnings : OOC not much, I hope.
Chapter 6 : The Past
When Kagome came to consciousness, all that she was able to see was the navy starry night, the beautiful full moon and a shadow. Her eyes widened and then she let out a scream. Said shadow moved and u an instant, that person was next to her. Rough hands were on her shoulder, shaking her.
" Princess, what is the matter, did you had another nightmare?" the man, who was by her side asked concernedly
Then after he had just finished asking her that question, in came running another person, though this one was a woman.
" Oh my, Kagome are you all right, I was just coming up the stairs and then I heard the scream. Did the guard did something to you?" she asked, her eyes suspiciously on the guard that was by her.
Taking a deep breath, Kagome's eyes widened, she knew that voice, that voice, it belong to Kagura. Like lightening, Kagome was in front of Kagura, her arms wrapped around her and talking incoherently. " Oh God Kagura, what is going on, first I was talking with Sesshomaru and then I am here in this dark room. This is not my room." she finished. Now it was Kagura who was confused, as well as the guard.
"Kouga, go get the healer, tell her to come here immediately!" she said Kouga, said guard was out of there in a flash.
'Kouga?' Kagome thought not knowing what was going on.
Then standing on the door stood Naraku, the current King of the South. He had his eyes narrowed as he searched the room. Then there were a few guards around him, some with fire torches, others with swords ready to fight, others had bows and arrows ready as well, to be put to use.
"What happened ?" he asked in a very deep commanding voice,, the one that he used when he wasn't happy at all.
" I don't know your highness, I just arrived, but Kagome let out a scream, so when I came in she started acting weird, she said that she did know where she was and that this wasn't her room." Kagura finished leading Kagome to Naraku, who eyed her wearily. The re had been many enemies trying to destroy them, that he was afraid that they had finally succeeded with Kagome.
" Naraku, what is going on, this…this" she didn't get to finish for the darkness overtook her once again. All that exposure of betrayal, apologies, and confusion had finally taken its toll on her.
Sighing Naraku took her into his arms and went to lie her on her bed. Everything seemed to be fine. Kouga had just arrived with the healer, but was waved off by Naraku, even when he was worried about his little sister.
"Let's give her time, after what happened, we all know that she was bound to have some confusion." he said with a demanding voice, which left no room for arguments.
Yet the healer insisted. " But your Highness, it is imperative that I have a look at the Princess. There might be some kind of conjuring causing her to act like this. After all she was kidnapped and she has rarely any remembrance about what had happened to her." The healer said.
" You yourself had the chance of examining her, yet you confirmed that nothing bad happened to her, Kikyo." he said suspiciously .
" Yes, we found out that she was still chaste and that she was still pure, but we have no idea if those who took her away had given her anything." Kikyo said, defying him.
Naraku growl, he did not like the idea of Kagome being used or played with. He was to protect her. Yet he could not if he did not allowed her to be checked.
" Fine, but after you fine something tell m right away personally." with that said, he left eh room, leaving a concerned Kagura and Kikyo. The guard followed him, other maids entered the room and began attending to Kagome's weird clothing.
"I am afraid" Kagura said softly to Kikyo. " There is nothing to worry much about, we just have to make sure that Princess Kagome is ready and not being harmed internally." Kikyo said bowing to Kagura and excusing herself. Leaving a concerned Kagura and Kouga watching over Kagome.
" Princess Kagura, I shall watch over Princess Kagome and protect her even if it costs my life." Kouga declared.
Kagura stared at him with a hint of amusement and longing. Ever since she had met him, she had found herself infatuated with him, yet she knew that they could never be, since she was nobility while he was just a guard. Sighing she nodded in agreement, turned and left.
Kouga stared at her retreating form and sighed in longing. That was all that he could do, stare at her and be there when she needed, yet he was still so far away to be with her. He had seen how she sees him, yet she kept her distance, just like he did for they knew that they couldn't be together due to their birth ranks.
He was concerned with the scream that Princess Kagome had given when she rose from her bed and saw him, he was confused, he had just come to check on her like he did ever since that incident. He often checked on her and she had recognized him right away, since they were close friends. Yet this time she acted like she has never seen him before.
Kagome stirred, but still did not woke up. Soon he found himself sitting right in the same place that he was when Kagome woke up screaming, watching over her.
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Sky. That was all he could be able to see. Well that and trees, dirt and flowers.
Now Sesshomaru knew that he never, ever dreamt about flowers or fairytales, and he most definitely dreamt of Inuyasha with armor no less.
He blinked once. Twice. Then he glanced at his surroundings and all he could see was Inuyasha and landscape.
"Finally" Inuyasha said staring at him wide eyed. " I thought for sure you were dead when I found you here last night, your clothes are all weird so you are probably a peasant, not like I really associate with them." he said still gazing down at him.
Confused Sesshomaru began to stand, but he felt woozy and with his wobbly legs he barely stood up.
Inuyasha still held his gaze at him.
"Inuyasha?" Sesshomaru asked now confused with everything, since the last thing he remembered was that he was talking to Kagome, and then everything went black. Now here he was talking to a silvered haired and golden eyed Inuyasha, his hair long past his hip but just above his back knees. His clothing were baggy and red embroidered with golden and gray stripes. A sword on his hip.
Kagome! He whipped his head from right to left , front and back, and no Kagome. His eyes widened. She was not around here, he was sure that they would have been together, yet he remember very vaguely at how their hands were forced apart by a strong cold wind.
Inuyasha was not able to see all his emotions running all together for every time that his face changed, he was turning from one side to the other.
Sesshomaru forgetting about Inuyasha, he began to walk away, to look for Kagome, yet he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"You are in my future lands." Inuyasha said, his eyes narrowed at Sesshomaru, because one, he did not thank him and second, he was in his lands and he acted like he knew him.
Sesshomaru stared at him amused. Since when did he acted like this.
"I… My apologies." was all he said before he began to move again, then he remembered that he was not sure where on when he was at.
Inuyasha annoyed turned around and began to walk away like Sesshomaru did. When he took the second step he heard the commoner's voice.
"Wait." Sesshomaru called out to him, a few feet away form Inuyasha . Inuyasha stopped yet did not turned around, letting out a small annoyed groan.
"I…I am lost, I am not sure where I am, or even why I am here." Sesshomaru said annoyed with himself to admitting the need of Inuyasha's help , yet he had to swallow his pride and ask for his younger brother's help. "Allow me to come with you." Sesshomaru said watching Inuyasha's face and his reactions.
Inuyasha let out a snort and a laugh before he spoke. " Are you serious? Do you have any idea as to who you are talking to, commoner." he said emphasizing the commoner word.
Sesshomaru blinked at him, then he shrugged, "You are Inuyasha" he said.
Inuyasha laughed again and shook his head at Sesshomaru's answer.
" My name is Prince Inuyasha Taisho, future ruler of the Western Lands." Inuyasha said puffing his chest when he mentioned his future reign.
Sesshomaru just stared at him confused at what he had said.
'Prince? Western Lands? Where and when was he?!' he thought o himself.
" All right since you seem to be really lost, I shall allow you to come with me." Inuyasha said beginning to walk again.
"You must be a traveler form the other lands then?" Inuyasha asked making conversation.
" I…Yes I am a traveling um...writer." he said once he glanced at his small pouch on his hip, which contained scrolls and a small booklet , a bottle of ink, and a feather writing utensil. He raised an eyebrow at it. How ironic. He thought at his resent career.
" A writer, huh? Then you must be some kind of nobility, since only nobility are allowed to get educated." Inuyasha said.
All that Sesshomaru could do was blink at him. What could he say ' Yeah well I am not from this time' yeah right.
" My father has been trouble keeping a good writer to keep order when he has court meetings, he tends to forget things." Inuyasha said.
Sesshomaru practically rolled his eyes at that. Yep exactly just like his father used to be when he went out to have meetings, and it was always up to him to write down his ideas.
" You're too trusting for a prince" Sesshomaru said looking around, " shouldn't you be guarded or something?" he asked.
Inuyasha turned around to stare at Sesshomaru a visible wrinkle on the bridge of his nose. "I am very capable of protecting myself." He said upturning his nose. " Besides it annoying having everyone there watching your every single move. I am able to do things that I want without being held back." he said grinning.
He began to walk off again when Sesshomaru spoke. " What if I was one of your enemies?" he asked staring at him curiously, and to his surprise Inuyasha just turned his head and smiled at him. Sesshomaru's eyes widened. Since when did Inuyasha smiled at him.
He was dropped out of his reverie when Inuyasha spoke. " No you wouldn't, I can tell." he said not giving him another glance.
'He is too trusting' Sesshomaru thought to himself as he began to walk behind Inuyasha.
" So what is your name?" Inuyasha finally asked once they had moved from their encountering spot.
Sesshomaru hesitated, should he lie about his name or just say it? He wasn't sure but he knew that he could entrust Inuyasha with it.
"I am Sesshomaru" he decided to just tell him his first name.
"Sesshomaru, I have never heard of that name before." Inuyasha said still looking around as if he was hiding from something.
Sesshomaru strained his hearing abilities, until he heard poundings, like a stamped, yet he did not see anything.
Inuyasha too seemed to have stopped and his eye widened, and he mumbled something under his breath.
"We have to ge-" he was cut off by one armored guard. The red shining armor clothing contained the symbol of the a white dragon, their shields as well, with two swords intertwining each other.
Sesshomaru didn't know what to do. Heck he didn't even know where the hell he was.
" Young Prince, we have finally found you!" the leader yelled.
Inuyasha groaned and threw Sesshomaru and accusing look. Now Sesshomaru was taken aback, what had he done?
"Thanks a lot, really!, if it wasn't for you I would have already reached past here and somewhere else." 'Darn and I was so close' Inuyasha thought to himself.
All the guards were amused at the prince's childish attitude, yet kept an eye on the suspicious individual who was with him. When Sesshomaru took a step towards Inuyasha, three men surrounded him, swords drawn and ready to cut him.
Sesshomaru inwardly grimaced at that. 'greeeeaaat' he thought.
Sighing Inuyasha ran both his hands through his hair. " It is fine, he won't harm any of us." he said motioning for them to remove their swords.
"Forgive us, Young Prince" they said at the same time bowing.
Inuyasha waved it off and began to walk towards them. " It is fine." he said leading them back to where they came from.
" Prince Inuyasha, your father has ordered us to retrieve you from your 'adventurous day' as he had called it. He said that it was an important meeting, and that he needed your presence immediately." The knight finished.
Inuyasha's eyebrows furrowed. "Did he say why?" he asked.
"Not so your majesty, but he said it was urgent." said leader took a deep breath at the now coming tantrum.
"Fine" Inuyasha said surprising all of them.
"uh…yes your highness, give me the prince's horse." he said taking the reigns of a beautiful white steed, his mane shined out with the sun.
"Oh and Hiten give him a horse too." Inuyasha said after he settled on his horse.
Hiten hesitated, yet yielded to Inuyasha's request. " Yes" was all he said before he retrieved a black stallion.
Now Sesshomaru has always known and done new things, yet he had never ridden a horse.
Hesitantly he took hold of the horse's reign and thought of how to use a horse. The guards watched him carefully, yet he could see the one name Hiten had a glimmer of amusement when he noticed his hesitation.
Bracing himself he climbed the horse as he had seen Inuyasha did. Once he was settled he took a deep breath and looked at his surroundings.
Hiten moved to the front with Inuyasha, leaving two guard behind watching Sesshomaru. 'Please if I wanted to do something I would have done so already' he thought to himself.
He was taken out of his thoughts when he heard Inuyasha's soft voice.
"So how was it this time, Hiten?" he asked him, throwing him a roguish grin.
" It took us longer than it usually did, Young Prince." Hiten said throwing Inuyasha a smirk of his own. The others in front and beside them agreed laughing a bit.
Now Sesshomaru was confused. Time for what?
"Haha it means that I am better at hiding every single time." Inuyasha said laughing.
Now Sesshomaru understood. Childish Inuyasha. And all that Sesshomaru could do was watch him from behind at how he interacted so easily with the lower class people than his own.
He saw how they joked, laughed and played with them. Both Hiten and Inuyasha acted as if they were the ones related and not him. It hurt, deeply, he knew that he had always wanted to have that type of brotherly relationship with him.
It amazed Sesshomaru how carefree and joyful Inuyasha seemed to be.
His jaw clenched at his younger brother and Hiten's interaction, yet he felt like he did not had the right to judge Inuyasha's actions, after all they hadn't been so close to say anything.
Hiten didn't know what possessed the prince to bring over a commoner, yet he always seemed to give in to his childish acts. The reason was that thanks to Inuyasha's carefree and friendly style, the King Takema himself had granted him permission to become Inuyasha's personal guard. The child that he had met when he was ten and Inuyasha six years.
He was like a younger brother to him. Inuyasha was unlike the other high nobilities, who acted as if they had the right to everything, since they were at a higher status than those on their lands.
Yet he still did not understand how he had been able to keep his trusting and carefree nature after all the battles that he has seen since he turned thirteen. Now at the age of eighteen and he still had the same carefree attitude. It amazed him so much that he bowed to always protect his innocence.
The one thing that irritated him about it was that he would believe everything that some peasants said, even if it wasn't true. How he hated those people that fooled him, yet he seemed to hold not grudges against them.
Now here he was again picking up another commoner and taking him to the castle. One could only imagine the King's reaction. Not like he would say much anyways. Both of them shared a very deep fatherly and son relationship. How Hiten wanted to have had something precious as that, yet it was all taken away from him when there was a raid. His parents, his younger brother and sister, all gone.
From what he could tell this person seemed to give an air of confidence, just like the king himself. It puzzled him. He resembled the king and the prince in the features yet not so much.
Instead of his hair being the rare color of pure silver, it had a more yellowish color, and his eyes were mixed with like seemed to be brown and green. Very weird eye color. He seemed older, not too old though, perhaps a few years older than the prince himself.
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A week. One whole week and they were still a few more leagues off the castle or so they said.
With the humid air it was annoying to keep traveling like this, yet Sesshomaru didn't complain once.
Finally Hiten mentioned that the castle would be in sight in a while. So they finally reach the castle only to be greeted by people, servants and the King himself.
"Father" Inuyasha said bowing in show of respect. Sesshomaru hesitated, then he owed just like Inuyasha.
" Ah, it's about time you got here, I sent those a full month ago. You must've hidden well then." King Takema said .
" That I did, but Hiten said that you needed my presence immediately?" he asked now rising and walked up the few stairs to meet him, the guards followed, forcing Sesshomaru to move with them. His eloquence amazed Sesshomaru.
" Ah of course, the councils had deemed it necessary that they have a meeting with us to discuss the future of the lands." Takema spoke to Inuyasha as they walked down the hall leading them to the 'dinning room', Hiten followed suit as did other two while the rest scattered and left Hiten leading Sesshomaru.
"But it seems to me that you are tired for that at the moment so go take a bath and rest, tomorrow we will discuss when to have this meeting." Takema said ruffling his son's hair.
"Dad, come on!" Inuyasha said trying to remove his father's hand, yet still laughing.
Takema laughed and relented his hold. With a smile still on his face he turned his gaze towards Sesshomaru who just stared at their interaction evilly.
Takema raised an eyebrow at him, Inuyasha stopped laughing once he noticed that his father was staring past him and staring intently at Sesshomaru.
" Oh yes father, this is Sesshomaru, I found him lying on the ground of our lands unconscious. He doesn't seem to remember where he came from or something like that." Inuyasha said now looking at Sesshomaru.
"Ah." was all the king said.
"So will you allow him to stay here." he asked.
"mmmmhh" the king studied Sesshomaru.
"He could have the position of the writer that you have been looking for, father, since you are always forgetting things." Inuyasha said grinning at his father's indignant face.
" I do not " the king said childishly, just like Inuyasha himself.
"fine, fine, so you don't so can he stay." Inuyasha asked him staring at his father expectantly.
Sighing Takem ran a hand through his young mature face. "Ah Inuyasha how many have you brought with you to help them out?" he asked and he saw Inuyasha shrug and smile.
"Fine I shall see what I can do." Takema gave in and ordered a maid to take Sesshomaru to his room. Another one took Inuyasha;s things and Inuyasha took off to his own too.
Leaving a smiling Takema. How he loved his son so much, for his carefree attitude and his innocence. Soon he too left to his own chamber to sleep, after all it was well past midnight.
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YES!! I am finished with this chapter hope you guys like it. Thanks for the reviews.
