CHAPTER SEVEN
With Segome
She got up and ran like the wind to the palace she had to find Sesshoumaru so he could save her mother. She busted through the mansion door and ran upstairs to the master bedroom thinking that is where Sesshoumaru would have been all the while hollering "dad, dad,". When she reached the master bedroom she ran inside to find it empty, not him too she thought. She felt alone, she thought he left her too. She fell to her knees on the floor and started crying not only in physical pain but emotional as well. Moments later in her distress she could hear the heartbeat of her father, Sesshoumaru. She jumped up and ran of the room running into Sesshoumaru almost knocking him over; he had heard her call earlier.
"Daddy, daddy," she sobbed in his shirt.
"Segome, we don't get like this remember." He said pulling her away from his chest.
"But I need you dad, please hold me, don't do this." At the request of his daughters pain and seeing the blood coming from her he pulled her back in.
"I am sorry Segome, so much has gone on, and it isn't you. What has happened? Why are you hurt?"
"They beat me up, they took her."
"Who?"
"You know the guy that wanted more land from you, for his own purposes?"
"Oh, you couldn't handle him?"
"He wasn't the one; he had demons attack me 6 of them. They held me down and kicked me and hurt me, I screamed for her father, I tried but there was too many. I have failed her again. Now she is gone."
"No you didn't Segome, I did."
"Father, can you save her please. I want my mother?"
"I will try, don't blame yourself for this I should of went after her, I should have known she wouldn't remember her power. But I was so hur…" Sesshoumaru suddenly became silent, he had realized that her not being there didn't only anger him, it hurt him.
"Father….?"
"Segome go heal, have Sango help you, I will return."
The group gathered around at that time.
"Sango take care of her, and wait for my return." he sent Segome with Sango.
"Miroku please take care of the children a little while longer, if you want make Jaken they jumping bag. And wait for my return."
"Yes my lord, are you sure you don't need any help?" Miroku questioned.
"When it comes to my mate, my inner demon is all the back up I need." Sesshoumaru growled.
With the rest of the group already moving to do with what they were suppose to do for the morning Sesshoumaru headed out to go find Fufu. He showed up at this home on the edge of his western lands. It was a torn down shack that was dark and looked like it could fell any minute.
If he would have just fixed up his own home instead of worrying about getting more property his life probably wouldn't be so bad Sesshoumaru thought. He walked up to the door.
"Lord Sesshoumaru," Fufu opened the door with sarcasm.
"You don't look worried, Fufu." Sesshoumaru said cockily.
"Aw, does that surprise you."
"Enough games you know what I came here for."
"Well come in." Fufu turned around and walked into the dark, musky area that he called his living room.
Sesshoumaru looked around before he followed inside.
Once inside a demon shut the door behind Sesshoumaru. He turned around and looked.
Kagome was in the next room over, she could hear everything.
"Oh did that startle you my lord."
"First of all Fufu, sarcasm does not become you, secondly it was expected."
"Hmm, so what brings you to my so humble of a home?"
"You know what brings me, and toy with me any longer and you shall die." Sesshoumaru's growl was becoming lower and more threatening.
"Yes well, we will so who would die."
"Are you tempting me?"
"NO, my lord, not before my proposition is met."
"What do you want?" Sesshoumaru already knew what he wanted.
"I want land."
"You have land."
"I want more land, I need more room."
"You can't even take care of the land you have." Sesshoumaru was getting annoyed.
"Well you will either give me land, or your mate will die."
"My mate has powers beyond your imaginable dreams." Sesshoumaru laughed.
"Hmmm, then how did she end up here, she is weak."
"She may be thought weak, but you will see."
The demons that were in the room with Kagome picked her up, her hands and feet were tied together, and brought her into the room where the two men stood toe to toe.
"Really," Fufu spoke sarcastically as he smacked Kagome over the face. "Then how come she didn't do anything about that. I could take her right now and she couldn't do anything."
Sesshoumaru tried to hold his inner demon from the anger it felt seeing his mate being abused, his hands started shaking and his eyes were turning red, his heart started to beat faster as the tears ran down Kagome's face.
Kagome could hear Sesshoumaru heartbeat. (How) she thought. She felt his pain; she realized she was feeling a lot more than she should be.
"Touch her again Fufu, and getting more land won't be an option unless it is land for your grave."
"My grave huh," he looked at the demons in the room and laughed at Sesshoumaru's threat. He then bent over and kissed Kagome as Kagome tried to squirm away from him. at that moment Sesshoumaru lost all control over his demon half and attacked he picked up Fufu and held him up against the wall with one hand by his neck like he had done Jaken previously, he cracked his knuckles and the poison came to the fore front he stuck them in Fufu gut, "Like I said, your grave."
He turned to see the demons attack him from behind when he went full blown.
Kagome looked over and seen a big white dog being attacked by little demons. One by one he was tearing them apart until the last one was gone. When he realized they were all dead he looked over at Kagome, surprisingly he wasn't ashamed, he was still pissed off. Why didn't she use her powers she might not remember how but she should of still been able to call upon them. He walked up to her and bowed in front of her putting his nose by her leg.
"Sesshoumaru what is all this?" she was frightened of seeing his anger.
"This is I, the true form of Sesshoumaru No-Taisho, your mate."
"This can't be happening, get away from me."
"You are me, understand that."
flashback of Kagome
At that moment a vision came in Kagome's mind once again of her chasing a white dog through the woods, the vision continued until they reached the spring, a spring that she remembered. In the vision when she looked down at the water staring back at her was a full blown white dog like Sesshoumaru was now.
"End of flashback
Kagome shook her head how can that be. She wanted to deny that any of this was true.
"This is all lies; you are messing with my head."
Sesshoumaru had calmed down enough to go back to his normal form, he stood in front of her exhausted from the battle and from changing, and he hadn't received much sleep the night before.
"I am telling you the truth. Why can't you just believe me?"
"Everyone says they are telling the truth. Who am I to believe?"
"Try believing your heart. You have an inner demon too, it may be sleeping but it is there, I know it is still."
"Then why can't you help me, if you are my mate, help me to remember?"
"I can only help you once there is no doubt."
"I don't doubt any of this, so what doubt are you talking about?"
"I haven't a clue at this moment. I will be honest with you, but give me one week that is all I ask, one week to prove to you that you belong here, or I will personally take you back."
"I will give you one week, no longer. Now undo me please."
"Undo yourself." He demanded.
"I can't." she whined trying to move her hands and her feet from the rope."
"Let me teach you something?"
"What?"
"Picture in your mind the ropes untying."
"What?"
"Just do it."
Kagome reluctantly closed her eyes and pictured the ropes untying from behind her back when suddenly the ropes fell to the ground. "How did you do that?"
"I didn't, you did."
"This is too much for me right now, I just want some rest."
"Come I will take you home, I mean back to the palace."
He held out his hand and lifted her up off the cold damp floor, as he picked her up he noticed she could barely walk, her leg was hurt and with her not knowing her powers, she wasn't healing. He picked her up and carried her all the way back to the palace.
When they arrived at the palace everyone came in Segome started to cry thinking Kagome was really hurt. Kagome looked at Segome. "What are you doing here?"
"I belong here." Segome was still a little reluctant of telling her who she was.
"How is that?" Kagome asked even more confused.
"I am Segome. You…your daughter."
"You lied to me." she spoke almost breathless.
"No, I never lied to you. Remember, all I said was that it was best if I didn't tell you my name. I have lied about nothing."
"I see. I am too tired to fight it." Kagome tried to move from Sesshoumaru's grip but she was still too weak. Sesshoumaru nodded at the others and carried Kagome up to the master bedroom where they could get some rest. He laid her down on the bed and began to remove her pants.
"What do you think you are doing?
"I need to take a look at your leg. Please, you are not using your healing powers, so you must let me take a look."
"Just tell me how to use my healing powers."
"Remember how I told you to do the rope?"
"Yes Sesshoumaru,"
"Well you must concentrate on healing the pain, that you feel, and your powers will find the wound and heal it."
flashback
She envisioned her and Sesshoumaru kissing on that very bed. Him leaning over her rubbing his sword against her sweet spot.
end of flashback
"Kagome, you there?"
"I was concentrating on the pain." She had to make up why she had just once again spaced out.
"Well I had only seen you get that flushed when… never mind."
"I am not flushed."
Sesshoumaru could smell the heat arises from her, he knew that she was turned on and his blood beast wanted to participate in the action. His sword had an immediate reaction. "Anyway", he said readjusting his thoughts, "would it bother you if I sleep in here with you?"
"That would be alright, I will trust you to keep your hands to yourself."
"Not a problem. I will be right here in this recliner." He would do it, just to win her trust back.
That same evening Sesshoumaru got up without waking her and went out into the rest of the castle. It was silent everyone else was in bed sleeping. He went down into the dungeon "Inuyasha why must you hate so much that you have put her through all of this?"
"Why must you hate so much that you have made me stay here?"
"For the crimes that you have committed not only against me but against my mate and others, this is the least I could do to ensure their safety."
"You can't hold me here forever."
"Trust me that is not my intentions. Keep it up and your suffering can end very abruptly."
"What do you want Sesshoumaru, why have you come, to gloat about my misery, hearing these screams coming from my tortured cell mates?"
"Those screams are muted to me, I don't have to hear them, and you on the other hand don't get that luxury."
"What do you want lord Sesshoumaru." Inuyasha's sarcasm was bitter.
"I have a proposition for you."
"What may that be?"
"I have a way to find out if you are truly Kagome's mate. I will take you out of this dungeon but must cast a spell for you to leave your power here, I will take you up to her room, and if you are truly her mate, I will walk away from all of this and you can have it all, but if you are not then you must either stay in this dungeon until such a time I feel you have changed, or you must go back to the modern era not to return."
"Why should I believe in what you say that you have found a way to prove her mate? Why haven't you done it?"
The question from his baka brother had sent shivers up his spine, he had tried and it hadn't worked, did it mean that he wasn't her mate. No matter what he had to do this, he had to prove that Inuyasha was not her mate. "For reasons of my own I can not do this but you can and you will or I will kill you."
"What is it?"
Sesshoumaru then pulled the black diamond from his pocket. "You must try to give her memories back to her out of this?"
"What makes you think that black diamond holds her memories."
"When you and Jaken gave her the poison Jaken had her memories put into this only her mate can release them."
"What makes you think I want her to have her memories back?"
"You try or you die." Sesshoumaru was angry at Inuyasha for he could not make him do this, but he had to know if this hanyou was her mate, he had to prove that there was no other but him.
"Fine, but if she is and she receives her memory back, you will leave anyway correct?"
"Yes."
"I have your word?"
"yes." Sesshoumaru had regret in his voice, his worse fear at this very moment could come true and he was willing to give up everything. A part of him knew though that Inuyasha was not her mate, but the other half doubted just the same.
Sesshoumaru then cast a spell to disbar all of Inuyasha's powers for the time being that he was away from the cell; he slightly grabbed the back of his arm and led him to the master bedroom, where Kagome lay sleeping. He had put a spell on her to sleep so she wouldn't wake up and find Inuyasha standing over her. He then handed the black diamond to Inuyasha.
Inuyasha looked at Kagome holding the diamond in his hand. It still remained unchanged. He turned to Sesshoumaru and handed him back the diamond, when it went into Sesshoumaru's hand, subtle warmth came over it.
"You actually thought that I would have been her true mate brother?" Inuyasha smirked.
"I had to know that you weren't."
"Well I may be wrong, and I may have done a lot wrong but only a fool would not be able to see where she belongs."
"Don't think you are getting out of our bargain."
"Well what if you just leave my powers where they are, and I can stay with the group, if I have no power how would I be of threat?"
"What made you think I wouldn't have killed you without your power hanyou?"
"Brother, if you were going to kill me, you would of done it already, you could kill me with or with out my power."
"Well, I must talk with the rest of the group including Kagome. If she chooses not to forgive you than our bargain still stands. For now you must go back to the dungeon."
"Whatever man, that is one thing I could never understand. Why would you choose that stupid miko over your own flesh and blood?"
"Stop calling her a miko, she is more."
"Yea right, you can't even look at me and tell me that you know that she is your mate." Inuyasha at that moment had a reason for pushing Sesshoumaru; he was trying to get him to realize that Kagome was his mate, even though he knew it could have cost him his life.
At that moment Sesshoumaru bitch slapped Inuyasha leaving claw marks across his face, "Don't dare speak to me in that tone, I know what she is."
"Then why doesn't she have her memories, brother?" Inuyasha held his cheek, very well expecting another blow.
"Enough," he grabbed Inuyasha's arm once again and led him back to his cell in the dungeon. Where he slammed the big metal door closed. He had to end the conversation; he knew that Kagome was his mate, why would his baka brother believe that he didn't. he was frustrated, he loved Kagome, yea when she left and he hadn't of known why he became cold but he didn't doubt his love for her so why the stupid curse didn't release it's hold on her he couldn't answer. What was it he doubted so much? Why couldn't he figure it out? Why would he test Inuyasha on being Kagome's mate? Tired of trying to answer all of his own confusing questions he decided to return to Kagome side for when she awoke. When he returned to Kagome he noticed that the black diamond in his pocket had unusual warmth to it, he pulled it out of his pocket and held it in his hands, but still nothing happened.
