Chapter Nine: Cold, but im still here
The eyes changed back to Katashi's brown as they both just stared at each other.
"Hello priestess." A cool baritone voice from the past jeered.
"What, you, you are my tutor? How? You hate humans and yet you act so nice to everyone? How can this be?" Kagome stuttered as her mind went on a tangent. How was Katashi, Sesshomaru? What magic was this? They were complete opposites!
"It has been five hundred years, time changes many and in a world today during the twenty first century life could not be as it was in the feudal era."
"So you went and got nice on me?"
"I learnt tolerance and patience priestess, do not mistake those things as kindness."
"So are you going to kill me?"
"What a question, but no I haven't got it written in my planner to end your life anytime soon, why do you wish that I would? I suppose I could make an exception and kill you right here where you stand should you so wish it?" The gold eyes melted back and were staring at her in a predatory nature.
"Uh um no thanks I'll be just fine breathing." Kagome gulped.
"In a manner of such you could quite well say I'm playing a role as a tutor, in answer to your question as to why my disguise per say is somewhat different to the Sesshomaru you knew back in the past." Sesshomaru said, as his eyes went back to brown.
"Why a tutor? Why not the president?" Kagome said quietly unable to picture the Sesshomaru she had known as a teacher.
"Because your filthy kind over populates and outnumbers the demons of today. The power of a president is nothing compared to the power of a lord who fought for his place in blood, sweat and tears. Here in this century all that is required to be a president is a degree, smarts and popularity. You humans took the honour out of everything. The right to rule is not fought for, it is campaigned with words and banners instead of battle and swords. The leaders of the world do not fight in their wars. They create armies to fight for them instead of standing beside their soldiers in the front lines. Weapons have been designed so the outcome of battle is not determined by skill or strength, rather more so as to who pulled the trigger first. You use technology to court and find a partner instead of fighting to earn a mate. Marriage, your term for mating, is not for life as many have numerous marriages in their lifetime. Woman dress indecently in this era and some men do not groom at all. This era has lost much of its loyalty, respect and tradition."
It was the longest speech she had ever heard Sesshomaru ever make. She stood with her mouth open wide gawking at him as he stared out the window, he was the vision of a pissed off angel. Clearly this era did not suit him well.
"So you ask why I am not a man of power in this age? It is because I would not want a fickle title and a fickle job 'running' a fickle world."
Kagome looked down at her feet, so it seemed the planet she lived on today was not good enough for Sesshomaru. But when it came to him, what was good enough?
"Sessh..Sesshomaru? Did anyone else make it to this era?"
Another look flashed quickly past Sesshomaru's eyes.
"Now isn't the time for such a discussion. You have a truth to find."
'The smile you wear from the answers you sought,
have allowed your heart and soul to begin to heal,
The others however aren't missed in thought,
Lost in legends try decipher what is real.'
"You left me the box?" Kagome asked, slightly annoyed.
"No."
"Then how do you know who did?" She asked confused now.
"That's for me to know and you to find out." He said mockingly with a smirk on his face.
Kagome pouted and stamped her foot and turned to leave the room.
"It is the ending you least expect and the one that hurts the most, though it took awhile for him to move on." Sesshomaru said before she left the room completely.
He knew she had heard him.
Sesshomaru allowed himself the luxury to sigh. Though it was before expected, she now knew who he was. And when his task was done with he could be rid of her. The way she looked when she pouted at him came to mind, sure she was pretty, and he as a man would admit that much. But then wasn't that the way of the world? The most deadly things in the world were often the more beautiful. He should know, his name meant killing perfection for good reason, he wasn't vain but he knew he looked great and he knew all too well how to kill and kill well. She was dangerous because she was poisonous. She was poisonous because she was a human. Humans were a poison that diluted great blood, a poison that destroyed a clean world and made the entire race seem like the plague. A few select humans were the exception, one of those humans of course being Rin. Had humans today been more like her then the world would have been a better place.
Kagome hobbled to the front gate of her school and into her mother's waiting car.
"What took you so long dear?" Her mother asked smiling brightly.
"I had to pick up some worksheets and material I had missed during my week away." Kagome mumbled, just wanting to go home and forget the crazy afternoon.
"Oh that's good then, I'm sure you will catch up in no time!"
"It is the ending you least expect and the one that hurts the most, though it took awhile for him to move on"
'Stupid dam Sesshomaru the cocky bastard. How did he know she was searching for a correct ending to InuYasha and Kikyo's legend? Did InuYasha really move on?' Kagome thought as she watched Tokyo fly past her passenger seat car window. The sun was bright and highlighted her black hair with a reddish tinge as the tendrils gently caressed her face. Her heart was hurting, she knew the minute the words left which ending was true.
'InuYasha the half brother of the feared lord of the west was freed from his seal by an unknown woman. He travelled to right his dead loves mistake and rid the world of the Shikon jewel forever when it had returned after being burnt with the dead priestess's body and when she was brought back from the dead he righted that wrong by helping her soul return to rest. Once it was done InuYasha continued to roam the country, often visiting friends he had made on his quests and he eventually grew old being a half demon where on his night of weakness he suffered pain of the heart and died. He left behind his wife Shiori who was also a half demon and their three children who were quarter demons but mostly resembled humans.'
InuYasha had eventually forgotten her.
InuYasha had eventually died.
When she realized he died from a simple pain in the heart.
Her own heart almost ceased beating.
