Chapter 10: Otou-san

By: Lacus23

"As I thought it was you, bastard. Why are you after Kagome?" Sesshomaru demanded again.

"Why...that's quite a stupid question for your standards isn't it Sesshomaru? Do you know why I created that war? Why I had to kill your mate's father? That would've never happened if you had just given her to me like a good dog. It was a distraction to your land and to keep you busy as I stole her away...but, it seems like my plans had failed and now here I am making pathetic calls to your company just to make her quit," he laughed over the phone.

Sesshomaru's eyes bled red as he threatened the spider youkai, "You will NEVER lay a hand on Kagome or ever attempt to call this company if you value your life Naraku. You're treading dangerous waters and I'd be wise about my choices if I were you."

Naraku laughed again and waved off the threat as if it were nothing. "Do you think I would actually listen to you, inu? My plans will not go awry this time and I will make sure of it so watch your back and let's hope you get to keep your mate safe from me otherwise she will be my mate. I'd also watch out if someone NEW were to enter her life." With that Naraku hung up leaving a very angry and distressed Tai youkai.

Kagome walked home and noticed that she was being followed by someone and shivered. She caught a cold therefore; she isn't able to use her nose correctly when she needed it the most. She kept glancing back just in case anything popped out behind her.

Having enough of this stupidity she turned around to find a strange man staring at her with lustful eyes. She narrowed her eyes and stared at him defiantly. "Excuse me, who are you and WHY are you following me? Stalker much?" she added with a sarcastic tone.

"Ai..." the man whispered softly as he walked towards her.

Kagome's eyes widened as she backed away with every step the man took. He looked so tired...so dead..."Sir, are you okay?" she asked, trying to be kind about him stalking her.

"Ai...how I've missed you," he murmured.

The miko-inu taiyoukai's ear's picked up her mother's name and stared at the man before her. He wore clothing which wasn't from this time and they looked tattered as well. He had light brown hair and golden eyes and his armour looked like it was chipping off. As she took a closer look at the man she realized who exactly this man was.

"My beloved wife Ai...you look so much like her...you must be her," he smiled as he grabbed her hand and nuzzled against it.

Kagome looked at her hand and felt really awkward. Here her father was and he was nuzzling HER hand and was mistaking her for her mother. What else could be worse? Before he could even begin to kiss her hand she snatched it away quickly and tried to calm down before she would puke. "Um...otou-san it's me your daughter Kagome. I'm not mother; she's at home right now..."

The man blinked twice as he tried to get the words into his head and slowly smiled. "AH! Kagome! It's been so long! My lovely and sweet daughter," he embraced her tightly as tears began to pour down his face. "I've missed you so much! I apologize. You've grown up so fast you're like a replica of your mother when she was young...err...not that I'm calling her OLD because she's still beautiful but-"

"Otou-san," Kagome smiled, "please stop babbling right now. I need to get you home and you have a lot of explaining to do. I heard you died in the war with Naraku and here you are now three hundred and fifty years later out of no where!"

Hitatchi had confusion written on his face and sighed. "It's been THAT long? THAT many years that I've left her devastated?"

Kagome didn't know how to respond to that but she slowly nodded and grabbed his hand gently and gave him a reassuring smile. She was really happy that he returned home but something seemed a little...off about him.

Sesshomaru growled in anger as he made he was into the elevator after work. He was still angry about the phone call and the threats that Naraku had given him. 'How dare he think he can fool around with this Sesshomaru? How dare he think he can take this Sesshomaru's mate?' he howled in his head. Even his demon agreed with him. Everyone he passed ran away with their tails in between their legs knowing his was furious about something.

"Hey aniki—" Inuyasha started but got cut off.

"WHAT?!" Sesshomaru barked at his younger brother.

Inuyasha narrowed his eyes and growled at him then walked away. He hated it when Sesshomaru took out his anger on him and beat him up like some kind of punching bag to cool him down. He then smirked and turned around and threw his shoe at him.

Sesshomaru began to chase after Inuyasha with the shoe in his hand and yelled, "WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT KEEPING YOUR OBJECTS TO YOURSELF?!"

"TOO BAD ANIKI! I DON'T LISTEN TO EVERYTHING YOU SAY!!!"

After a while of running around, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru both stopped at Kagome's house out of breath. Inuyasha had a battered and bruised eye as well as a bump on his head and Sesshomaru had a shoe stuffed in his mouth. Their ears picked up laughter and giggling inside the house and they opened the door to see Kagome and Kikyo being hugged by some strange man.

"Otou-san you're going to kill us from hugging us so tightly!" Kikyo laughed.

Sesshomaru looked at the man named, "Otou-san" and growled in his head. Something didn't seem right about this. He died in front of him years ago and now he's returned with a weird aura around him. Sesshomaru recalled the last words Naraku had said to him...

"I'd also watch out if someone NEW were to enter her life..."

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