Feeling Alone – Chapter Eleven
Yes, I got another chapter done! Woo hoo! Okay people I want some new reviews before next chapter pleeeeeeeeeeeeze. Because how am I supposed to continue and feel loved if you don't talk to me? Though I don't want flames. I'm a softy though and even if I don't get that many I will still post the next chapter… hmmm…. Maybe I shouldn't admit that… but I'm just so happy. THANKYOU EVERYONE FOR REVIEWING MY LAST CHAPTER! Hopefully I'm over my writers block. But I'm back into the feel of things I think now.
NOTE: I have edited original 13 chapters down to 10 which is why it looks like there aren't new chapters but there are. It's mostly a little reordering and making chapters longer. So it wont really matter if you don't re-read because there hasn't been any big changes.
Dreams and Flash backs are in italics.
Well duh, of course she would. If anyone had thought she would miss this chance then they were crazy! If there was any chance at all that she could be reunited with Inuyasha and her friends she would take it. After all she couldn't imagine what it would be like for Inuyasha to be all alone for the next five hundred years because a few years had been bad enough for her she couldn't leave him all alone. She wasn't even sure he would last that long and she couldn't even think about never seeing him ever again.
Kagome placed the pendant carefully back into its box and closed the lid. Picking up the box she held the object against her chest protectively before looking back at Sesshomaru and she smiled, "Thank you Sesshomaru for all your hard work in researching it, I will of course use it to try and go back to Inuyasha. After all I couldn't leave him all alone for the next five hundred years. I need him and Taishi needs him too."
With a slight smile he said, "I thought you would say that."
She hesitated for a moment thinking about why Sesshomaru of all people would have spent so much time looking for a pendant that would help reunite her and Inuyasha. Not that she wasn't grateful, but it wasn't what she had expected, but then she supposed he would have to find something to occupy his spare time for five hundred years. Especially when going around slaying things stopped being a viable option. "I was wondering, why did you go through all the trouble of researching it and trying to find this object? Especially when you didn't know where I was and it seemed you had forgotten all about my existence until I showed up at the interview."
Kagome half expected him to once again say that it wasn't something that she needed to know or it would mess with time but instead he actually answered her. Amusement visible in the golden gaze though he was serious as he said, "Even I do not like to see Inuyasha in such a depressed state where he wants to kill himself, things were very difficult when you were gone and in time I heard rumours so I searched for it in order to bring about a different ending for you both. But you have to keep in mind that it has been five hundred years since you disappeared and no one knew the exact year you were from or much else that would help us find you."
Wide brown eyes looked up at him as it was once more inferred that something bad had happened in the past that needed changing and she had a feeling in the pit of her stomach that it had something to do with Inuyasha. She opened her mouth to ask but she wasn't sure if she wanted to know. Instead she said, "I suppose that's true and I have a favour to ask Sesshomaru."
Surprise flitted across his face for a moment before it disappeared, "What is it?"
"Since I will be taking Taishi with me to the Feudal Era I was wondering if you could teach him about his abilities before we left on our journey. I don't understand his abilities so I haven't been able to train him in any way or help him to understand his abilities. I haven't been much help with his questions either so I'm sure he would appreciate a little tutoring, besides that I don't like the idea of him going to the Feudal Era unable to protect himself properly. It is a dangerous place."
Sesshomaru's eyes became thoughtful. The Priestess' logic was sound it would be very irresponsible to take an untrained hanyou back into the past. "What about you? I would think you would need some practice as well, I doubt you have been training your archery skills since you came back to this time and your miko skills were never trained to begin with. You could probably do with some basic self defence too with the amount of trouble you tend to get into."
"Hey! What do you mean the amount of trouble I used to get into? It was you guys that were the cause of all of my trouble! I wasn't the one going around trying to kill my younger brother half the time," she said glaring at him with her hands on her hips. That was just so typical. "And yes I know more about my powers than he does, I lived there for the majority of three years but yes I would be re-training at home."
"Why at home?" She questioned.
"I have an old target I used to use there and I can probably research some information on my priestess skills. So will you?" she asked hopeful that he would agree to train her son. Despite his rambunctiousness he was very intelligent and quick to learn things and she couldn't imagine that he would be that different than Sesshomaru's own children unless they were ice princes too.
"I will teach him for a month before you go, on the condition that you too train here."
Kagome was glad to hear him agree to train her son but she was caught off guard at the request that she train here as well. "But why do you want me to train here?"
"So that we may spend time with you over that time and as I said, you need to learn some normal self defence. I'm sure that either Rin or I can spare some time to train you, and besides I think that Tai would find it easier with you here. Even if I am his uncle he doesn't really know me and we have top of line archery equipment here and as you know there is plenty of room."
"Ok! Thank you so much Sesshomaru," she said giving him a hug while still holding the box. Surprising both him and herself when she realised what she was doing. She almost expected him to push her away but was relieved when he hugged her back lightly.
"You are welcome." He said before they made their way back to the front door where they were met once more by Rin and said their goodbyes.
"Okay then I will see you both tomorrow then," Kagome said with a grin as she hugged both Rin and Sesshomaru with the box still held tightly in one hand. "Oh, can I borrow a phone to call a taxi?" she asked once she remembered how she had gotten there.
"No, our chauffeur will take you home," Rin said with a grin.
"But…" Kagome started to protest.
"No buts," Rin said. "It's not like we're going anywhere right now, and the cars need to be used now and then… half of his car collection never comes out of the garages."
Kagome decided that she wasn't going to win this fight, and it's not like she had the money to spend on a taxi anyway so she got into the car and waved goodbye, she even managed to get a small wave off Sesshomaru as the two of them stood by the door, hand-in-hand, watching as Kagome left to go back home in the car. When Kagome was gone the pair turned and walked back inside the mansion and up to their private quarters, once in the confines of the room Rin sat down at the vanity and started brushing her hair. Sesshomaru stood watching her with unreadable gold eyes for a long moment before moving to sit on the bed and continued to watch from there. As he watched he took off the charm so that his demonic features became apparent once again, showing once more the pointed ears and bright gold eyes with slit-like pupils. Magenta stripes on his cheeks, eyelids and body as well as the violet crescent moon on his forehead.
Sesshomaru always preferred being able to see his markings, even though he knew they were still under the charm he preferred being able to see them. After a moment of siting there Sesshomaru stood up and walked over to his wife, lightly fingering the chain at the nape of her neck and she shivered slightly at the touch. After a moment he moved behind her and pushed her hair to the side causing her to pause as he unclasped the chain and took it off. He watched Rin in the mirror as the image altered as the charms effects were dispelled, showing that Sesshomaru had indeed found a way to make Rin into a youkai. In this form her ears were delicately pointed and her eyes had lightened to a golden brown with slit-like pupils. Her hair was a deep burgundy and two matching slashes of colour marked her cheeks, a violet crescent moon marked her collarbone.
"So did things go as they should?" Rin asked as she resumed brushing her hair.
"Yes," Sesshomaru said as he watched her for a few more moments before he stood up straight once more, pensively staring at the charm in his hand for a moment before he allowed it to drop onto the table. "She took the pendant and she is going to go back to the Feudal Era, but first she wants Taishi and herself to train for a month."
"A month?" Rin questioned with a frown. "Isn't that cutting it a little close?"
"I don't think so," he said seriously with a light shrug. "She has another four months at least before anything is going to go wrong which gives her three months to get to the palace and stop it. Despite being human I don't think it shouldn't take that long even on foot providing that she can find the others and get them to help her on the journey. However on the off chance that she can't it is better she is prepared. Especially her son, the boy needs to have some idea of what he can do before youkai try to eat him."
"I suppose you're right. I can't even remember what it is that might go wrong it all seemed fuzzy in my memory," she said with a frown. "I really should have kept a diary in the past then I would be able to remember these things more clearly. But then the years seem to blend together to an extent."
"Maybe you can ask Kagome to give your alternate self a diary?" he teased before continuing. "Though it probably wouldn't have done much good, at thirteen I don't think you were really aware of exactly what was going on around the castle."
Rin smiled back at him. "I might just do that, it would be helpful and you're right of course. It is better for them to be prepared especially since Taishi would have no training so far, Kagome would have no idea how to bring out her son's potential or how to train him. And she wouldn't have used her own skills for three years or more."
"That is true and they can leave when they finish the training, besides knowing Kagome and Inuyasha I have a feeling that she and her son will most likely be finished early anyway. Both are head strong and stubborn, in retrospect I think that they have more similarities than I thought and the little boy growled at me and told me to get away from his mummy. He's just as stubborn and quick to act as his father," he said amused.
Rin was about to reply when the pair looked towards the door when they felt a youkai presence and moments later it opened to show a youkai standing in their doorway with a smile on her lips. White layered strands grazed her jaw-line with pale blue tips and her eyes a matching colour, her delicately pointed ears visible above them. Her skin lightly tanned from her vacation and on her forehead in a similar pale blue was mark in the shape of an eye. In a melodic the Seer said, "Sorry for interrupting but I only just got back and I was wondering if you found Kagome, for I thought I heard you speaking of her before I came in."
"We did though she found me, not the other way around," Sesshomaru stated.
She raised her eyebrow in question, "Oh?"
Sesshomaru had an inkling that all of this wasn't news for the Seer but he explained none the less. "Yes she came for an interview for an office position though you never mentioned that she had been marked by Inuyasha or that they had a child."
"Hmm… oh did I forget to mention that?" she asked with an innocent smile. "Silly me."
"But if he did why didn't…?" Rin started to ask puzzled.
"He didn't finish the process obviously that's why he had no marking in the past and I was unaware of the whole thing," Sesshomaru said with a frown tapping his nails on the table as he thought. "But then no-one would have told him about the inu youkai mating rites at the time. We weren't on the friendliest of terms in the past and when it improved she was already gone by that time."
The Seer interrupted smoothly, "It was just as well it wasn't completed on both ends or it would have hurt them both even more, a one-sided connection was enough for the separation to drive them to suicide. For them to be tied together so completely only to be separated just as completely it would have destroyed them, even with the intervention of both you and the Miko's unborn son."
Sesshomaru nodded in understanding, "She and Tai will be training here for the next month because of the dangers that await them and then they will be going back to the Feudal Era. The amulet will work as you said won't it?"
The youkai nodded deep in her thoughts and wandered out of the room without saying another word, leaving Sesshomaru and Rin alone once more.