Midnight Rose
Chapter 11: Brothers
Recap:
'It was thrilling, heart-racing, mind-boggling. I want more!' Sesshomaru's beast pushed foward and kissed Kagome mercilessly. He stuck his tongue in her mouth and engaged hers in a fierce battle for dominance, and Kagome fought like a true soldier. Kagome moaned again and she felt herself grow wet, she couldn't take much more of this. She threw her head back and Sesshomaru then attacked her neck, raining fiery kisses on her, alternating between nipping, biting, licking and suckling. Kagome rooted her hands in Sesshomaru's hair and moaned again. She lifted herself up a little bit and ground down into his growing erection. Sesshomaru's hands gripped Kagome's hips and he hissed into the crook of her neck.
"Dammit Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha yelled, enraged. "Stop it! You can never let me have what's mine!"
Sesshomaru's head snapped up and everyone saw then how red his eyes were.
End Recap
Sesshomaru pushed Kagome off of his lap and growled. He lunged at Inuyasha and pinned him to the ground. "You know not to inturrup an inuyoukai when they are about to mate!" He growled.
"Kagome doesn't want to mate you!"
"How the hell do you know?! You don't know a damn thing!" Sesshomaru's beast was completely taking over. Kagome hadn't moved from her spot on the ground. Sango and Miroku instantly sobered up and ran to Kagome's side.
"Kagome?" Sango asked softly at first. Then when she didn't move, Sango called her a little louder. "Kagome?! Oh God Kagome! Please answer me!"
Miroku touched his hand to Kagome's pulse. "Her pulse is faint." Miroku said.
"And her breathing is really shallow. Kagome?!" Sango called her a final time and saw that Sesshomaru had joined her side. His eyes were back to normal and his breathing was heavy. Had he hurt his miko?
Kagome's eyes finally fluttered open and she looked around and saw her friends.
"Kagome, are you alright?" Sango asked.
"Yeah. I'm fine." Kagome said groggily.
"Are you sure?"
"I said I'm fine." -Ow my head hurts. I can't remember anything.-
'You and Master Sesshomaru were having a moment and Inu-baka ruined it.' Her beast answered sadly.
'Ah, yes, I remember now. Where is that low down dirty half demon?' Kagome got up from the ground and went to Inuyasha. "Sit boy!" She yelled at him.
After Inuyasha recovered from the command, he yelled back at Kagome. "What the hell was that for?"
"Because you act like you're oh so jealous just because I'm happy! Well I do deserve to be happy you know?! I've been in this era for years now, hoping that you would love me, only to be hurt and for my feelings to be trampled upon. I want to kiss Sesshomaru, okay?! And obviously he wanted to kiss me at the moment, but now your jealousy has yet again ruined a great thing! Damn Inuyasha, are you jealous or just plain ol' selfish?!"
"I.."
"Which one is it?! You always hated it when Koga would come around, you didn't like the Hojo from my time or the Hojo from this time, what is it?!"
"You're mine okay?! That's what it is! You belong to me and only me!"
"Well I guess I didn't catch that memo because the last time I checked, Higurashi Kagome belonged to Higurashi Kagome!" Kagome yelled at him.
"No, you're wrong." Inuyasha whispered.
"I'm wrong? How am I wrong?" Kagome asked. "You know what? Let's take a walk. Just the two of us so we can straighten everything out."
"I...I can't..."
"Why? Because you told Kikyo you were going to meet her tonight? That's fine. You can go. Appearently you don't want anything clear, so until then...you know what? I will never ever belong to you or any-damn-body!! I will always belong to me!" Kagome stood there for a minute, then thought to herself. -Fuck this. I'm going home.- She leapt in the air and covered her scent. She sped to Keade's village. Before she hopped in the well though, Keade stopped her.
"Hello chile." Keade greeted.
Kagome sniffed and wiped the tears from her eyes. "Hey Keade."
"What be wrong with ye?"
"Oh nothing. Inuyasha and I haven't really ben seeing eye to eye for the past few days."
"What do ye mean?"
"Well, Sesshomaru has recently joined our group and we've been getting along really well, all the while Inuyasha is still going to see Kikyo whenever he can. I've confided in Sesshomaru with this and he told me that I'm an idiot for still loving Inuyasha. We just played a game called 'Truth or Dare' where retty much you have to do whatever anyone tells you to do and Sesshomaru was told to kiss me. We really got into the kiss then Inuyasha inturrupted because he was jealous. Or I think he was jealous. And then he made me hit my tooth on Sesshomaru's lip and when I looked back at Sesshomaru, I saw the blood so I licked it, then we started kissing again. And things got really heated and...and....and I don't know what to do anymore Keade!" Kagome broke down sobbing.
"First chile, you need to breathe in between sentences and speak slower. Luckily I am used to young women like you, and I understood everything you said."
"You did?" Kagome asked.
"Hai chile. And I am here to help you. I think that ye are in love with Lord Sesshomaru."
"What?!" Kagome stopped crying and started laughing. "I can't love him! As stoic and unemotional as he is, that's only begging for more pain."
"You think about him a lot, yes?"
"Yes. Well, that's 'cause we're always together, like we're joined at the hip or something. We resect each other."
"You enjoyed kissing him, yes?"
Kagome nodded and blushed. "Very much so."
"You wish you could've done more than kiss, yes?" Keade smiled at Kagome's deep red blush.
"How..."
"I may be old chile, but I ain't no fool. I know what it's like to be in love."
"You do? Tell me about it Keade!" Kagome and Keade walked into Keade's hut where there was a fire wating on them.
"The first one was Inuyasha." Keade admitted.
"What?! You were in love with Inuyasha?" Kagome squeaked.
"Hai chile. I was."
"Do tell!" Kagome settled in for a long story.
*At Sesshomaru's Castle*
"Half-breed, you always seem to mess up a good thing." Sesshomaru said.
"What?! You're talking like you actually love Kagome! I've been there every single night she's cried."
"You fail to mention that you were the very resaon she shed tears."
"You always want what's mine!"
"What's yours?! According to the miko she belongs to no one."
"Kagome isn't the only thing I'm talking about. I know you remember Setsuki from when we were pups. You made her your human slave when I intended to mate her."
"Yes. I do remember her. And you were foolish to think you two were going to mate seeing as she was given to me as a gift from the Southern Lands."
"But she was my friend." Inuyasha argued.
"She proved as an adaquate slave and concubine." Sesshomaru looked to the sky, recalling the incident.
*Flashback*
Inuyasha ran through the forest, looking for Sesshomaru. "What is wrong with you?!" He barked once he found him.
"There is obviously something wrong with you, coming to me like you've lost your mind."
"Where is she?!"
"Where is who?" Sesshomaru asked, knowing good and well who he was talking about.
"Setsuki. I smelled her, then her scent disappeared."
"You know that when a human is marked as a concubine, their scent is of the one who marked them."
"Concubine?"
"Yes. I have marked her as my concubine." Sesshomaru said simply.
"She was mine!"
"Actually, she was given to Toru and I as a play thing and a peace offering from the Southern Lands."
"But you know I wanted to mate her!" Inuyasha yelled.
"She doesn't want to mate you! You are nothing but a half-breed. No one wants you." Sesshomaru growled.
"Yes she does!!" Inuyasha argued, tears burning his amber eyes.
"Then ask her." Sesshomaru said as Setsuki came through the forest towards them. "Setsuki, do you want to mate Inuyasha?"
The beautiful blue eyed girl looked from Sesshomaru to Inuyasha. "Of course not milord. I want no one but you." She said. Setsuki was about Inuyasha's height, but still shorter than both him and Sesshomaru. She had an ample amount of curves to be a sixteen year old, and was unswervingly loyal to Sesshomaru. "I love you Lord Sesshomaru. You and only you."
"Of course you do." Sesshomaru patted Setsuki on the head. He'd grown fond of the girl. She kept his room clean and she would talk to him, even when she thought he wasn't listening. She was a strong girl, never complaining when Sesshomaru and Toru abused her with their rough housing. Sesshomaru's father had convinced him to make the girl his human concubine, and Sesshomaru had finally done so out of spite. Setsuki had been spending a lot of time with Inuyasha recently and he had been getting jealous.
About a week and a half after Toru convinced Sesshomaru to sleep with Setsuki, she had started hanging out with Inuyasha. Sesshomaru had seen her crying on is shoulder and he had even kissed her cheek. That was the day that Sesshomaru had decided to mark Setsuki.
*End Flashback*
Kagome was walking back to the garden and caught the end of the conversation.
"Do you want to know what happened to her Sesshomaru?!" Inuyasha asked.
Truthfully, Sesshomaru had been curious as to what had happened to his human. One day she up and disappeared, without any trace at all. Some of the villagers said that she was chased out, but no one really knew what had happened to her.
"Huh Sesshomaru?! She was pregnant with your pup! I was the only person she told! She'd convinced me that mating was the only way, that you would never want a half-breed and I was the only person that she could trust! Setsuki loved you and you pushed her to the side like she was no body! I had fallen in love with her! But the word got out that she was pregnant with a demon child and the villagers chased her out. I tried to track her, but I couldn't. I was too weak at the time because I'd just suffered yet another beating that yet again you didn't stop! You were never anywhere to be found when I was a pup!"
"Because you were and still are a bastard child! I didn't want you as my brother then, and I don't now! And if Setsuki was pregnant, then I would've smelled the pup inside of her." Sesshomaru barked.
"That was another thing that you didn't know about her. She was a miko as well. She didn't want you to know that because she thought you would hate her even more. She already thought you hated her for being human."
-Sesshomaru has a child? By a human? What if the child somehow survived all these years?!- Kagome was both excited and saddened by this information. That meant that if Sesshomaru found his child and the mother, if she had somehow survived, he would no doubt want to be with them. -It's not like he wants to be with me anyway. We just kissed.-
"You lie!" Sesshomaru barked and lunged at Inuyasha. His hands closed around his throat.
"If I was lying, you would know it. Look into my eyes. The eyes that we share. The eyes that we got from Father." Inuyasha choked out softly.
Sesshomaru looked deep into Inuyasha's eyes. Since they were brothers and their connection was stronger than either one of them even knew, Sesshomaru saw Inuyasha's past. he saw what had happened that day. He felt the wounds that Inuyasha was given. He tasted the blood. He smelled the dirt that was ground into his face.
And on the other hand, Inuyasha felt how Sesshomaru felt. He felt cold and betrayed. He felt the jealousy that surgued through his elder brother those years ago whenever their father would come to see him and his mother. He felt everything.
The brothers pulled away from each other, gasping. "It seems that I underestimated you Inuyasha." Sesshomaru said. Everyone gasped when they realized that he'd said Inuyasha's name without acting as if he hated him.
"I underestimated you as well." Inuyasha said.
"We both went through entirely different things as pups, and neither was greater than the other."
"I agree."
"From now on, we will be the brothers Father wanted us to be."
"We can try."
"That is all I ask." Sesshomaru stated. He was sure their father would be proud of them.
The brothers were so wrapped up in their moment that they didn't notice Kagome off to the side hyperventilating. Her breathing grew heavier and more intense. She tried to take a step foward and fell to the ground on her knees. Kagome began to cough violently. Sango was the first to get to her, as usual, then Miroku, Sesshomaru, and Inuyasha.
"Kagome, what's wrong?!" Sango asked frantically.
~In Kagome's Head~
There were lights going off in Kagome's head and her heart was pounding. She saw a petite blue eyed girl in the forest, crying as she ran from a group of people. She had a large, protruding belly, and the people were getting closer. An elderly lady grabbed her hand and snatched her from the trail she was following. "Follow me child, if you want to live."
The girl didn't say a word, but followed the lady. They reached a small hut only minutes later, where there was a small fire and a kettle of soup over it.
"You are pregnant with a demon child." the old lady said.
"No ma'am."
"No need to lie child. I am not one of those who want to hurt you." She smiled warmly. "You are also a miko. A young miko, pregnant with a demon child. What are the odds?"
The young blue eyed girl gave a small laugh. "I don't know."
"Well I'm going to help you."
Kagome then saw a beautiful little toddler with golden eyes and silver hair. She had claws and all of her teeth, fangs included. She went to the blue eyed girl who Kagome guessed to be her mother.
"Up mama. Up!" The little girl said.
"Okay Sakura." The girl's mother giggled.
They were in a snow covered field and the mother had a bow in her back with a quiver full of arrows.
"Look what I found okaa!" The little girl held out her little hands and showed her mother a Sakura blossom.
"I don't know how on Earth you came up with that. It's in the middle of winter."
"When I picked up a seed from the tree and closed my eyes, I concen-conc- I saw a sakura blossom blooming in my hand and when I opened it, I saw this! Isn't it beautiful mommy?! Almost as pretty as you."
"I know something that is even more pretty."
The girl gasped, wondering what could be more beautiful than both her mother and the flower in her hand. "What 'kaa-san?"
"You." She tapped her daughter on the nose and laughed along with the childish giggle.
In the next scene, there was no more snow, but it was dark. She was inside a hut and she could feel the warmth of the fire behind her. There was someone, the blue-eyed lady, laying on the bed.
Sakura was now a young lady. She had curves like her mother and was looking more and more like her except for her strange silver hair. There were tears in Sakura's eyes. "Mommy, please don't leave me."
She was looking down on the bed. Sakura's mother was lying there, looking sick. "I have to Sakura." She coughed violently.
"No! No you don't! I can make you stay! Wait here mommy, please don't leave me!" Sakura ran out of the hut and found the large tree that had her name. She placed her hand on the bark and whispered to it, "Please lend me your strength. Please don't let my okaa die. Please." A lone tear slipped out of her eye, then she heard a scream. Sakura ran towards the sound and found her mother, now looking years younger than she had a few seconds ago.
"Sakura, wh-what did you do?" Her mother asked.
"Nothing. I only prayed."
"I feel like I'm younger."
"You look like it too. Not saying that you ised to look old or anything."
"I don't knkow how long it will last though Sakura." Her mother said sadly.
"You are an immortal being now. You will never leave me."
"Oh Sakura, it was my time to go. Why didn't you let it happen?" Tears were forming in her eyes.
Sakura was crying too. "Because I can't live without you! You're the only thing I have since you won't tell me who my father is!"
"I can't. I want to baby. But I just can't." She whispered and pulled her daughter into a tight hug.
"Arigato." Sakura whispered to the sky, too low for her mother to hear.
Kagome gasped and felt that there were tears leaking from her eyes.
"Kagome, are you okay?!" Sango asked.
"I'm fine." Kagome said. It was hard to see through the tears. She knew who the girl was. She knew who her mother was. She knew what she must do. "Setsuki is alive. And I know where she is."
Please R&R peoples!! Sorry this wasn't up yesterday like I wanted it to be!!
~KM705.M-san