The Missing Link

By: Inuyasha4ev

Summary: Kagome is an archaeologist who's teams digging around Japan. In her search, she comes across the only known existing demon, frozen and preserved in the mountains. Once he's thawed up, it is up to her to attend to him, teach him the ways of the new world, and comfort his aching heart.

'Blah' –Sesshomaru's strange language

'Blah' -Thoughts

'Blah'- Sesshomaru's beast

Chapter 14

"Sesshomaru!" Kagome cried, running out of the bathroom. "Sesshomaru! Sesshomaru!" Frantically, she hurried to the living room, where he had been waiting for her to finish her shower. "Look!" She leaned over, pointing to the top of her head. "Look!"

Worried, he touched her wet hair gently. "What am I looking for, miko? Have you harmed yourself?"

"No! A hair, Sesshomaru! I think I found gray hair! Look!"

"…a gray hair," Sesshomaru snarled. "You worried this Sesshomaru over a gray hair?"

Kagome tossed her head back, her hair whipping behind her. "I don't know about your era, but a gray hair is very serious for a human in my era. It means I'm getting old."

Sesshomaru scoffed. "You are only twenty-five, miko. Even by human standards, that is hardly old. You are only one-forth into your life, no? You humans live, on average, to be perhaps 86?"

"Well, yeah, but there's a gray hair in there! Look!" She whined, shoving her head into his view. "Pluck it out! Pluck it out!"

Though annoyed, and a little confused, he did as told, running his fingers through her hair, and sifting through it until he came to her 'gray hair'. Pulling it out, he showed her, "Is this your gray hair?"

Kagome stared, then frowned. "W-well, no. That's only…"

"One of my own."

"Wow, have we ever been close enough for me to get one of your hairs in my head?"

"You stole my pillow last night," He reminded her, going to drop the hair in the garbage.

Kagome paused, then smirked. "So does that mean you're shedding? Like a common dog!" She raised her voice so that he would hear her in the next room.

Stiffening, Sesshomaru returned to her. "A common dog, miko? You dare compare me to such?"

"Well, technically yes," she smiled boldly. "Do you have a problem with that?"

"You do not want to test me this morning, miko," He informed her lightly.

"I think I do."

Sesshomaru's lips quirked into a smile. "It amazes me that you cure your boredom by teasing me, and as much as I do enjoy this witty banter, miko, I must go to the office."

Her mood changed drastically, her face falling almost instantly. "But it's Sunday, and you always have to go to the office. I'm always stuck here by myself. You're not going anywhere today." She brushed past him and positioned herself in front of the door. "You're gonna stay with me."

"Do you really think yourself a match for me, miko?" He asked, scooping her up and tossing her over his shoulder.

"Of course I don't." She sighed when he sat her on the couch. "But I don't wanna be alone today, Sesshomaru."

"Why is today different from any other?"

"It's not…I don't like to be lonely any day."

Sesshomaru tilted his head to see her face when she bowed her head. She was acting like a mate again, a lonely mate, and it left him feeling like he had neglected her in some way. "I will not be there for more than two hours," he told her, his palm against her cheek and his fingers behind her ear. "Will you be fine until then?"

She sighed. "Sure. Maybe I'll visit Ban. He's back from the dig they were doing in Osaka."

"Hn. Well, if you leave this house, dry your hair first, miko." Taking the towel from her shoulders, he ruffled her hair with it, sighing when she giggled. "Ittekimasu*."

"Itterasshai*!" She called after him, standing when she heard the door close. "I guess I'll call Bankotsu."

Xxx

Bankotsu looked up from his tea when he heard a car pull up outside, a loud j-rock song blasting. "There's your daughter," he told his mother with a smile. "Lemme get the door." Setting his cup down, he went to the door, sliding it open. "Nice choice of music."

Kagome beamed, running up to him. "Inuyasha's choice. He's got me addicted to this band." Hugging him tightly, she said, "It's been a while. I mean, weren't you supposed to be moving in?"

"I was…but I trust Sesshomaru."

"Please! Don't lie to me. You've been too caught up in some woman again, haven't you? Some woman is always more important than your precious little sister, but that's okay."

He gave her a dull glance. "And the award for best supporting actress goes to…"

Swatting his shoulder, she laughed, "I was serious."

"Whatever." Kissing the top of her head, he led her inside, closing the door. "You know mom is pissed because you don't come over too often."

"Well, if she didn't act like she hated me for getting a divorce before I had children, then maybe I would," she muttered back, then plastered on a fake smile when she met her mother in the living room. "Mom, hi." She hugged her.

"Kagome, dear. So good to see you. Where's Hojo? Oh, I'm sorry, dear. I forgot." Her mother smiled innocently, taking a seat. "My memory isn't as good as it used to be."

Smirking, she replied. "I've noticed."

"Is that my Kagome I hear?" A loud voice called before Kagome's father entered the de. "Kagome!"

"Daddy!" She eagerly embraced him. "How've you been, Daddy?"

He smiled. "Good as ever. You'd know that if you visited more often."

Kagome nodded. "I will."

"So, to what do we owe the honor of this rare visit from our oldest children?" He asked, taking a seat beside his wife.

Bankotsu crossed his legs, nodding toward his sister. "You know she's finally come into her miko energy, and she knows about me."

Kagome sat up taller. "Oh, so we're actually gonna talk about this?"

"I really don't want to get into this, Kagome. It makes my head hurt just thinking about this confusing mess." Her mother told her, pinching her temples.

"What was it? How is he a demon?"

"He's not really a demon. It's like this…Not really reincarnation, but more like a soul transfer."

"I don't understand."

"I'll try to explain, Ayumi." Their father leaned forward, toward Kagome. "Bankotsu shares his soul with your grandfather of centuries ago, understand? How this happened, we still have no idea, but your grandfather was a demon of sorts, and therefore, your brother is."

Kagome frowned, confused. "Shares a soul?"

Bankotsu jumped in. "I have his some of his ways, his attitude, and all of his memories. That's why I remember Sesshomaru. See, we come from this long line of royal demons, who served Sesshomaru's family, and as the demon blood came down the line, mixing with the blood of priests and priestesses, it has become near pure. That's why you're basically just a human miko."

"Basically?"

"I've noticed that there's a tiny, hardly recognizable trace of Inuyoukai within you. It makes you act like one of them. You've probably never noticed, but like, you inhale deeply when you meet someone…"

"I what? I don't sniff people!"

He nodded. "Yeah, you do, and when you're around Sesshomaru, you kind of follow him, or you cater to him, because you feel like he's your alpha."

She scowled, shaking her head. "No one is my alpha."

"You do the same with dad. You follow him with a sense of utter obedience and loyalty."

"He's my father."

"Your link to him is more than just daughter to father. You act like his beta, just like with Sesshomaru. Only, with Sesshomaru, it's on more of a mate level."

Kagome narrowed her eyes, huffing, "Please. I don't act like a dog, and I don't treat Sesshomaru like my mate."

Bankotsu shrugged at this. "Okay. Stay in denial if you want. You asked."

"We'll have to train your energy," Her mother informed her.

"Sesshomaru trains me every day."

"Oh? Wanna show me what you've got?"

Kagome smirked at the challenge. "No doubt."

Xxx

Kagome gaped at her mother. "That was amazing! You have to teach me, mama!"

"Mama? You haven't called me that since you were little," Her mother told her, eyes bright. "I'll only teach you step by step, though."

"Why? Sesshomaru's doing the same thing. Why does everyone want me t take things slow."

"Kagome, you have an enormous about of power. If you're taught too quickly, you won't learn control, and you could do some damage. Take your time, sweetheart."

Kagome folded her arms. "Please. My children will be graduating from college before Sesshomaru teaches me anything of real value."

"Ha! What children?"

"Mother, please don't-"

"You have to be married to have children, dear."

She put her hands on her hips. 'No, you don't. I could go have sex right now and get pregnant if I wanna."

Her mother gasped. "You wouldn't be so vulgar."

"Hell, I'll go to a clinic if I want."

"You wouldn't dare! That's not the way to do it! You're supposed to fall in love, and get married, and then-"

"What century are you living in? You're not a little girl in the edo period anymore."

Ayumi's eyebrow ticked. "Are you calling me old, you little witch." Her fists lit with energy."

She smirked, holding up her own flaming hands. "Takes one to know one, old woman."

"Augh!"

Xxx

Kagome sighed as Sesshomaru iced the back of her head and admonished her. "Say what you want. This is how things usually end with mom. It was way more innocent than usual. I think she's opening up to me again." She was sitting in his lap because he had felt it was the best way to restrain her and hold her down when she had been struggling. That hadn't been his brightest idea.

"Tell me that not all mothers and daughters behave this way in you era."

"Nope. Me and mama are just weird. I hope my daughters doesn't pick up any genes from her grandma."

Sesshomaru arched a brow at this. "You wish for children, miko?'

She nodded happily, bouncing a little. "Yep. A whole lot of 'em. Like three girls and three boys."

Do not move so much on a male's lap, miko."A full litter?"

"…a litter." She thought back to what Bankotsu had said about her. "Hey, Sesshomaru? Do I act like an Inuyoukai woman to you?"

Sesshomaru shook his head. "You are too dependent on your emotions."

Kagome frowned. "Besides that…when we met, did I sniff you?"

He started to say 'no', but paused and thought back. "…Perhaps. My mind was not fully stable at the time."

"Let me think of something more recent…When I met Shippo, did I sniff him?"

"…Not so much a sniff, as an inhale of breath."

Her eyes widened. "You're not serious. W-well, do I treat you like my alpha? Do I act like a mate?"

Sesshomaru knew the answer, but instead of replying, he asked, "Who told you this?"

"Bankotsu…he says we have Inuyoukai blood, and even though I'm a miko, I have a small percentage, enough to make me act like one."

Well, that explained things. "And would it be bad if you did behave like my people?"

"Of course not, but won't humans find it strange if I sniff them."

"Evidently not, considering you must have done it your entire life and no one has mentioned it to you."

Still, I'll have to work on suppressing it. "But does it annoy you when I act like a mate? Does it bother you…Was that why you kissed me back then? When I was holding you? Do I provoke you?"

Sesshomaru told her gently, "You are perfectly fine, miko. You do not annoy me."

She smiled. "Thanks…So, do you want children?"

"Yes. I too would like a litter, if not more."

"I bet you're an amazing father. I hope the father of my children is as loving and affectionate as you are."

He frowned. "Affectionate?"

She giggled. "Well, in private…when we're alone, you're affectionate, and I want my children to have that."

The father of her children…If she married, what would that mean for him? Would he even let her get married, assuming his obsession with her physique? And what could he do to stop her if she did decide to marry someone? "Hn."

"Hn. You are just too cute." She excused herself to answer the phone when it rang in the next room.

Sesshomaru spread his legs, rubbing his thighs, which were warm from her body heat. It had ached to keep his legs closed under her when all he wanted was to press his growing erection into her. He felt proud of his will power and control. If he wanted he could take her, willing or not, but he wouldn't, despite his yearnings. And oblivious though she was, he imagined that she would be very grateful were she to know.

Kagome sighed as she hung up the phone, returning to him. "Sesshomaru, I know I begged you to stay here with me, but Shippo's broken his arm. I have to go see him. You could come along if you like."

"…Where are you going? The hospital or his home?"

"His house. He's back at home now."

"Then I will join you." She had told him that it was a house full of demons, and there was no way he'd let her go there alone, if he could help it.

Xxx

Kagome smiled with relief when the door was opened. "Thanks, Kagami. I knocked like a thousand times. I was worried that no one was here with him."

The woman smiled back. "We just dull our senses a lot, because there are so many scents and sounds. Come on i-" She hesitated, staring at Sesshomaru in shock. "S-Sesshomaru-sama?"

"Wow, you're a legend to people in the demon world, huh?"

Sesshomaru arched a brow. "Hn."

"Y-you can't be here."

"I know," Kagome smiled. "Everyone thought he was dead, but he wasn't."

Kagami shook her head. "No. That's not what I meant. When Setsuna returns, if he's here…there will be hell. You must leave, milord, please."

Kagome frowned, grabbing Sesshomaru's wrist. "What does Setsuna have against Sesshomaru?"

"I can't tell you, b-but he can't be here."

"I will not leave her here alone," Sesshomaru replied, brushing past the woman and following Shippo's aura.

Kagome patted Kagami's shoulder gently. "Please, don't worry. If it comes to it, I'll tell Setsuna that I brought him here. He likes me more, now. Maybe he won't have a cow. And, if I can, I'll try to fan out my aura to feel him. When he's close, we'll leave." She hurried after Sesshomaru. "You're so rude, this isn't your house. You can't just go roaming."

He glanced down at her. "I am not roaming. I was following his aura to him." As he walked the halls, several demons stepped out of their rooms, some just gaping, others bowing, and even more shaking in fear. Of course, he had suspected that he was a strong leader, but he suddenly felt that he must have been amazingly so.

Quietly, they entered Shippo's room. He was lying on the bed, watching television. "Shippo!' Kagome went to his bedside, hugging him loosely so as to not hurt him. "Oh, my poor Shippo. Are you alright?"

He blushed, nodding. "Yeah." Turning to Sesshomaru, he bowed his head. "Milord. The first time I saw you, I paid you no attention, because I thought I had found my sister. Forgive me."

"You don't have to speak to him that way," Kagome told him.

"Kagome, you don't know anything about him. Lord Sesshomaru demands the utmost respect."

"Was he really so hung up on power?" She inquired, glaring at her companion, who turned his head.

Shippo shook his head. "It wasn't so much that he demanded respect, but that his demeanor, his power, his stature demands such."

She frowned, confused, and glanced at him. "Really? I mean, respect, I get, but there are freakin' people out there bowing to him. I've never felt he was that intimidating."

"Well, there are two reasons for that. One, you are far closer to him, and your instincts have not told you to fear him. And two, you're oblivious to the world." He winced when she pinched his ear. "Ow!"

"You're lucky I didn't punch you in the arm! You're lucky I'm not oblivious to how bad that would have hurt!"

Sesshomaru smirked at her. "It is cowardly to wound the already wounded."

She turned on him. "Who asked you, milord?"

Hearing the word from her mouth made him want to shudder. It wouldn't do at all for her to begin calling him such. If he hadn't heard the sarcasm in her tone, he would have been worried.

Shippo sighed. "You know Setsuna's gonna freak when he finds you, Lord Sesshomaru, here, right?"

"And why is that?"

"You don't know?" He asked incredulously.

"Sesshomaru lost his memories," Kagome informed him. "We've been trying to draw them back, but as of late, we're at a standstill."

Shippo nodded knowingly. "Ooh. He lost his memories. You know, if you go into a bloodlust, you might be able to retrieve some of them," He told Sesshomaru.

Kagome beamed. "Really? What spurs a bloodlust?"

"Horrible anger or body-aching lust."

"…And I'm supposed to provoke anger?"

"Or lust."

Blushing, she repeated more boldly, "Anger."

Sesshomaru crossed his legs. Lust would be easier, considering she made the oxygen rush from his brain without trying. If she actually tried, he'd been on her in an instant. "You could not make me so angry."

"If I have sex with Yasha," she whispered to herself.

"You wouldn't dare."

Shippo sat up. "You know Inuyasha?"

OOOOOH! Shippo's gonna snitch on Inuyasha! Or is he?

*Ittekimasu- I'm leaving

*Itterasshai- 'go ahead' or 'okay, you can leave'