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chapter 21: Time with Mother...
that would explain why the guard apologized to her back at the gate and why they were in this large palace. It also explained a part of the reason why Naraku would want her. If he had her, His Kagome, a princess, then he could not only hold her for some kind of ransom, but bring the whole ocean into a war of epic proportions and his kingdom was smack dab in the middle of both of them. His lands would be ravished in the cross fire. His people would be hated for simply having legs and walking on land, naraku's people would show no mercy and the mermaids would think anyone that was a dry foot person to be an enemy. He looked over at Kagome, he was angry that she hadnt told him, but then again if people didn't know what she was then there would be no problems and by not telling anyone she would be of no real use to anyone. Watching her watch him with that worried face told him everything he needed to know, she was protecting everyone from herself. He could still tell that his faced held that shocked look. It still had that strained feeling, most likely because he had never made that particular face since he found out he had a brother, that wasn't his mothers child.
"Yes, well we are all very happy that you brought our Kagome back home to us safely, its seems you have had quite a trip?" spoke Mika as she slowly began to stand.
"Indeed." he mumbled out a response to Mika's question without taking his eyes off of Kagome. He relaxed his face back into its more comfortable and bored look.
"Well, you must be tired, we can always talk in the morning, Kagome why don't you show your boyfriend to your room, its big enough for you both to share." said Mika sensing the tense atmosphere and that her daughter might have a lot of explaining for the young lord she had brought home.
"Yes mother." said Kagome as she stood dropping her eyes to the ground. She knew what her mother just did. She just threw her to the dogs, quite literally. "follow me inu." she whispered knowing that he would hear her just as clearly as if she had shouted it out for everyone to hear.
"Hn." he stood and followed her as they walked towards the staircase that was situated near the wall of the other sitting room. It spiraled upwards not once touching a wall until it reached the next floor. They then made a left and followed the hallway all the way down till they came to a fork in the road. They took the left hall and went all the way down to another staircase that lead either up or down. They then moved up more stairs till the highest room. There was only one at the very top of the staircase as it spiraled upwards into the floor. Kagome who had simply just swam upwards pushed the door up, opening it and swam inside. When Sesshomaru poked his head in he was surprised to see a enormous room, with two floors, but no stairs like the rest of the house. The second floor just seemed to be there hovering and if you wanted to go to it you would simply swim up to the opening. Sesshomaru then looked towards the right to see a great expanse of space and the best view of the open waters and kingdom ever. There were pillars and the wall was open like a giant window into the outside world. He assumed that they where at the farthest end of the kingdom and the need for some type of security was not needed in this particular area. The room was rather airy and beautiful in its own way. Sesshomaru pushed the hatch of a door they came through closed and walked further into the room. He walked towards the pillars when he noticed something shimmer. As he drew near he want able to tell the difference but when he reached out to touch what ever was there he met resistance. There was this energy barrier that covered the whole opening of the large balcony like perch that was part of Kagome 's room.
"Its a barrier, the whole castle is encased in it, but mine is special, because this barrier is my own and not the one that encompasses the castle grounds. This one is of my own making, I did it when I was a teen."
"What does it do?" Sesshomaru couldnt help the fact that he was a very curious being.
"It drains the water from my room..."
"Why?"
Kagome turned away from him. "It was after Hojo tried to rape me..." Sesshomaru's growl echoed through out the room. The sound was dark and menacing and held certain death for whom ever it was targeted for. Kagome shivered. "My father had told me that a mermaid could not live outside of the waters for very long and would dry up and die, baked alive by the sun. he told me this to stop me from venturing onto land. And I didn't for the most part, my self preservation out willed my curiosity. But after Hojo tried to force himself on me, I fought him off, barely. He spat on me and told me that no one would want me, that I was lucky that he even wanted to use my body because no one would want anything else from me. So I set this up with the hope that during noon day I would drain my room and die. I was being selfish, but I didn't do it, I couldn't leave my people like that so I pushed the thought away, eventually, but I couldn't completely run from it."
it explained why she was so unsure of his advances. He watched her.
Then she turned and looked at him. "But your different then them. Well anyways now I know better, I can drain this room for you anytime you feel tired of being wet." Kagome said as she smiled up at him.
She was such a free spirit, untainted by malice or evil, innocent in practically every way, atleast thats what he thought. But she still had her secrets, things she hid, he thought her an open book, but now he was slowly realizing that there were things he had no clue existed, and she was at the center of it all.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
she sighed and swam up to the second floor. He followed her, and watched as she fell onto what he assumed was a bed in a corner near a window. It was a bit smaller then his own bed, but he would do fine, he did not need to sleep.
She rolled over and looked at him. "Its because my father told me, to be careful, before he left for one of his trips. He said "People would want to use you because of who you are that Is why Utako, we have named you Kagome as well, for your safety. Tell no outsider your name love because, you are a very important key to your people." and then my mom would come over and shoo him away talking about rotting my brain with nonsense. Also I didn't want people to treat me differently because of my lineage, here all I ever hear is that "No Utako we could never do something like that, your father would have my head" or "what! Your the princess! Your to much for me." or "Your voice frankly is to good for me, I would like something a little, you know –less?" which is complete bull, so I rather be a pennyless vagabond, then to be the esteemed princess of the seas. And the less people that knew, it would also insure there safety, because if my father found out, he would probably flood the world, killing everything just to find me." Kagome frowned. "Do you understand?"
"Hm. I do." he had figured as much so he walked over and sat on the edge of the bed next to his intended, he smiled.
"I bet you cant really do it." Sesshomaru said as he pointed to the room, the water minutely slowing down his movements.
Kagome looked at him for a minute, then smiled.
She sat up and swam to the middle of the floor. She closed her eyes in concentration and when she opened them they shined the most brilliant and arctic blue color imaginable while a slow glow of blue light formed around her figure.
Sesshomaru could feel the water in the room change as the bubble barrier around the room changed, not only becoming more visible but also silver in color. The water in the room began to spin around Kagome as she softly sung:
Cut my life into pieces this is my last resort
suffocation, no breathing, don't even care if I cut my arm bleeding
this is my last resort. cut my life into pieces, I reached my last resort, suffocation no breathing. Dont even care if I cut my arm bleeding, do you even care if I die bleeding?
The water then began to move down as if it was being sucked in by some invisible force.
Would it be wrong, would it be right if I took my life tonight? chances are that I might. Mutilation out of sight, and I'm contemplating suicide. Cause i'm loosing my sight, loosing my mind, wish somebody would tell me i'm fine.
The water then vanished as she brought the song to an end.
Kagome's tail vanished as legs took their place and her eyes stopped glowing and she looked up at her inu, eyes wide and bright, she smirked at him as she told him. "Told yuh, inu."
"Indeed you did, now come, lay with me." He then sat all the way back on her bed leaving just enough space for her to curl up with him. He was smirking.
Kagome blushed as she walked forward and once she got to the edge of her bed she crawled forward on all fours right into his lap as her inu watched her closely. She then plopped down between his open legs her head laying on his chest. She looked up to him, to see him watching her.
"Time for bed inu."
"Indeed." he buried his nose in her hair as he spoke again his voice deeper. "but I doubt there will be much sleeping."
Kagome's whole face became that of a cherry as she clapped her hands and all the lights cut off in the room leaving only the glow of the moon that came through the small window next to her bed.
Mika sighed softly as she turned on the enchanted mirror with a touch of her finger. "Hello." called a voice from the mirror as a face appeared. It looked rather young, but rugged all the same and crystal blue eyes shown through on the handsome face that was framed by midnight blue hair.
"Love, we have a problem, the prophecy, you were right, its about Utako."
the mans eyes grew three time larger. "shit. I'm coming home see you tomorrow afternoon."
"Be careful moving that fast can be dangerous."
"We dont have much time left, I need to protect my lands and save my daughter."
"I understand, god speed."
"See you soon."
"I love you." she called
"And I you." then the picture vanished.
Mika looked out at the ocean a worried look upon her face, "Only the kami can help us now.".
The next day they were up bright and early Kagome had refilled her room with water and then she showed him around the palace grounds. They then talked briefly with Ren as they walked through the lands and as they made there way back into the palace they were met with mika.
"Yes, mother?"
"Kagome, Sesshomaru, please sit." they shared a look before sitting on the couch across from Kagome's mother and Sesshomaru's soon to be mother-in-law.
"What wrong mother." asked Kagome as she felt Sesshomaru' arm snake around to her other side and pull her closer, she placed her right hand on his leg, in acknowledgment, giving it a little squeeze.
"We have to talk." she looked up at Sesshomaru when she said that. "Its about Sesshomaru."
"What about him mother." Kagome frowned, she didn't like where this was going.
"Kagome, when I let you go, your father told me that you might be gone for some time so thats why I packed you a bag, just to be certain, even though I didn't really expect for you to go missing. Your father has been telling me a lot of things recently to look out for that had to do with you, being the first born and all, and when I would see the signs I would ignore them in hopes that they would go away."
"Signs of what exactly ,Mika." asked Sesshomaru, he was watching her closely, she looked stressed and worried as she dropped her head into her hands and that was never a good sign.
"signs of the stupid prophecy, and you." she looked up at Sesshomaru "Your part of it too, an outsider, but which part is the question."
Sesshomaru was confused, he looked at Kagome to see that she too didn't understand what was going on, it was written all over her face.
"What are you talking about mother." asked Kagome as calmly as she could manage, her mother was beginning to sound bonkers and not like her usual cheerful self.
"She is talking about your life Utako." came another voice. Kagome's eyes widened and her back stiffened. She hadn't heard that voice in years. Sesshomaru growled softly, Kagome was anxious?
She turned her had and gasped as she saw the man who's eye and hair matched her own. The man who sired her and left so many times, the man she thought she had lost to the vast waters that were under his control.
"Father." she whispered, Sesshomaru looked at her and then back at the man that looked more like her then her mother. Something was going on here and he was out of the loop and being taken with the tide was not his style.
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what will happen now that Kagome's father is in the picture? And what is Mika talking about? Who knows? Find out next time in chapter 22 of A Mermaid's Tear and Song, Meeting Father... the Prophecy told.
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