Title First Things First
Author landofthekwt
Rating M
Prompt Crossroads (At First Tweak)
Word Count 995
Warning mention of character deaths
Summary The gang goes to the Lady
Kagome had a sense of deja vu standing before the Lady of the West She had been here once before on trial. Sesshoumaru had been here before asking the same questions that he was asking now. It all seemed so surreal. The only thing different was Rin. Rin had been five hundreds dead,
instead of a beautiful sixteen year old girl playing with Ah-Un and harassing Jaken. Inuyasha was here. The real Inuyasha not the zombie that Dr. Flora revived. This time they had flown on Kirara so both Kirara and Kohaku were here.
Sesshoumaru was off talking to his mother. The discussion was very animated. When they finished, they returned to the assembled guests. The Lady looked at Kagome and then at Rin. She motioned Kagome to come forward. The girl was unremarkable. Human, but with the blood of a hanyou and the dokkasou of a youki blended with her human blood. The body was not immortal, but the decay was so slight as to be insignificant. The girl would not live forever, but only gods and youkai would outlast her.
"What have you done,Sesshoumaru?"
"Done? I have done nothing?"
This girl. She is practically immortal. I sense hanyou blood and youkai dokksou inside of her. Her aging has nearly stopped. She is practically immortal"
Kagome was shocked. She knew what Sesshoumaru had been trying to accomplish, but she assumed that he failed when they had to use the blood of the zombie to thin the dokkaou which had been injected into her. Neither Sesshoumaru nor Myouga had said anything about what happened to her. Sesshomaru had still thrown her into the well to send a message to himself about making Rin immortal
"Perhaps I can be of help"
The Lady stopped and looked at her "What do you know?"
"I know that Sesshoumaru was looking for a way to make Rin immortal?"
The Lady was nonplused "Why would Sesshoumaru want to make this human girl immortal?'
Kagome was frustrated. She had talked to the Lady from the future and the Sesshoumaru from the future Trying to explain their actions to the counterparts in the past might prove difficult
"Because Rin died and he wanted to bring her back to life"
The Lady waved her hand " The girl is here now Alive Sesshomaru brought her back to life once with the Tenseiga. I brought her back with the meidou seiki. She cannot be brought back to life"
Kagome blurted out "Rin will die in the future. The Sesshoumaru that exists in the future wants to prevent that from happening. He asked you or the future you how to make Rin immortal. After he returned. Myouga injected me with his dokkasou. The plan was to send me back to my past and your present in order to get this Sesshomaru to ask you how to make Rin immortal. The plan backfired. I was dying until the blood from the zombie Inuyasha was injected into me to dilute the poison."
The Lady looked at Sesshoumaru "Why would you think that injecting your dokkasou into a human would make her immortal?"
Sesshoumaru had no clue what she was talking about Fortunately, Kagome intervened " He told that if I formed a bond with him that his past self would come to me and ask me how we came to have that bond"
They both looked at her and considered. At last the Lady spoke " Somehow she obtained the right mix of hanyou blood and dokkasou even though the way you went about it should have killed her."
Kagome interrupted "Would have killed me, if the zombie Inuyasha had not been available"
"Zombie Inuyasha?" replied the Lady
Kagome explained " Inuyasha was killed in 1915 at Taisho Pond in the Japanese Alps when a volcanic eruption buried him. He was dug up in 2006 by an archeologist and revived as a zombie We were able to partially revive him as a hanyou. The future Sesshoumaru came up with an idea to send me to the past tied to him. That plan succeeded. He came out of his coma,but his body still retained all the decay he had when he was first uncovered. A guardian kami brought him out of the coma in this era and took him away. His blood is no longer available"
The Lady listened quietly nodding every so often to Sesshoumaru who seemed to have no clue about everything he had supposedly done. When Kagome finished the Lady sighed. Turning first Sesshoumaru she asked " But Inuyasha's blood is still available. I think it is obvious why Inuyasha's blood was able to heal the damage which Sesshomaru's dokkasou did to Kagome. Isn't it time for the truth to come about, Sesshoumaru. If you don't tell him, I will. You are going to need his blood if you want to make your little girl immortal."
Sesshoumaru raised his hand to stop her " Inuyasha, There is something you need to know, I am your Father."
The room was stunned Inuyasha was first to stir. He slapped Sesshoumaru in the face and yelled" You bastard. You fucked my mother. Did she even know I was yours? You have been such an asshole to me all these years. Even tried to kill me, used my mother's image to trick me into revealing the location of Tessaiga. How could you do that to me, to her, to Father?"
Sesshoumaru shook his head " If I wanted to kill you. You would be dead. As for Izayoi, I loved her. I thought I needed Tessaiga which had been forged for her. I did not know that Father had used it to seal your blood. When I found out, I came to stop your transformation. Happy now?"
The Lady shook her head " I am glad that that is finally out of the way, it is time that we got down to the reason you came. Making Rin immortal."