Sesshomaru POV:
After departing from my mother after the dreadfully long meeting, I decided to go home and take a quick shower, all the events and revealing's taking a slight toll on me. Needing the relaxation, a hot shower screamed for me.
Once home, I paid little to none any mind, any servant that approached was promptly ignored or put off, the only thing on my mind was the shower and potentially getting a quick rut in to further loosen up and calm my rage.
I don't know what it was, but the whole meeting pissed me off.
The half-breed enraged me.
For the pathetic whelp to literally, dip his cock into my wife, while having his own, which is my wife's sister, and he knew of previous possibilities, purposely threw himself in the way to have her when the old mutt that is my grandfather made the decree that the two families has to unify, albeit it's modern day.
Then the half-breed had the nerve to just sit there, mute and dejected, unable to say nothing, no remorse at all. Then the nerve to look for someone to save him, his stupid mother even trying to! As though this was all being done to himself!
Snarling, I punched the nearest wall, bringing a fourth of it down and continued my trek to my indoor hot springs. I heard the numerous servants scrambling to have it fixed and I had half a mind to break the rest of it. But I refrained, instead I focused on the room I was walking into a few moments later. Once in, I wasted no time in shredding my clothes and getting in and at once, I sighed deeply, walking to the deepest parts before resting against a big enough rock in the springs.
For a short while, my mind was blank, but that fire still raged, and with that fire came those loud thoughts. The memories, it came running back, and I couldn't ignore it. Couldn't successfully put out how he further insulted This Sesshomaru, and Kagome.
"I choose Kagome." The fool! He was given a way out, he had the opportunity to save everyone from the usual pain he alone inflicts as always, whether it's his brash ways, or non-functioning brain or his selfishness.
No. He still chose to stay with her, and she doesn't even know of the truth yet! He made a decision for her, that she will stay with him despite his infidelity, with her sister no less! I couldn't stay in there for another moment, I wasn't going to go to begin with.
But I had to hear it, had to hear his choice; to hear whether he would keep Kikyo as he should've all those years ago or continue to be selfish, I had to hear it from his own lips.
Thus how I came to my current situation, soaking yet still raging.
And unfortunately for the pathetic whelp I am related to, I'm soaking yet still thinking. Everyone else could let him off easy, for once, not I. For years of having him as a stain, years of hard work and training, making sure to surpass my father in wit and strength, soon to be the owner of our families company, yet he still got everything, receiving help and support and the one thing I truly wanted.
This time, he will pay but I will not inflict physical pain, no, that's an bonus. I've, physically put the whelp in place many times but as true to his nature, that thick skull can't contain much information. The fool. This time I will show him a different way. With a grin that screamed death, I climbed out of the onsen after washing, walking to the door behind me and entering one of my many chambers, quickly throwing on navy blue slacks and light blue, closer to white, button up shirt, a white tank top beneath it and brown loafs to go with it.
Once dressed, I quickly exited the manor and swept into my truck, ignited the car and reversing, and once in the street, quickly drove to Kagome, all the while plotting every way to hurt him,
and to get her. After I retrieved Rin.
Reaching her home a little after one, I instantly took note in the lack of a certain stain but also the scent of the taijya.
Hn, interesting.
Walking up to the steps, I made it outside the door just in time to hear the Miko say "Yeah, you did. You left out how much a bi-" and then cushion connecting with presumably her face, for when I opened the forever unlocked door, my assumption was proven correct for I was greeted to the sight of a pillow sliding down her face, Sango and the Kit laughing as she stood, saying the frozen woman "No cursing in front of the children", and my Rin running to me, "Daddy" leaving her as a shriek, instantly crashing into my leg where I patted her head affectionately.
All the while, not missing as she stood as well while my "best-friend", as she and the Miko have been saying since school days, walked toward me.
No, I never miss anything about her.
I didn't miss how she didn't look at me, only smiling at the kit before turning her back to everyone and heading upstairs, no scent coming from her but her aura was screaming in hurt and anger, looking as though ready to attack at any moment. All at once, all traces of the raging aura was gone the second she closed her door with a near silent click and Sango looked back with a sigh.
"So? How'd it go?" Sango asked as she looked back at me, and I just looked at her blankly and she shook her head, "That bad, huh?" She then poked at Rin who hadn't let go of me, and I certainly wasn't complaining, and Rin turned her head with a pout.
"Aunty~." She whined cutely and Sango grinned.
"Not this time your highness. I need to speak with daddy dearest." At the term, I glared at her, which she ignored and Rin sighed before letting go, turning her head to the side to not show her agitation, like her mother.
"Yes aunty." Sango rubbed her head with slight aggression, bobbing Rin as she did who in turn laughed before moving from Sango's hand with a bright smile, instantly running to her new 'cousin' and Sango walked past me and out the door, I walking after her, not following, before promptly sitting on the step, uncaring of the ungraceful way I sat on the pavement, Sango joining behind me.
It was for but a few short moments, but I enjoyed the temporary silence.
Key word being temporary.
"Alright...So, boom." Was all the slayer said and I turned to her with an arched brow.
"Boom." I threw back at her after a pregnant pause and she huffed.
"Sesshomaru." She groaned and I sighed, unable to put it off any longer.
"Hn. The family now knows of Kikyo and her affairs." She was quiet for a short while, no doubt processing the still fairly new news and the multiple possible outcomes.
"I see. That's what the meeting was about?" At my glare, she shrunk back with her hands raised, "Look, I'm sorry fluffy, but you tend to speak in clips and therefore take too long to get to the main stuff. I'm just trying to figure it all out before you head off with Rin." At the mention of her, I suddenly remembered the why she was here and I stared at Sango, who then nervously began to twitch, no matter how subtle the action was.
"The meeting was actually about the miko's sudden power surge, and what occurred for it to happen." I glanced at my claws then, hearing the taijya silently swallow. "Interestingly enough, that was another part of the meeting; the miko taking my distressed daughter, who is here and yet, I know nothing of what caused such things. So," I glanced back at the sweating woman with a smile, who only sweat harder and stood.
"A-ah, I see. Well, the truth is out and now everyone can be happen. If you don't mind, I should really be checking on Kags now-" My hand on her ankle, she froze, slowly looking back at me and I'm assuming whatever she saw had her scared, cause she was pale.
"What do you know." I demanded from her and she put her hands up in surrender.
"I-I've no idea-"
"You forget that not only can I smell deceit, but I can also see it in your aura." We stayed frozen like that for a short while, Sango standing with her body facing the house but her torso turned toward me and looking down at me from her standing position, and I still seated, torso turned partially as my claws were still wrapped around her ankle, ready to drag her back should she even try to escape.
"Sesshomaru, if I could tell you, I would, but your highness has sworn me to secrecy-"
"Kikyo and Inuyasha are fucking behind Kagome and I backs. The Half-breed, after being given an way out and an opportunity to keep my wife, instead chose what? To keep the woman whom he betrayed, the one person that was always there for him." I scoffed as I spoke the last sentence, memories of our shared pasts, Kagome, myself, Sango, Miroku, Kikyo and the half-breed, making itself known in the forefront of my mind, while Sango stayed quiet, no doubt reliving the same as I, if not more. "No matter against what or whom, myself and her family be damned, she always protected him. No matter what he previously did to her or how he consistently treated her, she was always there for him-"
"And you as well, Sessh." Sango decided to then interject and I glared at her from the side and she shrugged, "It's true. If anything, she defended you more than she did Inuyasha, and you wasn't always the greatest person to her person." I growled at her and she stopped talking.
"It matters not! In the end, all that defending was for what? For Inuyasha to, once again, have what I was pursuing? To get what I wanted? No matter what I do and how, it's always him. And believe me when I say this; there's not a single thing I envy about the pathetic excuse of a man and youkai, half or full. He's a disgrace and has no honor whatsoever, neither does he have a conscious. It's always about him.
Like always, he does wrong and still, he gets rewarded. I didn't dip my cock into his wife-,"
"I totally don't want that mental image of your cock going inside women Sesshomaru, you're handsome and all, but no." Sango, stupidly might I add, said, a cringe on her face and I continued to talk as though she never said anything at all.
"-I didn't go behind his and Kikyo's back on secret rendezvous'. I never got in his way, even all those years ago, not once did I get in his with Kikyo. But no, whether my 'marriage' was healthy or not, his own had problems, now we know. But no, he got his wife and my wife and with the truth coming out, still," my eyes flashed red and voice deepened, gaining an guttural edge to it , "he get's to keep the one..."I trailed, eyes flashing back to normal as I couldn't continue to speak and Sango sat next to me once more with a silent huff.
"...You never stopped, huh?" I looked ahead, seeing her from my peripheral as she studied me. And after a short moments of her looking for whatever, she also looked ahead, determination etched onto her features. "As your best friend and sister, you can deny me all you want but you know that's how you see me, I'm going to help you. First...Rin heard Kikyo cheating."
No sooner than the words left her lips, my eyes bled red, markings jagged and my youki building quickly, hair flowing like tendons as I began to float, all intent on going after Kikyo.
"Yo! You see why ain't no one wanna tell you shit?! Calm the hell down and listen! How else will you know everything if you just start reacting! Acting like Inuyasha, just quick to anger, not thinking first! Idiot!" At first, I was going to ignore her.
But once she said I was behaving like the whelp...I sat once more, this time with grace and agitation, leg bouncing as I felt my beast pace back and forth from within me, the need for blood so great that I actually began to worry for the woman next to me, every part of me restraining itself to not strike her out of anger for someone else.
"Anyway, before you wanted to get all upset, albeit rightfully so, Rin didn't hear with who exactly, not to my knowledge. Based from what Rin told to Kagome and I, she didn't mention if she heard anyone else. She definitely heard her mother though as well as the sounds..." I looked at her with my mouth slightly agape and Sango whined slightly, sorrow in her eyes and scent. "I'm sorry, Sesshomaru. But that's why Rin was distressed by the time Kagome got to her."
"And that's what caused Kagome's power surge." I finished.
"You know you have to talk to her." I growled at the soft demand and because of my stubbornness.
"So that she may defend her sister once more? Then, let me guess, defend the half-breed once she learns the truth? This one passes."
"...Sesshomaru..." She called to me softly and I glanced at her, just to see a silent glare from her, "you...you didn't tell her about Inuyasha?" She looked hurt and I knew she really was.
But how could I?
"Sesshomaru...should it come out that you knew about this and all this time-"
"Sango...how am I to tell her when she wouldn't even hear me out about her own sister?"
"Ummmmm...do you not realize what just happened? Kikyo was practically caught red handed, do you really think Kagome is still upset about that, especially now that she knows for a fact about Kikyo? Knowing my Kags, she's probably regretting all that she said to you, just her stubbornness is keeping her away, just as you." She nudged me and I smirked for a short moment, the expression leaving as quickly as it came. "Soooooo..." She trailed off.
"Hn."
"...You gunna lay it on her now?" At her question, I looked at her with a raised brow.
"Lay it on her?" I repeated and she grinned mischievously.
"Oh, you know...give her the rope, the snake, the pipe. Give her the boomstick, the anaconda? The sticking of the sword in the sheathe, the-"
"I get it, and no. I'm taking Rin." I stood with finality and Sango stood with me, both of us getting ready to return inside.
"You're not even going to try to talk to her? I can take the kids-"
"Does it look like she wants to talk to me?" I said and she threw her hands in the air with exasperation.
"She looks bothered and hurt, thus her going upstairs and not even looking at you. You said words the last time that shouldn't have been said and the same as she. I'm not letting neither one of you go another day with this foolish fued. Plus," She exclaimed as I reached the door, her hand on my wrist halting me, "this is your moment to tell her. I know you're already thinking of a way to get back at him, why not take this time to at least start trying to win her?"
"And why would I do that?" At the question, she smiled grimly yet ruefully.
"Because if you don't, Riku most certainly will. And knowing you, you haven't told me everything about the meeting. Your mother just might, though." With a growl, I entered the house once more and before I can speak, Sango began to yell.
"Shippo, Rin! Sesshomaru said I can take you for food and the park!"
"No-"
"YAY!" They shouted in unison, pure happiness shining through as they both ran up to me, Rin on my legs and the kit bowing to me, keeping his distance from me still as he feared me. With a sigh, I gave in to Rin and glared at a cheesing Sango, who mouthed 'Go Get Her' to me and took the kids by the hands.
"Alright we should be back in like two or three hours, Kagome I'm taking your car, you left your keys on the counterrr! Byeeeeee!" She ushered the kids out first, a wide grin on her face the entire time and as she left last, her head was all that could be seen as she evilly laughed, her voice deeper. "Don't get her pregnant the first time around, mwahahahaha." And with, the front door closed with a click, Sango locking it as she left.
Once left alone in the empty house, I sighed, elfin ears twitching to pick up any sounds or movements from the woman upstairs.
Only to find utter silence.
At that, I looked to the stairs and got lost in thought. What was she doing up there? Should I even go up there? What if she didn't wish to see me? What to say to her?
Should I indulge into my own selfish desires or leave her alone once and for all, completely putting her out from me and my beasts minds to the best of my ability?
And most importantly, how the hell should I approach the Inuyasha situation?
Growling at all the questions and self doubt, I began to walk toward and up the steps. Once at the top I stopped, still unable to hear anything nor smell.
Which was when I realized, rather late, that she had a barrier up. With sudden realization, all the doubts and questions left and walked to her door, letting myself inside her room and barrier, closing the door with a soft click as I locked it from the inside.
The sight that greeted me...bothered me. With her head in her hands, sitting on the edge of her bed, the entire room smelt of salt, confusion, hurt and slight anger. In all, she looked stressed out and once more I asked myself, how could I tell her of her husband cheating, when that would probably break her more.
'Should it come out that you knew all this...' Sango's words replayed in my head and I nearly sighed, knowing it had to come from me.
And that's when everything clicked.
Annnnnnnd, finish!
Sorry to those who's expecting more but this is where I'm ending this chapter! The following chapter will continue from his, Sesshomaru's POV still and it will lead up to where we left off with Kagome's POV. Will it go further in the next chapter? I don't know.
You're just gonna have to read and find out.
If there's anyone not feeling how the story has continued from where and how I left off years ago, I'm sorry. I'm still getting back into and I don't have the same way of thinking as I once had and I'm trying to make sure everything makes sense, everything is accounted for and that this story goes the way I initially wanted it to.
Also, I'm saying this now in case anyone hasn't caught onto it yet; Sesshomaru is not guaranteed the person who Kagome may end up with, IF she ends up with anyone at all. No, the pairings are between Kagome and Sesshomaru, Kagome and Riku, Kagome and X (X because the person has not yet been introduced), and then finally just Kagome and herself.
This story can go in many ways and since I'm finally back, I'm trying to decide as I go. But as always, for right now, it's leaning heavily in Sesshomaru's favor. *Nervously ignores his glare at even thinking to not give him Kagome 1000%*.
I'm not going to keep anyone for much longer, just like always, please tune in and let me know what you guys think, whether its' good or bad and also, please give me your opinions on the pairing matter, or wait until X is introduced.
That's all for this chapter, thank you for all the new followers and favorites, I hope you guys are enjoying and I hope I still have some old, loyal followers still following this story.
Ja~!