Umm...Sorry. This chapter is long overdue. I've been having a sort of
writers block. But I should be able to get this chapter out.
Disclaimer: I don't own inuyasha!!
Chapter Six
Kagome opened her eyes slowly, coming to the painful realization that she had a headache. She rubbed her head, hoping to magically remove her the pain that resided deep in her skull, but she knew it was no use. The headache was familiar; it always came the day after she exhausted her miko magic. Smirking, Kagome thought, 'almost like a hangover'. She still hadn't recovered her powers either. She had acquired a little magic over the night, but only enough to do short-time paralyzing spells, Kagome guessed. That was another thing. That spell had been one of the strongest she had ever come across. She was reminded unpleasantly of just how powerful Naraku was. But, her mind reasoned with her, that spell had five years to take root. It would have taken a great amount of Naraku's own power to remove it, if he ever wanted to.
Kagome observed her surroundings. A makeshift tent, her sleeping mat, a dozing shippou to her right. She must be back at her campsite. Picking her way around the sleeping Shippou, she exited the tent.
Suddenly she froze in her tracks. Father and daughter slept before her, Sesshoumaru with his back to a tree, legs crossed, and Sukashi curled up next to him, practically on his lap. Sesshoumaru popped one eye open. Kagome just stared dumbly at him, watching as he picked up Sukashi and stood up, putting her back against the tree. He faced her, staring at her unexpressionlessly. (A/N: I have a feeling that's not a word. ;D)
Kagome searched for something to say, wildly going through subjects in her head then rejecting them. Before she could think of something, she found herself whirling through the air, coming to a rest as suddenly as she had left the ground. Staring at the ground, she realized he had thrown her over her shoulder. "Let me down, baka!" She said through gritted teeth. "Where in hell are you taking me anyway?" Kagome asked as she saw the ground start moving away from her.
"To a place where we can talk." He said simply.
"I can walk, you know." Kagome grumbled.
He didn't reply, so Kagome dubbed her attempt to get him to let her down as futile. She sighed, watching the ground whirl by. They stopped by a large rock outcropping. The miko furrowed her eyebrows as Sesshoumaru put her against a rock and leaned over her, smelling her.
"Care to grace me with an explanation?" She asked sarcastically.
"You don't smell like him."
Kagome gave him a puzzled look, but her expression turned quickly to realization, then anger.
"Do you mean to say that I would cheat on you?! Especially by Inuyasha?"
Sesshoumaru did not reply, he just looked at her with a content look.
"You better get of me, Sesshoumaru. You don't have the same physical power over me that you did before. So get off, or I'll make you move." Kagome warned.
Sesshoumaru merely quirked an eyebrow. Kagome reached out and touched his chest with the five fingers on her right hand. The five spots glowed, and suddenly his body went stiff. Sesshoumaru's eyes had a slightly glazed-over look, as he watched her slip out from under him. Kagome smiled, content with herself as she removed the spell by placing the five fingers of her left hand on his back. He snapped up abruptly, turning around to glare at her. Kagome could still see a look of amusement in his eyes.
"Sesshoumaru, you were right. We do need to talk." Her tone became serious. "To start it out, we need to discuss the evident threat of Naraku. To tell you the truth, I haven't seen or heard of him in the five years that we were apart. But apparently, he didn't want us together. Perhaps he was...scared?"
"Perhaps." Sesshoumaru said quietly. "I haven't seen him either, subtracting that one incident."
"I'm sure he either already knows or is going to know about us meeting up again and me removing his spell on you. What he is going to do, I have no idea." Kagome deduced.
"He will most likely want to kill you and I. For him, however, it is much easier said than done. Naraku is...inferior than I, as well as Inuyasha when it comes to real fighting. It is his cleverness and his strong magic that has defeated us. But you, Kagome, you have become stronger in the ways of magic. You might be able to defeat him with your powers. He is in quite a fix."
Kagome sat quietly, pondering the situation. She suddenly changed the subject. "About...Sukashi." She said in a weak voice.
"Ah yes. She is far more amusing than the kitsune. She is very strong for her age. So who is she? Another orphan who you have adopted?" Sesshoumaru asked.
Suddenly he found Kagome staring at him strangly. "She...Is... your daughter." She said faintly. Sesshoumaru froze. His...daughter? Why hadnt he noticed before. Now that he thought about it, the resemblance was obvious. "Does she know this herself?"
"it was so hard living without you...I couldn't bring myself to tell her that her father had left me alone."
"Tell me about what happened after I left."
Kagome took a shaky breath before beginning. "I waited for you of course, for a while, until my stomach started swelling. I was a bit ashamed. I didn't want Inuyasha to know...I was so young. So I returned home, in my time, telling Inuyasha that I had to finish school, then I'd be right back. My mother was so much more understanding than I thought she would be. I know if my daughter came home pregnant, only 16, I'd be pretty angry. I told her about...you. She understood that I...loved you, and she wasn't concerned about anything. I had Sukashi and returned. Inuyasha saw the baby, and being the dumb bloke he is, couldn't figure it out for a while. I finally told him that...that you were the father, and he was, well...pissed beyond description. I got a lot of verbal abuse from him, and might have been physical if I didn't have my subduing spell on him. Not being able to take out his anger on me, he began taking it out on Sukashi. Finally he pulled the last straw, and I pinned him to a tree with my arrows, then put a ten hour sleeping spell on him. I still don't quite know where he is now." Kagome brought her eyes up to Sesshoumaru's slowly.
"Are you going to tell her?"
"That you're the father?" Kagome only received a piercing stare in return. "...No. I don't think...not yet. I don't think we should tell her that you, a perfect stranger to her, is her father. We should wait until she knows you better."
Sesshoumaru drew his hand up to her neck, where his bite mark still resided. "You are still my mate." He said quietly. Kagome blushed, marveling that he could still make butterflies wreak havoc in her stomach. "I-we should get back to the camp. Shippou is probably awake and wondering where I am." She managed to get out. "And, it's gonna storm. We should make a better tent." She motioned to the sky, where large dark gray clouds made their dismal way towards them. She looked back at him, and suddenly he was very, very close. He swept her into him and kissed her once before throwing her over his shoulder and making his way back to camp.
There it is. Sorry it's pretty short. Actually it's really short. It's that writer's block thing. I'll come up with the next chapter a soon as I can. ^.^
Disclaimer: I don't own inuyasha!!
Chapter Six
Kagome opened her eyes slowly, coming to the painful realization that she had a headache. She rubbed her head, hoping to magically remove her the pain that resided deep in her skull, but she knew it was no use. The headache was familiar; it always came the day after she exhausted her miko magic. Smirking, Kagome thought, 'almost like a hangover'. She still hadn't recovered her powers either. She had acquired a little magic over the night, but only enough to do short-time paralyzing spells, Kagome guessed. That was another thing. That spell had been one of the strongest she had ever come across. She was reminded unpleasantly of just how powerful Naraku was. But, her mind reasoned with her, that spell had five years to take root. It would have taken a great amount of Naraku's own power to remove it, if he ever wanted to.
Kagome observed her surroundings. A makeshift tent, her sleeping mat, a dozing shippou to her right. She must be back at her campsite. Picking her way around the sleeping Shippou, she exited the tent.
Suddenly she froze in her tracks. Father and daughter slept before her, Sesshoumaru with his back to a tree, legs crossed, and Sukashi curled up next to him, practically on his lap. Sesshoumaru popped one eye open. Kagome just stared dumbly at him, watching as he picked up Sukashi and stood up, putting her back against the tree. He faced her, staring at her unexpressionlessly. (A/N: I have a feeling that's not a word. ;D)
Kagome searched for something to say, wildly going through subjects in her head then rejecting them. Before she could think of something, she found herself whirling through the air, coming to a rest as suddenly as she had left the ground. Staring at the ground, she realized he had thrown her over her shoulder. "Let me down, baka!" She said through gritted teeth. "Where in hell are you taking me anyway?" Kagome asked as she saw the ground start moving away from her.
"To a place where we can talk." He said simply.
"I can walk, you know." Kagome grumbled.
He didn't reply, so Kagome dubbed her attempt to get him to let her down as futile. She sighed, watching the ground whirl by. They stopped by a large rock outcropping. The miko furrowed her eyebrows as Sesshoumaru put her against a rock and leaned over her, smelling her.
"Care to grace me with an explanation?" She asked sarcastically.
"You don't smell like him."
Kagome gave him a puzzled look, but her expression turned quickly to realization, then anger.
"Do you mean to say that I would cheat on you?! Especially by Inuyasha?"
Sesshoumaru did not reply, he just looked at her with a content look.
"You better get of me, Sesshoumaru. You don't have the same physical power over me that you did before. So get off, or I'll make you move." Kagome warned.
Sesshoumaru merely quirked an eyebrow. Kagome reached out and touched his chest with the five fingers on her right hand. The five spots glowed, and suddenly his body went stiff. Sesshoumaru's eyes had a slightly glazed-over look, as he watched her slip out from under him. Kagome smiled, content with herself as she removed the spell by placing the five fingers of her left hand on his back. He snapped up abruptly, turning around to glare at her. Kagome could still see a look of amusement in his eyes.
"Sesshoumaru, you were right. We do need to talk." Her tone became serious. "To start it out, we need to discuss the evident threat of Naraku. To tell you the truth, I haven't seen or heard of him in the five years that we were apart. But apparently, he didn't want us together. Perhaps he was...scared?"
"Perhaps." Sesshoumaru said quietly. "I haven't seen him either, subtracting that one incident."
"I'm sure he either already knows or is going to know about us meeting up again and me removing his spell on you. What he is going to do, I have no idea." Kagome deduced.
"He will most likely want to kill you and I. For him, however, it is much easier said than done. Naraku is...inferior than I, as well as Inuyasha when it comes to real fighting. It is his cleverness and his strong magic that has defeated us. But you, Kagome, you have become stronger in the ways of magic. You might be able to defeat him with your powers. He is in quite a fix."
Kagome sat quietly, pondering the situation. She suddenly changed the subject. "About...Sukashi." She said in a weak voice.
"Ah yes. She is far more amusing than the kitsune. She is very strong for her age. So who is she? Another orphan who you have adopted?" Sesshoumaru asked.
Suddenly he found Kagome staring at him strangly. "She...Is... your daughter." She said faintly. Sesshoumaru froze. His...daughter? Why hadnt he noticed before. Now that he thought about it, the resemblance was obvious. "Does she know this herself?"
"it was so hard living without you...I couldn't bring myself to tell her that her father had left me alone."
"Tell me about what happened after I left."
Kagome took a shaky breath before beginning. "I waited for you of course, for a while, until my stomach started swelling. I was a bit ashamed. I didn't want Inuyasha to know...I was so young. So I returned home, in my time, telling Inuyasha that I had to finish school, then I'd be right back. My mother was so much more understanding than I thought she would be. I know if my daughter came home pregnant, only 16, I'd be pretty angry. I told her about...you. She understood that I...loved you, and she wasn't concerned about anything. I had Sukashi and returned. Inuyasha saw the baby, and being the dumb bloke he is, couldn't figure it out for a while. I finally told him that...that you were the father, and he was, well...pissed beyond description. I got a lot of verbal abuse from him, and might have been physical if I didn't have my subduing spell on him. Not being able to take out his anger on me, he began taking it out on Sukashi. Finally he pulled the last straw, and I pinned him to a tree with my arrows, then put a ten hour sleeping spell on him. I still don't quite know where he is now." Kagome brought her eyes up to Sesshoumaru's slowly.
"Are you going to tell her?"
"That you're the father?" Kagome only received a piercing stare in return. "...No. I don't think...not yet. I don't think we should tell her that you, a perfect stranger to her, is her father. We should wait until she knows you better."
Sesshoumaru drew his hand up to her neck, where his bite mark still resided. "You are still my mate." He said quietly. Kagome blushed, marveling that he could still make butterflies wreak havoc in her stomach. "I-we should get back to the camp. Shippou is probably awake and wondering where I am." She managed to get out. "And, it's gonna storm. We should make a better tent." She motioned to the sky, where large dark gray clouds made their dismal way towards them. She looked back at him, and suddenly he was very, very close. He swept her into him and kissed her once before throwing her over his shoulder and making his way back to camp.
There it is. Sorry it's pretty short. Actually it's really short. It's that writer's block thing. I'll come up with the next chapter a soon as I can. ^.^