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Chapter Six: Retreating into one's own self. . .
"Kagome be rational! It's been over five hundred years since all this has happened." Inu Yasha tried to explain as more angry tears spilled from the woman's eyes as she glared at the hanyou.
"For you and Kikyo maybe, but only five short years for me!" She yelled as she ran her hands through her long black hair in frustration. "Don't lecture to me that I had time to get over you, it's been a hard process and I am over you!" She lied convincingly as Sekijuro stood quietly not daring or knowing how to tackle this subject.
"You're lying," Inu Yasha breathed as his bangs veiled his golden eyes from view.
Kagome baulked as she blinked before she recovered quickly. "You don't know me anymore Inu Yasha, remember it's been five hundred years plus for you." Her tears slowed and anger seemed more evident than anything else now.
The man in the suite walked over taking the art student into his arms as he hung his head sadly as he held the Higurashi in his arms tenderly as if she were china. With a strong shove and a thoughtlessly raised hand. Kagome slapped the man hard across his face, as he looked shocked as his head turned to the side -
"Never touch me! Just because you embrace me, does not mean I am your woman!" She still held her hand in the slapping position as she glared murder at him.
Inu Yasha's mind spun as she had sounded just like Kikyo as he watched her storm back into the club angrily as Sekijuro stood there numb and unmoving, as he couldn't comprehend the situation. "Kikyo said those exact words to me so long ago." He mumbled absently, and then slowly his son began to walk back into the club.
"Seki?"
The boy stopped as he removed his left hand off of his right tattooed forearm as he held up a yielding backhand to his father. "Not right now dad, not now. Will talk about this later, right now I think Kagome needs understanding." He said this as he kept his back facing his father. Sekijuro began to walk into La Bleu Room Lounge, as Inu Yasha stayed outside -
Kagome walked over to the booth seeing her brother sitting next to a teenage boy as they conversed quietly. "C'mon Sota we're going home." She noted Kira and Karuna in the booth as well.
"I don't wanna leave yet." He whined as he folded his arms defiantly over his chest.
"NOW SOTA!" She almost screamed in frustration as he sat frozen to the spot with huge dark brown eyes.
"I don't wanna leave with you if you're like that. I'll catch a ride with Kira and his dad." He informed his sister as he pointed at Shippo sitting next to him. "This is Kira's dad, Shippo."
Kagome's looked briefly shocked before her look grew cynical. "Hey if Inu Yasha is around, why can't Shippo." She muttered, as the fox-demon was quiet. "Sorry I really need to go home. Maybe we can catch up later." She offered weakly as he nodded his head.
"It was that moron of a half-breed wasn't it? Don't worry he'll get hell.'
The twenty year old nodded her head. "Thank you, so much." With a slight bow Kagome began to leave. As she was about to pass the exit's threshold she ran into Sekijuro. He caught her arm as she kept her eyes on the ground. "What?"
"How about I go with you?" He suggested hopefully.
"No, I need and want to be alone. Seeing Inu Yasha tonight has opened up some old wounds and I need to deal with them by myself. I am over him though. Bye." She gave him a chaste kiss on the cheek as she scampered off.
A small fire seemed to ignite in the man's eyes as he turned on his heels looking for his father. He walked out seeing his father not far from the main entrance of the establishment. "We need to talk now! What the hell did you do to Kagome?!" He almost growled at his tall father as Inu Yasha raised his brow at his son.
"It has nothing to do with you, Seki. So I suggest you keep your nose out of it." His father supplied as he folded his arms, as he seemed pretentious.
"The hell it doesn't! Just because it happened in the past doesn't mean it won't concern Kagome's and my future together!!" Inu Yasha eyes looked shocked as he turned facing his son as his eyebrows forked down.
"You and Kagome? Together?" The older man asked sternly.
"Well, not yet but we will. I feel for her and it's mutual for her too." A look that almost resembled disgust crossed Inu Yasha's features as he looked away from his son.
"I don't approve Sekijuro. Besides you gettin' involved with Kagome would become messy, because of the past we share." He told him as he unfolded his arms walking over and placing his hand on the shorter man's shoulders. "It wouldn't work out."
"How the hell would you know?!" The black haired man shouted suddenly as the father removed his hand from the shoulder. "I don't care if you approve or not. I think I'm falling for her because I've never felt this way with any girl before." He watched as his fathers face twisted into annoyance as he pressed on. "How do you know Kagome-san, father? I want to know, and if you do not tell me I'll find other sources like Shippo-dono or Kagome-san, herself." Sekijuro voice grew slightly darker as he eyes narrowed hauntingly towards his father.
The whitish-silver haired hanyou growled as he clenched his fist. "Fine ya brat! I met Kagome about five or so hundred years ago at the Goshin Boku God Tree, at the time I thought she was Kikyo. So later on -," Inu Yasha continued on with the tale, which for the most part Sekijuro knew about, but he wondered on why his father and/or mother had never mention Kagome before until now. He knew his mother never talked about her younger years so he never asked, but his father on the other hand would tell bedtime stories when he was young of his adventures of the quest for the Shikon no Tama and his many battles with Naraku. And traveling with Shippo when he was a boy and the Kazuo's ancestors Miroku and Sango before they became involved -
Now everything was revealed and in his wake of acknowledgements, he felt complete in his quest of the unknown and the gaps that he had always wondered about filled. Though at the same time one question turned in his head.
Is Kagome still mother's reincarnation? Something deep down tells me that the connection between my mother and Kagome became severed once my mother was given life again. Besides my mother has only been gone for eight years and I don't think her soul would be embedded within Kagome again, hopefully she's been resting in the afterlife happily -
"That's everything, Sekijuro. I have nothing else to tell."
"No wonder mother never talked about the Sengoku era - I don't blame her at all." He sympathized quietly. He began to walk away from his father.
"Where are you going Seki?" His father questioned.
"I am going to look Kagome-san up in the phone book. That's my only lead on how to find her and besides she doesn't need to be left alone and I want to be there with her." He smiled hopelessly.
Inu Yasha shook his head sadly as he knew he could not dissuade his son from his new task. Good think he forgot her brother, Sota was in the club still. Or else it'd be too easy, hmm -, he thought as he went into the club now searching for the teenager -
(The booth)
Sota sat with the two lovebirds and Shippo sitting uncomfortably close to him. He sat as he sipped at his drink while watching the people around the club. Suddenly a man walked up in a suite knocking his knuckles lightly onto the table. "Hey Sota can I ask ya somethin'?" The teen looked up in surprise as he recognized the voice from long ago.
"Inu Yasha! What the hell are you doing here? I thought I'd never see you again!" He said excitedly as Shippo became slightly jealous as he was pushed out of the way.
"Umm, I'm not the Inu Yasha of the past, I am the present one. I'm Sekijuro's father, umm can I please have Kagome's number and address?" Right then Shippo stood up glaring at the ponytail-wearing demon.
"Hey you hurt Kagome! I don't think you deserve jack-shit right now, you bastard!!" He protested angrily as Sota stood up pushing the brunette's head to the side again.
"Oh shut up, we both know that you won't do crap Shippo. Sure I can give it to you. Here I'll write it down on this napkin here. Hey anybody got a pen or pencil?" He asked the occupants at the table as Kira took a drink from his glass.
"Just because we're in school does not mean we carry supplies in our pockets." Kira said casually with a shrug.
"Here Sota-kun." Karuna handed the boy a pen as Kira frowned.
"How come you're always proving me wrong?" He asked Karuna as he looked down at her with half opened eyes. He kissed her lips quickly before her father noticed.
"Because I can, love. Besides it wouldn't be any fun if you were right all the time. That's why I love you because you're not perfect." She lightly nipped his bottom lip as Inu Yasha growled.
"Kira!"
The Sakae boy shrunk away from the girl as Inu Yasha used the booth's table as a sharpening post for his claws. "Sorry," damnit why is it always my fault even when she makes the advances. He thought with worry.
"Don't touch my precious little girl!!" He roared as Karuna sighed in annoyance as she rolled her chocolate eyes.
"You know he's going to do 'naughty things' to her later anyways, so why even threaten him Inu Yasha?" Shippo yawned as he fanned his mouth.
"WHAT!?!"
"Here, this has Kagome's cell and house phone number. At the bottom is her address. Is that everything?" Sota asked as the now preoccupied and calm hanyou looked at him as Kira sighed, as his girlfriend's father was temporarily distracted. The golden-eyed man nodded his head as a smile crossed his sharper features. "Umm, not to be rude or anything but what the hell happened to your ears? Where are they?"
Inu Yasha absently touched the top of his head and smiled as the two lovers sitting in the booth escaped, as he was inattentive. "Well I keep them pinned under my hair when I am out in public, just like Shippo and Kira are using their abilities to cloak their true appearances. Hey, where'd your horn-ball of a son go with my precious baby? Damn that boy!" The man tucked the napkin into his pocket before he began his hunt-down of Kira and Karuna -
"Wanna leave Sota?" Shippo asked as he hitched a thumb towards the exit. "You could stay at my place again and tell your mother you're at Kagome's, this time."
The boy shrugged his shoulders. "Why not, as long as you don't try something dirty and perverted, fox-boy."
"Scouts honor." The kitsune pledged.
"You were never a scout jack-ass." The black haired boy said heatedly as he crossed his arms in irritation. "C'mon already, I ain't gettin' any younger."
"KIRA I'LL KILL YOU IF YOU TOUCH HER!!!" Inu Yasha yelled at the top of his lungs while the couple was hidden in a dark area of the lounge as they kissed ignoring the deranged man. Shippo and Sota stood up leaving the lounge as Malachi could be seen being slapped by a girl. Makalani and Tama came back as they started to break down the equipment on stage -
(Next day, Kagome's apartment)
Kagome sat on her bed with her chin resting on her knees as she stared at the wall lost in thought as her mind kept thinking of the half-demon. Why? Why did he have to come back, she thought as the TV in the background forecasted the weather. Damn him, damn you Inu Yasha! She angrily slammed her fist into her soft mattress of her bed.
Yet, I can't bring myself to hate him. Could it be I still love him or maybe an infatuation of some sort, no I can't he chose Kikyo over me. Besides I should worry about Sekijuro and not him. I could have a more normal relationship with him and besides he's my age -
Or should I forget both to begin with, demons' are nothing but trouble anyways -
A pounding knock came to the door as Kagome got up wondering who would be at her door this early in the morning, as she hadn't slept a wink the whole night. She walked over opening the peep-hole gazing out as she spotted black hair and glasses. "Kagome it's me Sekijuro! Open up please! You shouldn't be alone right now!" He knocked again.
"Go away Seki, leave me alone. I need time alone to think." He began knocking harder as she rested her hand on the wooden door.
"Please Kagome-san!" He said urgently as she slammed her fist on the door.
"NO!!! GO AWAY SEKIJURO! LEAVE ME ALONE; I DON'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED!!" It fell silent on the other side as the man placed his hand on the door leaning his head on the door.
"I will not leave, if I have to I will camp out till you let me in." He said in his normal tone as he rested his other hand on the door. "It kills me to see you this way, and I don't want to be a part from you if you're like this. Depression doesn't fit you Kagome." He breathed almost intimately soft, but she was able to catch every word he uttered.
"Go home Seki! Just - please - go home -. Please." She whispered as she began to cry again as she held her face as she walked away from the door. "All you demons leave me alone!!" She shrieked as she tripped and fell over onto the floor as she curled into a ball crying, outside the door the quarter-demon could do nothing but listen as his, own heart broke at that moment as he heard her sob. He pressed his back to the door as he slowly slid down with his hair shrouding his face from view.
So Kagome found the rest she needed as she cried herself to sleep -
"I am truly sorry Kagome-chan," he whispered as the cold-front blew in as he sat outside -
The Higurashi woman woke up to the sound of thunder and lightening as it illuminated her small apartment. Slowly opening her eyes as she spied her dark room and the glowing red digital clock as it read 7:45 pm. She cursed as she picked herself up as the rain poured in thick sheet and thunder boomed vehemently outside as she turned on her lights. She walked over looking out her peep-hole spying no one -
"Good he went home," she sighed. "Oh crap the date with Hojo is tonight!" Like magic Kagome scrambled around the apartment dressed and beautiful, as she looked herself in the mirror as the elements grew more chaotic outside - She leaned out of her bathroom as she looked at her alarm clock again. Hmm it's 8:20 where's Hojo? She questioned as she walked over sitting on the bed. "He's never late? Maybe I should call? No, he'll be here." So she waited -
And waited -
Still waiting -
Kagome looked at the clock as it now read 9:30 pm. She got up and went to her phone dialing Hojo's apartment number, but as the phone rang no one picked up except the answering machine. "Hojo please call me, it's Kagome." She said quietly as she reached over hanging up. Next she called his cell phone, which she got no response as well, and she left another message. She hung up her phone as she heard a noise from outside her door. Maybe that's him -
The long haired woman opened the door to find a soaking wet Sekijuro curled up into a ball outside her door as he shook violently with blue lips and chattering teeth. She reached for him pulling him into her apartment. "I thought you were bluffing, Seki you should have left when it started becoming bad out." She hauled his soaking form to his feet as he draped his arm around her shoulder.
"I told you I wasn't leaving. Why are you so dressed up, beautiful?" He asked as his eyes roamed over her body.
"I was going out with a friend." She told him quickly, as she sat him down in a chair as he held onto her around the hips. She lightly placed her hand on his forehead as she pulled back quickly. "You're burning up! You actually caught something?" She asked almost disbelievingly.
"I am human most of the time, about 329 days out of the year y'know. I can get sick." He sniffled in a craggy voice as she pushed his back into the chair. Kagome scrambled around gathering towels in her two-room apartment. She came back with towels and sweat pants for the man.
"Here this should help, and the bathroom is right there." He took the pants and towels as he venture towards her bathroom. He disappeared behind the door and Kagome chose that small amount of time to spruce up her apartment some. Once he came back out it was in better order as he stumbled bracing himself on the doorframe. She was by his side in seconds as she helped him over to the bed as a towel draped over his exposed shoulders. He has such soft skin, she thought as her hand rested on his hip since he wore the sweat pants as if they were low-rise jeans, while the other held the arm that was draped over her shoulders.
Nice body too, she thought with roaming eyes as they drank in his pallid but lean body. Okay, Kag don't drool and besides he's sick. She lightly placed him down on her bed as he pulled her down as she crashed on top of his hot body. He shuddered uncontrollably as he held her.
"Keep me warm," he gasped. As she pushed herself from off of his form, as she covered his body with the blankets.
"You're being a big baby. Here let me get you some medicine and then a cold compress. I'll be right back." She scurried off as she went to her bathroom getting the pills and cold compress, as she then went to her small kitchen getting some orange juice as she came back sitting on the bed. "Here take this." He sat up slowly taking the pills and orange juice swallowing them quickly as he draped the towel that was around his shoulders on to his wet hair. "Good, now lie down." She pushed on his bare chest as he smiled up at her as his back met the mattress.
"Lay with me and keep me warm, please." He requested quietly. She sighed and thought about it.
"Fine let me change first." She walked into her bathroom finding the sweatshirt that went with the pants that Sekijuro was wearing. She changed quickly only wearing that and her undergarments. Kagome looked at herself with big brown eyes with a slight blush as she noted how much leg she was showing. What am I doing?
She opened the door walking out slowly as the man in her bed lulled his head to the side looking at her with glassy eyes. He smiled lazily as she sat down on the edge of the bed. Suddenly she felt hands grip her around the waist pulling her to lie on the other side of him. She lightly rested her head on his bare chest as he wrapped his well-sculpted arms around her. She looked down at him, as their eyes seem to meld into one another, as they both not dare pulling their eyes away -
"How'd you find me? Did you ask Sota where I lived last night?"
"Nope, but now that I think about it I should have. I looked you up in the phonebook."
It fell quiet between the two, as the gazes did not waver. Slowly he leaned his head up and she bent down lowering her lips to his for a sweet passionate kiss. His hot mouth seared hers as she kissed back with as much feeling as he did. Then she felt something -
It wasn't a long kiss as Kagome's eyes snapped open and she narrowed her gaze at him while pulling her mouth away. She frowned pushing his head back into the pillow. "Pervert." The sweatshirt-wearing woman said playfully. He smiled sticking his tongue out playfully at her.
"I'm a boy what do you expect." He said with an equally playful tone. Kagome couldn't help, but smile back as she kissed his cheek.
"I expected you to be well-mannered and shy, but I guess I was wrong." She smiled as she nuzzled her head into his neck. "I'm still tired. Lets go to bed." Sekijuro reached over turning out the light, as the rain was now a light drizzle outside. "Goodnight sickie."
"G'night Kagome-chan." He kissed the top of her head as he hugged her before closing his eyes. Soon sleep took the young man -
Kagome closed her eyes as her mind chanted a mantra in her head that went like this: I am over Inu Yasha, and I want Sekijuro. She chanted over and over again for a good fifteen minutes before sleep claimed her as well -
(In another part of Japan)
A body was floating in a clear tank as sensors disconnected from the naked form and pulled away as lights came on in the laboratory. Green began to filter throughout the clear liquid as the body twitched spasmodically as a man stood on top of a platform watching with indifferent eyes and a woman standing beside him. "Start the process." He ordered to the woman standing next to him. "She's ready to be born."
"Yes my beloved." She bowed as she went to the control panel as she pushed and switched various buttons. Small sizzling noises could be heard as the man turned looking from his assistant to look at the woman in the water as he ventured down the platform going towards the tank. Once he was down there he placed his hands on the glass looking at the woman inside the green liquid as it seemed to grow firm as if becoming gel.
"Oh how I yearn to be held by you again, this time you will not spurn me. You are under my control -," he breathed darkly as his claws scratched a path down the glass as he closed his eyes as laughter erupted from him.
Air bubbles began to suspend throughout the green gel as electric current pass through the gelatin substance as the body twitched unnaturally as the energy passed through her making her body jerking more and more. Very slowly the green substance began to dissipate as it evaporated away slowly the body began to rise on its own accord as the man left the side of the tank to climb a latter. A cruel smirk crossed his lips, as he watched a white aura glow around the woman -
He reached out taking the nude form into his arms as he hugged the body to him. The naked woman's eyes slowly opened to reveal dark brown eyes. The man pulled back looking down at her as she looked at him in shock. She opened her mouth, but no sound came out.
"Embrace me Kikyo, my mother." He said as he nuzzled his head into hers. "I am your young after all, so it's only natural for you to do my bidding and protecting me from harm's way." He almost chucked ruefully as a dull gaze settled in her eyes as she nodded her head mechanically.
Yes my son, she mouthed mutely as she embraced him back -
(End of Chapter Six)
Kyoji K. here!
Okay y'know how I said in the chart page ' I doubt I'll get a stroke of genius', well I think I just did. Of course I can't let ya know what it is though, but you can guess. ~_^ Also I think I'll change the rating of this story, because my changing of the plot is heading to R-ratings. We'll see what twist and turns the next chapter will have shall we. Until next chapter -
Lay o_O
Chapter Six: Retreating into one's own self. . .
"Kagome be rational! It's been over five hundred years since all this has happened." Inu Yasha tried to explain as more angry tears spilled from the woman's eyes as she glared at the hanyou.
"For you and Kikyo maybe, but only five short years for me!" She yelled as she ran her hands through her long black hair in frustration. "Don't lecture to me that I had time to get over you, it's been a hard process and I am over you!" She lied convincingly as Sekijuro stood quietly not daring or knowing how to tackle this subject.
"You're lying," Inu Yasha breathed as his bangs veiled his golden eyes from view.
Kagome baulked as she blinked before she recovered quickly. "You don't know me anymore Inu Yasha, remember it's been five hundred years plus for you." Her tears slowed and anger seemed more evident than anything else now.
The man in the suite walked over taking the art student into his arms as he hung his head sadly as he held the Higurashi in his arms tenderly as if she were china. With a strong shove and a thoughtlessly raised hand. Kagome slapped the man hard across his face, as he looked shocked as his head turned to the side -
"Never touch me! Just because you embrace me, does not mean I am your woman!" She still held her hand in the slapping position as she glared murder at him.
Inu Yasha's mind spun as she had sounded just like Kikyo as he watched her storm back into the club angrily as Sekijuro stood there numb and unmoving, as he couldn't comprehend the situation. "Kikyo said those exact words to me so long ago." He mumbled absently, and then slowly his son began to walk back into the club.
"Seki?"
The boy stopped as he removed his left hand off of his right tattooed forearm as he held up a yielding backhand to his father. "Not right now dad, not now. Will talk about this later, right now I think Kagome needs understanding." He said this as he kept his back facing his father. Sekijuro began to walk into La Bleu Room Lounge, as Inu Yasha stayed outside -
Kagome walked over to the booth seeing her brother sitting next to a teenage boy as they conversed quietly. "C'mon Sota we're going home." She noted Kira and Karuna in the booth as well.
"I don't wanna leave yet." He whined as he folded his arms defiantly over his chest.
"NOW SOTA!" She almost screamed in frustration as he sat frozen to the spot with huge dark brown eyes.
"I don't wanna leave with you if you're like that. I'll catch a ride with Kira and his dad." He informed his sister as he pointed at Shippo sitting next to him. "This is Kira's dad, Shippo."
Kagome's looked briefly shocked before her look grew cynical. "Hey if Inu Yasha is around, why can't Shippo." She muttered, as the fox-demon was quiet. "Sorry I really need to go home. Maybe we can catch up later." She offered weakly as he nodded his head.
"It was that moron of a half-breed wasn't it? Don't worry he'll get hell.'
The twenty year old nodded her head. "Thank you, so much." With a slight bow Kagome began to leave. As she was about to pass the exit's threshold she ran into Sekijuro. He caught her arm as she kept her eyes on the ground. "What?"
"How about I go with you?" He suggested hopefully.
"No, I need and want to be alone. Seeing Inu Yasha tonight has opened up some old wounds and I need to deal with them by myself. I am over him though. Bye." She gave him a chaste kiss on the cheek as she scampered off.
A small fire seemed to ignite in the man's eyes as he turned on his heels looking for his father. He walked out seeing his father not far from the main entrance of the establishment. "We need to talk now! What the hell did you do to Kagome?!" He almost growled at his tall father as Inu Yasha raised his brow at his son.
"It has nothing to do with you, Seki. So I suggest you keep your nose out of it." His father supplied as he folded his arms, as he seemed pretentious.
"The hell it doesn't! Just because it happened in the past doesn't mean it won't concern Kagome's and my future together!!" Inu Yasha eyes looked shocked as he turned facing his son as his eyebrows forked down.
"You and Kagome? Together?" The older man asked sternly.
"Well, not yet but we will. I feel for her and it's mutual for her too." A look that almost resembled disgust crossed Inu Yasha's features as he looked away from his son.
"I don't approve Sekijuro. Besides you gettin' involved with Kagome would become messy, because of the past we share." He told him as he unfolded his arms walking over and placing his hand on the shorter man's shoulders. "It wouldn't work out."
"How the hell would you know?!" The black haired man shouted suddenly as the father removed his hand from the shoulder. "I don't care if you approve or not. I think I'm falling for her because I've never felt this way with any girl before." He watched as his fathers face twisted into annoyance as he pressed on. "How do you know Kagome-san, father? I want to know, and if you do not tell me I'll find other sources like Shippo-dono or Kagome-san, herself." Sekijuro voice grew slightly darker as he eyes narrowed hauntingly towards his father.
The whitish-silver haired hanyou growled as he clenched his fist. "Fine ya brat! I met Kagome about five or so hundred years ago at the Goshin Boku God Tree, at the time I thought she was Kikyo. So later on -," Inu Yasha continued on with the tale, which for the most part Sekijuro knew about, but he wondered on why his father and/or mother had never mention Kagome before until now. He knew his mother never talked about her younger years so he never asked, but his father on the other hand would tell bedtime stories when he was young of his adventures of the quest for the Shikon no Tama and his many battles with Naraku. And traveling with Shippo when he was a boy and the Kazuo's ancestors Miroku and Sango before they became involved -
Now everything was revealed and in his wake of acknowledgements, he felt complete in his quest of the unknown and the gaps that he had always wondered about filled. Though at the same time one question turned in his head.
Is Kagome still mother's reincarnation? Something deep down tells me that the connection between my mother and Kagome became severed once my mother was given life again. Besides my mother has only been gone for eight years and I don't think her soul would be embedded within Kagome again, hopefully she's been resting in the afterlife happily -
"That's everything, Sekijuro. I have nothing else to tell."
"No wonder mother never talked about the Sengoku era - I don't blame her at all." He sympathized quietly. He began to walk away from his father.
"Where are you going Seki?" His father questioned.
"I am going to look Kagome-san up in the phone book. That's my only lead on how to find her and besides she doesn't need to be left alone and I want to be there with her." He smiled hopelessly.
Inu Yasha shook his head sadly as he knew he could not dissuade his son from his new task. Good think he forgot her brother, Sota was in the club still. Or else it'd be too easy, hmm -, he thought as he went into the club now searching for the teenager -
(The booth)
Sota sat with the two lovebirds and Shippo sitting uncomfortably close to him. He sat as he sipped at his drink while watching the people around the club. Suddenly a man walked up in a suite knocking his knuckles lightly onto the table. "Hey Sota can I ask ya somethin'?" The teen looked up in surprise as he recognized the voice from long ago.
"Inu Yasha! What the hell are you doing here? I thought I'd never see you again!" He said excitedly as Shippo became slightly jealous as he was pushed out of the way.
"Umm, I'm not the Inu Yasha of the past, I am the present one. I'm Sekijuro's father, umm can I please have Kagome's number and address?" Right then Shippo stood up glaring at the ponytail-wearing demon.
"Hey you hurt Kagome! I don't think you deserve jack-shit right now, you bastard!!" He protested angrily as Sota stood up pushing the brunette's head to the side again.
"Oh shut up, we both know that you won't do crap Shippo. Sure I can give it to you. Here I'll write it down on this napkin here. Hey anybody got a pen or pencil?" He asked the occupants at the table as Kira took a drink from his glass.
"Just because we're in school does not mean we carry supplies in our pockets." Kira said casually with a shrug.
"Here Sota-kun." Karuna handed the boy a pen as Kira frowned.
"How come you're always proving me wrong?" He asked Karuna as he looked down at her with half opened eyes. He kissed her lips quickly before her father noticed.
"Because I can, love. Besides it wouldn't be any fun if you were right all the time. That's why I love you because you're not perfect." She lightly nipped his bottom lip as Inu Yasha growled.
"Kira!"
The Sakae boy shrunk away from the girl as Inu Yasha used the booth's table as a sharpening post for his claws. "Sorry," damnit why is it always my fault even when she makes the advances. He thought with worry.
"Don't touch my precious little girl!!" He roared as Karuna sighed in annoyance as she rolled her chocolate eyes.
"You know he's going to do 'naughty things' to her later anyways, so why even threaten him Inu Yasha?" Shippo yawned as he fanned his mouth.
"WHAT!?!"
"Here, this has Kagome's cell and house phone number. At the bottom is her address. Is that everything?" Sota asked as the now preoccupied and calm hanyou looked at him as Kira sighed, as his girlfriend's father was temporarily distracted. The golden-eyed man nodded his head as a smile crossed his sharper features. "Umm, not to be rude or anything but what the hell happened to your ears? Where are they?"
Inu Yasha absently touched the top of his head and smiled as the two lovers sitting in the booth escaped, as he was inattentive. "Well I keep them pinned under my hair when I am out in public, just like Shippo and Kira are using their abilities to cloak their true appearances. Hey, where'd your horn-ball of a son go with my precious baby? Damn that boy!" The man tucked the napkin into his pocket before he began his hunt-down of Kira and Karuna -
"Wanna leave Sota?" Shippo asked as he hitched a thumb towards the exit. "You could stay at my place again and tell your mother you're at Kagome's, this time."
The boy shrugged his shoulders. "Why not, as long as you don't try something dirty and perverted, fox-boy."
"Scouts honor." The kitsune pledged.
"You were never a scout jack-ass." The black haired boy said heatedly as he crossed his arms in irritation. "C'mon already, I ain't gettin' any younger."
"KIRA I'LL KILL YOU IF YOU TOUCH HER!!!" Inu Yasha yelled at the top of his lungs while the couple was hidden in a dark area of the lounge as they kissed ignoring the deranged man. Shippo and Sota stood up leaving the lounge as Malachi could be seen being slapped by a girl. Makalani and Tama came back as they started to break down the equipment on stage -
(Next day, Kagome's apartment)
Kagome sat on her bed with her chin resting on her knees as she stared at the wall lost in thought as her mind kept thinking of the half-demon. Why? Why did he have to come back, she thought as the TV in the background forecasted the weather. Damn him, damn you Inu Yasha! She angrily slammed her fist into her soft mattress of her bed.
Yet, I can't bring myself to hate him. Could it be I still love him or maybe an infatuation of some sort, no I can't he chose Kikyo over me. Besides I should worry about Sekijuro and not him. I could have a more normal relationship with him and besides he's my age -
Or should I forget both to begin with, demons' are nothing but trouble anyways -
A pounding knock came to the door as Kagome got up wondering who would be at her door this early in the morning, as she hadn't slept a wink the whole night. She walked over opening the peep-hole gazing out as she spotted black hair and glasses. "Kagome it's me Sekijuro! Open up please! You shouldn't be alone right now!" He knocked again.
"Go away Seki, leave me alone. I need time alone to think." He began knocking harder as she rested her hand on the wooden door.
"Please Kagome-san!" He said urgently as she slammed her fist on the door.
"NO!!! GO AWAY SEKIJURO! LEAVE ME ALONE; I DON'T WANT TO BE BOTHERED!!" It fell silent on the other side as the man placed his hand on the door leaning his head on the door.
"I will not leave, if I have to I will camp out till you let me in." He said in his normal tone as he rested his other hand on the door. "It kills me to see you this way, and I don't want to be a part from you if you're like this. Depression doesn't fit you Kagome." He breathed almost intimately soft, but she was able to catch every word he uttered.
"Go home Seki! Just - please - go home -. Please." She whispered as she began to cry again as she held her face as she walked away from the door. "All you demons leave me alone!!" She shrieked as she tripped and fell over onto the floor as she curled into a ball crying, outside the door the quarter-demon could do nothing but listen as his, own heart broke at that moment as he heard her sob. He pressed his back to the door as he slowly slid down with his hair shrouding his face from view.
So Kagome found the rest she needed as she cried herself to sleep -
"I am truly sorry Kagome-chan," he whispered as the cold-front blew in as he sat outside -
The Higurashi woman woke up to the sound of thunder and lightening as it illuminated her small apartment. Slowly opening her eyes as she spied her dark room and the glowing red digital clock as it read 7:45 pm. She cursed as she picked herself up as the rain poured in thick sheet and thunder boomed vehemently outside as she turned on her lights. She walked over looking out her peep-hole spying no one -
"Good he went home," she sighed. "Oh crap the date with Hojo is tonight!" Like magic Kagome scrambled around the apartment dressed and beautiful, as she looked herself in the mirror as the elements grew more chaotic outside - She leaned out of her bathroom as she looked at her alarm clock again. Hmm it's 8:20 where's Hojo? She questioned as she walked over sitting on the bed. "He's never late? Maybe I should call? No, he'll be here." So she waited -
And waited -
Still waiting -
Kagome looked at the clock as it now read 9:30 pm. She got up and went to her phone dialing Hojo's apartment number, but as the phone rang no one picked up except the answering machine. "Hojo please call me, it's Kagome." She said quietly as she reached over hanging up. Next she called his cell phone, which she got no response as well, and she left another message. She hung up her phone as she heard a noise from outside her door. Maybe that's him -
The long haired woman opened the door to find a soaking wet Sekijuro curled up into a ball outside her door as he shook violently with blue lips and chattering teeth. She reached for him pulling him into her apartment. "I thought you were bluffing, Seki you should have left when it started becoming bad out." She hauled his soaking form to his feet as he draped his arm around her shoulder.
"I told you I wasn't leaving. Why are you so dressed up, beautiful?" He asked as his eyes roamed over her body.
"I was going out with a friend." She told him quickly, as she sat him down in a chair as he held onto her around the hips. She lightly placed her hand on his forehead as she pulled back quickly. "You're burning up! You actually caught something?" She asked almost disbelievingly.
"I am human most of the time, about 329 days out of the year y'know. I can get sick." He sniffled in a craggy voice as she pushed his back into the chair. Kagome scrambled around gathering towels in her two-room apartment. She came back with towels and sweat pants for the man.
"Here this should help, and the bathroom is right there." He took the pants and towels as he venture towards her bathroom. He disappeared behind the door and Kagome chose that small amount of time to spruce up her apartment some. Once he came back out it was in better order as he stumbled bracing himself on the doorframe. She was by his side in seconds as she helped him over to the bed as a towel draped over his exposed shoulders. He has such soft skin, she thought as her hand rested on his hip since he wore the sweat pants as if they were low-rise jeans, while the other held the arm that was draped over her shoulders.
Nice body too, she thought with roaming eyes as they drank in his pallid but lean body. Okay, Kag don't drool and besides he's sick. She lightly placed him down on her bed as he pulled her down as she crashed on top of his hot body. He shuddered uncontrollably as he held her.
"Keep me warm," he gasped. As she pushed herself from off of his form, as she covered his body with the blankets.
"You're being a big baby. Here let me get you some medicine and then a cold compress. I'll be right back." She scurried off as she went to her bathroom getting the pills and cold compress, as she then went to her small kitchen getting some orange juice as she came back sitting on the bed. "Here take this." He sat up slowly taking the pills and orange juice swallowing them quickly as he draped the towel that was around his shoulders on to his wet hair. "Good, now lie down." She pushed on his bare chest as he smiled up at her as his back met the mattress.
"Lay with me and keep me warm, please." He requested quietly. She sighed and thought about it.
"Fine let me change first." She walked into her bathroom finding the sweatshirt that went with the pants that Sekijuro was wearing. She changed quickly only wearing that and her undergarments. Kagome looked at herself with big brown eyes with a slight blush as she noted how much leg she was showing. What am I doing?
She opened the door walking out slowly as the man in her bed lulled his head to the side looking at her with glassy eyes. He smiled lazily as she sat down on the edge of the bed. Suddenly she felt hands grip her around the waist pulling her to lie on the other side of him. She lightly rested her head on his bare chest as he wrapped his well-sculpted arms around her. She looked down at him, as their eyes seem to meld into one another, as they both not dare pulling their eyes away -
"How'd you find me? Did you ask Sota where I lived last night?"
"Nope, but now that I think about it I should have. I looked you up in the phonebook."
It fell quiet between the two, as the gazes did not waver. Slowly he leaned his head up and she bent down lowering her lips to his for a sweet passionate kiss. His hot mouth seared hers as she kissed back with as much feeling as he did. Then she felt something -
It wasn't a long kiss as Kagome's eyes snapped open and she narrowed her gaze at him while pulling her mouth away. She frowned pushing his head back into the pillow. "Pervert." The sweatshirt-wearing woman said playfully. He smiled sticking his tongue out playfully at her.
"I'm a boy what do you expect." He said with an equally playful tone. Kagome couldn't help, but smile back as she kissed his cheek.
"I expected you to be well-mannered and shy, but I guess I was wrong." She smiled as she nuzzled her head into his neck. "I'm still tired. Lets go to bed." Sekijuro reached over turning out the light, as the rain was now a light drizzle outside. "Goodnight sickie."
"G'night Kagome-chan." He kissed the top of her head as he hugged her before closing his eyes. Soon sleep took the young man -
Kagome closed her eyes as her mind chanted a mantra in her head that went like this: I am over Inu Yasha, and I want Sekijuro. She chanted over and over again for a good fifteen minutes before sleep claimed her as well -
(In another part of Japan)
A body was floating in a clear tank as sensors disconnected from the naked form and pulled away as lights came on in the laboratory. Green began to filter throughout the clear liquid as the body twitched spasmodically as a man stood on top of a platform watching with indifferent eyes and a woman standing beside him. "Start the process." He ordered to the woman standing next to him. "She's ready to be born."
"Yes my beloved." She bowed as she went to the control panel as she pushed and switched various buttons. Small sizzling noises could be heard as the man turned looking from his assistant to look at the woman in the water as he ventured down the platform going towards the tank. Once he was down there he placed his hands on the glass looking at the woman inside the green liquid as it seemed to grow firm as if becoming gel.
"Oh how I yearn to be held by you again, this time you will not spurn me. You are under my control -," he breathed darkly as his claws scratched a path down the glass as he closed his eyes as laughter erupted from him.
Air bubbles began to suspend throughout the green gel as electric current pass through the gelatin substance as the body twitched unnaturally as the energy passed through her making her body jerking more and more. Very slowly the green substance began to dissipate as it evaporated away slowly the body began to rise on its own accord as the man left the side of the tank to climb a latter. A cruel smirk crossed his lips, as he watched a white aura glow around the woman -
He reached out taking the nude form into his arms as he hugged the body to him. The naked woman's eyes slowly opened to reveal dark brown eyes. The man pulled back looking down at her as she looked at him in shock. She opened her mouth, but no sound came out.
"Embrace me Kikyo, my mother." He said as he nuzzled his head into hers. "I am your young after all, so it's only natural for you to do my bidding and protecting me from harm's way." He almost chucked ruefully as a dull gaze settled in her eyes as she nodded her head mechanically.
Yes my son, she mouthed mutely as she embraced him back -
(End of Chapter Six)
Kyoji K. here!
Okay y'know how I said in the chart page ' I doubt I'll get a stroke of genius', well I think I just did. Of course I can't let ya know what it is though, but you can guess. ~_^ Also I think I'll change the rating of this story, because my changing of the plot is heading to R-ratings. We'll see what twist and turns the next chapter will have shall we. Until next chapter -
Lay o_O