Chapter 5
Twin motorcycles roared to the front of Tokyo General Hospital. Almost in unison the riders dismounted pulling their helmets from their heads. One with dark hair, one silver white hair, one male, one female, one with sapphire blue eyes and one with emerald green eyes. Together they walked into the hospital, not stopping for a pass from the security guard. The twin glares froze him in place as he tried to stop them, deciding that his life was more important than getting these two to sign in he returned to the desk. Two noses wrinkled at the scents of blood, antiseptic and death that filled the air. Stepping into the elevator that seemed to be waiting for their arrival they pushed the button for the fifth floor.
The elevators soft ding, brought the family out of there thoughts, the final members were arriving. Inu Yasha and Kagome rose as one. From his seat on the waiting room couch Sesshomaru rose as well, smoothing his suit. He looked quickly over his grandson and granddaughter. The twins were nervous, they hadn't seen their mother since that awful day. Tragedy had separated them and now was reuniting them. Five pairs of eyes watched the two step from the elevator.
Cain walked to his parents. Nodding to his father, he hugged his mother. "I should have been here. Forgive me?"
Kagome pulled from her son's embrace and slapped him. The action shocking him, and Inu Yasha. "Baka. You're being here wouldn't have changed anything. You are a grown man with your own life to live. Would you have been at her side every moment?" She looked at him, her blue eyes searching his. To long had she been a hanyou's wife, twenty-one years, she knew what had brought him back. "He will pay by your hands, my son?"
"Hai, mother." Bowing to her he gave the formal vengeance vow of their pack. "By my hands, by my claws, by my fangs and by my sword he shall."
"Akuseputo"
"As you have no sword, Cain, come to the office tomorrow. You shall carry Tokijin." Sesshomaru was proud of the oath Cain had offered and that Kagome had accepted. After the call from the police the two brothers had spent hours debating the need for vengeance. It was demanded by their Youkai blood but their position in human society prevented the two brothers from walking the trail of vengeance. He knew his nephew and his daughter, both had been gone so long from Japan and changed so greatly they could walk the trail.
While the rest of the family had been busy making vengeance vows, Leena had slid to the side motioning for her children to follow her. They looked to their grandfather and followed her into the stairwell. The three raced to the roof. "So you two can still hear my thoughts." She said smiling at them. Opening her arms they ran to her and the three fell to the concrete, laughing. "I was so afraid you would hate me. Even after my rage began to clear I couldn't return. What I had done, in front of both of you." She hugged them tighter to her, kissing their foreheads. Standing she pulled them up and smiling dropped her illusion completely. They followed and she saw their true forms.
Both had her silver-white hair, and the now to be expected ears atop their heads. Shinta's storm grey eyes and Sango's gold flecked emerald eyes shone at her. Her mind was invaded with their thoughts as each tried to share seven years of memories at the same time. Smiling she followed them through the last seven years relearning hire children. Moments later she sent each of them a thought. Three hanyou's quickly kicked off their shoes and began running across the roof as one they leapt and landed on the roof of the hotel across the street.
None of them aware of the silver haired youkai standing at the roof door smiling as they faded from view in their race across the Tokyo skyline. "Jaken, remind me to refresh Leena's manners. Gather their shoes and await them."
"Yes, Mi Lord." Jaken smiled at his masters back as he headed back into the hospital. 'Master Sesshomaru's family is whole again. Now if only Master Inu Yasha's family had not suffered yet another tragedy. The poor hanyou seems cursed with sadness and pain.' He settled into await the return of the mistress and her pups.