Brown Eyes

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I spent the entire evening doing anything but sleeping. The entire estate was quiet, save for the youkai that guarded the grounds - they often do that when I'm not around or in this case, fell ill. Kagome was fast asleep beside me, her arms folded under her head and being used as pillows. She was wearing a white silk sleeping robes that just brought out the pure cream of her flesh, that mane of raven spilling around him like a soft halo. Kagome grew that hair out, much like typical females, this time to her hips.

She barely shifted in her sleep, rolling over and snuggling against me, her hand creeping up to rest against the bare flesh of his my chest. I had never ever expected anything like this happen. Last I remembered I wanted to kidnap and kill that wretched miko and she got in a good shot, a crack to the temple with the butt of her staff. I didn't expect to wake up with her in her late twenties with a little hanyou puppy trailing after her heels and the news that Kikyou returned my left arm to me.

I placed my hand over hers, stroked her skin gently and then removed it from my chest. Reaching down, I pulled back the comforter and swung my legs over, rising from the bed. Closing my sleeping robe, I glanced one last time at my slumbering 'mate' - she was beautiful and I wondered what happened that led her to my company. Padding away from the bed, I slowly and quietly opened the door, glancing up and down the hallway. All was quiet, all was peaceful.

I left my room and followed my nose to the scent of that little silver haired puppy. His room was just two doors down and the door partially open to let in more of the moonlight. Opening that door quietly, I peered in the slumbering little hanyou that was my child and heir; Niko, she called him. There he was, curled up in the very center of his bed like a fuzzy little ball, blankets bunched around him, some kind of toy made out of cloth pressed against his chest and a thumb neatly placed by his mouth, which was slightly slack. Niko shifted and whimpered, curling up more in that little ball and whimpered again. Was he having some type of nightmare.

Some instinct pulled me towards the little boy, perhaps it was paternal, him being my child and I crouched down beside him. My hand reached out and gently brushed against those ears in a soothing motion. They flicked a bit and he whimpered contentedly, his head pushing against my hand. My fingers then gently slipped through his hair, whispering soothing sounds to calm him. His own little hand reached to brush against my own, then drop back down as he returned back to sleep, hopefully without nightmares.

Standing, I took a good look around his room. There were toy boxes against the walls, one filled with toys, another filled with odd scrolls clean or scribbles on. Everything a child desire. I turned and left his room, closing the door a bit behind him. Sighing, I leaned against his door, lolling my head back against it. Did my life become a big contradiction? Did I discover a reason not to hate humans? I had to since a human was my mate and a hanyou was my son.

I pushed back away from the door and stalked down the hallway, my steps quiet and my gait languid and slow. I must have been so lost in my thoughts that I didn't hear or smell the approaching figures before me until we almost collided. Two inuyoukai stepped back and bowed down, the now leaving form of Kikyou between them.

"Sesshoumaru-sama, we did not realize you were awake. Priestess Kikyou had come to check upon your health."

My amber eyes turned towards her, she looked far more livelier than I'd ever seen her, eyes dark eyes, which were normally somber and sad, seemed a twinge on the happy side as she bowed down before me. "You are up and around, milord, I thought at least your mate would keep you in bed." Her voice wasn't chilly, nor was it mocking - giving her a new body and a new soul must have changed in severe ways. Her eyes then raised as the two youkai guards backed away, dismissed at the wave of my hand.

"Kagome is asleep and I don't feel the least bit tired."

She nodded, standing before me, her hands at her side. "Kikyou, something plagues me."

She arched a brow in response and walked beside me as we strolled down the halls. "It seems my memory has faltered greatly and I can't remember for the life of me how I became with Kagome."

The priestess mused slightly, her mouth curling in a smile. "Part of it was my will, Sesshoumaru-sama. Your half-breed brother's heart turned from her to me and it seems I became his obsession. He kept straying away from her and their group more and more as Naraku's days began to dwindle. I wanted your brother, or at least I thought I did. It seems a lot of us were living terrible lies to the point where we lost ourselves."

Those words were twinged with sadness as she brought her hand up and clenched it against her breast. "The battle was hard, the battle was bloody and many lost their lives. All the spawn of him, save for the lady of the wind, were killed. Miroku lost his life to his Wind Tunnel. Naraku commanded it open and devour him. Kohaku survived, almost costing him his life when he wrenched out the jewel in his flesh. Inuyasha was ravaged, over taken by his blood lust and demon nature when Naraku finally took me down. Kagome was fading faster, she had suffered an awesome blow to the head. Everything was at a tragic loss until you showed up. You wanted revenge for the horrors he inflicted upon Rin - your surrogate daughter."

"Where is she? Where is Rin?"

Kikyou smiled. "She has mothered, two sons with Kohaku. She is happy and is always telling them about you. They see you as their grandfather." I nodded. "Both Kagome and myself were revived, both by the blade of Tensaiga, but strange enough, I had a living, breathing body, I no longer needed the souls of the dead to keep alive, but yet, somehow, Tensaiga had called forth the soul from the underworld to be reborn into me. It was the soul of a fallen Miko, many says, that didn't want to die. That she still wasn't ready to rest in peace. She knew she still had some job to do. She gave me her soul, her soul resides in my body. Together, Kagome and I, used our enchanted arrows and killed him. I had gotten my revenge. We were both so happy, I think we hugged.

"Inuyasha wanted to leave and leave fast. I owed my life to you, but couldn't say thank you for Inuyasha had dragged my off with him back towards the village near the Bone Eater's Well. Kagome came with us for she was comforting the mourning Taiji-ya who almost killed herself wanted revenge for the death of the monk. We spent weeks there recovering from the attack and I did a lot of thinking. Actually, Kagome and I did a lot of talking, talking we never got a chance to do. I realized that I was living a lie, that I didn't want Inuyasha no more, that it was hate and loathing that I mistook for an odd sense of love. I was alive again, I had a new soul - I had a new life!, so I left and never looked back. I told Inuyasha that I didn't love him anymore and I left."

"What happened to Kagome?"

"Kohaku had Sango, who was steadily mourning Miroku, but in a less fatale way and Kagome decided to she had to return back to her era. After I left, Inuyasha turned to her, confessing false love to her - he was desperate. You could say that everyone he's ever cared for was leaving him. It broke her heart and she hadn't come back until a year to the day, but instead she ran into you by the well, and not him. You told her the surrounding villages was readying for a celebration which will last for a week, a wedding of Taiji-ya to a young woman who was the ward of a great dog demon. Rin was marrying Kohaku and you returned with her to the village. One could say, you two found commonality in each other, you saw her then as a powerful miko and with her help, we, her and I, destroyed the Shikon no Tama during their ceremony. Everyone was happy."

"And Inuyasha?"

"He hadn't been seen, I think he was wallowing in his own self pity. He didn't know I returned to the village for the wedding, nor he knew of you and Kagome's presence. He wasn't aware of a thing. The wedding passed, the years did and Inuyasha came back, but you had already fallen into the loving graces of Kagome and she mothered your hanyou puppy. I had given you your arm back, as if it was never gone and serve your family as Priestess, when you allowed it. But strangely, rumors have been surfacing that Sango and Inuyasha were never the same and sought each other's presence for comfort. He has taken in with the woman, much to her brother's dislike, but they haven't sired a pup, they both don't want children."

Inuyasha had been devastated? Had he gone insane? He had nothing, no Kagome, no Kikyou, no nothing - all he had was his self-pity. Why didn't that please me?

"It's nearing dawn, Sesshoumaru-sama and we all know that Kagome hates to wake up to a cold bed, especially when her husband resides in the palace."

I nodded and let her leave my company, part of me knew where her guest room was. It seems she always had one. Turning, I stalked back to my room and entered quietly as I could, slowly closing the door. "Kikyou is here, isn't she?" Came the rasped voice of Kagome.

I turned and something in my countenance told her she was right. Sitting up, she closed her sleeping robe and smoothed down her hair. "We talked, that is all." I reassured her. Why did I have to do that? Was there some inkling of potential affection between me and the former undead miko? Shrugging, I lowered myself onto the bed beside her where she shifted and ran her hands slowly up my chest, pressing herself against me and nuzzling into the crook of my shoulder and throat, clinging to kimono.

"You were talking about Inuyasha, weren't you?" Part of her voice was pained and I knew she still held affections for the whelp.

"My injury caused more memory loss than expected - she just filled me in." She shuddered against me, her breath catching and her hands balling up the silk fabric. "He is rutting with Sango."

I was soon aware of the smell of salt and the wetness against my robes as she drew me closer to her in all forms of desperation, her lips pressing to my throat in a claiming gesture.

"Kagome, what is it? What aren't you telling me?"

She blinked and looked up at me, her eyes rimmed with red and her face stained with tears. "It was Inuyasha that gave you the blow, he was trying to kill Niko while he was playing in the garden and you interfered. Inuyasha was trying to slay our family to get to me."