Kaimaru: Mieru I order you to do the disclaimer!
Mieru: Fine, fine just don't get your tail in a knot...
Disclaimer: Me nor Kaimaru own fluffy or ears. Or any other inu youkai in the story..
Kaimaru: Thankie!
Mieru: (grumbling) welcome your HIGHNESS...
Kaimaru: Hey!! quiet you!! I'll turn in to an elephant and sit on you!!!
Mieru: Fine.. fine... just say hi and let them read already!
Kaimaru: Fine! I WILL!
Hiya! Okay not much to say.. so straight to the good stuff! Enjoy!
Kaimaru: See? told you.. (Sticks out tounge)
Mieru: Now what did they say? Elephants with peanut brains?
**Kaimaru turns in to an elephant and sits on Mieru.**
Kaimaru: Baka fox!! anyways enjoy the story!
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Gyokusai
Part III - mate?!
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Kagome felt a cool breeze toussling her hair. She snuggled closer to the warmth by her face, trying to escape the coldness. She quickly felt something fluffy and warming, wrap around her shoulders. She sgihed as she melted against it.
It was warm and soft. She grasped rubbing her cheek against it, when it tickled her nose. She raised her finger and scratched the itch, then settled back against the fluffy thing.
It tickled her nose again.
She rubbed her nose.
It tickled again.
She growled, opening her eyes in annoyance, only to find two gold eyes staring down at her. His face was cool, but his eye were dancing playfully.
"Finally awake?" He said. She glared at him, then turning her gaze back at what she was snuggling with. His tail. She blushed.
opps.
this was embarrassing.
Wait.. if this was his tail. She snorted looking at him.
"You woke me up on purpose.. "
She knew he was trying to surpress a smile, but his cold mask remained. She puffed out her cheeks angrily, barely holding back insults.
Kagome took this time and started looking around. It was night out, and several stars were twinkling overhead with a full moon. The toad with the staff was snoring by a fire, and she was in Sesshoumaru's lap while he leaned against a tree. She blushed again.
Why was she always having awkward moments now?
A small flash caught her eye. She smiled happily when she realized what they were..
Fireflies!!
She never got to see those back at home! Or the sky for that matter!
She turned back to Sesshoumaru, her stupid grin still plastered on her face.
"Why didn't you wake me sooner? This is so kawii!!" She squealed.
He looked confused for a minute, and Kagome was amazed at how the cold expression he usually wore, looked so innocent when left ungaurded.
She laughed.
This only served to make him more confused, as the harder she laughed.
"What is so funny?" He asked.
She covered her mouth, choking back her giggles.
"Nothing.. just.. you look cute when your not being mean!!" She said.
The expession his face had turned priceless.
She surpressed her laughter and asked.
"Can you help me up?"
He hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
With his hand he wrapped around her waist, the other he took her hand and stood up.
She tried standing on her feet, and found it easier than earlier. But she wasn't about to take another chance of falling over again.
Besides.... this is quite nice....
She squeezed his hand with a smile.
She looked up at the woven tapastery that was the night sky.
"It sure is pretty out here." She whispered.
"Yes. Better than that filthy villiage you were living in.." He muttered. She giggled, only slightly sad.
"Yeah.. I guess... although, I didn't think it was that bad."
He just nodded and they stood in comfortable silence, staring up at the sky, with fireflies dancing around them.
It was like a fairytale picture book..
and she was LIVING it.
"Sesshoumaru..?"
"Yes?"
"Umm...." She blushed, looking at her feet " Why'd you bring me here? and what exactly happened at my school?"
He looked thoughtful for a minute. Taking the giant hut was called a 'school'.
"You don't remeber?"
She shook her head.
"You are an Reincarnation of a inu youkai named Faia."
"Inu?"
"Yes, like me. She died some 200 years ago in battle, when we were fighting a man named Koki. He killed her while I was fighting a pack of his minions. I watched her die, after I had killed him."
Kagome watched his face. His voice had a total lack of emotion, but he was struggling to keep his mask. She felt sympathy for him, but she knew the youkai wouldn't want it.
"So.. that's why you brought me here?"
"Yes, Jaken got word of you living some 500 years in the future, so we came to get you."
Her eyes bugged.
f-five hundrend... years?!!
T.. that meant.. she was in the Sengoku jidai?!
Her head was starting to hurt again.
"great.." She muttered.
"What is great?" He asked looking down at her.
She choked.
How did he--?
I bearly said--?
how-?
Ohhh.....
Doggy ears... good hearing...
She sighed.
"N-nothing, it just not everyday you get kidnapped by a youkai, learn you're somebody's reincarnation, get transformed in to a --whatever, and travel to the past." She said sarcastically.
He raised an eyebrow.
"Well you weren't normal to begin with so why would you expect anything normal to happen to you?"
She nodded.
He was right.. only what did he mean by that?
"What'd you mean I'm not normal?"
"Your reincarnation was a inu youkai, so when the spells were removed, you became a inuyoukai as well."
She gulped.
Spells?
Became--?
That.. was what happened?
She was..... a youkai?
She'd seen pictures of youkai in her grandfather's books.. and they weren't too pretty or friendly looking.
Then again...
Sesshoumaru was a youkai...
and she KNEW he wasn't ugly.. although the friendly part was debatable.
"Uh.. Sesshou-maru?"
"Yes?"
"Do... I.. um, um.... look... ugly... like this.?" She said stuggling with her word. A large blush covering her cheeks.
What a stupid question to ask! Of course she didn't!! She was a YOUKAI!!! How could she be pretty, or at least normal looking like this!! Even when he was human she didn't look good!!
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Sesshoumaru looked at her in amazement.
She thought she was ugly?
He had trouble believing she was a youkai and not a goddess!
... although he'd never tell anyone to that extent.
He thought back to the disapearing mark on her neck and couldn't help but think several other youkai might think that as well..
Sesshoumaru swallowed his pirde, looking at her intently.
She was looking down at the grasss, her blush fading to a light pink across her cheeks.
He removed his hand from hers, to gently take her chin in his hand, so she'd look at him.
She stared at him with those innocent green eyes.
"Believe me Kagome... you are far from ugly." He whispered
Kagome's heart leapt in her chest, as his golden eyes fixed on hers.
Then as quick as a flash, his lips pressed softly against hers..
.. stealing her first kiss.
Kagome's eyes widened.
Sesshoumaru slowly pulled away, opening his gaze to look down at her.
The kiss was sweet and pure, and he found it hard to pull away to keep his dignity intacted.
She stared up at him in astonishment, and he let a grin slip on to his lips.
Damn, she was innocent.
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Kagome watched the grin form on his face, his icy glare had turned a melted honey color.
Warm and kind, a look she never expected to see on him. Her thoughts kicked in.
Why'd he just kiss her?!!?
She gulped, realizing his arms had wrapped around her waist.
"S-S-Sessh--" She stuttered, but before she could finish, He had hugged her closer. Nuzzling his nose in her hair.
"Kagome..." He whispered huskily.
She rested her head against his neck clumsily.
Sesshoumaru wrapped his tail around them, mixed with another black silky tail, that Kagome could only guess was her own. She had closed her eyes in comfort, feeling the gently breeze sweep around them.
"Kagome I know you can't understand what happened back then... but... "
His grip around tightened her waist.
As she felt a pang in her heart.
"It's alright... you don't have to say it."
She hesiantly wrapped her arms around his shoulders.
She knew he wasn't thinking of her now, but of this 'Faia' she supposedly was her past life. But she didn't mind. No matter how bad it got, she thought wryly, she was always more worried about others than herself..
And right now her heart hurt.
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Sesshoumaru closed his eyes as he snuggled in to her hair, listening to her speak soothing words to him.
He knew Faia was gone, and even though Kagome had her soul..
They weren't the same.
And they never would be.
He knew this now.
Their scents were similar, but Kagome's was.. sweeter.
Their kiss was different as well.
They looked similar, yet Kagome was smaller and more childish, but that had to do with how young she still was...
with an infinite amount of time left yet to live.
Faia had more demanding eyes, while Kagome's were a soft velvet.
and, then mark of her having a mate was gone as well.
He chuckled silently.
She hadn't known him a day, yet here she was comforting him like an old friend.
She knew what he was thinking, yet she still helped him?
He was too lucky to even have her near him...
She'd hope he'd forgive her for this.. but he can't take a chance of losing her.. until she understood exactly why.
"Kagome.." He whispered again.
"Yes Sesshou-maru?" She asked quietly.
"Forgive me.." He said
"What?" She said, starting to pull away, but he held on to her tighter.
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Suddenly Kagome felt a searing pain by her neck as Sesshoumaru dug his fangs in to her skin.
She would have screamed, if not immediately he crushed his lips against hers to prevent so.
The pain was almost unbarable, as she felt a warm liquid slowly ooze down her shoulders.
She fought the tears in her eyes, as she started becoming dizzy.
As soon as his lips pulled away from hers. She shoved him roughly away as hard as she possibly could.
Kagome instantly fell on to her hands and knees.
She grasped the joint where her neck and shoulder met, pressing on it, trying to stop the bleeding.
She looked up at him, her sight switching from black to blurry over and over again.
"What did you do?!!" She yelled.
His cold expression returned, but it looked forced.
She couldn't hear his answer, her ears became deaf as she fell to her elbows. Still trying to fight the blackness.
Her breathing was harsh, as she pressed harder on the wound.
'Why'd he hurt her?!' She thought madly
'Did she offend him?!'
'it hurts.. his fangs sunk in deep.'
'ah.... why did he!'
'That... jerk..'
Her vision finally failed altogether, as she fell face first in to the dirt unconcious...
She seemed to be doing that a lot lately.
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Sesshoumaru kneeled down next to her, brushing away her hair, so not to get any blood in it. Staring down at the open wound, he felt a mixed reaction of glory and guilt.
He doubted she even knew what the wound meant..
and when she did find out..
Would she be mad at him?
Would she hate him?
Probably.
But she'd live, he thought coldly.
Trying to regain the appearance and mind he'd kept up for the past two hundrend years, that this girl had so easily broke in a day.
He picked her up, then walking over to Jaken, he kicked the toad awake.
"y-yes Milord?" He said bowing.
"Put out the fire. We are leaving."
The toad nodded, not asking why.
Instead he did his task quickly, and followed after his lord. he looked wonderingly at the girl and noticed the blood. He followed the red trail with his eyes, as it started at...
He gawked.
He marked her!!
She was his mate now!!
Sesshoumaru noticed his stare, saying.
"Yes Jaken?"
"N-nothing milord.." The toad stuttered, shaking his head, before muttering,
"Carried her like that the night before he marked her... how true that statement was .. both times..."
Sesshoumaru heard, but didn't say anything.
'Only that.. both times were remarkably differently though.. if he only knew..' He thought stiffly.
He summoned his cloud, not worried she'd be overwhelmed by the castle, and hopped on. Jaken behind him, they took to the air.
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Kagome shifted her head, and felt a throbbing pain in her neck.
She reached up, and cupped her hand over it, moaning.
what was it?
She opened her eyes, wincing as she tried raisiing her head.
Wait...
I remember...
Sesshoumaru that baka!!!!!!!
She sat up, suddenly not caring about the pain.
How could he!?
He had no clue how much that hurt!!
not that she ever trusted him yet...
only a little...
and he just lost it!!!
She stood up, slightly woozy.
A thought struck Kagome..
with his powers as a youkai.. he'd probably be able to sense she was awake or was moving around!!
She had to get out of here!!
but how?
BUT..
She was youkai now too wasn't she?
Kagome walked to the elegant room's large window..
She stopped, and spun around.
Room?!?!
Wasn't she outside?
Kagome examined the room in shock.
There were two oak doors on the oppisote side where she stood. She had been sleeping in a large four poster bed, with red drapes surrounding it. The sheets and blankets were also a red silk. The walls were covered with drawings of inu youkai, and she didn't doubt they were of Sesshoumaru- baka's family.
She snorted, looking down.
She was wearing a white sleeping kimono..
Some servant; she at least hoped it was a servant; must have dressed her while she slept.
Oh well..
now how'd she escape?
She looked down at her claws.
How'd they help her?
Protection?
Yes.
Now if only she knew what other skills youkai had.
She looked up at the sound of footsteps and her doors opening.
He stopped.
It was Sesshoumaru.
She growled at him. Crouching, with her claws ready.
She could only thank the heavens, she had taken those fighting lessons from Inu yasha.
"Kagome." He said, taking a step foward.
"Get away from me!" She snarled. He stopped his ascent. She didn't wait for him to say anything else.
"Where did you bring me!?"
His expression remained cool.
"My castle." He said.
"Why?!"
"For my own reasons." He said narrowing his eyes.
"Well take me back home!!" She yelled. It hurt her own ears, but she was to angry to care much.
"I won't."
Her eyes went large in anger.
"I guess I'll have to do it... on my OWN!!!" She said, and with no hesitation she sped at him at a speed she didn't even know she possesed.
She wasn't aiming for him but to his side to escape through the opwn doors.
Only no matter how much she tried, his gaze followed her easily.
When she ran past him, his hand darted out catching her wrist.
She growled, throwing her hand in a fist at his face, but he caught it.
"Let me go!!!" She yelled.
"No."
Her lips curled up in a feirce snarl.
"I won't let you hurt me again!"
She lifted both her feet in the air, jump kicking him in the chest.
He looked surprised, as his grip loosened, she tore it away from his, as he skidded to a stop a few feet away.
She didn't wait...
She tore down off the doorway, darting this way and that, no clue where she was going, and with only one thought in her head:
To get the hell out of here!
She came to a garden, surrounded on all sides with beautiful flowers, snaking up walls.
Walls.
That was it!
Kagome kept running, took a leap..
and landed on the top of the ten foot wall.
She did it!
Suddenly she felt the aurora of Sesshoumaru coming towards her.
She jumped off the other side, landing on soft green grass.
Wiping her neck of the red blood from her reopened wound, she took off again towards the forest.
She heard Sesshoumaru roar after her.
"KAGOME!!!"
She didn't stop.
She had to get away..
Kagome didn't know why it was so important,
but if she didn't now..
he might kill her later..
reincarnation or not.
She felt an incredible aurora following her.
Sesshoumaru!!
"Leave me alone!!" She shouted back at him.
"Stop running." Came the cool reply.
"NO!!"
Kagome ran faster.
Don't follow me...
Don't follow me...
Don't follow me...
Don't follow me...
Kagome felt a warm shiver run up her spine as she concentrated on the thought.
Her skin began tingling.
She looked down and saw herself growing taller, her hands becoming paws.
She was turning in to a dog..
A really, REALLY big dog.
As on instinct, she felt the transformation was over, she pounced launched herself to the sky.
Only instead of falling.. she kept floating upwards. She was flying!
Kagome laughed inwardly.
Her friends would never believe her if she told them about this!
She worked her legs back and forth as if she was running, and she flew faster.
She didn't know where she was going, but at the moment she didn't care.
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Sesshoumaru felt the wind rushing through his hair.
She was awake... and already on the run.
Kagome seemed to be learning her youkai powers quickly, and whatever fighting techniques she uses.. works fairly well.. almost like his halfling brother.
He followed after her, when her scent started changing. he looked at her closer and realized she was changing into her true form.
Soon, with each of her steps, she became an magnificent black youkai.
She was covered with soft silkly black fur, her tail swaying back and forth behind her.
Her green eyes remained but the pupils had turned an turquiose color. She had floppy black ears, with her sun symbol still emprinted on her forehead.
Indeed.. she was a quick learner.
He watched after her, than with out notice she launched herself in to the air, flying.
Now where'd she learn that from?!
He growled, transforming in to his own true white youkai form.
He'd have to keep chasing her, until he told her why.
Sesshoumaru could smell the fear on her and the confusion.
He'd have to tell her!! Even as much as he didn't want to explain the marking...
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Kaede, the old village preistess, was sitting in her hut when all of a sudden, a villager burst through her door.
"Lady Kaede! Lady Kaede!!"
"What tis it?" She said standing up.
"In the sky!! Two demons!"
"What?!" She said. Picking up a bow and quiver of arrows, she followed the man out.
She was greeted with the sight of the whole village staring up and the sky, pointing and talking.
"Look there!!"
"Is the white one trying to kill the other?"
"No they are playing tag!"
"I don't think so.."
Kaede too looked up, and was greeted with quite an unusual sight.
The first thing she saw was a large graceful black inu youkai gliding across the sky. Behind the black one was an even larger white inu youkai, seeming as if chasing the smaller inu. Just then Kaede noticed the markings on their foreheads. The white one had a purple crescent moon, the black one had a silver sun on its forehead. These weren't normal youkai! They were lords!
Kaede caught sight of a flash of red and immediately knew who it was.
"Inu yasha wait!!" A woman's voice yelled.
The villagers all turned and saw a woman in black and red warrior clothes, and a monk, on a feirce two tailed youkai went after the red hanyou.
"NO... WAIT!! Do not trifle with them!!" Kaede tried yelling after them, but they couldn't hear.
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Kagome felt Sesshoumaru closing in.
Oh well.. she was amazed she'd made it this far.
She'd just have to settle for combating with him.
She growled back at him, saying.
"Seshoumaru get away from me!!"
"No!!" He growled back. They heard a roar below them, and looked down.
A youkai, with a two humans on its back, one a woman with a giant bommerang on her back, the other carring a staff.
Following behind them was a man with white hair in a red kimono, with golden eyes, who looked faintly familiar..
"Prepare to die demons!!!" He yelled.
Kagome knew that yell!!
"Inu yasha!!" She yipped at him. Before remembering he probably couldn't understand her.
"Inu yasha!!" Seshoumaru roared
She turned to look at the other inu youkai.
He knew Inu yasha? how?
"HIRAKOTSU!!!" The woman yelled, launching her boomerang at the black inu while she was unguarded.
It clipped her shoulder, as she let out a painful roar.
"KAZAANA!!" The monk yelled, pulling the prayerbeads of his hand. A wind started pulling them towards them. Kagome injured could barely hold back.
Sesshoumaru seeing her distress, ran around the monk, and clawed at them, but closing the wind tunnel, they evaded the attack.
Sesshoumaru heard his reckless brother behind them, and dodged the attack.
He looked for Kagome to make sure shewas safe but, didn't see her anywhere.
He looked dow and saw her inu form falling to the earth.
"Kagome!!!" He barked after her, about to nose dive, when his brother tried another attack.
He roared, slashing at him, and did the dive, his ears whistling in pain at the quick descent.
Kagoome felt the two wounds hurt painfully, her shoulder and neck.
It just wasn't her day.
She knew she was falling..
she hadn't been able to keep herself in the air any longer..
she tried kicking her legs again but found she couldn't move them.
Her body was nearing the ground.
Kagome caught sight of a group of people directly underneath her..
if she kept falling.. she'd land right on them!
and in her huge form right now it wouldn't be too good.
Closing her eyes she focused on her powers, as she reverted back to her small human like form.
Several of the humans gasped in shock.
Kagome felt her wounds bleeding more freely now, as she opened her eyes once again, tears now forming in then.
Only directly above her Sesshoumaru was diving for her. She smiled weakly.
maybe he wasn't...
so bad....
It seemed the humans had woken out of ther daze and had moved aside..
Sesshoumaru wouldn't catch up with her in time..
She felt the sharp contact of the dirt and her back and let out a painful gasp, as she bounced and landed on her stomach.
"NO!!!!" She heard Sesshoumaru roar.
She rolled to her side in a fetal position, coughing.
She heard the impact of something landing beside her, and cradling her head.
"Kagome!!" He whispered. She opened her eyes, and saw Sesshoumaru staring sown at her his face ungaurded of his worries.
"Hi Sesshoumaru.." She said, smiling.
"I'll kill them for doing this!" He growled looking at the attackers. She grasped his hand so he'd look back at her.
"Don't hurt them." She said firmly. She had noticed the other humans crowding around them, but was trying to ignore them.
"Why? they hurt you did they not?" He said icily.
"Yes.. but so did you.." He winced, she continued. "I'll be fine.. I think... but promise me you won't hurt them. Inu yasha, Sango, Kirara OR Miroku. Please don't." She said.
"Alright but if they try to hurt us I will." He said unwillingly.
"I doubt they will." She said smiling.
He nodded slightly.
"Okay.." She said, wrapping her hand around her neck wound as it throbbed with pain. She laughed.
"You know this still really does hurt." She said grinning. He smirked.
"Yes, I'll explain tha to you later."
"'Kay.."
She tried sitting up, as she felt a hand on her back helping her up. She looked at Sesshoumaru.
"Thanks."
He nodded acknowlegdement.
The monk who had been rding on the cat youkai, walked up beside them, as Sesshoumaru and Kagome stood up.
"Would you mind if I asked you, milady how you knew our names?"
She grinned.
Kagome COULD tell them the truth about her friends from the future were probably their reincarnations.. but that would take too much explaining.
"Um.. I have a power to know things about people with pure souls. Like you for example.."
She smiled hoping the present-Miroku was like her friend back home.
"... are a bit of a letcher."
he blushed and a female voice said.
"Yes that's him."
Kagome turned to her.
"You are Sango... you have a really big scar on your back from your brother.." Kagome said, watching the surprised expression cross her friend's face. She was only picking out personal friends would know. Sango's scar was caused when her and Kohaku were sparring with a new weapon and he accidently hit her with it, at the same telling her what Kirara really was.
Kagome finally turned to Inu yasha with a scowl on his face. She grinned. What could she say about Inu yasha that wasn't already apprent? Arrogant? no. Violent? no. protective? no. She gasped. She knew the perfect one!
"And you Inu yasha... if you were a human.. you'd have black hair and violet eyes if I'm correct..." She said. With her nose she had picked up his scent and detected human blood, so she figured he was an hanyou. So he had to know what his human form looked like.. right? He looked shocked, so she guessed she was right.
"H-how did you..?!" He began. But an old voice cut in.
"Inu yasha don't argue."
They looked down and saw a withered woman in an miko's garb, she bowed to the two youkai.
"You'll have to forgive our rudeness my lord Sesshoumaru and Lady...?"
"Kagome." She said uncomfortably. Why was she being called a lady anyways? Because she was with Sesshoumaru?
"Lady Kagome. We didn't know who you were until it was to late." She led off, as Inu yasha started shouting.
"Wait are you saying the girl is a Lady?!"
The monk smacked Inu yasha over the head with his staff. Kagome held back a laugh. At least she knew what she should get Miroku for his birthday to fend Inu yasha away. Deffinately.
"Quiet Inu yasha, you should pay your respects to the lord of the western lands, and Lady of the Eastern lands. If I am correct by the sun on your forehead means that does it not Lady Kagome?" Miroku asked.
"I-" She began.
This mark on her head was suppose to mean something?
WAS she a lady??
"No houshi-sama.." Sango said, looking thoughtful. Kagome almost sighed with relief.
"See the wound at her neck? She has been newly marked." Sango finished. The monk nodded in agreement. Kagome stiffened.
'newly marked'? what was that suppose to mean?
She glared up at Sesshoumaru who had looked away.
"Sesshou... what AREN'T you telling me?" She said through gritted teeth. He wouldn't look at her. She turned back to Sango.
"What do you mean by 'marked'? I've travel quite a ways so I don't know the customs here. Would you mind telling me what is going on?" She said. She had a feeling in her stomach and she didn't know whether to take it as good or bad.
Sango looked amazed at her.
"You honestly don't know?"
Kagome shook her head.
"So he did it.. without you.. knowing why?" Miroku said, trying to conceal a sly grin directed at Sesshoumaru, as if saying 'you sly dog you..'
She nodded, a little impatient.
Inu yasha, who had just woken out of his daze from Miroku's bashing, started stuttering.
"Y-y-your Sesshoumaru's new mate!?!"
Kagome's shoulders slumped, as her eyes went wide open. She opened her mouth to say something, but no words came out, except.
"M-m-m-mate?!!!"
Sango said as if taking advantage of her baby talk.
"Yes, the mark on your forehead means your a lady of the eastern lands, but when mated with another lord, such as Sesshoumaru, she gives up her chances of becoming heir of her birth family." She stated logically.
Kagome was still to stunned.
It hit her.
mated.. as in... married?
she was WWAAAY to young to be married- er-mated!
She felt a swell of anger in her chest..
.. and all of it was directed at the one person who caused it.
"Sesshou... maru..." She ground out. Her head was still bowed, but she suddenly whipped it up to glare at him full force.
"WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA HUH?!? MATED?!?! I'VE ONLY KNOWN YOU FOR A DAY!! AND THAT WAS BECAUSE YOU KIDNAPPED ME FROM MY SCHOOL AND TURNED ME IN TO THIS INUYOUKAI BY REMOVING SOME SPELL-THINGS!!! AND TOOK ME BACK TO THE PAST WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!!HOW COULD YOU DO THAT YOU ARROGANT JERK!! YOUR AS BAD AS KOUGA!!!!!" She took deep breaths trying to calm herself.
The last part was focused on the upperclassmen who had been trying to get her to go out with him for the past five years. At this moment.. he was almost Kouga's double!!
She would have stomped off or try running again, if it not been for her wounds and being surrounded on all sides at the moment. Everyone around her looked confused.
"Kidnapped? School? Spells?" Kaede said
"Kouga?" Inu yasha asked.
"Past?" Sango chimed.
"Only a day huh?" Miroku smirked.
Sesshoumaru looked down at her startled.
"Kouga? The upstart wolk youkai in the north? You know him?" He asked.
She blinked. Wolf youkai? Kouga?
Oh... he must have a different life here in the past..
"No! The one from my time!!" She barked
"Your time!?" Sango said.
Kagome snorted. Folding her arms across her chest angrily.
"Don't ask ME, ask HIM your questions. I don't know anything now do I?" She said, glaring at the dirt.
Sango turned to Sesshoumaru, who was looking at the back of Kagome's head, with an hurt look in his eyes.
Sango's jaw dropped in amazement.
Sesshoumaru... feelings?
What had this Kagome done to make this change?!?
She looked back at the girl in higher respect.
"Kagome, what do you mean by your time? and I am not asking HIM." She said gesturing to the demon lord. Kagome snorted again.
"I come five hundred years from now. In Tokyo. Living an happy, not so CONFUSING life as a normal high school girl." She said.
"Oh.. from the future? Stop lying to foolish git!!" Inu yasha growled.
Kagome whipped her gaze at him.
"I'm a foolish girl now am I?! This coming from a boy who probably doesn't even know the square root of a hundred.. you probably don't even know 2 + 2!!!!" She said angrily. Inu yasha looked confused, suddenly her held out his fingers and started counting.
She rolled her eyes, regaining her anger at Sesshoumaru she turned to look back at him. Straight in to those gold eyes.
"So would you please explain WHY you did it?? Is it about Faia?" She said calmly, masking her fury, as well as Sesshoumaru ever could. Only giving it far more scarier aspects. She swear she saw Miroku cringe. Sesshoumaru leaned back slightly.
"It has nothing to do with her. And I did it for my own reasons." He said, regaining the cold expression. Kagome wished she could just rip that mask off and hit the daylights out of him!!
"You know that additude gets REALLY annoying after a while.. ESPECIALLY when it means something like being mates!!!!!!" She said. Her wounds she had ignored and didn't plan to stop yet. Besides she had smelled hot springs nearby, and that was exactly what she needed.
A NICE WARM bath to relax and think things over.
She spun on her heels, saying.
"I'll be back in an hour. DON'T follow me or you'll seriously wish you didn't."
Without a response she took off towards the smell.
She hoped Miroku wouldn't do a repeat of his peek hole in to the girls lockeroom stunt again. Only with Sesshoumaru around...
She shuddered.
That wouldn't be very pretty.
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When Kagome was out of earshot, they turned to Sesshoumaru. Miroku spoke first, with a big grin slapped on to his face.
"One day huh? My you like the cute ones don't you?"
Sesshoumaru growled but remebered his promise to Kagome not to kill her friends.
Instead he turned and headed for any tree limb to rest.
This had become quite a mess now..
Kagome's fury was scarier than his own..
and that was something to be afriad of.
VERY afraid of.
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Oooh yes. Never doubt the power of women!!! MWAHAHHA!!!! ahem. Yes I know some parts are so unlike Fluufy but.... Oh well!! ^_^ I like it this way! I think this is the longest chapter I've ever written... cool... so R&R and write later!! BYE!!!
Mieru: Fine, fine just don't get your tail in a knot...
Disclaimer: Me nor Kaimaru own fluffy or ears. Or any other inu youkai in the story..
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Hiya! Okay not much to say.. so straight to the good stuff! Enjoy!
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Gyokusai
Part III - mate?!
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Kagome felt a cool breeze toussling her hair. She snuggled closer to the warmth by her face, trying to escape the coldness. She quickly felt something fluffy and warming, wrap around her shoulders. She sgihed as she melted against it.
It was warm and soft. She grasped rubbing her cheek against it, when it tickled her nose. She raised her finger and scratched the itch, then settled back against the fluffy thing.
It tickled her nose again.
She rubbed her nose.
It tickled again.
She growled, opening her eyes in annoyance, only to find two gold eyes staring down at her. His face was cool, but his eye were dancing playfully.
"Finally awake?" He said. She glared at him, then turning her gaze back at what she was snuggling with. His tail. She blushed.
opps.
this was embarrassing.
Wait.. if this was his tail. She snorted looking at him.
"You woke me up on purpose.. "
She knew he was trying to surpress a smile, but his cold mask remained. She puffed out her cheeks angrily, barely holding back insults.
Kagome took this time and started looking around. It was night out, and several stars were twinkling overhead with a full moon. The toad with the staff was snoring by a fire, and she was in Sesshoumaru's lap while he leaned against a tree. She blushed again.
Why was she always having awkward moments now?
A small flash caught her eye. She smiled happily when she realized what they were..
Fireflies!!
She never got to see those back at home! Or the sky for that matter!
She turned back to Sesshoumaru, her stupid grin still plastered on her face.
"Why didn't you wake me sooner? This is so kawii!!" She squealed.
He looked confused for a minute, and Kagome was amazed at how the cold expression he usually wore, looked so innocent when left ungaurded.
She laughed.
This only served to make him more confused, as the harder she laughed.
"What is so funny?" He asked.
She covered her mouth, choking back her giggles.
"Nothing.. just.. you look cute when your not being mean!!" She said.
The expession his face had turned priceless.
She surpressed her laughter and asked.
"Can you help me up?"
He hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
With his hand he wrapped around her waist, the other he took her hand and stood up.
She tried standing on her feet, and found it easier than earlier. But she wasn't about to take another chance of falling over again.
Besides.... this is quite nice....
She squeezed his hand with a smile.
She looked up at the woven tapastery that was the night sky.
"It sure is pretty out here." She whispered.
"Yes. Better than that filthy villiage you were living in.." He muttered. She giggled, only slightly sad.
"Yeah.. I guess... although, I didn't think it was that bad."
He just nodded and they stood in comfortable silence, staring up at the sky, with fireflies dancing around them.
It was like a fairytale picture book..
and she was LIVING it.
"Sesshoumaru..?"
"Yes?"
"Umm...." She blushed, looking at her feet " Why'd you bring me here? and what exactly happened at my school?"
He looked thoughtful for a minute. Taking the giant hut was called a 'school'.
"You don't remeber?"
She shook her head.
"You are an Reincarnation of a inu youkai named Faia."
"Inu?"
"Yes, like me. She died some 200 years ago in battle, when we were fighting a man named Koki. He killed her while I was fighting a pack of his minions. I watched her die, after I had killed him."
Kagome watched his face. His voice had a total lack of emotion, but he was struggling to keep his mask. She felt sympathy for him, but she knew the youkai wouldn't want it.
"So.. that's why you brought me here?"
"Yes, Jaken got word of you living some 500 years in the future, so we came to get you."
Her eyes bugged.
f-five hundrend... years?!!
T.. that meant.. she was in the Sengoku jidai?!
Her head was starting to hurt again.
"great.." She muttered.
"What is great?" He asked looking down at her.
She choked.
How did he--?
I bearly said--?
how-?
Ohhh.....
Doggy ears... good hearing...
She sighed.
"N-nothing, it just not everyday you get kidnapped by a youkai, learn you're somebody's reincarnation, get transformed in to a --whatever, and travel to the past." She said sarcastically.
He raised an eyebrow.
"Well you weren't normal to begin with so why would you expect anything normal to happen to you?"
She nodded.
He was right.. only what did he mean by that?
"What'd you mean I'm not normal?"
"Your reincarnation was a inu youkai, so when the spells were removed, you became a inuyoukai as well."
She gulped.
Spells?
Became--?
That.. was what happened?
She was..... a youkai?
She'd seen pictures of youkai in her grandfather's books.. and they weren't too pretty or friendly looking.
Then again...
Sesshoumaru was a youkai...
and she KNEW he wasn't ugly.. although the friendly part was debatable.
"Uh.. Sesshou-maru?"
"Yes?"
"Do... I.. um, um.... look... ugly... like this.?" She said stuggling with her word. A large blush covering her cheeks.
What a stupid question to ask! Of course she didn't!! She was a YOUKAI!!! How could she be pretty, or at least normal looking like this!! Even when he was human she didn't look good!!
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Sesshoumaru looked at her in amazement.
She thought she was ugly?
He had trouble believing she was a youkai and not a goddess!
... although he'd never tell anyone to that extent.
He thought back to the disapearing mark on her neck and couldn't help but think several other youkai might think that as well..
Sesshoumaru swallowed his pirde, looking at her intently.
She was looking down at the grasss, her blush fading to a light pink across her cheeks.
He removed his hand from hers, to gently take her chin in his hand, so she'd look at him.
She stared at him with those innocent green eyes.
"Believe me Kagome... you are far from ugly." He whispered
Kagome's heart leapt in her chest, as his golden eyes fixed on hers.
Then as quick as a flash, his lips pressed softly against hers..
.. stealing her first kiss.
Kagome's eyes widened.
Sesshoumaru slowly pulled away, opening his gaze to look down at her.
The kiss was sweet and pure, and he found it hard to pull away to keep his dignity intacted.
She stared up at him in astonishment, and he let a grin slip on to his lips.
Damn, she was innocent.
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Kagome watched the grin form on his face, his icy glare had turned a melted honey color.
Warm and kind, a look she never expected to see on him. Her thoughts kicked in.
Why'd he just kiss her?!!?
She gulped, realizing his arms had wrapped around her waist.
"S-S-Sessh--" She stuttered, but before she could finish, He had hugged her closer. Nuzzling his nose in her hair.
"Kagome..." He whispered huskily.
She rested her head against his neck clumsily.
Sesshoumaru wrapped his tail around them, mixed with another black silky tail, that Kagome could only guess was her own. She had closed her eyes in comfort, feeling the gently breeze sweep around them.
"Kagome I know you can't understand what happened back then... but... "
His grip around tightened her waist.
As she felt a pang in her heart.
"It's alright... you don't have to say it."
She hesiantly wrapped her arms around his shoulders.
She knew he wasn't thinking of her now, but of this 'Faia' she supposedly was her past life. But she didn't mind. No matter how bad it got, she thought wryly, she was always more worried about others than herself..
And right now her heart hurt.
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Sesshoumaru closed his eyes as he snuggled in to her hair, listening to her speak soothing words to him.
He knew Faia was gone, and even though Kagome had her soul..
They weren't the same.
And they never would be.
He knew this now.
Their scents were similar, but Kagome's was.. sweeter.
Their kiss was different as well.
They looked similar, yet Kagome was smaller and more childish, but that had to do with how young she still was...
with an infinite amount of time left yet to live.
Faia had more demanding eyes, while Kagome's were a soft velvet.
and, then mark of her having a mate was gone as well.
He chuckled silently.
She hadn't known him a day, yet here she was comforting him like an old friend.
She knew what he was thinking, yet she still helped him?
He was too lucky to even have her near him...
She'd hope he'd forgive her for this.. but he can't take a chance of losing her.. until she understood exactly why.
"Kagome.." He whispered again.
"Yes Sesshou-maru?" She asked quietly.
"Forgive me.." He said
"What?" She said, starting to pull away, but he held on to her tighter.
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Suddenly Kagome felt a searing pain by her neck as Sesshoumaru dug his fangs in to her skin.
She would have screamed, if not immediately he crushed his lips against hers to prevent so.
The pain was almost unbarable, as she felt a warm liquid slowly ooze down her shoulders.
She fought the tears in her eyes, as she started becoming dizzy.
As soon as his lips pulled away from hers. She shoved him roughly away as hard as she possibly could.
Kagome instantly fell on to her hands and knees.
She grasped the joint where her neck and shoulder met, pressing on it, trying to stop the bleeding.
She looked up at him, her sight switching from black to blurry over and over again.
"What did you do?!!" She yelled.
His cold expression returned, but it looked forced.
She couldn't hear his answer, her ears became deaf as she fell to her elbows. Still trying to fight the blackness.
Her breathing was harsh, as she pressed harder on the wound.
'Why'd he hurt her?!' She thought madly
'Did she offend him?!'
'it hurts.. his fangs sunk in deep.'
'ah.... why did he!'
'That... jerk..'
Her vision finally failed altogether, as she fell face first in to the dirt unconcious...
She seemed to be doing that a lot lately.
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Sesshoumaru kneeled down next to her, brushing away her hair, so not to get any blood in it. Staring down at the open wound, he felt a mixed reaction of glory and guilt.
He doubted she even knew what the wound meant..
and when she did find out..
Would she be mad at him?
Would she hate him?
Probably.
But she'd live, he thought coldly.
Trying to regain the appearance and mind he'd kept up for the past two hundrend years, that this girl had so easily broke in a day.
He picked her up, then walking over to Jaken, he kicked the toad awake.
"y-yes Milord?" He said bowing.
"Put out the fire. We are leaving."
The toad nodded, not asking why.
Instead he did his task quickly, and followed after his lord. he looked wonderingly at the girl and noticed the blood. He followed the red trail with his eyes, as it started at...
He gawked.
He marked her!!
She was his mate now!!
Sesshoumaru noticed his stare, saying.
"Yes Jaken?"
"N-nothing milord.." The toad stuttered, shaking his head, before muttering,
"Carried her like that the night before he marked her... how true that statement was .. both times..."
Sesshoumaru heard, but didn't say anything.
'Only that.. both times were remarkably differently though.. if he only knew..' He thought stiffly.
He summoned his cloud, not worried she'd be overwhelmed by the castle, and hopped on. Jaken behind him, they took to the air.
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Kagome shifted her head, and felt a throbbing pain in her neck.
She reached up, and cupped her hand over it, moaning.
what was it?
She opened her eyes, wincing as she tried raisiing her head.
Wait...
I remember...
Sesshoumaru that baka!!!!!!!
She sat up, suddenly not caring about the pain.
How could he!?
He had no clue how much that hurt!!
not that she ever trusted him yet...
only a little...
and he just lost it!!!
She stood up, slightly woozy.
A thought struck Kagome..
with his powers as a youkai.. he'd probably be able to sense she was awake or was moving around!!
She had to get out of here!!
but how?
BUT..
She was youkai now too wasn't she?
Kagome walked to the elegant room's large window..
She stopped, and spun around.
Room?!?!
Wasn't she outside?
Kagome examined the room in shock.
There were two oak doors on the oppisote side where she stood. She had been sleeping in a large four poster bed, with red drapes surrounding it. The sheets and blankets were also a red silk. The walls were covered with drawings of inu youkai, and she didn't doubt they were of Sesshoumaru- baka's family.
She snorted, looking down.
She was wearing a white sleeping kimono..
Some servant; she at least hoped it was a servant; must have dressed her while she slept.
Oh well..
now how'd she escape?
She looked down at her claws.
How'd they help her?
Protection?
Yes.
Now if only she knew what other skills youkai had.
She looked up at the sound of footsteps and her doors opening.
He stopped.
It was Sesshoumaru.
She growled at him. Crouching, with her claws ready.
She could only thank the heavens, she had taken those fighting lessons from Inu yasha.
"Kagome." He said, taking a step foward.
"Get away from me!" She snarled. He stopped his ascent. She didn't wait for him to say anything else.
"Where did you bring me!?"
His expression remained cool.
"My castle." He said.
"Why?!"
"For my own reasons." He said narrowing his eyes.
"Well take me back home!!" She yelled. It hurt her own ears, but she was to angry to care much.
"I won't."
Her eyes went large in anger.
"I guess I'll have to do it... on my OWN!!!" She said, and with no hesitation she sped at him at a speed she didn't even know she possesed.
She wasn't aiming for him but to his side to escape through the opwn doors.
Only no matter how much she tried, his gaze followed her easily.
When she ran past him, his hand darted out catching her wrist.
She growled, throwing her hand in a fist at his face, but he caught it.
"Let me go!!!" She yelled.
"No."
Her lips curled up in a feirce snarl.
"I won't let you hurt me again!"
She lifted both her feet in the air, jump kicking him in the chest.
He looked surprised, as his grip loosened, she tore it away from his, as he skidded to a stop a few feet away.
She didn't wait...
She tore down off the doorway, darting this way and that, no clue where she was going, and with only one thought in her head:
To get the hell out of here!
She came to a garden, surrounded on all sides with beautiful flowers, snaking up walls.
Walls.
That was it!
Kagome kept running, took a leap..
and landed on the top of the ten foot wall.
She did it!
Suddenly she felt the aurora of Sesshoumaru coming towards her.
She jumped off the other side, landing on soft green grass.
Wiping her neck of the red blood from her reopened wound, she took off again towards the forest.
She heard Sesshoumaru roar after her.
"KAGOME!!!"
She didn't stop.
She had to get away..
Kagome didn't know why it was so important,
but if she didn't now..
he might kill her later..
reincarnation or not.
She felt an incredible aurora following her.
Sesshoumaru!!
"Leave me alone!!" She shouted back at him.
"Stop running." Came the cool reply.
"NO!!"
Kagome ran faster.
Don't follow me...
Don't follow me...
Don't follow me...
Don't follow me...
Kagome felt a warm shiver run up her spine as she concentrated on the thought.
Her skin began tingling.
She looked down and saw herself growing taller, her hands becoming paws.
She was turning in to a dog..
A really, REALLY big dog.
As on instinct, she felt the transformation was over, she pounced launched herself to the sky.
Only instead of falling.. she kept floating upwards. She was flying!
Kagome laughed inwardly.
Her friends would never believe her if she told them about this!
She worked her legs back and forth as if she was running, and she flew faster.
She didn't know where she was going, but at the moment she didn't care.
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Sesshoumaru felt the wind rushing through his hair.
She was awake... and already on the run.
Kagome seemed to be learning her youkai powers quickly, and whatever fighting techniques she uses.. works fairly well.. almost like his halfling brother.
He followed after her, when her scent started changing. he looked at her closer and realized she was changing into her true form.
Soon, with each of her steps, she became an magnificent black youkai.
She was covered with soft silkly black fur, her tail swaying back and forth behind her.
Her green eyes remained but the pupils had turned an turquiose color. She had floppy black ears, with her sun symbol still emprinted on her forehead.
Indeed.. she was a quick learner.
He watched after her, than with out notice she launched herself in to the air, flying.
Now where'd she learn that from?!
He growled, transforming in to his own true white youkai form.
He'd have to keep chasing her, until he told her why.
Sesshoumaru could smell the fear on her and the confusion.
He'd have to tell her!! Even as much as he didn't want to explain the marking...
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Kaede, the old village preistess, was sitting in her hut when all of a sudden, a villager burst through her door.
"Lady Kaede! Lady Kaede!!"
"What tis it?" She said standing up.
"In the sky!! Two demons!"
"What?!" She said. Picking up a bow and quiver of arrows, she followed the man out.
She was greeted with the sight of the whole village staring up and the sky, pointing and talking.
"Look there!!"
"Is the white one trying to kill the other?"
"No they are playing tag!"
"I don't think so.."
Kaede too looked up, and was greeted with quite an unusual sight.
The first thing she saw was a large graceful black inu youkai gliding across the sky. Behind the black one was an even larger white inu youkai, seeming as if chasing the smaller inu. Just then Kaede noticed the markings on their foreheads. The white one had a purple crescent moon, the black one had a silver sun on its forehead. These weren't normal youkai! They were lords!
Kaede caught sight of a flash of red and immediately knew who it was.
"Inu yasha wait!!" A woman's voice yelled.
The villagers all turned and saw a woman in black and red warrior clothes, and a monk, on a feirce two tailed youkai went after the red hanyou.
"NO... WAIT!! Do not trifle with them!!" Kaede tried yelling after them, but they couldn't hear.
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Kagome felt Sesshoumaru closing in.
Oh well.. she was amazed she'd made it this far.
She'd just have to settle for combating with him.
She growled back at him, saying.
"Seshoumaru get away from me!!"
"No!!" He growled back. They heard a roar below them, and looked down.
A youkai, with a two humans on its back, one a woman with a giant bommerang on her back, the other carring a staff.
Following behind them was a man with white hair in a red kimono, with golden eyes, who looked faintly familiar..
"Prepare to die demons!!!" He yelled.
Kagome knew that yell!!
"Inu yasha!!" She yipped at him. Before remembering he probably couldn't understand her.
"Inu yasha!!" Seshoumaru roared
She turned to look at the other inu youkai.
He knew Inu yasha? how?
"HIRAKOTSU!!!" The woman yelled, launching her boomerang at the black inu while she was unguarded.
It clipped her shoulder, as she let out a painful roar.
"KAZAANA!!" The monk yelled, pulling the prayerbeads of his hand. A wind started pulling them towards them. Kagome injured could barely hold back.
Sesshoumaru seeing her distress, ran around the monk, and clawed at them, but closing the wind tunnel, they evaded the attack.
Sesshoumaru heard his reckless brother behind them, and dodged the attack.
He looked for Kagome to make sure shewas safe but, didn't see her anywhere.
He looked dow and saw her inu form falling to the earth.
"Kagome!!!" He barked after her, about to nose dive, when his brother tried another attack.
He roared, slashing at him, and did the dive, his ears whistling in pain at the quick descent.
Kagoome felt the two wounds hurt painfully, her shoulder and neck.
It just wasn't her day.
She knew she was falling..
she hadn't been able to keep herself in the air any longer..
she tried kicking her legs again but found she couldn't move them.
Her body was nearing the ground.
Kagome caught sight of a group of people directly underneath her..
if she kept falling.. she'd land right on them!
and in her huge form right now it wouldn't be too good.
Closing her eyes she focused on her powers, as she reverted back to her small human like form.
Several of the humans gasped in shock.
Kagome felt her wounds bleeding more freely now, as she opened her eyes once again, tears now forming in then.
Only directly above her Sesshoumaru was diving for her. She smiled weakly.
maybe he wasn't...
so bad....
It seemed the humans had woken out of ther daze and had moved aside..
Sesshoumaru wouldn't catch up with her in time..
She felt the sharp contact of the dirt and her back and let out a painful gasp, as she bounced and landed on her stomach.
"NO!!!!" She heard Sesshoumaru roar.
She rolled to her side in a fetal position, coughing.
She heard the impact of something landing beside her, and cradling her head.
"Kagome!!" He whispered. She opened her eyes, and saw Sesshoumaru staring sown at her his face ungaurded of his worries.
"Hi Sesshoumaru.." She said, smiling.
"I'll kill them for doing this!" He growled looking at the attackers. She grasped his hand so he'd look back at her.
"Don't hurt them." She said firmly. She had noticed the other humans crowding around them, but was trying to ignore them.
"Why? they hurt you did they not?" He said icily.
"Yes.. but so did you.." He winced, she continued. "I'll be fine.. I think... but promise me you won't hurt them. Inu yasha, Sango, Kirara OR Miroku. Please don't." She said.
"Alright but if they try to hurt us I will." He said unwillingly.
"I doubt they will." She said smiling.
He nodded slightly.
"Okay.." She said, wrapping her hand around her neck wound as it throbbed with pain. She laughed.
"You know this still really does hurt." She said grinning. He smirked.
"Yes, I'll explain tha to you later."
"'Kay.."
She tried sitting up, as she felt a hand on her back helping her up. She looked at Sesshoumaru.
"Thanks."
He nodded acknowlegdement.
The monk who had been rding on the cat youkai, walked up beside them, as Sesshoumaru and Kagome stood up.
"Would you mind if I asked you, milady how you knew our names?"
She grinned.
Kagome COULD tell them the truth about her friends from the future were probably their reincarnations.. but that would take too much explaining.
"Um.. I have a power to know things about people with pure souls. Like you for example.."
She smiled hoping the present-Miroku was like her friend back home.
"... are a bit of a letcher."
he blushed and a female voice said.
"Yes that's him."
Kagome turned to her.
"You are Sango... you have a really big scar on your back from your brother.." Kagome said, watching the surprised expression cross her friend's face. She was only picking out personal friends would know. Sango's scar was caused when her and Kohaku were sparring with a new weapon and he accidently hit her with it, at the same telling her what Kirara really was.
Kagome finally turned to Inu yasha with a scowl on his face. She grinned. What could she say about Inu yasha that wasn't already apprent? Arrogant? no. Violent? no. protective? no. She gasped. She knew the perfect one!
"And you Inu yasha... if you were a human.. you'd have black hair and violet eyes if I'm correct..." She said. With her nose she had picked up his scent and detected human blood, so she figured he was an hanyou. So he had to know what his human form looked like.. right? He looked shocked, so she guessed she was right.
"H-how did you..?!" He began. But an old voice cut in.
"Inu yasha don't argue."
They looked down and saw a withered woman in an miko's garb, she bowed to the two youkai.
"You'll have to forgive our rudeness my lord Sesshoumaru and Lady...?"
"Kagome." She said uncomfortably. Why was she being called a lady anyways? Because she was with Sesshoumaru?
"Lady Kagome. We didn't know who you were until it was to late." She led off, as Inu yasha started shouting.
"Wait are you saying the girl is a Lady?!"
The monk smacked Inu yasha over the head with his staff. Kagome held back a laugh. At least she knew what she should get Miroku for his birthday to fend Inu yasha away. Deffinately.
"Quiet Inu yasha, you should pay your respects to the lord of the western lands, and Lady of the Eastern lands. If I am correct by the sun on your forehead means that does it not Lady Kagome?" Miroku asked.
"I-" She began.
This mark on her head was suppose to mean something?
WAS she a lady??
"No houshi-sama.." Sango said, looking thoughtful. Kagome almost sighed with relief.
"See the wound at her neck? She has been newly marked." Sango finished. The monk nodded in agreement. Kagome stiffened.
'newly marked'? what was that suppose to mean?
She glared up at Sesshoumaru who had looked away.
"Sesshou... what AREN'T you telling me?" She said through gritted teeth. He wouldn't look at her. She turned back to Sango.
"What do you mean by 'marked'? I've travel quite a ways so I don't know the customs here. Would you mind telling me what is going on?" She said. She had a feeling in her stomach and she didn't know whether to take it as good or bad.
Sango looked amazed at her.
"You honestly don't know?"
Kagome shook her head.
"So he did it.. without you.. knowing why?" Miroku said, trying to conceal a sly grin directed at Sesshoumaru, as if saying 'you sly dog you..'
She nodded, a little impatient.
Inu yasha, who had just woken out of his daze from Miroku's bashing, started stuttering.
"Y-y-your Sesshoumaru's new mate!?!"
Kagome's shoulders slumped, as her eyes went wide open. She opened her mouth to say something, but no words came out, except.
"M-m-m-mate?!!!"
Sango said as if taking advantage of her baby talk.
"Yes, the mark on your forehead means your a lady of the eastern lands, but when mated with another lord, such as Sesshoumaru, she gives up her chances of becoming heir of her birth family." She stated logically.
Kagome was still to stunned.
It hit her.
mated.. as in... married?
she was WWAAAY to young to be married- er-mated!
She felt a swell of anger in her chest..
.. and all of it was directed at the one person who caused it.
"Sesshou... maru..." She ground out. Her head was still bowed, but she suddenly whipped it up to glare at him full force.
"WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA HUH?!? MATED?!?! I'VE ONLY KNOWN YOU FOR A DAY!! AND THAT WAS BECAUSE YOU KIDNAPPED ME FROM MY SCHOOL AND TURNED ME IN TO THIS INUYOUKAI BY REMOVING SOME SPELL-THINGS!!! AND TOOK ME BACK TO THE PAST WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!!HOW COULD YOU DO THAT YOU ARROGANT JERK!! YOUR AS BAD AS KOUGA!!!!!" She took deep breaths trying to calm herself.
The last part was focused on the upperclassmen who had been trying to get her to go out with him for the past five years. At this moment.. he was almost Kouga's double!!
She would have stomped off or try running again, if it not been for her wounds and being surrounded on all sides at the moment. Everyone around her looked confused.
"Kidnapped? School? Spells?" Kaede said
"Kouga?" Inu yasha asked.
"Past?" Sango chimed.
"Only a day huh?" Miroku smirked.
Sesshoumaru looked down at her startled.
"Kouga? The upstart wolk youkai in the north? You know him?" He asked.
She blinked. Wolf youkai? Kouga?
Oh... he must have a different life here in the past..
"No! The one from my time!!" She barked
"Your time!?" Sango said.
Kagome snorted. Folding her arms across her chest angrily.
"Don't ask ME, ask HIM your questions. I don't know anything now do I?" She said, glaring at the dirt.
Sango turned to Sesshoumaru, who was looking at the back of Kagome's head, with an hurt look in his eyes.
Sango's jaw dropped in amazement.
Sesshoumaru... feelings?
What had this Kagome done to make this change?!?
She looked back at the girl in higher respect.
"Kagome, what do you mean by your time? and I am not asking HIM." She said gesturing to the demon lord. Kagome snorted again.
"I come five hundred years from now. In Tokyo. Living an happy, not so CONFUSING life as a normal high school girl." She said.
"Oh.. from the future? Stop lying to foolish git!!" Inu yasha growled.
Kagome whipped her gaze at him.
"I'm a foolish girl now am I?! This coming from a boy who probably doesn't even know the square root of a hundred.. you probably don't even know 2 + 2!!!!" She said angrily. Inu yasha looked confused, suddenly her held out his fingers and started counting.
She rolled her eyes, regaining her anger at Sesshoumaru she turned to look back at him. Straight in to those gold eyes.
"So would you please explain WHY you did it?? Is it about Faia?" She said calmly, masking her fury, as well as Sesshoumaru ever could. Only giving it far more scarier aspects. She swear she saw Miroku cringe. Sesshoumaru leaned back slightly.
"It has nothing to do with her. And I did it for my own reasons." He said, regaining the cold expression. Kagome wished she could just rip that mask off and hit the daylights out of him!!
"You know that additude gets REALLY annoying after a while.. ESPECIALLY when it means something like being mates!!!!!!" She said. Her wounds she had ignored and didn't plan to stop yet. Besides she had smelled hot springs nearby, and that was exactly what she needed.
A NICE WARM bath to relax and think things over.
She spun on her heels, saying.
"I'll be back in an hour. DON'T follow me or you'll seriously wish you didn't."
Without a response she took off towards the smell.
She hoped Miroku wouldn't do a repeat of his peek hole in to the girls lockeroom stunt again. Only with Sesshoumaru around...
She shuddered.
That wouldn't be very pretty.
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When Kagome was out of earshot, they turned to Sesshoumaru. Miroku spoke first, with a big grin slapped on to his face.
"One day huh? My you like the cute ones don't you?"
Sesshoumaru growled but remebered his promise to Kagome not to kill her friends.
Instead he turned and headed for any tree limb to rest.
This had become quite a mess now..
Kagome's fury was scarier than his own..
and that was something to be afriad of.
VERY afraid of.
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Oooh yes. Never doubt the power of women!!! MWAHAHHA!!!! ahem. Yes I know some parts are so unlike Fluufy but.... Oh well!! ^_^ I like it this way! I think this is the longest chapter I've ever written... cool... so R&R and write later!! BYE!!!
