A/N: Howdees, all. I just saw one of the greatest movies of the summer:
Pirates of the Caribbean. It rocked. Go see it. Anyway, this fic can't
go on forever, I know that some of you are growing bored, sorry, but so it
goes. Thanks to all of those nice people who gave little suggestions as to
what to call both Kagomes. So, thanks to all who told me this one. It was
the best one, without calling them Kagome1 and Kagome2. So, just for
reference, Sesshy's wife is, Lady Kagome, and our Kagome is just Kagome. I
should make review threats more often, it seems to work!
Sorry it took so long to update, my computer is acting like crap and I found one of my old Weiß fics and it was burning a hole in my head. So I have a new fic up, please read it. And here's chapter 28, only 2 more!
The Other Side of the Mirror
Chapter 28: The Final Plan
Inu-Yasha couldn't help but feel bad. Everything that Kagome had thought to be true, was crumbling before her eyes. She thought that she had had a loving husband, a castle to live in, and no worries about the damn jewel.
And it seemed that she had started to love Sesshoumaru...
"Kagome, I..." Inu-Yasha started, but didn't know how to finish.
"Please," Kagome whispered, "Leave me alone." She took off running in the opposite direction, Inu-Yasha knew all too well; she was heading for the well.
Inu-Yasha ran and jumped in Kagome's path, so that she ran into him. "Kagome," he said softly. He could smell her tears.
"I don't understand!" Kagome cried no louder then a whisper. "I'm his wife, aren't I? Why is this happening?"
"No, Kagome," Inu-Yasha wrapped his arms around her, "You are my Kagome. I love you, Kagome. Please, everything will be all right. Just calm down. Don't try to understand yet. Just know that I love you, I would never hurt you, and that I will kill that other me for trying to hurt you."
"Other...? There is more then one?"
"Yes, I'm your Inu-Yasha, the one who has helped you gather the shards of the jewel, who has protected you. Do you remember me?"
"I thought that that was just lies...I thought...everything is wrong! Why is this happening?!" She hugged tighter to Inu-Yasha.
"What you know isn't lies. We've been traveling together for a long time now, with Shippo, Miroku and Sango. Don't you remember? We're going to fix the jewel and you and me could..." he stopped, he didn't know when he had decided that he wanted to spend his life with Kagome, it just happened while he was taking care of Sesshoumaru's wife.
"What about Kikyo?"
"Kikyo died a long time ago."
"But you..."
"I'll still avenge her, but that is all. I won't, I can't go to hell with her. If I did, who would protect you?"
Kagome looked up at him, "Then why are we here?"
"To help me," Sesshoumaru said. Inu-Yasha jumped, he hadn't sensed his brother's approach. "I'm sorry, Kagome. I did not mean to act so cold to you. This is just so confusing. I am sorry that I made you believe that you were my wife. Can you ever forgive me?"
Kagome looked away.
"What do you mean, we were sent here to help you?" Inu-Yasha asked.
"You must help me defeat Naraku and *my* brother."
"The Inu-Yasha that tried to hurt me?" Kagome asked.
"The one who hurt me," Lady Kagome said, rocking Akane in her arms.
Kagome stared at the girl in front of her. "You're me?"
Lady Kagome nodded. "And you are me."
"And the baby? Is it Sesshoumaru's? The one he thought he had lost?"
"Yes. Her name is Akane. When he first told me that he wanted children, we picked names, Akane, if it was a girl, and (I'm flipping through my Japanese-English dictionary, looking for a good name...but I'm stuck so...) Akatsuki (Dawn/Daybreak), for a boy. Would you like to hold her?"
Kagome nodded, and took the baby from her twin. "She's adorable." Akane started to coo.
"Come, we must get back to my castle and formulate a plan to destroy Naraku." Sesshoumaru said.
Kagome nodded and Lady Kagome took Akane back.
Inu-Yasha felt awkward. Sesshoumaru took his wife into his arms and created a large gray cloud for them to ride on. Miroku stepped onto the cloud and looked back at Inu-Yasha. Inu-Yasha took Kagome's hand and helped Kagome onto the cloud.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
They arrived at the castle not long after. Lady Kagome started crying, saying how wonderful it was that she was finally back home. Sesshoumaru took his wife and his child and carried them back to his room. Inu-Yasha, Kagome and Miroku were left, all of them feeling very awkward.
"Inu-Yasha?" Miroku asked. When the hanyou looked up he continued. "We are friends, in your world?"
Inu-Yasha smiled slightly and nodded, "Yeah. You, me, Sango, Shippo, and Kagome. We all hunt for the shards and try to fight Naraku. We all have our reasons."
Jaken, doing his nightly chores, walked into the room they were standing in. He screamed, causing the three to jump. "Lord Sesshoumaru! Lord Sesshoumaru!" He readied himself, as if for a fight, "Inu-Yasha has escaped!"
The lord was in the room in the blink of an eye, "What?!" His anger clearly shown by the crimson color his eyes were changing to.
Jaken balled his fists, "Get away from Lady Kagome, you bastard!"
Inu-Yasha looked at the little toad, annoyed, "Get back frog, Shippo could take you."
"Calm yourself, Jaken. This is not who you think he is."
The little demon stared wide eyed at his lord, "Aye, but he smells right, milord!" (Can Jaken smell like Inu-Yasha and Sesshy?)
"I'm not that one." Inu-Yasha said, in his own defense.
"Inu-Yasha, Miroku," Sesshoumaru said, interrupting something Jaken was about to say, "come, we must make plans."
"Plans for what?" Inu-Yasha asked.
"To defeat Naraku and my brother. And get you and Kagome home."
"What about me? I can help!" Kagome yelled.
"No," both Sesshoumaru and Inu-Yasha answered in unison.
"I will not have you hurt," Sesshoumaru said.
"And I don't want anything to happen to you, Kagome. This has been really weird, I don't fully understanding everything; but if I have to defeat Naraku to get us home, I will." Inu-Yasha sated resolutely.
Kagome sighed, "You think that you need both Tetsusaigas to beat him don't you."
"It's the only way I can think of." Sesshoumaru answered. "Unlike you, I don't have a group who fights against him. Everyone is too afraid! No one will stand against him. I believe the only way to defeat him, is if we work together."
"How will we find out where he is?" Miroku asked.
"We have his partner in a cell, down in the dungeon. How else?"
"So we beat it out of him?" Inu-Yasha said carking his knuckles, "Allow me."
"No," Sesshoumaru answered calmly, "I will. He will regret hurting my wife. I would like to hear him beg for mercy, myself, as I'm sure he made my wife do." He turned to his servant, "Jaken, take them to the guest rooms."
"Aye, milord."
(Ouch...Sesshy wants revenge.)
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The guest rooms weren't as nice as Kagome's room had been, but they weren't terrible. Far from it, actually.
Miroku, who already had his own room, sat with the other two in Kagome's room. Inu-Yasha looked as if he was having trouble looking at the young woman.
"Will you truly help Lord Sesshoumaru defeat Naraku?" Miroku asked.
"I told you, if that's what I have to do to get me and Kagome home, then of course."
"Inu-Yasha?" It was the first time Kagome had spoken since the Tetsusaiga remark.
Inu-Yasha seemed very interested in what she had to say.
"Did you really mean it, what you said?"
Inu-Yasha thought hard, what had he said?! "About what?" Damn! He hated how pathetic that sounded.
"Do you love me?"
His heart stopped. Did she even have to ask? "Why would I lie about that? I always have! Even so far back as when Yura tried to kill you with that fire. When I thought you were dead, I...I couldn't think. I couldn't breath. The only thing I wanted was to have you back. And when the Thunder Brothers...that was the worst thing he could have done to me. I found the strength to beat him because I felt all the rage inside of me build up at one thought: He killed you. He *hurt* you. Please don't think that I didn't care. I love you, Kagome. Nothing will change that. When we get back I...I...I want you to be..."
Kagome started to cry, "I loved you too, Inu-Yasha. I never thought you cared about me. I thought Kikyo-"
"She's dead. She has been for a long time. When I kill Naraku, my debt to her is paid. You are the one I love. Kikyo and I never trusted each other. That proves that what we had wasn't love."
"Inu-Yasha-"
Sesshoumaru burst through the door, dragging the half-conscious, badly battered and bleeding hanyou, behind him. "I know where Naraku is. Get some rest. We leave at dawn."
A/N: I know! I know! I'm sorry! But I have mondo writers block! I'm sorry. I have no idea how I should make the battle. What happens after the battle is all thought out. Don't worry! But it's the battle I need help with...anyone with ideas, please send them my way! I need help!
Sorry it took so long to update, my computer is acting like crap and I found one of my old Weiß fics and it was burning a hole in my head. So I have a new fic up, please read it. And here's chapter 28, only 2 more!
The Other Side of the Mirror
Chapter 28: The Final Plan
Inu-Yasha couldn't help but feel bad. Everything that Kagome had thought to be true, was crumbling before her eyes. She thought that she had had a loving husband, a castle to live in, and no worries about the damn jewel.
And it seemed that she had started to love Sesshoumaru...
"Kagome, I..." Inu-Yasha started, but didn't know how to finish.
"Please," Kagome whispered, "Leave me alone." She took off running in the opposite direction, Inu-Yasha knew all too well; she was heading for the well.
Inu-Yasha ran and jumped in Kagome's path, so that she ran into him. "Kagome," he said softly. He could smell her tears.
"I don't understand!" Kagome cried no louder then a whisper. "I'm his wife, aren't I? Why is this happening?"
"No, Kagome," Inu-Yasha wrapped his arms around her, "You are my Kagome. I love you, Kagome. Please, everything will be all right. Just calm down. Don't try to understand yet. Just know that I love you, I would never hurt you, and that I will kill that other me for trying to hurt you."
"Other...? There is more then one?"
"Yes, I'm your Inu-Yasha, the one who has helped you gather the shards of the jewel, who has protected you. Do you remember me?"
"I thought that that was just lies...I thought...everything is wrong! Why is this happening?!" She hugged tighter to Inu-Yasha.
"What you know isn't lies. We've been traveling together for a long time now, with Shippo, Miroku and Sango. Don't you remember? We're going to fix the jewel and you and me could..." he stopped, he didn't know when he had decided that he wanted to spend his life with Kagome, it just happened while he was taking care of Sesshoumaru's wife.
"What about Kikyo?"
"Kikyo died a long time ago."
"But you..."
"I'll still avenge her, but that is all. I won't, I can't go to hell with her. If I did, who would protect you?"
Kagome looked up at him, "Then why are we here?"
"To help me," Sesshoumaru said. Inu-Yasha jumped, he hadn't sensed his brother's approach. "I'm sorry, Kagome. I did not mean to act so cold to you. This is just so confusing. I am sorry that I made you believe that you were my wife. Can you ever forgive me?"
Kagome looked away.
"What do you mean, we were sent here to help you?" Inu-Yasha asked.
"You must help me defeat Naraku and *my* brother."
"The Inu-Yasha that tried to hurt me?" Kagome asked.
"The one who hurt me," Lady Kagome said, rocking Akane in her arms.
Kagome stared at the girl in front of her. "You're me?"
Lady Kagome nodded. "And you are me."
"And the baby? Is it Sesshoumaru's? The one he thought he had lost?"
"Yes. Her name is Akane. When he first told me that he wanted children, we picked names, Akane, if it was a girl, and (I'm flipping through my Japanese-English dictionary, looking for a good name...but I'm stuck so...) Akatsuki (Dawn/Daybreak), for a boy. Would you like to hold her?"
Kagome nodded, and took the baby from her twin. "She's adorable." Akane started to coo.
"Come, we must get back to my castle and formulate a plan to destroy Naraku." Sesshoumaru said.
Kagome nodded and Lady Kagome took Akane back.
Inu-Yasha felt awkward. Sesshoumaru took his wife into his arms and created a large gray cloud for them to ride on. Miroku stepped onto the cloud and looked back at Inu-Yasha. Inu-Yasha took Kagome's hand and helped Kagome onto the cloud.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
They arrived at the castle not long after. Lady Kagome started crying, saying how wonderful it was that she was finally back home. Sesshoumaru took his wife and his child and carried them back to his room. Inu-Yasha, Kagome and Miroku were left, all of them feeling very awkward.
"Inu-Yasha?" Miroku asked. When the hanyou looked up he continued. "We are friends, in your world?"
Inu-Yasha smiled slightly and nodded, "Yeah. You, me, Sango, Shippo, and Kagome. We all hunt for the shards and try to fight Naraku. We all have our reasons."
Jaken, doing his nightly chores, walked into the room they were standing in. He screamed, causing the three to jump. "Lord Sesshoumaru! Lord Sesshoumaru!" He readied himself, as if for a fight, "Inu-Yasha has escaped!"
The lord was in the room in the blink of an eye, "What?!" His anger clearly shown by the crimson color his eyes were changing to.
Jaken balled his fists, "Get away from Lady Kagome, you bastard!"
Inu-Yasha looked at the little toad, annoyed, "Get back frog, Shippo could take you."
"Calm yourself, Jaken. This is not who you think he is."
The little demon stared wide eyed at his lord, "Aye, but he smells right, milord!" (Can Jaken smell like Inu-Yasha and Sesshy?)
"I'm not that one." Inu-Yasha said, in his own defense.
"Inu-Yasha, Miroku," Sesshoumaru said, interrupting something Jaken was about to say, "come, we must make plans."
"Plans for what?" Inu-Yasha asked.
"To defeat Naraku and my brother. And get you and Kagome home."
"What about me? I can help!" Kagome yelled.
"No," both Sesshoumaru and Inu-Yasha answered in unison.
"I will not have you hurt," Sesshoumaru said.
"And I don't want anything to happen to you, Kagome. This has been really weird, I don't fully understanding everything; but if I have to defeat Naraku to get us home, I will." Inu-Yasha sated resolutely.
Kagome sighed, "You think that you need both Tetsusaigas to beat him don't you."
"It's the only way I can think of." Sesshoumaru answered. "Unlike you, I don't have a group who fights against him. Everyone is too afraid! No one will stand against him. I believe the only way to defeat him, is if we work together."
"How will we find out where he is?" Miroku asked.
"We have his partner in a cell, down in the dungeon. How else?"
"So we beat it out of him?" Inu-Yasha said carking his knuckles, "Allow me."
"No," Sesshoumaru answered calmly, "I will. He will regret hurting my wife. I would like to hear him beg for mercy, myself, as I'm sure he made my wife do." He turned to his servant, "Jaken, take them to the guest rooms."
"Aye, milord."
(Ouch...Sesshy wants revenge.)
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The guest rooms weren't as nice as Kagome's room had been, but they weren't terrible. Far from it, actually.
Miroku, who already had his own room, sat with the other two in Kagome's room. Inu-Yasha looked as if he was having trouble looking at the young woman.
"Will you truly help Lord Sesshoumaru defeat Naraku?" Miroku asked.
"I told you, if that's what I have to do to get me and Kagome home, then of course."
"Inu-Yasha?" It was the first time Kagome had spoken since the Tetsusaiga remark.
Inu-Yasha seemed very interested in what she had to say.
"Did you really mean it, what you said?"
Inu-Yasha thought hard, what had he said?! "About what?" Damn! He hated how pathetic that sounded.
"Do you love me?"
His heart stopped. Did she even have to ask? "Why would I lie about that? I always have! Even so far back as when Yura tried to kill you with that fire. When I thought you were dead, I...I couldn't think. I couldn't breath. The only thing I wanted was to have you back. And when the Thunder Brothers...that was the worst thing he could have done to me. I found the strength to beat him because I felt all the rage inside of me build up at one thought: He killed you. He *hurt* you. Please don't think that I didn't care. I love you, Kagome. Nothing will change that. When we get back I...I...I want you to be..."
Kagome started to cry, "I loved you too, Inu-Yasha. I never thought you cared about me. I thought Kikyo-"
"She's dead. She has been for a long time. When I kill Naraku, my debt to her is paid. You are the one I love. Kikyo and I never trusted each other. That proves that what we had wasn't love."
"Inu-Yasha-"
Sesshoumaru burst through the door, dragging the half-conscious, badly battered and bleeding hanyou, behind him. "I know where Naraku is. Get some rest. We leave at dawn."
A/N: I know! I know! I'm sorry! But I have mondo writers block! I'm sorry. I have no idea how I should make the battle. What happens after the battle is all thought out. Don't worry! But it's the battle I need help with...anyone with ideas, please send them my way! I need help!