Inu Yasha

War is Love

Chapter 7

Aftermath

By: Yaiko Youkai

February 29, 2004

Sesshomaru woke the next morning with some one cuddled up next to him and he had his arms wrapped around the person. That person was laying in his tail sleeping happily. He opened his eyes reluctantly and looked over to see it was Kagome and he tried to pull her closer to him to find just moving was painful.

"Lord Sesshomaru do not move." He heard and looked towards the voice to see Yoshinori sitting in front of the window smiling at his lord.

"How long have you been in here?" Sesshomaru asked as he tried to sit up just to fall back beside Kagome painfully.

Kagome groaned as she woke up quickly cause of Sesshomaru falling. She looked over to see him gritting his teeth painfully. "Sessh you all right?" she asked seeing him in pain and not paying attention to the other guy in the room.

"I'm fine Kagome…" Sesshomaru said placing a clawed hand up to caress her soft cheek.

"Stay still though…It looks what I did yesterday made it worse." Kagome said sadly looking down away from his soft amber eyes after seeing the wound on his chest was worse.

"I'll be fine Kagome." Sesshomaru said placing a finger under her chin to make her look back into his loving soft amber eyes.

"Did you mean it yesterday?" Kagome asked, as she looked into his eyes which turned to his normal unemotional state as he pulled his had away from her. "You didn't…" she said sadly then stood up and started for the door and left his room.

"Why not tell her my lord?" his guard asked after Kagome was out of earshot.

"She loves my stupid half brother. That's why." Sesshomaru said and sighed as he looked out the window sadly.

Several Day's Later!

The Western Lands had finally been joined by the Northern Lands to defeat the Eastern and Southern lands in the war. It had ended several day's ago but Kagome refused to leave so Inuyasha and the others stayed.

"Kagome we are leaving!" Inuyasha said storming into Sesshomaru's room where Kagome was taking care of him.

"Fine go on. But I'm staying." She said firmly.

"No Kagome you are not staying her with that Bastered!" Inuyasha yelled then grabbed her arm and drug her off Sesshomaru's bed where she was seated mending to his wounds.

"AW LET GO INUYASHA!!" Kagome yelled angrily as she tried to get free of him.

"Inuyasha…leave her alone…" the tired voice of Sesshomaru's said. He had nearly been killed during the final battle of the war and has not yet fully recovered.

"Oh and what are you going to do? I can kill you very…" Inuyasha said but was cut off when he was thrown into the wall behind him.

"Leave Him Alone Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled angrily as she glowed a light blue color.

"So…it's over between us. Friends and every thing is over because of HIM!" Inuyasha yelled getting in her face.

"No Inuyasha because of you! Now Get Out!" Kagome yelled and pointed towards the door.

"Fine! Have that Bastered no one else want's him!" Inuyasha said then turned to leave.

"Leave her alone now…" Sesshomaru growled at Inuyasha as he tried to stand up.

"No Sessh. Lay back down." Kagome said worriedly then blushed furiously when she realized she had called him 'Sessh' instead of Sesshomaru.

'Sessh? I have a nickname now…' Sesshomaru thought and smiled at Kagome.

"SESSH! YOU'VE EVEN NICKNAMED HIM!!!" Inuyasha yelled at her as he spun back around to face her. "WHY DON'T YOU JUST MATE WITH HIM TOO!!" he yelled angrily.

"Why do you care what I do Inuyasha. You have Kikyou. That's all that has ever mattered to you. I'm just a shard detector remember!" Kagome said, as tears streamed down her face but she refused to look at him she was facing Sesshomaru.

"Leave Her Alone Right Now! Get Out Inuyasha. Out Of My Castle And Off My Lands!!" Sesshomaru growled angrily.

"Why do I care!" Inuyasha said to hurt Kagome.

"OUT!!" Sesshomaru yelled as he stood up this time growling and baring his fags at Inuyasha.

"No Sessh. You need to get your rest." Kagome said placing her hands on his chest lightly as she looked up into his eyes.

'Could she love me instead of my half whit brother?' Sesshomaru asked in his thoughts then laid back down. Kagome sat beside him and started looking at his wounds again which seemed to be nearly healed.

'Well it seems Sessh is only week now. He'll be up in the next day or so.' Kagome thought and smiled.

'How could she betray me like this?!' Inuyasha asked himself angrily as he glared at her and his half brother. He turned then stormed out of the room seething with anger.

"Jerk!" Kagome said as she glared at the door.

"Kagome?" she heard Sesshomaru say. She turned back to him smiling at him. She didn't show any signs of being angry.

"Yes Sessh?" she asked while she smiled at him.

"Uh…why do you call me Sessh? I thought you loved that half whit brother of mine." Sesshomaru asked slightly confused.

"I thought I did love him. But I don't. I don't mean anything to him I never have. I'm just a shard detector and purifier." Kagome said and saw Sesshomaru relax and release a breath he had obviously been holding. "The first time I called you Sessh was a surprise to even me but you didn't seem to mind the name. Do you?" she asked hoping she hadn't offended him in anyway.

"Not with you saying it." Sesshomaru said and smiled at her. 'I'm setting my self up to get hurt. I know it. She's human she has no way of knowing what I feel. She hated me for two years. I've hurt her and her friends…' Sesshomaru thought then looked sadly away from her.

"Sessh what's wrong?" Kagome asked worriedly.

"Kagome who do you love?" Sesshomaru asked and looked back at her with a hopeful look on his face, which he wasn't trying to hide from her. He hadn't planed on asking that but he wanted to know now that he had asked it.

"I…I...don't know… I'm confused. Once I thought I loved Inuyasha but now…" she said and looked down at her hands in her lap. Sesshomaru looked away from her sadly.

'I knew it. Setting my self up to be hurt. She's human it shouldn't hurt but it does.' Sesshomaru thought and closed his eyes.

"…But now I think it's you." Kagome said putting her hand on his arm. And his eyes shot open as he looked at her surprised.

"Me…" he said stunned as he searched her eyes for any signs of doubt and he couldn't find any. "But how could you love me, I'm demon, I've tried to kill you, your friends hate me, my own half brother hates me." He said sunned as he looked away from Kagome out the window in his room.

"Sessh listen closely. If you wanted us dead we'd been dead a long time ago. I know that. Once they realize this they won't hate you." Kagome said and smiled down at Sesshomaru making him look back to her. "Now who do you love?" she asked and held his hand in hers.

"Has been and always will be you no matter what ever happens." Sesshomaru said taking his free hand and tracing her face with his fingers and smiled at her lovingly.

"Lord Sesshomaru if you feel well enough we must talk of the Eastern Lord that you still hold captive. And the Southern Lords punishment for such an act against you and your lands." The Northern Lord said as he just walked into Sesshomaru's room.

"Do you not know how to knock sir?" Kagome said as she looked over to the Northern Lord annoyed.

"Wench this doesn't concern you." the Northern Lord said as he glared at Kagome for second.

"Do not call Kagome a Wench Do you understand me Tokito." Sesshomaru growled at the other lord.

"Protective of a Human Lord Sesshomaru?" Lord Tokito asked as he watched Sesshomaru try to stand when Kagome put her hand on his shoulder and shook her head 'no'

"Sesshomaru this business can wait get your rest." Kagome said and smiled at him

"We'll talk of this later Tokito." Sesshomaru said and laid back down and closed his eyes.

"Now that's a whipped Inu…" Lord Tokito said as he left the room.

Sesshomaru growled at being called a 'whipped Inu' "If he wasn't the Northern Lord…" he said and growled as he thought of all the things he'd do to him had he not been the Northern Lord.

"Why won't you do anything to the Northern Lord?" Kagome asked as she sat back down beside him on the bed.

"He is the son of the only Lord I ever got a long with and dared to call my friend." Sesshomaru said and looked away from Kagome out the window.

"Oh…what happened to the boy's father? Why is he the Lord now?" Kagome asked as she looked at Sesshomaru sadly.

"Kishino was killed in a fight just as I arrived to help…I was to late…Tokito vowed never to help the West once he took over. Cause his father was killed in a war between East/South and North/West. Then I was to late to help in that battle…" Sesshomaru said as he kept his gaze away from Kagome. "It was all my fault…" he said as he closed his eyes like he was remembering something.

"Was there anything you could have done to get there quicker?" Kagome asked as she watched Sesshomaru closely.

"Any number of things I could have done…I could have went without my army and arrived before the battle began. I could have finished the battle between the South and us long before it ended and arrived quicker. I could have avoided the battle between us and the South…" Sesshomaru said sadly.

"Sesshomaru you would have been no use to the North alone with out your army. The Battle ended when it did because that's when it was supposed to end. And you could not have avoided the battle." Kagome said putting a hand on his cheek to make him look at her. "I'm sorry for what happened but there was nothing you could have done to prevent it from happening." She said and smiled lightly.

"I could have used Tensaiga. But Tokito, then a teenager, attacked me to get revenge for his fathers death…I could have brought him back…" Sesshomaru said and looked away from Kagome again.

"You were trying to bring my father back…" Tokito said stunned and confused as he walked back into the room.

"Yes, Then I only had Tensaiga." Sesshomaru said and looked at Tokito sadly.

"What's your sword got to do with it?" Tokito asked still confused.

"Tensaiga opposite of Tetsusaiga. Tensaiga gives life back to the dead, while Tetsusaiga can kill a hundred demons with on stroke. The two most powerful swords ever. Tetsusaiga held by Sesshomaru Lord of the Western Lands and Tetsusaiga held by Inuyasha, Sesshomaru's half brother." Kagome explained as she looked at Tokito.

"I…I was a fool then…" Tokito said and looked down at the floor.

"No you just didn't understand. I tried to explain it but you wouldn't listen to me. That's why your mother intervened." Sesshomaru said.

"I don't remember my mother getting between us." Tokito said as he looked up at Sesshomaru.

"Of course you don't. You're hated towards me blinded you from every thing else, even when you hit your mother to get to me. I never struck you during that fight and never will. I gave my word to your father, my friend, that if I couldn't bring him back if something happened that I would always protect you and your mother." Sesshomaru said as he sat up.

"It's my fault that my father is dead then…all my fault…" Tokito said and started for the door.

"Tokito." Sesshomaru said and watched him stop in front of the door. "Your father knew he would die in that battle and that you wouldn't understand. He wanted you to have this if you ever came to the point where you understood every thing." Sesshomaru said as he got up and walked over to a cabinet and pulled out something neatly wrapped in a silk cloth then handed it to Tokito.

"What is it?" Tokito asked as he took it from Sesshomaru.

"Unwrap it and see. It was your fathers. I gave it to him and he wanted to have it." Sesshomaru said and watched Tokito unwrap the sword. "It's the Tenki sword." He said.

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Authors Note: I hope every one likes this chapter. Sorry it took me so long to update but it's here now. Haha… anyway leave a review and tell me what you think.