Disclaimer: Unfortunately I still don't own it…maybe one day…I doubt it…
Author's Note: Well…I guess I haven't updated this story in a while, it is going to take a little different course right now. Here is what I am planning to get accomplished in this chapter: 1) Hojou is going to arrive at the demoness's home… 2) Kagome will meet Inu Yasha…. 3) Sesshomaru will have to resort to his old library to find out how to once again open the portal…
Okay, this is a Sesshomaru/Kagome fic, but what I thought would be interesting and make the story drag on more then it already has is to have Kagome be blinded by the demoness in a sense, she will fall in love with Inu Yasha for a while, until Sesshomaru finally gets his act together and comes to get her when…well, I can't give the whole story away now, can I?
Okay enough babbling…on with the story!
Last Time:
Sesshomaru jumped out of his sitting position, "That bitch!" He ran down the stairs and to the clearing he had been only hours before, the sun was now rising and it showed the small rift in the air where the portal, with out thinking he jumped blindly into it, not caring what misfortunes would come his way.
"Your daughter broke my heart, I won't let take the woman that had undone what your child did."
A heart of ice,
Is like the glass,
That contains this fragile rose.
For if you love,
You will be free,
If not always this way you will be.
~Forbidden Forest~
Chapter 15
Hojou flew out of the slip in time, landing harshly on his ass, but he was a little thick headed and did not think about where he might end up. As he sat on the ground he rubbed his head gingerly, before crawling over to a near by tree.
The knitwitt was here to save Kagome, but he decided he would take a nap before he did anything to spontaneous. His mother had always told him that you need to be well rested before you do anything earth shattering.
As he rested his rather empty head against the cool moss laden tree his eyes fell heavily upon his eyes. The poor boy not knowing that he had fallen under a spell drifted off into an easy dreamful sleep of his victory and Kagome's love for him after her rescue.
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The demoness laughed as she looked into her stand of water. The scene had played before her, the young boy coming through after them and falling into eternal sleep. That was her line of defense, any one that entered through the whole or stumbled upon her land fell into an endless sleep.
She was of course not cruel enough to have their sleep be horrific, full of nightmares, they would just sleep dreaming, forever.
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Sesshomaru now stood in the clearing where he had seen that stupid boy enter through after his Kagome. The rift was no longer their, he couldn't get through. He paced looking and remembering exactly every detail from earlier. He didn't want to get anything wrong.
After a good few hours of taking things in through his keen eyes he turned slowly away from the scene in front of him. "I am coming for you Kagome, please wait for me…"
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Sango and Shippo heard the doors open and then shut rather loudly after the person had entered. The gathered it was Sesshomaru, considering that Kagome was gone. The man had stormed out after her only to come back for a few hours and then rush out again.
Sango walked to the stairs to see the demon Lord placing is cape on one of the wooden pegs near the door. "Sesshomaru?" She called in an almost timid voice.
"Yes Sango."
"Can I get you something?" She tried to hide the sorrow in her voice. She had seen Sesshomaru go through so many heart wrenching things. This was the worst she must admit, because Kagome had been her friend.
They had all gotten to know each other, become a family of sorts. Shippo looked at Sesshomaru, the little boy's eyes full of hurt and pain. He missed his "momma" as much as Sesshomaru missed his lover.
The small kistune all of a sudden galloped down the stairs attaching him self to the demon's leg. The softened heart of Sesshomaru caused him to reach down and pick the small boy up, wiping away his tears with a clawed finger in a fatherly manner.
"Don't worry, she'll come back, we'll get her back." He patted the little kit on the head gently rubbing his back in circles.
Shippo's little tear ridden face soon relaxed against the older demon's shoulder, nuzzling it slightly before taking one last hiccup laden breath before falling into a deep slumber.
(A/N: What a cute mental picture!!! So kawaii!!!)
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A knock on Kagome's door awakened her from her thoughts. She spoke a small "yes" and that is when the door opened and a boy about her age walked in. Kagome looked at him intensely, he resembles Sesshomaru slightly, but that didn't seem to bother her.
Their whole relationship didn't seem to bother her at all; she was beginning to think it was a blessing in disguise, she didn't really love him, right? If she did how could she feel so attracted to this boy standing in front of her.
She left her thoughts and took in the hanyou in front of her. He had sliver hair like Sesshomaru, maybe slightly darker, his eyes where the same gold, only this boy's eyes seemed to have more feeling and reveal his thoughts. The thing that Kagome liked about the person she was giving a once over too was the two small triangular appendages the adorned the top of his head.
As she took in a breath ready to speak she realized the two ears twitch picking up any sound she was making. "Who are you?" it was a simple yet blunt question.
"I am Inu Yasha, here to keep you company, I rather be doing something else, but since Eclipse took me in when I was young, I owe her something." The boy was quite rude in his speaking voice towards her.
Kagome not being able to hold back her hot tongue lashed back at him, "I didn't ask for a life story, plus I am perfectly fine by myself. I am no child that needs looking after."
"You certainly do not look like a child," he did a once over of her before continuing, "but you sure have the mentality of one."
Kagome huffed at him before brushing past him, shouldering him quite hard on her way out the door. But before she could even turn the handle she was gripped firmly around the wrist, "I was suggest that you do not anger me wench."
Kagome looked him dead in the eye, "It is not right to call a young woman such names, it is degrading to her status." With that she pried her arm away from him and walked down the hall.
Inu Yasha "khed" before taking down the hall in the opposite direction from the hot tempered mistress now in the same castle as him.
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Sesshomaru had laid the young child to bed an hour ago, that's how long now he had been in the library scowering for the books that he needed. He heard the door open and the light footsteps stop at the table a few feet away from him.
"I brought you something to eat and a little hot tea to clam your nerves. Is there anything I can help you with?" Sango looked at her friend with worry in her eyes.
Sesshomaru realizing that he had been a little crazy the past two days decided it was best that he sit down and have a talk with someone that knew him better then he himself did. "Yeah, talk?"
With that Sango sat in the couch with the demon across from here in the wing backed chair, "Why don't you start with the fight."
Their hushed voices could be heard late into the evening…
End Note: Well, that was a pretty good chapter, a lot of info, but it was a nice change of pace. I promise to start updating once a week…what do you think? Sorry once again that this chapter took so long to get out I hope you all enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
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