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Ch8
SesshouMaru watched from, what used to be, Kagome's room as she sat by herself, and looked around. It seemed like she was trying to find something. A silver eyebrow rose as he saw Kagome stand and walk over to the well-house before stopping to look around again. 'Odd. What's she up to?' he thought, watching her walk to the left, counting her steps as she went. After fifteen paces, she made a quarter-turn to the right and went strait for eight paces. Sitting on her knees, Kagome started to dig at the ground with her hands. 'Is she trying to hide something from this SesshouMaru? Or is she recovering something that was already hidden? Perhaps I should find out.' SesshouMaru thought as he left her room.
Kagome smiled, "Found it!" she proclaimed, holding up a small box. It was a tiny metal box, that seemed to have rusted from years of being underground.
"Found what?" came a voice from behind.
Kagome turned around, surprised to see SesshouMaru staring down at her, "It's a time capsule. You see, years ago, Souta, my father, and I made this so that, years from then, we could all dig it up and see it. Mom and Jii-chan would've helped too, but Jii-chan thought it was a waist of time and went to 'bless' the shrine," giggling, Kagome added, "he accidentally locked himself in the well-house that time."
"And your mother?" SesshouMaru asked indifferently, carefully hiding the fact that he was interested in what she had to say.
Kagome sighed, "She had to leave on business. She used to be a nurse, but she quit after my father left." Kagome looked down at the box, "Well, I suppose that this is the farthest into the future I'll get, so I guess I'll open it now."
Kagome opened up the box, and smiled as she looked down at the contents. Laying in the old box was a picture of Kagome, and who SesshouMaru guessed were her brother and father, and behind them was the Goshinbuku (suppose to mean 'God Tree', but I think I spelt it wrong... sorry). Underneath the picture there was a small blanket, roughly the size of the bottom of the box, that seemed to made of different blankets sewn together. Half of it was dark blue with sakura petals scattered here and there, a fourth of it was black with stars, suns, and moons on it, while the last fourth of it was red with a white design on it that was very similar to what was on the bottom of SesshouMaru's sleeves and left shoulder. Kagome picked up the blanket and hugged it to her. SesshouMaru looked down into the box and saw a small piece of paper with writing on it. Seeing as Kagome was lost in her own little dream word, the demon Lord figured that he should take a look at it. Kagome looked up at SesshouMaru, "What's it say?"
Out loud, the Taiyoukia read,
"To my beloved children,
It is hard for me to do this, but it something that must be done. I figured that this time capsule would be the safest place to put this until you were old enough to read this, and understand what it is that I'm about to say. I am sick, and I fear that my time left with you is short. Please, Kagome, don't be sad, and, Souta, don't get angry about this. I know that you two will grow up and do great things, and only wish that you forgive me for never being able to be there for you. They say that my condition is not able to be cured, and that cryogenic freezing is an option, then again you know me, I hate the cold. I guess that means that I'm destine to die before seeing my little girl get married, or my only son become a famous soccer player. I wish you both the best of luck during all of your endeavors, and I know you'll both be able to make great things happen if you follow your heart.
Much love,
Souta Higurashi, Sr."
Kagome sighed as she looked down at the blanket, "You know, I always wondered what happened to him, since Mom refused to tell us."
"So, you're not angry at him?" SesshouMaru kneeled down next to Kagome.
She hugged the blanket to her, as tears began to fall a bit, "No, I have no reason to be. If he had told either me or Souta we probebly would have begged him not to leave, and that would've made his last days harder than they already were." Deciding to change the subject, Kagome held up the blanket she had been holding, "See the different pieces of cloth here?" SesshouMaru nodded, and she continued, "We each took pieces of our favorite blankets to make it. The blue one was my dads, the black one was Souta's, and the red one is mine."
"So you like that design?"
Kagome nodded, "Yeah. It's actually kinda funny, because that was the first thing I really noticed about you. Sure the giant demon you had been riding was a hard sight to miss, but" She held up the bottom of his sleeve, "this reminded me of my favorite blanket."
SesshouMaru just stared at her, 'The first thing she noticed was... my sleeve?!' Inwardly, the demon sighed to himself, 'And yet somehow, I'm not surprised.' Soon, SesshouMaru lost himself in his thoughts.
Kagome smiled as she talked about fond memories of her childhood, "...I guess that's why Souta and I never could get along when playing soccer. Did you ever play games like that SesshouMaru?" She looked at his glazed expression for a bit, 'What if something's wrong? He looks so cute staring off into space like that. Inuyasha would hate me if he knew that I thought that, but it's true. SesshouMaru can be a very cute person... or demon, as long as he's not trying to kill or maim anyone.' She waved a hand in front of the demon lord's face, "SesshouMaru? Hello? Anybody home in there?"
SesshouMaru caught her hand by the wrist, "Wench, what do think you're doing?"
"I was just worried about you," Kagome pulled her hand away, "you didn't have to be such a jerk about it!"
SesshouMaru could hardly believe what he had just heard, 'She was worried about me? Wait. She called this SesshouMaru a 'jerk'?!' He growled, but didn't have time to say anything because he was interrupted by a shout, that sounded oddly like Marline's, off in the distance.
Kagome's eyes widened, "Marline and Yuji are in trouble!" She grabbed SesshouMaru's wrist and started to run in the direction of the yell. SesshouMaru, however, didn't move and the resistance of his body caused Kagome to fall backwards into his chest. Mentally, SesshouMaru smirked. Kagome pulled on his wrist, "We have to help them!"
"Wench, you are out of arrows, and unable to protect yourself, so this SesshouMaru will not allow to come to any harm!"
"B-but what if they die?!"
"That is not my problem."
Kagome slapped SesshouMaru across the cheek, "Listen, there is a couple of people out there who are in need of help on your land, SesshouMaru! What kind of a Taiyoukai cannot take care of his own land, huh?! Now come on already!"
SesshouMaru's body ignored the rational part of his mind as it screamed at him to smack the bitch down for attempting to cause harm to his person, as he followed her towards the noise. Somewhere along the mind, the western lord's body had given Kagome the Tenseiga with the promise that it would protect her and the command to stay where she was until he had destroyed the Blue, and returned with the two other humans. And for some reason, SesshouMaru didn't mind too much.
(Short, I know, but I tried to leave it at some sort of cliffhanger... again, I apologize for not having this up sooner, but I have many stories ((most of them unposted nn;;)) that I'm currently working on. Besides, I'm too sure what direction I was originally going to take this in. Hopefully I'll get the Cowboy Bebop chapter, and the next Blue Gender chapter done soon, but you never know. Bah-bye!)