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Hi there! Long delay, enjoy Chapter 7 everyone! Not much more to say...
Translations:
Japanese - English - Eventually meaning in this story
Inazuma - Lightning - A Youkai who has waited for the return of Kagome and the Shikon no Tama, her goal is still unknown
Kaida - Little Dragon - A young Youkai-Exterminator, trained for four years by Kohaku and is well skilled in Shikigami-magic, also leader of the Exterminator village after Kohaku's death
Rin - Park - The young girl Sesshomaru revived using Tenseiga, Now 16 years old
Manriki Gusari - - (real) A length of Chain weighted at both ends, used by the Exterminators.
Naginata -- A bladed staff, with a short, single edged, lightly curved blade (used for example by Hakudoushi)
Tsugoi - Wow - Yeah, you can figure, can't you? (Misspelling? please tell me if)
Koishii - Beloved - Tell me if I mistranslated
Ichi
no
San - One, two three (Numbers spoken)
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA OR ANY CHARACTER!
'Thinking'
"Talking"
.:Lyrics:.
"Singing etc."
::Flashback::
.:Chapter 7 - The beginning of the end:.
A few weeks had passed and Kagome was slowly getting into the warring states era again. Sango was more than glad to help her, she had even begun sewing new clothes for her. School dresses she knew where sized up and sewed, and now she almost felt like those five years never happened. The winter was far away, yet, but Sango sewed up some normal Priestess robes, but of course in green, and dark blue, which had been her school dress as she was eighteen. Kaida and Rin helped her also, Rin with showing her some normal avoiding and dodging, and Kaida with her Miko-powers, and sizing up another bow for her, one that was more perfectly balanced for her, even if the bone one was one of the most precise bows she had seen. With Rin's lessons, she soon found ways of dodging while holding a bow, that she never even heard of, and when she exclaimed that to the young exterminator, she answered:
"At The western Castle there are lot's of archers, Youkai of course, and you know, Youkai have different ways of dodging" She laughed. Kagome joined her but got blamed for it as she seconds after got hit square in the face with a splash of water, aimed at her from the five-year old Kisetsu, who was practising her slingshot, effectively shooting away small pouches filled with water, which opened up and landed with a splash on the target. The Audience a few meter next to them burst out in laughter. Kagome turned with an half-angry glare to the two brothers and Miroku, but as Rin laughed even more, as well as Kisetsu and her mother, she soon fell into it too. One of the best things right now was the fact that their little friendly group of five ( Kirara) had become a real group, with one Miko, Youkai's, a Hanyo and Exterminators as well as one perverted Houshi. The three kids where also, but a bit to young. Sango put the drying laundry onto a string attached between two trees and then turned around to get the next cloth, Kisetsu dropped her slingshot and ran over to her.
"Okaa-san" She said. "May I hang that one up?"
"Sure" Sango said and handed her the Kimono. Kisetsu straightened it out and then carefully hang it onto the string. Kagome wiped the water out of her face and turned to the three on the stone. There was another thing that she was happy about. With Sesshomaru and Inuyasha being friendlier towards each other, a new spark had ignited in the Hanyo's eyes. Of course, they both fought, but not the one 'I'm-so-going-to-kill-you-bastard' version of fights, just some original ones.
"Hey you two" She called as a sudden wind caught her hair and blew it into her face. The two brothers looked around, then at her, before looking confused at themselves.
"We?" They asked half-mockingly.
"Hai, you" She said. "We should need your help"
"Exactly" Kaida said as she stepped into the clearing. The two brothers turned to her.
"Kagome is going to get horseback riding lessons from now on" Rin continued, Kagome looked a bit disturbed, she never even had stepped within two feet of a horse, if she was the one supposed to ride.
"And?" Inuyasha asked, not entirely sure if he would like the follow-up, Sesshomaru looked like the same.
"Don't say you can't state the obvious" Kaida said. "We want you two to find a fitting horse"
"Why we?" Sesshomaru said.
"Yeah, I don't know a freaking thing about horses" The Hanyo continued.
"Still" Rin said. "Sesshy, You know about those Horses the Youkai on the yard was selling, they had long livety, those should be perfect"
"Well.. I guess they... would..." He mumbled. Kagome looked a bit embarrassed.
"I don't need a horse... I mean... I you know..." she stuttered.
"Kagome, You can't WALK the whole way you know!" Sango complained.
"The whole way...?" She asked confused.
"Don't tell me you forgot!" Miroku jumped of the fallen tree.
"You yourself promised us and your family that you would never let that happen to this world again... you remember?"
"H-Hai..."
::Flashback::
"Kagome, you've told us almost everything..." Miroku said. "But not WHAT exactly has happened...?"
The young Miko sighed and waited for herself to prepare.
She had told them about her four years at a school in Kyoto, and then her almost two years work at Kyoto's magazines. She had told them of Hojo's tragic death that she had felt was her cause, since she was the one driving the car, and lost control, which in the second caused it to hit the young man, who died a few hours later. She hadn't touched a steering wheel since then. She told them about Souta's car crash, and how that made her hate car's even more, about her twentieth birthday which had almost, She said ALMOST, ended in her getting raped while being out partying with her friends. And as Inuyasha had said, he would have killed the guy, if now it hadn't been the fact that Kagome already had settled that problem for him, and gotten away with it under the judge of self-defence. Sango had asked how she could live on just like that.
"I had my family, friends... and..." Kagome had smiled. "Even though not present, I had Inuyasha" And if that wasn't a smile on his face, she would have been blind.
She had continued with the fact about her thoughts of This Era, how she had longed... and now...
"Well..." She somewhat tried to Ignore their stares, when she then saw Inuyasha didn't stare, just carefully now and then look at her, calm and patient, something that was not too often seen by him, but she appreciated it.
"Our Era has had many problems with weapons that make the earth gain much heat and not being able to cool of, and that was also in the end the reason of it's fall... The sun burned the whole planet to a crisp, it was too hot to be able to live there..." She explained shortly.
"How?" Kaida interrupted. "The Tennyo's have always protected out country from outside attacks, even if not from China, since they also have the same spiritual force"
"Wait" Kagome turned into the room and got a history/legend book and opened it up, before reading:
"According to old legends, Tennyo's would protect the Japanese from invasions from other countries, but as the population feared the Youkai's that much, and the Tennyo's didn't protect them from those monsters, they believed of some reason that the Tennyo's must be Youkai's as well, and so should be killed as well. Tennyo's would fit the balance between Ningen and Youkai, but as they got killed of, not being able to stand up against the population they where meant to protect, the balance was undone. Youkai died out, and the forces of Japan lost against the Chinese, which ended up In Japan becoming a part of 'our' world..." She closed the book, and saw them staring.
"I believe it" She continued. "It is all about What is going on. Of some reason people began thinking of Tennyo's as Youkai, and that reason..."
"Is Inazuma" Miroku finished. "That story is based on truth, we made the history"
"But it would have been the same" Kagome said. "If Naraku was still alive, but worse"
"So what we need to do is Kill Inazuma" Inuyasha chuckled. "Not too hard" Sesshomaru cleared his throat.
"Not so quick little brother" He said. "I think Kagome has another thought, right?"
"Hai" She answered. "It may happen again, and then we come to the fact... Tennyo" Their interest seemed to get better.
"If we can make sure the Tennyo's never get killed, the world will not die... We need to find a way to make the present not become as it was before!
"Very nice Kagome, but exactly HOW can we do that?" Kaida said.
"Easy" She pointed first at herself. "Miko, right?" Then at Miroku. "Houshi" Kaida, Rin and Sango. "Youkai Taijiya"
"And?" Inuyasha asked.
"We all have as 'work' to kill Youkai, alternative purify evil, which should mean..."
"...That there would be no way that the Tennyo's would be Youkai if we work with them" Sango finished.
"But me and Inuyasha, and Sesshomaru are Youkai" Shippou said. "Or Hanyo"
"Hai, but Hanyo" Kagome said. "Is a half-breed, normally hated by Youkai, how would Tennyo's accept him if they were Youkai?"
"Still doesn't count me and Shippou in" Sesshomaru stated.
"If we just get into it, You can be Youkai's turned into the better by the holy force or something" Miroku tried.
"Very nice Kagome-sama" Kaida said. "But there is one failure here..."
"What?" Kagome asked.
"We do not live for eternity, and when we die, no one is going to remember it"
"Then we must find a way to get ourselves live until those days come! She stated.
"How?" All asked.
"There's where the Tennyo's come into the plan again..." She whispered.
"The Tennyo by the lake!" Shippou said, getting all attention.
"The one..." Miroku started.
"...Who wants to become human?" Sango finished once again.
"Shippou is right" Kagome said. "She has a human lover, who has been reborn through thousand of years, and all the time he dies away from her. And how would we catch two birds in the same net?" As no one answers, she takes the Shikon no Tama out of her shirt. A look of understanding got over their faces.
"With this" She said. "We can make the Tennyo become human..."
"If she lets us live longer..." Miroku smiled. "Let's go for that...!" He silenced. Kagome looked towards the door that just had been slammed shut.
Inuyasha had left.
::End Flashback::
"So, Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, you better get away now, otherwise Inazuma might start her scheme before we are ready, and Kagome, take a break!" Rin said. The brothers muttered a little but then turned. As Sesshomaru went round the following trees, Kagome could see that her Hanyo didn't do the same, and the small sting in her mark made her get what he meant. He wanted to say a proper Good-bye before he left. She nodded to Rin and then turned and spurted into the forest, heading for The Goshinboku.
The mark had some things she didn't know about, like their shared feelings. Whenever she felt sad, he noticed. If he did, she felt it too. In this manner, they could communicate with feelings without speaking. And that sting had only meant that he wasn't ready to leave yet. They had spoken it over in the same time he had told her about his five and a half years.
::Flashback::
She followed the Hanyo quickly. She felt his aura run into the forest, and a small sting in her mark told the same. How she didn't know, but it did. She ran until she reached a clearing, and stopped.
The Goshinboku had a great aura around it, not only was it huge, but also a time tree with connections between times. She had many memories with this tree, the most about Inuyasha, after all... she met him here for the first time...
The Spoken Hanyo was standing in front of the tree, his left hand raised towards the tree's uneven surface. She didn't say a thing, she watched him as he followed the surface with his claws, followed the contours of the large missing part, where he himself had been sealed.
He let his hand fall to his side.
"Kagome, say something, it's creepy to have you wondering 'why' without you asking it" He said without turning around. And there it was again, that little sting, but now it told her about how he waited for her answer, with some kind of worry behind it. She took a step forward, and then continued until she stood beside him.
"We have things to talk about, ne?" She asked as she turned to him.
"Hai" He answered. "I guess you want to talk about yesterday"
"Uh-hum, About..."
"What kouga said... and Hai, It is that way" He sighed a little.
"But..." She didn't have the time to say much more. He grabbed her by the waist and jumped, straight up. He landed on a tree branch nearly at the top of the tree. She didn't dare look down.
"We better speak up here, and before you start asking, let me tell you" She closed her opened mouth and nodded.
"As Kouga said, the mating for us two isn't finished, and the reason of that... is that I wanted you to have a chance to choose, again.
When Youkai put their mark, it must be accepted by the other, as you accepted me, and that is the first step, like an engagement..." He shrugged his shoulders.
"I could have finished the mating, but...
You heard right? The rules of Mating? We live equal lives, and need the other half to survive. I figured out, that in your time, I'm not alive, right? And I'm not there either, which would probably have turned out in you slowly fading away from life, without knowing anything. And second, if you one day would feel like not coming back, you would have a chance to change your mind" He pointed at her mark. "This would have disappeared then, and you would have lived on as normally"
"But I didn't choose someone else, I waited for a chance to get back to you" She said as he had silenced.
"Hai, you did" He said with a chuckle. "And that made me happy" He smiled at her and she flashed one back.
"But what about this stings... It's creepy" She said. "Like I know what you feel..." She shivered. "And don't get that ironic chuckle inside of you!"
This only made his grin wider.
"Oh, right" He said. "The mark is accepted by you, right? Which means you have accepted our bond, it's a soul-bond, not so easy to break, right? In either way, since that bond is accepted by you, you can feel what I feel"
"What about you?"
"Well..." He slowed the answer out. "Officially both parts mark their other half... but since you never..." She felt that ironical tingle again.
"Oh, you..." She hissed. "How would I have known!?"
"Don't ask me" He grinned. And then...
"KAGOME-SAMA, INUYASHA!!!" Three pair of voices yelled. The others were probably looking for them.
"Well..." He said and stretched out a bit. "Let's get down"
"But this is not finished!" Kagome half-growled.
"Of course not" He smirked.
::End Flashback::
"And then also" She said to herself as she slowed down to walking pace right before the clearing. "He still, after three weeks, haven't told me about what the hell he's ben doing...!"
"Talking to someone?" He was leaning against a tree to the right of her, with a small cocky smirk on his face.
"Yeah, right" She answered sarcastically. "To my dear friend the butterfly" She pointed to the white-winged butterfly on a leaf next to her head, which immediately flew away as it thought she was going to crush it with her incredible large index finger, for it at least.
He chuckled a little and took a step out in the sun. She crossed her arms in front of her chest and cocked her head.
"And?" She said as a statement.
"And what?"
"Are you going to tell me what you've been doing for this five years?"
"That would be a short story" He said before walking up to her.
"Still" she said. He rolled his eyes a bit and she half-punched him on his arm. Mostly because of the sigh in her mark was showing he was so bored about this.
"Okay, okay, I will" he laughed as she continued until he grabbed her fist. "Hear me?"
"Hai, of course I do, I'm not deaf" She stated matter-of-factly. He turned to the Goshinboku and looked up with a questioning hint. "Again? Why the hell is the Goshinboku such a fitting place to speak?"
"Because I like it" He said. She sighed.
"I give up" He smirked widely.
"Hehe, see, I always win! Not only against Youkai, but Against Miko's as well! I'm Invincible" Kagome cleared her throat, stopping him immediately.
"Really?" She asked.
"Ehm... K-A-G-O-M-E... You don't..."
"Osuwari"
And that was a clear answer on his unspoken question, and well... Lucky for him he didn't land on the tree's root, he had only a few inches to a rock though.
She waited for him to recover from her pretty... well... 'small' sit-command, it wouldn't take too long.
Nine... ten...
"Why you..." He groaned as he pulled himself up onto his elbows. "What was that good for?"
"Just so that I won't have to say it from up there" She giggled a little. He cast her an annoyed glare and after a while got himself of the ground.
And it seemed he didn't miss the roots, after all.
That had to hurt.
"Haha, extremely funny" He said before once again lifting her up by the waist, but this time, he almost 'accidentaly' dropped her halfway up.
As he did so, she couldn't help but scream out in fright as she already saw the ten metre-fall in front of her, but of course he caught her up again merely half a second later, but her heart beated in her throat after that.
He landed steadliy on the same branch as before, but the strong winds had pulled the branches near them a bit apart, letting it be a quite big window out towards the village. Kagome crawled out to the 'window' and looked down at the village.
"It's so different..." She sighed. "From what it was..."
"Things change, it always does" He said simply. "You know that more than anyone" She turned around as fast as she could without falling.
"Now, tell on, We don't have all day"
"Then we will have to be quick, the sun is setting" He chuckled as he gazed the other way, seeing the sun being on it's way down. "And I will have to get out in the night with an annoying Youkai brother to find my to-be mate a gorse fitting for her fragile horse-experience"
"Like you can ride a horse" She snorted. He turned to her.
"Who say I can't?"
She stared.
"Y-you can?" She stammered.
"yup, Got a horse about a month after you left, And well... It's no use having a horse if you can't ride, so I got lessons... I learned pretty quickly" He looked at her confused look. "But I don't really need a horse, she is just mostly for 'sofisticated' errands... probably like tonight"
"Oh... And what is that horse's name?"
"Not important, yet" He said. "You wanted to know what I've been doing, right?" She nodded.
"Okay, in quick: Waiting for you by the well, getting a horse, watching the perverted monk get married, build the well shrine, waited in the Goshinboku for you, then by the well... exterminated some youkai's, waited by the Goshinboku, the well and then... waited a little more" She stuck her tongue out at him.
"Longer version please mister" She said.
"Not now" He chuckled as she pouted. "Sesshomaru is wondering where I am by now- And Kagome, not that feeling of almost ripping me apart"
She flinched slightly, how did he know?
"Inuyasha" She said. "How come you, even without mark, know what I feel?"
"Didn't I tell you? Think back" He said. "I bit your neck and drew some of your blood, right? That got me to feel your feelings, because i got your blood inside me, right? What happened next?"
"Ehm..." She thought. "You kissed me... and..." She snapped her fingers. "You had blood in your mouth, right?"
"Yup, my own" He said. "By biting my tongue, and so you got my blood inside you, getting you to feel my feelings, so a mark from you isn't necessary, see?"
She thought. He had a point but...
"What about females?" She asked. He looked confused. "Males stay away from me because of your mark, but what about YOU?"
He laughed.
"Kagome, how would you think like that? Would I ever do something like that?"
"Still, It's right, isn't it?" She asked.
"Ehm... well... hai..." He said.
"So, what's the point?"
"I don't think your teeth are strong enough" He smirked.
"Let's don't be too confident mister" She said with a glare. He laid an arm around her shoulder and pulled her closer.
"Was that a Challenge?" He asked mockingly.
"You bet" She replied. He snickered.
"Inuyasha-sama?" Got a voice from down-'stairs'. "Sesshomaru-sama orders you to come... now" Inuyasha sighed and stood up, pulling Kagome up as well before jumping down, landing in front of a villager.
"He did, did he?" Inuyasha asked. (-Lol- I just love that one, just turn it backwards, and forwards, and all over again!) Kagome freed herself from his arms and snorted slightly.
"H-hai, he did" The villager said with a faint hint of stress. "And he also said no delay"
"Ke" Inuyasha snorted as a perfect image of Kagomes seconds before. "Like he would understand certain thing, you go running back, and tell him I'm on my way"
"Hai..." He turned after a small bow to each of them, and then sprinted into the forest. Inuyasha scratched his head.
"I will never get used to that bowing stuff" He complained. Kagome didn't say a word. He glanced over to her and just sighed. "Come on Kagome, you know just as much as I that it IS for you after all"
"I know" She said. "But" She turned around. "What IS your horse called?"
"Kagome!" He said. "I tell you later, Sesshomaru will get totally weird at me for about a week if I come too late"
"A week!?" She stared. "It won't take that long, will it?"
"Of course not" He smiled. "Let's get back, I suppose Rin and the others join up in the village"
"Hai" She grabbed his hand before more like dragging him away towards the village.
"S-slow down Kagome" He said.
"What's the matter Dog-Boy?" She asked. "Scared of something?"
"Hai" He said before pulling at her hand and turning the order around, him standing with his back towards the village, right before her. "That you would hurt yourself" He continued.
"I wouldn't, I'm the whole Japan's greatest Miko!" She said proudly while dragging her hand back and firmly place it on her hip, with a confident look on her face.
"Yeah, you are" He said, but something in his voice made her regret those words.
"Hey, Inuyasha" She said and tilted her head. "Wha-" She shut and started anew. "You're afraid of it, right? That I have the Shikon No Tama?"
"Hai..." He said and shrugged his shoulders. "That's why we need to hurry get it gone, forever" She nodded. A sudden movement to the right made her quickly draw her bow and turn, but before that, Inuyasha got flewing to the ground.
"Didn't I say 'no Delay' Inuyasha!?" An Angered Sesshomaru asked while kracking the knuckles in his hand. Inuyasha rubbed his sore cheek as he stood up. Kagome lowered the bow after sinking her Miko-Energy enough to calm down. She had gone through the whole attaching arrow, pulling string and loading energy so fast it even surprised her. Sesshomaru smirked her direction a little.
"You did, I know" Inuyasha said slowly. "But you should know..."
"I know you need to say good-bye to your To-be Mate Brother, but you will only risk her life and safety by hanging around longer than needed" Sesshomaru stared coldly. "For me it takes about four days to the Western Castle and back, with your feeble speed it will take at least six"
"Ke! You don't know me well Onii-san" Inuyasha said with a mockingly tone on every word, especially the last one. Sesshomaru glared at him as Kagome did her best to hold her laughter.
"By the way, Your horse, she isn't ready yet, you should do so" The Youkai said as if he hadn't heard the comment sarcasm.
"Hey, Inuyasha, What IS you horse called!?" Kagome said once again.
"Don't you know?" Sesshomaru smirked. "Her name's..."
"Nothing, just nothing" The Hanyo tried desperately. Sesshomaru smirked even wider, while Inuyasha cast him a glare, and if Glares could kill, Even Sesshomaru would have been pulverised by now.
Kagome gave up and just shrugged her shoulders. Sesshomaru walked past Inuyasha. As he passed, he added mockingly.
"Don't take more than half an hour, we don't have all day"
"You bloody...!" Inuyasha lunged forward but got easily stopped by the only force ever stopping him so far.
"Osuwari"
And Sesshomaru walked on. And he was whistling. Sesshomaru was whistling of all things!
It took at least two minutes before the Hanyo moved.
"I could kill you for that" He muttered, and then regretted it as she flinched. "Gomenasai, I didn't mean like... We did speak it over, remember?"
"H-hai..." She said.
::Flashback::
It was the morning after their meeting with Inazuma, Kouga hadn't been seen all night, or morning, but Miroku thought he needed to think over the situation. Inuyasha had noticed Kagome avoided him, and he knew she had good reasons...
'I don't understand how I could even reason that... she IS only human, I'm half human, so WHY was it so needed to follow some stupid YOUKAI'S rules!?'
He blamed himself. Something had to be done.
And he knew what.
Two hours later he found the flea, or he found him. He was almost glad when he felt that little sting, but of course he still slapped Myoga from him, the flattened flea soon popped back to reality and then they talked. Inuyasha only explained the situation, then mostly listened.
"Those rules are for Youkai- full Youkai, but male and female" Myoga said slowly. "Of course, you father had a little of the same with Izayoi, but he had made an agreement with her about those rules. Hanyo-Ningen haven't been registered..."
"Probably because Hanyo are so rare and hated that none of the races would love them" He muttered.
"Let me finish" The flea cleared his throat. "As I see it, you can do as your father and make an agreement, or just drop it all completely, since neither you or she is fully Youkai you don't need to follow the rules---" He silenced.
"We don't?" He asked.
"No, but... Inuyasha-sama, are you really going to complete the mating?"
"Eh... hai" Inuyasha said, looking out into the air. "But still... she is human, so maybe... but still... it IS half-finished, so why not?"
"You came to the point, she is Human" Myoga said. "And you are half-human, but the Youkai part of you of course seek the mating, but what about your human part?"
"It..." Inuyasha sighed. "Doesn't know"
"Then think about it at least"
"About what?" Myoga hopped onto his shoulder.
"She is a human, maybe she would prefer a human marriage"
"Why would she not consider only mating?"
"I am not talking about doing both, just one part, I mean, Mating goes over more than one life-time..."
"I know, but I said that I at least would finish the mating... but still, why would she want only marriage?"
"I'm not saying only, if you now have decided for at least mating, but as human she would prefer a human proof" He shrugged his shoulders. "After all, your mother did prefer it"
And those words he really did remember.
-----
He seeked for Kagome, asked around the village, and finally found her hanging the laundry on the riverside. He walked slowly but tried to make her hear him, not to startle her. She turned halfway around and then abdruptly turned herself back again with a small flinch.
"Kagome" He said, seeingly hurt by her action. "I said I was sorry... and... I thought we could talk it over, okay?"
She turned around with an unsure nod. She put the basket down and sat down by the river, dipping her left foot into it, making small circles. He sat down next to her, and sighed.
"I talked to Myoga just a minute ago..." He started. "And I asked him a little about these... Rules... you know what I mean?" She nodded again, suddenly finding the water surface really interesting.
"Ehem... well..." He sighed again. "What do you say if we just... drop them, forget about them, okay?" She stopped making circles and looked up. He noticed by her smell before he saw the tears in her eyes, those warm brown eyes he loved so much.
"I-" She gulped. "Was just... so scared..." She shook her head. "And the realization didn't hit me before this morning... and suddenly..."
"You were scared of me" He said. "I guessed so... I hated myself... for these two days" She blinked again, the crystal tears flowing down her cheeks.
"You weren't to blame" She sulked. "It was those... STUPID... RULES!!!" She kicked the surface, splashing the water high up the air and wetting them both down. She sulked louder and the tears flowed more freely as he laid his arms around her and let her cry.
"That's why I suggest we drop them all, forget those stupid rules and walk our own way, right?"
"H... H-hai" She said with a little smile.
"But... is it okay to still finish the whole mating?"
"Hai... and... about that..."
"KAGOME-SAMA!" Yelled a woman in the age of about thirty who was currently running towards them. "Would you please tend my daughter? She got ill this morning, and..."
"Of course" Kagome smiled. She glanced at Inuyasha with a small sigh.
"It's okay, I will tell you about it all, later" He said and captured her in a quick passionate kiss before letting her go. "Run of now"
"Hai" She skipped up, took the basket and sprinted of towards the woman. And as they turned, he smirked as he could hear her say.
"Kagome-sama, you really changed that insolent boy, do you consider marrying him?" He only felt his to-be mate's reddening face, but more than that he didn't know, she was somehow still not letting the bond be open.
::End Flashback::
"I know it's hard to get over... but..." He sighed. "I always feel so guilty when you flinch like that"
"I feel that" She said and kneeled before him. "And I promise I'll try to get over it..." He stood up completely, and she as well. He brushed his clothes of before seeming to realize something.
"Kagome, got any idea of how long time has gone?"
"About ten minutes, why-?" She was cut short, against a tree.
And if Inuyasha once got dominance, there was no way to fight back, at least not in this battle, an 'osuwari' would be to no help. He let her have a free breath and smirked at her while she panted.
"Good, because i think twenty minutes... might be enough"
"Bastard" She breathed out with an attempt to push him back to be able to get her back from the tree.
"Bitch" He teased back before firmly holding her shoulders against the tree with his hands.
"How dare you..."
"Youkai-habit, girl" He snickered and took her mouth again. She was better prepared this time, and stood a fight against him. She relaxed a bit against the tree to be able to win their battle which was recently for her favor as she was able to push his tongue back, but of course, he had some tricks of his own. As soon as she relaxed he let her shoulders go, and instead went on with teasing her a little, only to win their tongue's battle.
He let one hand travel down under her shirt and drew his claws up her stomach. His hand stopped as he felt the fabric of her bra. He pulled back.
"I hate that thing" He complained.
"Good, now I know I will use it even more" She said. Payback was a bitch, and Kagome was the payback right now. He glared.
"I don't think so..."
"Na-" With one quick draw, he ripped it through. "Hey, You could just have clasped it open bastard!"
"No time for that, Bitch" He kissed her again while his hand follwed the outline of her breasts, only one claw, and she moaned slightly, in both dissapointment and pleasure. He smirked into her mouth and deeped their kiss, she had the back of her head pressed against the tree in the same way her back was. His hand continued to teasing her left breast, drawing his claws slowly over her already slight hardened nipple, and her moan was more frustrated than anything. She did do something unexpected as she lifted her hands and grabbed his shoulders, firmly pushing him away and in that way get away from him. She sank to her knees and sighed. He tilted his head and asked her silently.
"Time's up Dog-Boy" She smirked. He growled.
She pulled her shirt over her head, only slightest embarassed under his looks, before taking the rest of her bra of, and with it the Shikon no Tama.
"And look what you've done!" She complained loudly. He kneeled next to her.
"I can't see anything wrong" He snickered and kissed her neck.
"Really..." She mumbled as he continued kissing her neck down to her collarbone. "You always do that..." She mumbled.
"I know" He stopped for a second. "But you like it, ne?" She snorted with half a moan, and he snickered before continuing. Kagome smirked a little as she got one slight Idea. He continued downwards, as he stopped, holding a moan back.
She was ministrating his ears again, only this time, she used her mouth and tongue, nipping and licking, slowly kissing the outline. She blew a hot breath on his left one, and he shivered all the way down his spine. She continued licking and nipping at his ears while he tried for all he could not to moan, this was torturing, and that was honest. She stopped and smirked.
"What's the matter, got any problems?"
"B-bitch..." He mumled, and as soon as he had, he moaned, because the second he opened his mouth, she started again. "Damn you..."
She snickered before stopping. She stood up and drew her shirt on again, so he had to watch himself and backed of a little, trying to focus again. She laid the necklace with the jewel around her neck before straightening her clothes and sighing. She had to get new clothes, Sango should been finished with some by now. The one she wore now where all too fragile for this era.
"What are you sitting there for?" She asked the Hanyo. "I think Sesshomaru is waiting for you" Inuyasha stood up, stuck his hands into the sleeves of his Haori and snorted slightly.
"Maybe he is" He said.
"Then lets go, I need to seek Sango up as well..." She walked away from him, knowing too well he would follow her. They would appear into the village just about where Sango's house was, so she should be able to talk to her before she was going anywhere else. She found that ironic feeling from Inuyasha really disturbing.
And as she knew, he was soon next to her, smirking like an idiot. She just ignored him, but of course, she couldn't ignore that ironical feeling.
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(A/N: Did you notice all those pages (16 pages in Word Verdana size 10) where written as one scene (If you don't count flashbacks as extra scenes)? I startle myself... Who bets this will be my longest chapter ever? Anyone?)
Sango just finished putting the kids to bed as she heard her friend's voice.
"Inuyasha, damn it, wait outside!"
"Why am I not allowed in now of all times!?"
"None of your business... ah, Sesshomaru, can you see so that he will not come inside?"
"Of course Kagome" And Thereafter a few well chosen words by Inuyasha as he mostly got dragged away. Seconds later Kagome entered the room, looking slightest bit angered.
"If that wasn't a smirk on that Youkai's face right now, I'm blind! And why did he smirk? Huh, WHY!?" The last was aimed outside, towards the two. Sango shook her head.
"Hello again to you too" She said.
"Oh, Gomen" Kagome turned to her. "Ehm... can you help me a bit?" Sango arched an Eyebrow towards her.
"Kagome, what happened to your... what did you call it... bra, right?" The angered look returned.
"Inuyasha happened to my bra" She sighed. "And it was my last one as well"
"Seems you will have to wrap them in that case, if you want" Sango snickered a little. "After all, If you are going against Youkai, you will have to get used to it, Especially Miko's"
"Why?"
"You have no armor more than your clothes, and those are easily ripped of"
"Of course... and Sango, speaking of clothes..." Her friend nodded and stood up.
"I finished the normal Shinto-outfit in dark blue, and in forest green, is that okay?" Kagome nodded.
"Then, if you not always want to run around in those..." Sango shrugged her shoulders. "I fixed some normal Kimonos... and here, Rin made this one for you..." She took an outfit out of the wardrobe, and showed it.
It was a Taijya outfit, in black as normal, with armor in Dark blue, and where Sango had a little symbol written up by the base of her shoulder and throath, a little to the right, there was a small Shikon no Tama made, one half tainted, and one half pure, the two parts splitted with a curved line, almost like the Ying-Yang symbol (A/N: Did i spell it right?). There was also a katana attached, the handle with a colden border, and an empty golden circle at the top end.
"What..." Kagome asked.
"That katana is special made in the Taijya village" Sango explained. "It is made to lead your Miko- and Shikigami powers"
"But, I have no Shikigami powers..."
"You have, it is connected with Shinto-Miko powers, Kaida felt it in you..." Sango handed her the outfit. "You better try it" Kagome took the outfit and studied it a bit.
"But, that circle..."
"Can't you figure it out?" Sango cast an explaining look towards her neck. Kagome looked down, before realization hit her.
"This?" She picked the jewel from her neck and and showed it up in her opened palm.
"Hai"
"How..." She said but then nodded. She held the jewel against the circle, and closed her eyes. She could feel the energy flow through her, that pure energy that she knew so well by now. She opened her eyes and let her hand open. The jewel was attached to the sword, perfectly matched inside the golden circle.
"Too bad it will be gone as we make the Tennyo human" She said as she studied the Katana. "It got pretty cool" The jewel on the handle shone in a pinkish light, and when she drew the sword, the whole blade shone in the same.
"Some things just happen, and as long as you hold it, I could guess no Demon would want to come close to it... and..." Sango paused. "That blade, was Midoriko's"
"But, Midoriko hadn't the Shikon no Tama, right?"
"No, she had some other stone which could contain her power enough to let the sword lead it" Her friend explained. Kagome sheathed the sword.
"But I can't handle a sword" She said. "I'm an archer"
"And I'm a specialist with Hiraikotsu, but that doesn't mean I can't handle my sword" Sango smirked. "And besides... we have... let's see... One, two, three, four...! People who uses swords normally"
"Four?"
"Well, Inuyasha's one, Sesshomaru's two, Kaida is three and Rin's four"
"Rin uses swords?"
"Well, A Naginata, but it is almost the same, and, she started with swords"
"And your lesson starts tomorrow morning" Rin added, as she showed herself in the doorway. "So Kagome-Aneue, will you try that outfit out or what?"
That Ehoed in her mind.
"Aneue?" She cooed.
"Hai, From now on, we are family, right? Since you and Inuyasha are... yeah, going to mate at least"
"But..."
"I'm officially Sesshomaru's daughter now, so, if you come into the family, you're my Aneue" Rin shrugged her shoulders in a childish way. Kagome smiled.
"Arigatô, Rin-Chan"
"Chan is childish, but still, it is true..." Rin smiled. "So, will you try it out?"
"Of course! It is beautiful"
"I thought... we all girls have that outfit, and the boys have like... their type of clothes, so why not you too?"
"I'm a miko, we have Shinto-robes, but..."
"Part-time, you act Youkai-Taijya" Sango said. "That makes you one in the group, and besides... Even if you weren't acting like one, you are my sister, Rin's sister, and Kaida... I can't tell you, she made me promise to hide it a secret for now"
"You have a point... but Rin-Chan, what do you have for colour and symbol?"
"I have Dark Purple, and a Crescent moon in the same colour, and you can guess what it tells, Aneue"
"Of course, and Kaida?"
"She has Purple-blue, right? And her symbol is a dragon in blue, for her Shikigami-energyform" Sango said. "Shall I help you show how to use the wrappings as you try that one out?"
"Sure" Kagome nodded and followed Sango out the door, but turned by Rin's voice.
"Kagome-Aneue, what was it that was so funny that it made my Oto-san and Inuyasha smirk like that?" She asked, but her voice revealed she knew.
"Inuyasha was so funny" She said sarcastically before following Sango to an empty room. Sango showed her how to put on the wrappings to not reveal it too much and uncomfortable, and then she put the Outfit on. The blackish Cat-suit sat thightly and she was a bit unused to it at first. Even so, it fitted, and it looked good as well. She studied herself in the mirror put up in the room before walking out in the first room, to show it to Rin and Sango.
"Tsugoi! That looks great on you Aneue" Rin said happily.
"And the sword just fits in" Sango added before handing her the bone bow and quiver. "Put these on too" Kagome fastened the quiver onto her back and then the bow with a string she had noticed was fastened on the backside, making the bow stay out of the way, but still be near if needed.
Rin had her on too, and Kagome noticed she had taken out her normal side ponytail and instead made one on the back of her head, like Sango, but lower.
"Kagome" Sango said. "Your hair is as long as Kikyo's was, do you know that?"
"But still..." She continued as Kagome looked down. "Your has a more Blue tint to it, while her's had more brown, so your is more pure black... but according to Miko's..." She took a black-blue ribbon out of her pocket. "You need this to still look one"
She took Kagome's hair and tied it with the ribbon to the normal Shinto-Miko style, with two strings of hair hanging front and the rest tied up in a loose ponytail on the back. She then backed of and studied her.
"But you don't look like Kikyo, she was more cold, you are bursting with life"
"Hai, Aneue, you look incredible!" Rin chirped. Kaida entered the house too.
"They will be leaving soon... Oh..." She stared a little at Kagome. "Taijya Shinto Miko" She said with a smile. "That was fitting"
"Taijya Shinto Miko Kagome, Guardian of the Shikon no Tama" Sango said testingly. "Sounds like some big profile that, doesn't it?"
"Hai!" Rin said.
"A bit too much..." Kagome said slowly.
"And not to forget, the Time traveler" Kaida added.
"Would you guys stop?" Kagome laughed out. "I do not need any titles..."
"You do, since your being head-miko of this village..." Sango started.
"...Guardian of the Shikon no Tama..." Rin continued.
"...And the one who holds the world's fate in her hands" Kaida finished. "Isn't that worth some titles?"
"Maybe..." She said. "But just hold it a bit..."
"Okay, we stay at Taijya Shinto Miko Kagome, Guardian of the Shikon" Sango smirked.
"You..." Kagome hissed.
"Kagome-sama!" Miroku yelled. "They are leaving now!"
"Oh my!" She hurried up and out the door, the other three smirked a little.
"Taijya Shinto Miko... That is nice" Rin said.
"Definitely" The other said before leaving the house as well.
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Inuyasha had saddled his horse, a golden one with black Mane and tail and intelligent brown eyes, and was now packing the last stuff into the pouches on her back. The pouches had food needed, and you didn't need to be a genious to know they had Ramen in them. Sesshomaru had borrowed Taiya, and he was lucky the Youkai-horse knew he was a friend of Rin's, which she couldn't know about the Hanyo.
"Inuyasha" Sesshomaru said lazily while holding the fierce horse. "JAKEN would have finished that quicker than you...!" The Toad had been at the western castle as he left, and he hoped that he still was there...
"SESSHOMARU-SAMA!"
Speaking of the devil...
And, well... he didn't stay at the castle after all
Sesshomaru sighed and turned.
"Hai, Jaken?" The toad stopped to a halt.
"I have searched for you for these weeks Sesshomaru-sama, I'm so terribely sorry for being late!"
"It's okay..." Sesshomaru said, but Inuyasha heard him add: "Couldn't you just have gotten lost or something...?" And he smirked.
jaken just smiled a little until he got hit on top of his head. "Na-"
"Got ya!" Kisetsu chirped and put another stone in her slingshot, as Shippou cheered on.
"Disturbing brats..." Jaken said until He got hit again.
"Leave them be" Sesshomaru said to the grounded toad. "Inuyasha, finished?"
"Hai... just..." Miroku came back, and nodded as he did. Kagome ran over to them seconds later from around the corner of a house.
And did the Hanyo stare.
He hadn't even imagined Kagome in a Taijya outfit, and especially not with Miko-style in hair... Miroku stood next to him, smirking, and he leaned over.
"I understand why you like Sango in that outfit so much..." He whispered, and his friend nodded. Kagome slided to a halt in front of them and wiped her forehead a bit.
"Are you leaving now?" She asked slowly.
"Hai..." Sesshomaru said. Inuyasha only studied her, and noticed the symbol on the left side.
"Shikon no Tama?" He asked.
"Eh... Hai" She said. He continued to the sword. And repeated the question again after seing the jewel on the handle.
"Hai, It is attached to the sword" Kaida said as they also came over to them. "Making the sword store and lead her Miko-powers"
"And since she is also part-time-Taijya" Sango said.
"We gotten her a little name" Rin smiled.
"What?" Sesshomaru, Inuyasha and the utterly confused Jaken asked.
"Sigh" Kagome exclaimed.
"Taijya Shinto Miko Kagome" They said.
"Guardian of the Shikon" Rin added.
"Nice" Inuyasha said with a smile towards Kagome, who mostly looked like wanting to disappear.
"So now you two brothers will have to teach her in using a sword" Sango exclaimed.
"We?" Sesshomaru snorted mockingly. "If Inuyasha is showing off, she will only learn to mae mistakes"
"You..." Inuyasha growled but got Interrupted by Kagome.
"Is this your horse Inuyasha?"
"Hai, she is" He said and turned, she had walked over to the horse and was currently stroking her head.
"How nice she is... and beautiful..." She mumbled, then smiled. "Can you tell me her name now?"
"No, when I come back, okay?"
"Meanie" She muttered, and the others smirked. "What?" They both said.
"Inuyasha, you should tell her... or..." Miroku said.
"All of you... no one will tell her, otherwise I kill the one who does!" He growled.
"Inuyasha! What is so disturbing about telling me what your horse is called?"
"Everything is" He said and leaped onto his horse's back. "Okay, just wait?"
"Sure..." She said, somewhat amazed about the fact that the horse hadn't moved from the spot as he mostly jumped onto it.
"I have trained her" He said as an answer to her amazed look. "I Can even swing the Kongousouha from her back, and she hardly reacts"
"Tsugoi..." She said. Sesshomaru rode over to them on Taiya, and Rin smiled.
"Sesshomaru, remember the melody?"
"Hai, Rin..." He said disturbed. "I will remember, I don't want to get this horse against me while trying to travel..."
"Am I INVISIBLE!?" Jaken shouted, while jumping out of the bunch of stones that totally had buried him.
"HAI!" They yelled and then ignored him while he got hit by another stone and fainted.
"So then..." Sesshomaru turned Taiya around. "Shall we leave?" He glanced back, and sighed.
Inuyasha had bent down from the horse's back, placed one hand behind Kagomes head before kissing her deeply, gaining applause from the most people, and maybe an 'Aww' now and there... and of course Shippou hid behind a stone, too embarrassed to show himself, and Kisetsu asked him what was wrong.
"Inuyasha, now for Kamis sake" Sesshomaru growled. Inuyasha pulled back with a sigh. Kagome did the same, and glanced angrily towards the Youkai, who just ignored her.
"Okay, okay, I'm coming already" The Hanyo snorted slightly. "Okay Kagome, I'll be back in about a week, behave, ok?" She snorted before laughing.
"Hai-hai, of course I will..." She then smirked mischievously. "Maybe I go flirt with Kouga or something in that time, but...
"You wouldn't dare" Inuyasha said looking half-angered, but with laugh in his voice, the others burst into laughter as well.
"Of course I wouldn't dare" She said. "But hurry up either way, okay?"
"If he doesn't leave, we can be standing here all night, and then we never get back" Sesshomaru said. "Let go girl"
"I will hurry" Inuyasha answered her without listening to Sesshomaru. He then turned His horse around and She backed of a bit before running forward, standing in the way.
"First" She said. "Tell me her name" She smiled towards him and then the horse. Sesshomaru sighed again.
"Inuyasha, just tell her" He started driving Taiya into a walking pace and rode slwoly awya, knowing Inuyasha would come after, sooner or later.
"Ehm..." Inuyasha glanced around, meeting the others, smirking like idiots. "Okay... sure..." He looked down at her.
"Tell me then" She stressed him.
"I will! Okay, just..." He patted the horse over her neck and then looked up, out into the forest.
"Come on!" Kagome said frustratedly.
"Koishii Kagome"
"Hai?" She asked. He looked down.
"I just told you"
"Nani..." She blinked. "What do you mean...?"
"That is her name" He patted the horse once more and then shrugged his shoulders. "I guess I missed you too much" He then drove froward, Koishii walking slowly before pacing upp, and he patted Kagome on the head as he rode past her.
"Ja ne, Taijya Shinto Miko" He said and then drove the horse into a sprint.
She looked after him.
"Was that true?" She asked after a while.
"Hai" They answered.
"He found her two weeks after you departed, and... Kaida checked... she was born the same day you left..." Sango said.
"... And as he said, he missed you too mucj, so he called the horse after you, after he had saved it, and she had attached itself to him in that way that she was willing to do anything he asked" Miroku continued, and Kaida smirked.
"Seems you got a rival, Kagome-sama" She said, Kagome just stuck her tongue out.
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Two days later the two brothers stopped in the forest right before the border to the western lands.
"Why don't we stop inside you domain?" Inuyasha asked angered.
"Because in this part, they don't appreciate me" His brother answered sadly. Inuyasha stared at him again.
"Why?"
"This border we have, I lost the other half, the part we have rode through... in a war..."
"So?"
"The border was all the way to Musashis domain... And it wasn't legally my domain"
"It wasn't?" Inuyasha lit a fire and took the saddle and all that from Koishii.
"No" Sesshomaru sighed. "Not until recently it bothered me... but that domain part... was yours" Inuyasha spun around.
"I had the domain until Musashi's from here?"
"Particulary... yes" Sesshomaru said. "Now you must hate me again, right?"
"No way!" Inuyasha smirked. "I just wonder who the hell owns it now..."
"Some random guy called Rako, an elemental... wind I think..."
"Like Kagura then?" Inuyasha sat down. "Wonder what she is doing by the way..."
"You don't have to wonder... you who travel on my domain" A voice called. Inuyasha rose up again, but with a smile.
"Get down from there!" He yelled towards something floating in the sky.
Sesshomaru looked up also, with a little smirk.
The white feather landed on the ground and a tall woman stepped of and put the now tiny feather in her hair bun. Her Kimono had a prinf of feathers in silver on a red and blue background, and her fan was switched into one with silver feathers on a blue back, but it was still the same elemental Youkai that had been the one acctually making the destruction of Naraku possible.
"Well, long time no see Inuyasha" Kagura smiled. She turned to Sesshomaru. "And you too... I overheard your conversation... this was your inherited domain, Inuyasha?"
"Seems like it... but... Wasn't it some guy called Rako, who got it?"
"Rako, dumb fool" Kagura laughed. "I got heard that Sesshomaru had lost against him about hundred and fifty years ago, so I decided to get him... like... give me his domain"
"Meaning you killed him and then made him do the dance for you" Inuyasha said, with a hint of a chuckle.
"Hai, that is true" She said.
"You haven't changed" Sesshomaru said, but there was something in his voice.
"No... then..." Kagura sat down by the fire, and glanced at the Ramen cups. "Now what is that?"
"Food from Kagome's time" Inuyasha said and took the boiling water from the fire and put into one cup.
"Has she come back?" Kagura asked.
"Hai... but her world got destroyed... and..." Inuyasha told her the rest while eating.
"So... The Tennyo will help..." Kagura looked wondering. "Care if I join in?"
"You too!?" Inuyasha smiled. "Inazuma hasn't got the faintest of a chance!" Sesshomaru shook his head with a sigh.
"Of course you can join Kagura" He said. "But one thing, why did you want to get the Domain now called Kazeka?"
"Oh" Kagura smiled. "I hoped you would come to that point" In her eyes Inuyasha could see that fact that Rin had told him several years before.
"Kagura has a crush on Sesshomaru, I could see it in her eyes as I met her..."
'Kagura... what are you planning?' He asked himself while listening.
"I... well..." Kagura sighed. "I'm sure you find this a stupid idea... but I wanted to have the chance to give it back to you"
"Just like that?" Sesshomaru looked sceptical.
"No... It doesn't go that way. You know how it is these days... Only two ways can give domains over..."
"Death of the leader..." Sesshomaru said.
"Or arranged alliances" Kagura said slowly and carefully.
"Wait Kagura" Inuyasha said. "Are you planning what I think you are?"
"Depends..."
"I think you are leaning towards arranged mating, aren't you?" She could feel Sesshomarus gaze as she answered.
"Hai..." She decided to continued. "Because that will be the only way I would have a chance to get the one I love"
Those where not words Sesshomaru had expected to hear from the elemental.
"Kagura" He said. "You know that I might not have the same feelngs for you..."
"You can learn to love" Kagura tried. "Or do you have someone else to mate?"
"No... but..."
"Wouldn't Rin want a mother?"
"Rin?"
.:Flashback:.
"Sesshomaru-sama!" A thirteen-year old Rin yelled over the castleyard. Sesshomaru turned from the Youkai who was currently reporting his latest decidement, to adopt Rin as his daughter.
"Hai Rin?"
"Am I your daughter now?" She asked him cheerfully.
"Hai Rin, you are" The girl got overjoyed and ran circles around him.
"Sesshomaru-sama is my Oto-san! Sesshomaru-sama is my Oto-san! Sesshomaru-sama is my Oto-san!" She chanted.
"Hai hai, but that is enough" He siad, with a small chuckle.
"Oto-san, will Rin get an Okaa-san too?"
"Rin, I don't have you an Okaa-san"
"I know a woman who loves you, she can be my Okaa-san!" Sesshomaru couldn't say more than:
"I don't know where that woman is"
"But if you find her, can she be my Okaa-san? She is nice, even though That Naraku-bastard did control her into doing bad things!"
"Do you mean... her?" Sesshomaru was startled.
.:End Flashback:.
"Wouldn't she?" Kagura repeated.
"Hai, she would want a mother" Sesshomaru looked up. "The day I adopted her, she told me she liked you as her Okaa-san... but..."
"You don't love me, right?" Kagura shrugged her shoulders. "I never got loved, I just feel love against you, so If you don't feel love, you can at least feel loved by me"
"You know..." Inuyasha stuck in. "She has a point"
"Stay out of this!" Sesshomaru growled.
"Sure, sure" Inuyasha went over to Koishii and laid down by the horse, closed his eyes and rested for a while, not caring really what happened.
"So?" Sesshomaru looked back at the elemental, the question in her eyes, the way she sat at the other side of the fire, waiting for response. He sighed.
"I don't like the idea... but for Rin..." He shrugged his shoulders. "Are you sure about it Kagura, you can always find someone who loves you"
"But I would never love that person" And for once, he felt that this Youkai in front of him, might be someone who he would have called 'worthy' while ha was the arrogant type... so...
"If you're sure... I'll think about it" He said. "Follow us to the Western Casle, We are going to buy a horse for Kagome-sama, we'll see if we come to a point"
"Arigatô, Sesshomaru" She said. He looked up.
"If we travel quickly, we will reach the castle by tomorrow evening..."
"He loves her, right?" He looked back at her.
"Nani?"
"Inuyasha, He loves Kagome, right?"
"Hai, and she him... But still... He cannot decide for Mating or Marriage"
"Ho?"
"He has marked her, but he doesn't like the consequenses of mating, and since he is half, and she whole human, Marrying would be prefered" Kagura thought for a bit.
"He can marry her, and let the Marking pocess come more slowly, floating in... someday it will fit in, and then both processes can be finished"
"So you think?"
"Since they are with humans, she is one, and he is half, Marriage would be the best for start"
"Let's sleep now, okay?" The Inu-Youkai asked.
"Hai"
As the fire got burned out, the two fell asleep, but the Hanyo, who had heard the conversation, sighed and looked up.
'What to do...?'
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They arrived at the castle, and Inuyasha went to the Youkai who sold horses, and picked out a beautiful copper horse with ebony mane and tail. The salesman had a name for it too, and Inuyasha found it truly fitting. The two Youkai went to the castle where Sesshomaru would fix some errands, and the morning thereafter, they went of again. Two days fast trip, and they would get back. Kagura lend Kagome's new horse, and she loved the powerful horse.
But what had happened in the village?
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"Kagome, Ichi, no, san!" Sango called before throwing the Hiraikotsu towards the Taijya-clothed Miko.
"Hai!" She yelled and drew the sword before swinging it quite perfectly towards the attacking weapon. The jewel lit up as Kagome filled the sword with her powers, and the blade became a bright pink light as it hit the boomerang. Hiraikotsu, which was afterall Youkai bone, got flying straight back towards Sagon, who couldn't catch, but had to avoid.
"Good, that was an deflecting spell" Kaida said as she nodded. "Great done" Kagome wiped her forehead.
"Arigatô"
"Aneue, have you got a name for the blade yet?" Rin yelled from a tree where she was practising her naginata by swiftly cutting branches.
"Not yet... but I'll think of one!" She yelled back.
"They have been gone for five days now..." Miroku said. "They should be back soon"
"About soon, dinner is soon ready!" Kaida said before turning to the village "care join me?"
"HAI!" they replied. Kagome changed into her dark-blue Miko-outfit before putting her Taijya one into her backpack, nowadays used for her clothing. She put her bow on the side of the bag, and the quiver also. She put the sword by her side and then followed after the others to the house.
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Kagome just finished her fourth portion of stew as she felt an aura she had missed for these days... but... there were three... She stood up and sprinted outside, in her barefeet, and ran down the stairs.
Inuyasha barely had the time to get of Koishii before Kagome had threw herself into his arms.
"I missed you Dog-boy" She said.
"I missed you too, Taijya Shinto Miko"
"Stop calling me that!" She said and punched him lightly on his arm. She glanced over at Sesshomaru, and then towards the copper horse, and she didn't believe it.
"K-Kagura?" She asked.
"As ever, you look too much like Kikyo" She answered.
"Thanks for your help six years ago" Kagome smiled. "You where a great help"
"Arigatô" The elemental answered. Rin joined them.
"Ah, Sesshomaru Oto-san... this is?"
"Rin, Kagura you already know..." Kagome didn't hear more before Inuyasha had dragged her away, taking the copper horse on his way.
"What..."
"Just come, I want to talk..." He dragged her on. And two shadows followed.
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He stopped by the well shrine.
"Kagome, first, I want you to meet Kagami" He said. "She's your horse"
"Hello Kagami" She said to the hrse and petted her on her neck. "Anything more Inuyasha, I'm barefeet and cold"
"Well..." He looked down. "I thought a lot this travel... and Sesshomaru and Kagura spoke much about it one night... and..." He tried to ignore the rustling in the bushes, showing that the two most annoying persons where there.
"Hai, Inuyasha?"
"Kagome... Koishii..." He took one step forward and took her hand. "Would you marry me?"
.:Chapter 7 End:.
There! Finished! And who liked the end!? (Puts hand up) Okay, tell me what you liked.
Longest chapter ever! Long delay, long chapter, enjoy
Kagura is in again! Yay!
22:30 here, mom's crazy, GTG to bed, Cya!
Ja ne
/Ashley