Disclaimer: Hrm.....see Chapter One if you will.
WD: Umm...this chapter was a little late-
Kagome: What do you mean a little...you were suppose to update it 2 days ago!
WD: Yeah...but by Wed. all I got were 2 reviews.....I like reviews...they make me happy.
~*~Last time~*~
After a half a hour or so Kagome seemed to run out of tears. She slowly got up and headed back home. Suddenly she ran into something soft but hard.
"Watch were you're going woman." Kagome's eyes widened. She knew that voice, she had heard it before. A voice she feared, but one she knew.
'But it can't....' Kagome thought.
"Are you going to move, or just stand there like a cornered rabbit?" Kagome looked up and gasped, it was him, sure he looked a bit different, but it was him. It had to be-
"Sesshoumaru?"
~*~Chapter 2: Chai and a Talk~*~
Sesshoumaru's mind reeled in confusion, this woman standing before him knew his name and had the exact same smell as the girl that followed his half-brother around. But it couldn't be her...no mortal could live 500 years...
'Now what was her name?....' Sesshoumaru thought.
"This is joke right? You really can't be him can you?!" Kagome started to panic, while the man she thought was Sesshoumaru stood there calmly. "There's no way in the seven hells you could be Sesshoumaru!" 'It can't be him! It just can't be him! If it is him.....but it's not him! But if it is....why am I still standing here and not in a bloody pile? But it's not him!'
"Why Kagome, I thought you'd be happy to see an old face." Sesshoumaru smirked at Kagome, who looked ready to pull her hair out. 'I can smell her fear, I always enjoyed that scent.'
"But.....it...it can't be you......."
"And why not?" Sesshoumaru looked down at the shaken Kagome. "Tell you what, lets talk over a cup of chai, shall we?" He had penlty of question to ask the miko himself, and he was sure that she had lots of questions for him as well.
'Now I know it's not him, Sesshoumaru, cold-hearted taiyoukai of the west, is asking me to talk over a cup of chai?!' Kagome looked at him and her body seemed to nod her head on it's own, as if somehow wanting to hear what he had to say. Besides, who could pass up a free cup of chai?
Kagome followed Sesshoumaru down the crowded sidewalks of Tokyo in sort of a daze, unaware of what was going on around her. Thoughts flashed through her head, all of them not comforting. Once in a while Sesshoumaru would look over his shoulder too make sure she was still following him. He could smell her fear, which reminded him of the old days. Yet there was another smell...coriousity?
'Back then she would be running in fright or hiding behind Inuyasha, but now she is corious? 500 years may have passed but I am still Sesshoumaru, Taiyoukai of the West, feared by all youkai. Could it be she isn't sure that I am really me?'
Kagome looked at Sesshoumaru from behind, it was weird...seeing him without his fluffy tail wrapped around his shoulder or his pointed armor on. The first thing she noticed was that he had his left arm back, his hair wasn't it's normal silver color, it was more of a really pale blond. And he wasn't wearing his red and white kimono, instead he was wearing tan slacks and a blood red shirt.
'Could it really be him? I'm not all together sure....I mean...his looks have changed, but...there's something about him that....I don't know...it just doesn't seem right that this is Sesshoumaru, Taiyoukai of the West, feared by all youkai.' Kagome was lost in thought and ran into Sesshoumaru for the second time that day when he stopped and looked at her.
"After you." She blushed when she saw that he was holding the door open for her. They were at a simple café, very few people were sitting there and those who were were currently reading the paper or sipping some kind of drink.
They sat down and a teenage waitress came by their table and handed them a one sheet menu, and then returned to the counter. Kagome stuck her face into the menu, clearly trying to hide from Sesshoumaru and not doing a very good job of it either....as the menu was a whole one sheet piece of paper. Sesshoumaru smirked and propped his chin up on his intertwined fingers.
Kagome's hiding spot was soon blown away as the waitress came back to take their orders, she took away the menus and left Kagome to the hard glare of Sesshoumaru.
'I really want to know how he knew that I was the same Kagome that traveled with Inuyasha.' Thought Kagome instantly. How did he know? 'Maybe he just knows my scent?' Kagome was lost in her thoughts again when the waitress came back with two mugs of hot chai.
"Minutes passed and neither of them said a word. Sesshoumaru sipped his chai as calmly as ever, like it wasn't unusual to see someone from 500 years ago. Kagome, on the other hand, was still staring into space, her mind trying every possible theory that might make sense, yet none of them did.
"So...ummm...how do..." Kagome had finally plucked up the courage to ask the question that had been bugging her for so long.
"How do I know you're the same Kagome that traveled with my brother?" Sesshoumaru finished for her. Kagome nodded weakly. "I have watched you go into that well before, and then come back days later with items not from my time. I could only assume that the old well used some kind of magic to send you back...or should I say foward into this time." Kagome nodded again.
"But-" Kagome was cut off by Sesshoumaru's waving hand.
"When I first ran into you...rather, you ran into me," Sesshoumaru smirked as Kagome growled "I couldn't believe that you would have the same scent as the miko that traveled with my brother. But you were wearing the same uniform as the one from the past, your scent was the same and your aura hasn't changed a bit."
"But you look so weird!" Kagome clapped a hand over her mouth, not really meaning to say that out loud. Much to her surprise, Sesshoumaru smiled, not that cold-you're-about-to-die-smile that he usually gave Inuyasha, but a humored smile.
"Times change, and so do people. At least some people. As humans continued to populate the world I found myself mingling with them more and more. A simple glamor spell is all that you are seeing. I can take it off at any time, or if the spell thinks I need to." Sesshoumaru looked at one of his wrists and Kagome followed his gaze, gasped as his two strips appeared on his wrist.
"But how....what are you doing now?" Kagome asked, he still couldn't be ruler of the Western Lands could he?
"I run the top health technology company in Japan."
'Of course, if he can't be ruler of the west...why not a tech-' "Do you mean GenkiTechology?!" Kagome coughed out, along with some of her chai. She gasped when he nodded. GenkiTechology, or GT, was the highest ranking health technology advancement in the world, having come up with cures for many diseases that had baffled others. GT had also come up with advanced tools and machines that currently were being used in over 3/4 of the world.
"Did you expect anything less Kagome? Of course I still rule the Western Lands. At least the youkai Western Lands." Sesshoumaru smirked again.
"You mean you run GT and you're still Taiyoukai of the West!?" Sesshoumaru nodded.
"Tell me Kagome, do you ever plan on finishing your chai?" Kagome blushed and took another sip of her drink.
They talked for another 2 hours or so, Kagome asking most of the questions, about him, about how he had fared during the 500 years that had passed.
"You mean you wrote books as well? Geez! What haven't you done?!" Kagome found out that one of her favorite books, although she would never say so, had been written by one of her worst foes. The book was about a female miko like Kagome.
"What haven't I done? I've never skydived, although I would doubt I would need one of these airplanes that you humans seem to relay on all the time."
"When did you get your arm back?" Kagome asked.
"About 400 years ago with Tensegia's help." Sesshoumaru answered.
"What about Jaken?" Kagome asked. Sesshoumaru's face turned cold and distance all of a sudden.
"He is dead, as is Rin. Rin died from old age, much to long ago, yet much to early for me. Jaken was killed during one your stupid human wars."
"I'm sorry. I didn't know." Kagome took on a crestfallen face. She had liked Rin, the spirited little girl who followed the Taiyoukai around. Inuyasha hadn't liked her too much, anyone who traveled with Sesshoumaru was bad to him. They stayed in silence for another couple minutes until,
"Shall we Kagome?" Sesshoumaru offered her his hand, leaving some money one the table. Kagome took his hand and let him lead her out of the café.
'Wow, he sure has changed. I didn't think someone so cold-hearted could change so much.' They walked around Tokyo, looking at the shops and watching people go on with their busy lives.
"Kagome, I believe that we just passed your house." And of course Sesshoumaru was right, in fact, they were 3 houses down from hers. She blushed for what seemed to be the 50th time that day and ran back to her shrine steps.
"What are you doing?" Kagome asked Sesshoumaru as she watched him walk up the stairs after her.
"You didn't think I'd leave with out a tour would you?" He smirked. Kagome paled as her grandfather rushed towards them, surprised at the vistor.
"Welcome! Welcome! What brings you to Higurashi shrine? Could I interest you in a keychain that looks almost like the Shikon No Tama? How about a-"
"No thank you." Sesshoumaru answered Kagome's grandfather, much to interesting in the God Tree.
"Did you know that the hanyou Inuyasha was once pinned to this tree, which stopped it from blossoming. Then my granddaughter removed the spell holding the hanyou to the tree and now the God Tree has started flowering again." Kagome's Grandfather said proudly. Kagome blushed and Sesshoumaru smirked at her again.
Sesshoumaru remembered this tree, the tree that his half-brother had been pinned to. He had visited Inuyasha when he had been asleep, just to see if the rumors were true. He had all the time in the world to kill him, but he couldn't kill his brother when he was sleeping, that would be dishonorable.
"Well then, can I at least give you a tour of the rest of the shrine...." Kagome's grandfather looked the Taiyoukai.
"It would be my pleasure." Sesshoumaru said. Kagome was surprised how gentlemen like Sesshoumaru could be, whenever she had met him in the past he was always yelling 'die.' or things like that at them.
"Okay then! Well, let us get on with the tour than shall we?" Kagome sighed as her grandfather started pushing Sesshoumaru towards the back of the shrine....and the Gift Shop.
'I almost feel sorry for Sesshoumaru. I'll consider this payback for all the times he's tried to kill me.' Kagome smirked and headed inside, leaving the Taiyoukai of the West at her grandfather's mercy.
~*~End Chapter~*~
WD: See! See! See! I told you Inu-chan! I told you more then 2 people would read it! Ha! I was right! You were wrong! Hahahahahaha! *cough**hack**cough*
Sesshoumaru: *hands her a cup of water*
WD: Thanks Sesshie!
Sesshou: You will not call me that.
WD: Fine....Sess-chan. Review responses below. Also, sorry if I messed up Japanese restaurants or anything else. And I had to include chai in there somewhere.....chai, I could go for a cup of that right now. Sesshie!
~*~Review Responses~*~
Sukera: Calm down Sukera-chan. I'll update every Wed. or so. This chapter was a little late because....Sesshou-chan...didn't I explain why the chapter was late already...I forget...damn my bad memory. Ummm....what were we talking about?....
ptbear: Sure thing! Have some candy!
WD: I forgot to put something in here.....not too much of a surprise. Anyways, Genki means 'heath' in Japanese.
WD: Umm...this chapter was a little late-
Kagome: What do you mean a little...you were suppose to update it 2 days ago!
WD: Yeah...but by Wed. all I got were 2 reviews.....I like reviews...they make me happy.
~*~Last time~*~
After a half a hour or so Kagome seemed to run out of tears. She slowly got up and headed back home. Suddenly she ran into something soft but hard.
"Watch were you're going woman." Kagome's eyes widened. She knew that voice, she had heard it before. A voice she feared, but one she knew.
'But it can't....' Kagome thought.
"Are you going to move, or just stand there like a cornered rabbit?" Kagome looked up and gasped, it was him, sure he looked a bit different, but it was him. It had to be-
"Sesshoumaru?"
~*~Chapter 2: Chai and a Talk~*~
Sesshoumaru's mind reeled in confusion, this woman standing before him knew his name and had the exact same smell as the girl that followed his half-brother around. But it couldn't be her...no mortal could live 500 years...
'Now what was her name?....' Sesshoumaru thought.
"This is joke right? You really can't be him can you?!" Kagome started to panic, while the man she thought was Sesshoumaru stood there calmly. "There's no way in the seven hells you could be Sesshoumaru!" 'It can't be him! It just can't be him! If it is him.....but it's not him! But if it is....why am I still standing here and not in a bloody pile? But it's not him!'
"Why Kagome, I thought you'd be happy to see an old face." Sesshoumaru smirked at Kagome, who looked ready to pull her hair out. 'I can smell her fear, I always enjoyed that scent.'
"But.....it...it can't be you......."
"And why not?" Sesshoumaru looked down at the shaken Kagome. "Tell you what, lets talk over a cup of chai, shall we?" He had penlty of question to ask the miko himself, and he was sure that she had lots of questions for him as well.
'Now I know it's not him, Sesshoumaru, cold-hearted taiyoukai of the west, is asking me to talk over a cup of chai?!' Kagome looked at him and her body seemed to nod her head on it's own, as if somehow wanting to hear what he had to say. Besides, who could pass up a free cup of chai?
Kagome followed Sesshoumaru down the crowded sidewalks of Tokyo in sort of a daze, unaware of what was going on around her. Thoughts flashed through her head, all of them not comforting. Once in a while Sesshoumaru would look over his shoulder too make sure she was still following him. He could smell her fear, which reminded him of the old days. Yet there was another smell...coriousity?
'Back then she would be running in fright or hiding behind Inuyasha, but now she is corious? 500 years may have passed but I am still Sesshoumaru, Taiyoukai of the West, feared by all youkai. Could it be she isn't sure that I am really me?'
Kagome looked at Sesshoumaru from behind, it was weird...seeing him without his fluffy tail wrapped around his shoulder or his pointed armor on. The first thing she noticed was that he had his left arm back, his hair wasn't it's normal silver color, it was more of a really pale blond. And he wasn't wearing his red and white kimono, instead he was wearing tan slacks and a blood red shirt.
'Could it really be him? I'm not all together sure....I mean...his looks have changed, but...there's something about him that....I don't know...it just doesn't seem right that this is Sesshoumaru, Taiyoukai of the West, feared by all youkai.' Kagome was lost in thought and ran into Sesshoumaru for the second time that day when he stopped and looked at her.
"After you." She blushed when she saw that he was holding the door open for her. They were at a simple café, very few people were sitting there and those who were were currently reading the paper or sipping some kind of drink.
They sat down and a teenage waitress came by their table and handed them a one sheet menu, and then returned to the counter. Kagome stuck her face into the menu, clearly trying to hide from Sesshoumaru and not doing a very good job of it either....as the menu was a whole one sheet piece of paper. Sesshoumaru smirked and propped his chin up on his intertwined fingers.
Kagome's hiding spot was soon blown away as the waitress came back to take their orders, she took away the menus and left Kagome to the hard glare of Sesshoumaru.
'I really want to know how he knew that I was the same Kagome that traveled with Inuyasha.' Thought Kagome instantly. How did he know? 'Maybe he just knows my scent?' Kagome was lost in her thoughts again when the waitress came back with two mugs of hot chai.
"Minutes passed and neither of them said a word. Sesshoumaru sipped his chai as calmly as ever, like it wasn't unusual to see someone from 500 years ago. Kagome, on the other hand, was still staring into space, her mind trying every possible theory that might make sense, yet none of them did.
"So...ummm...how do..." Kagome had finally plucked up the courage to ask the question that had been bugging her for so long.
"How do I know you're the same Kagome that traveled with my brother?" Sesshoumaru finished for her. Kagome nodded weakly. "I have watched you go into that well before, and then come back days later with items not from my time. I could only assume that the old well used some kind of magic to send you back...or should I say foward into this time." Kagome nodded again.
"But-" Kagome was cut off by Sesshoumaru's waving hand.
"When I first ran into you...rather, you ran into me," Sesshoumaru smirked as Kagome growled "I couldn't believe that you would have the same scent as the miko that traveled with my brother. But you were wearing the same uniform as the one from the past, your scent was the same and your aura hasn't changed a bit."
"But you look so weird!" Kagome clapped a hand over her mouth, not really meaning to say that out loud. Much to her surprise, Sesshoumaru smiled, not that cold-you're-about-to-die-smile that he usually gave Inuyasha, but a humored smile.
"Times change, and so do people. At least some people. As humans continued to populate the world I found myself mingling with them more and more. A simple glamor spell is all that you are seeing. I can take it off at any time, or if the spell thinks I need to." Sesshoumaru looked at one of his wrists and Kagome followed his gaze, gasped as his two strips appeared on his wrist.
"But how....what are you doing now?" Kagome asked, he still couldn't be ruler of the Western Lands could he?
"I run the top health technology company in Japan."
'Of course, if he can't be ruler of the west...why not a tech-' "Do you mean GenkiTechology?!" Kagome coughed out, along with some of her chai. She gasped when he nodded. GenkiTechology, or GT, was the highest ranking health technology advancement in the world, having come up with cures for many diseases that had baffled others. GT had also come up with advanced tools and machines that currently were being used in over 3/4 of the world.
"Did you expect anything less Kagome? Of course I still rule the Western Lands. At least the youkai Western Lands." Sesshoumaru smirked again.
"You mean you run GT and you're still Taiyoukai of the West!?" Sesshoumaru nodded.
"Tell me Kagome, do you ever plan on finishing your chai?" Kagome blushed and took another sip of her drink.
They talked for another 2 hours or so, Kagome asking most of the questions, about him, about how he had fared during the 500 years that had passed.
"You mean you wrote books as well? Geez! What haven't you done?!" Kagome found out that one of her favorite books, although she would never say so, had been written by one of her worst foes. The book was about a female miko like Kagome.
"What haven't I done? I've never skydived, although I would doubt I would need one of these airplanes that you humans seem to relay on all the time."
"When did you get your arm back?" Kagome asked.
"About 400 years ago with Tensegia's help." Sesshoumaru answered.
"What about Jaken?" Kagome asked. Sesshoumaru's face turned cold and distance all of a sudden.
"He is dead, as is Rin. Rin died from old age, much to long ago, yet much to early for me. Jaken was killed during one your stupid human wars."
"I'm sorry. I didn't know." Kagome took on a crestfallen face. She had liked Rin, the spirited little girl who followed the Taiyoukai around. Inuyasha hadn't liked her too much, anyone who traveled with Sesshoumaru was bad to him. They stayed in silence for another couple minutes until,
"Shall we Kagome?" Sesshoumaru offered her his hand, leaving some money one the table. Kagome took his hand and let him lead her out of the café.
'Wow, he sure has changed. I didn't think someone so cold-hearted could change so much.' They walked around Tokyo, looking at the shops and watching people go on with their busy lives.
"Kagome, I believe that we just passed your house." And of course Sesshoumaru was right, in fact, they were 3 houses down from hers. She blushed for what seemed to be the 50th time that day and ran back to her shrine steps.
"What are you doing?" Kagome asked Sesshoumaru as she watched him walk up the stairs after her.
"You didn't think I'd leave with out a tour would you?" He smirked. Kagome paled as her grandfather rushed towards them, surprised at the vistor.
"Welcome! Welcome! What brings you to Higurashi shrine? Could I interest you in a keychain that looks almost like the Shikon No Tama? How about a-"
"No thank you." Sesshoumaru answered Kagome's grandfather, much to interesting in the God Tree.
"Did you know that the hanyou Inuyasha was once pinned to this tree, which stopped it from blossoming. Then my granddaughter removed the spell holding the hanyou to the tree and now the God Tree has started flowering again." Kagome's Grandfather said proudly. Kagome blushed and Sesshoumaru smirked at her again.
Sesshoumaru remembered this tree, the tree that his half-brother had been pinned to. He had visited Inuyasha when he had been asleep, just to see if the rumors were true. He had all the time in the world to kill him, but he couldn't kill his brother when he was sleeping, that would be dishonorable.
"Well then, can I at least give you a tour of the rest of the shrine...." Kagome's grandfather looked the Taiyoukai.
"It would be my pleasure." Sesshoumaru said. Kagome was surprised how gentlemen like Sesshoumaru could be, whenever she had met him in the past he was always yelling 'die.' or things like that at them.
"Okay then! Well, let us get on with the tour than shall we?" Kagome sighed as her grandfather started pushing Sesshoumaru towards the back of the shrine....and the Gift Shop.
'I almost feel sorry for Sesshoumaru. I'll consider this payback for all the times he's tried to kill me.' Kagome smirked and headed inside, leaving the Taiyoukai of the West at her grandfather's mercy.
~*~End Chapter~*~
WD: See! See! See! I told you Inu-chan! I told you more then 2 people would read it! Ha! I was right! You were wrong! Hahahahahaha! *cough**hack**cough*
Sesshoumaru: *hands her a cup of water*
WD: Thanks Sesshie!
Sesshou: You will not call me that.
WD: Fine....Sess-chan. Review responses below. Also, sorry if I messed up Japanese restaurants or anything else. And I had to include chai in there somewhere.....chai, I could go for a cup of that right now. Sesshie!
~*~Review Responses~*~
Sukera: Calm down Sukera-chan. I'll update every Wed. or so. This chapter was a little late because....Sesshou-chan...didn't I explain why the chapter was late already...I forget...damn my bad memory. Ummm....what were we talking about?....
ptbear: Sure thing! Have some candy!
WD: I forgot to put something in here.....not too much of a surprise. Anyways, Genki means 'heath' in Japanese.