Title: We meet again
Disclaimer: Yeah not mine, I don't even own a car. How can I afford the whole Inuyasha series?
Summary: It has been one year since the shikon-no-tama was finished and Kagome has returned to modern times. She is ready to take on college at Tokyo U. but comes across familiar faces. Including one Sesshoumaru who is disguised as Kagome's professor. Kag/Sess! NOT AU
BEFORE YOU READ: This is not AU! Sesshoumaru and blah blah blah whoever else survived 500 years up to Kagome's time.
I'm going to be using '…' for thinking and "…" for speech from now on.
Yay! Onward!
Chapter Three: Long awaited explanation
Last chapter: "Miss Higurashi I suggest you pay more attention in class, just because this is the first day doesn't mean I can't start taking off points."
What a jerk.
Then it hit her.
The white hair, that cool voice, the striking facial features, his build, that oh-so familiar aura…
"SESSHOUMARU!"
He inwardly smirked at her flabbergasted expression.
"Miss Higurashi, you will address me as Professor Taisho or Mr. Taisho during class, not my first name. Understood?" He said strictly.
'What is he playing at? Does he even know I'm, well… me?'
"I said is that understood Miss Higurashi?"
Kagome decided to keep it in, noticing the whole class was looking towards her with an 'I can't believe you just yelled in his class' look.
'I'll just have to confront him with it after class.'
Then realizing she hadn't replied she immediately answered, "Err… yes I understand… Professor Taisho."
Sesshoumaru couldn't help but let out a smirk and nodded. He continued crossing off and calling out names for roll. Kagome slid into her chair out of embarrassment.
Students around her muttered things like "I can't believe she just did that!" or "Oh boy I think someone's going to get detention". Other students kept their mouths shut, not wanting to be confronted by the teacher himself. Kagome just rolled her eyes and scowled at the questions that bombarded her mind.
Questions like:
'What the hell is happening?'
'Sesshoumaru? In my time? As my teacher?'
'A modern-looking Sesshoumaru with modern clothes and short, spunked up hair? How'd he get so… hot?'
Whoa.
Kagome didn't even want to know where that last thought came from.
"Sesshoumaru… in my time." She muttered under her breath just low enough so only herself could hear.
"That's it for roll. As all of you may know now, you will call me Professor or Mr. Taisho. I will be your History teacher for this year. This year, you'll learn about…"
All eyes paid attention to him, including Kagome's. As he spoke, he spoke with a strict yet informative voice, captivating the class.
"And that's it for the introductory speech. Let's get on with our first lesson. Open your books to Lesson 1: Chapter 1, The land of the rising sun."
The lesson continued, it was pretty much an ordinary class. With a few "that's it, detention after class" or "stop passing notes!" but other than that the class moved smoothly.
'I've got to hand it to him, Sesshoumaru's not a bad teacher. Hmm, by the way… mental note: Ask Sesshoumaru WHY THE HELL he'd pick his career as a college professor.'
Kagome used about half her brain learning about the lesson and the second half thinking about Sesshoumaru. The thing that bothered her the most was how ironic this situation was! I mean it may only be merely one year for me but for him it's been more than 500 years! Never had she ever thought this would happen to her. That one morning she'd wake up and find a youkai she 'met 500 years ago' would be her college professor!
Man if this was plaguing her mind so much, she wondered how Sesshoumaru was taking it? Had he even known before this very day that she would enter his class? Maybe Sesshoumaru didn't even recognize her as the girl from 500 years ago! I mean that was so long ago! Yet, there was hope.
'Hope? Hope for what!'
'C'mon Kagome, you know you want him to remember you!' her other half told her.
'Whatever.'
No use in fighting about something that was partly true.
The school bell had rung a sign to tell students that their class had ended. To some students they'd have the relaxing feeling of going home, falling apart in their bed and snuggling up in their comforters with a pillow in tuck.
Well sorry to say but that wasn't Kagome.
Sure her classes were over for the day but there was still the Sesshoumaru thing. Ugh. Why come into my life now?
As the students shuffled out of the class, Kagome sat in her seat. She watched all the students but herself leave, she picked up her book bag and proceeded to her teacher who sat oh-so-smug on his chair.
With an eyebrow raised and a smirk playing on his face, Sesshoumaru questioned her.
'Let's play with the miko a bit, shall we?'
"Miss Higurashi is there something you wish to speak with me about?"
'WHAT! We haven't seen each other in 500 years, well on his part at least, and this is what he says to me!'
"Cut the crap Sesshoumaru!"
"Tsk tsk. Students your age really are breaking your vocabulary skills with that internet of yours. And did I not make it clear to address me as your Professor?"
Ohh he could just feel the heat. Yes. Sesshoumaru: One, Kagome: Zero.
'What do I say? Maybe he really doesn't remember me! Oh what are you telling yourself, Kagome? Of course he remembers you! He's just playing with you.'
Her eyes widened and she decided to play fire with fire.
"My apologies Prof. Taisho, I only had you confused with an acquaintance of mine. He's very cold-hearted, arrogant, and egotistic. Definitely not you." She said with a sweet yet fake smile.
'How dare this woman toy with me? She dare insult this Sesshoumaru?'
"Alright, enough human. Just because we were former comrades in battle 500 years ago doesn't mean you may 'joke' with me." He said with a growl.
'Now that's the Sesshoumaru I know.' Kagome smiled triumphantly.
"Nice to see you too, Sesshoumaru. Now care to explain this whole situation?"
"What's to explain, human?" He lifted a white eyebrow.
Kagome scoffed. Does he not find this the least bit ironic?
"The fact that you're my teacher and how you're living up to this time and and…"
She trailed off into other things like how his appearance has changed and what had happened over the years.
"Shush, human. I understand what you're talking about." He said with an indifferent tone.
'So this human is curious about me. Of course, she should be.'
"First of all, it's not human. It's Kagome. Ka-go-me."
"I will to address you how I want to address you."
"What! Well then I get to do the same, Fluffy-sama!" she retorted.
"It's Professor Taisho in class, and take a look around you 'Cow-go-me', we are still in class."
'Did Sesshoumaru just make a funny? Wow. He's really changed over the 500 years.'
"That's funny, FLUFFY-SAMA. I didn't know teacher's could address their students as 'human' in class."
'She's just a little spit-fire isn't she? No wonder Inuyasha would always complain about her.'
Sesshoumaru let out a very non conservative growl.
"Yeah, that's what I thought, Sesshoumaru. Now, care to explain?" She grinned, knowing she had just defeated the Lord of the Western Lands in a verbal battle, though Sesshoumaru himself would never admit to that.
He himself sighed, "Where do I begin?" in a bored manner.
"Just talk to me about what you did for 500 years!"
"You can't possibly be interested in all that, can you?" He asked rhetorically but actually received an answer.
"Believe it or not, I am. I mean, aren't you the least bit interested in me?"
To tell the truth, he was but he would never actually tell her. He had a reputation to keep up.
Anyways, he had already known that she had been able to travel between times since he had been aiding her in the final battle with Naraku and had come to known her better. Especially since his surrogate daughter talked endlessly about Kagome. Sesshoumaru had also been able to see the bone eaters well which allowed that free passage through time when Kagome bid her last farewell. He had come because Rin had wished him to bring her there to say goodbye to the woman she grew to love as a friend, an older sister, and a mother.
To answer her question he just shrugged and said, "I knew I would come in contact with you sooner or later after you sealed the well and returned to your own time."
"Whatever Sesshoumaru. You know you thought about me."
Kagome didn't really care about the dangers of insulting or playing around with the former feudal lord because he knew his youkai powers must've died down, and that he was not allowed to keep swords. Besides she was his student, he wasn't allowed to harm her. Think of the headlines, 'Professor at Tokyo U. savagely attacked a student of his.'
"Do you wish to ask me a question or not? If not, I shall take my leave and you will be left with a mind full of unanswered questions."
"Alright, alright."
Kagome pulled up an extra chair by Sesshoumaru's desk to make herself comfortable.
By this action Sesshoumaru just knew this would be a long conversation.
With a sigh he said, "Bring it on."
"So… Rin died?" She said sadly. Of course she knew that sweet little girl would someday grow old and wither she never wanted it to happen.
"She's human. Of course she would die."
Kagome solemnly nodded and was about to ask another question but was cut before she could speak as Sesshoumaru began talking again.
"Her heart still lives on. She married a prosperous man whom she had fallen in love with. She told stories about her adventures with me to her children, whom told to their own children. By then Rin had already passed away of natural reasons like old age. Her grandchildren had their grandchildren and her family line continued on and on. I cannot live a day without coming into contact with one of her kin."
"How do you know they're her kin?"
"I just do. It must be because I've been living around her blood for so long."
Kagome nodded. She decided to change the subject, she could tell this was Sesshoumaru's weak spot and noticed his expression changed into a slight sliver of gloom.
"So anyone else I might know that have lived up to this time?"
'Now we're getting somewhere. Shall I bring up Shippou or should I let her figure it out herself?'
A knock at the door disturbed his thoughts as two pairs of eyes, his and Kagome's looked at the door.
"It's unlocked." He spoke loudly, knowing exactly who it was.
The door opened almost hesitantly and out came Shippou who stood nervously, knowing Kagome was there. He shut the door and strode towards them.
"Well speak of the devil."
Kagome shifted glances between her teacher and the auburn-haired man, obviously confused.
"Oh! Miss Higurashi! Sorry to intrude on your student-teacher conversation, I'll come back later."
He blushed and turned towards the door when Sesshoumaru's voice stopped him.
"She knows, kitsune." He said seriously.
'What? I know what?'
"Will someone please tell me what's going on?" I emphasized loudly.
Shippou sighed and grabbed a chair to sit next to Sesshoumaru, opposite Kagome. He and Sesshoumaru exchanged glances as if asking each other, 'Should I start or should you?'
Shippou sucked in some air and began speaking.
"Alright, Kagome I know this may come as a shock to you but…"
He stopped awkwardly, causing a short silence between them. Kagome nodded her head in a away to tell him to continue.
"There's no correct way to say this so Kagome… Tell me, do I look familiar to you?" He asked with a tint of hope in his voice.
She shifted her head to the left, then to the right, observing his facial features.
'Nothing special or familiar here…'
Then she looked closer.
That auburn-brown hair, the strangely large green eyes which she had felt she'd seen before, that familiar aura…
This was starting to come together as well.
So Sesshoumaru knows who he is too?
Think, Kagome. Think.
…
No! It can't be!
She shook her head in disbelief, closing her eyes and thinking that when she opened them she would face nothing. But she tried and her eyes still came into contact with the older kitsune youkai before her.
'Oh no, what's that expression on her face?'
Shippou was worried but shook it off when he saw her disbelieving expression turn into a surprising grin as she leaped at him and gave him a death-threatening hug.
"I... an't… brea… agome!"
She realized he was out of breath because of her hug/bind and quickly let go only to look at his joyous face.
'She remembers me! She remembers me!' was Shippou's thought.
'I can believe he's here! They're both here!' She thought as she glanced towards Sesshoumaru.
Kagome wore a huge grin like a kid wore when they got ice cream in the park!
'Things couldn't get any better!' she thought.
Sesshoumaru cleared his throat, and looked at Shippou, telling him silently to explain.
"Well, haha, Kagome… I guess you know who I am now! Have any, err, questions?"
"Of course I do! How did you become so handsome! You cutie, you must've broken so many hearts you little player!" She said as she pinched his cheeks as she used to when he was small.
Shippou blushed and ducked from Kagome's pinchy hands.
Kagome sighed and leaned back in her chair.
"Oh Shippou! I missed you so much! I truly apologize and absolutely abhor myself for not watching you grow. I missed all of your moments and now look at you. A grown man." Her eyes were glazed with tears threatening to spill.
"Kagome, please don't cry. And don't berate yourself for something you couldn't help! You and I are here now, and that's all we have. And to me, that's enough."
She and he smiled genuinely, like mother and son.
Meanwhile, Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes and scoffed.
Insert record breaking here-
Kagome sent a glare towards Sesshoumaru.
"Thanks a lot for ruining that perfect Kodiak moment!" She spat coldly.
"You and your stupid human emotions. Let's just get on with this explanation thing, now." The white-haired youkai said in a bored tone.
"Hey! Sesshoumaru, that's not fair! Kagome hasn't seen us in a year and I haven't seen her in more that 500 so I think we deserve this quality time!" Shippou counter-attacked.
"Please. What we need now is to get over the fact it's been 500 years and get into reality." He glared at the two. "And you, Kagome shouldn't beat yourself up over this, like he said, it was your duty, you did it, and you returned home."
Kagome and Shippou were fuming inside but knew it was true and backed down.
A heatedly awkward silence followed, and Kagome cleared her throat.
"So… How did you two come together?"
'Finally a question I can answer'
Sesshoumaru began, "After you returned to the well, your other comrades Miroku and Sango returned to Kaede's village."
Shippou continued, "Five years later they were married and had children, it had been way too long and I was there to watch as they passed away. Years and years went on as I had hid in the shadows for a while, so as to not make my name known. Gradually, I was gathering information as Japan and the world's knowledge expanded. Same for Sesshoumaru."
Sesshoumaru began to speak again, "In the early 1900's we met once again in a small youkai club away from humans. We conversed and had arranged for both of us to keep in contact with each other."
"So for the next century we kept in touch until it had been 2000 and we had remembered you traveled 500 years in time. Well it would be soon that the shard-hunting would be finished and you would return back to your time so we waited hesitantly for your return. Meanwhile, Sesshoumaru had claimed his job here at Tokyo U. as did I. It was finally 2004, and that 500 years ago you would return home and that shard hunting was complete. Sesshoumaru thought it would be too soon and you would be overwhelmed to see us again just when you got back from the feudal era for the last time to he proposed we wait till we saw you again. Well time passed and we've," he chuckled nervously at this, "sort of forgot about you until yesterday when I saw you at the student bookstore."
He sighed and finally said, "Well that's the story. A lot to take in, huh Kagome?"
Kagome nodded. She felt a feeling like no other, sort of like how a 5 year old felt after someone just explained emc2.
"That sure was… interesting." She huffed.
"Any other questions?" Sesshoumaru asked.
"Surprisingly, no. Well not at the time being, atleast. I'm just so happy and overwhelmed to see you two again! Well I know I haven't had the pleasure in knowing you Sesshoumaru, but It's great to see a familiar face." She turned to Shippou, "And you… I can't believe you're standing in front of me right now." She let out a single, happy tear and quickly wiped it off.
The kitsune and Kagome embraced softly. They let go and Kagome placed a smile on her face directed to Sesshoumaru who was heading towards the door.
"Hey! You think I'm going to let you leave that easily! It may have been one year for me but five hundred years for you!" Her grin only widened as she leaped onto Sesshoumaru giving him a wide hug. Both became flushed with embarrassment as they brushed themselves off each other.
She looked at both of them and said, "How about we celebrate?"
"Celebrate what?" The white haired youkai spoke.
"Meeting each other again, what do you think! Let's get out a bite to eat, my treat!" She said happily.
"I'll pass, thank you very much." Sesshoumaru said as Kagome pouted. Shippou then retaliated, "Sesshoumaru! Don't be such a party-pooper! Kagome, I think that would be a swell idea. Would you mind if I bring along my wife and kids?"
Kagome did an oh-so-cliché sweat drop to the floor obviously missing Sesshoumaru's statement as she heard what Shippou said.
"SHIPPOU YOU'RE MARRIED? WITH KIDS?" She grabbed his ear and directed him towards the door, "You've got a lot of explaining to do, Mister."
Sesshoumaru sighed and followed them out, locking the classroom behind him.
Kagome finally let go of the grip she had on his throbbing ear lobe and straightened up.
"Alright well Shippou, you bring those kids and that wife of yours. And Sesshoumaru," She noticed out of the corner of her eye as she saw him walking down the hallway towards the parking lot. "You're not getting away that easily!"
He stopped and turned to face towards her, "Is that so?" He drawled.
"Yeah! You two are to meet me at Caesar's Pizza ((Sorry I had to think of some restaurant/food place)) in two hours. And you have to go. And yes, Shippou if you have to, beat Sesshoumaru into coming." She smiled at the last part and yelled a 'ta-ta!' to them as she skipped happily past them and towards her dorms, an excited feeling at the pit of her stomach, knowing that her life would change from this point forward.
Meanwhile, with Sesshoumaru and Shippou.
"So should you tell Kouga or should I?" They said simultaneously.
A/N: MUAHAHA. I'm sorry this chapter sucks. I just had to get it done!
Well now you found out a lot of things! Kouga's aliiiiiive! And Shippou has a wife and kids! As for Sesshoumaru/Kagome interaction, stay tuned for the next chapter. Evil Cackling
Ahh well, thank you so much for reading and reviewing the last two chapters! Once again, Please review it really only takes like two minutes and it makes me feel the need to update faster.
