I don't own Inu Yasha. You know it, I know it, so let's just stop kidding ourselves shall we?
Once In A Blue Moon
An Inu Yasha Fanfic by Hika-chan
Chapter 10: Oneechan Makes It All Better
"Sango, might I ask you a question?"
The youkai exterminator paused in her excercises, "Hai Yuki-sama, what is it?"
"I am just wondering, what's the deal with Inu Yasa and Kagome?"
Sango blinked, then sighed, "You had best take a seat Yuki-sama, this is going to be a long story."
"Oh?"
"I can't give you too many details, I wasn't always there. But it all started with Inu Yasha and Kikyou fifty years ago..."
***
Inu Yasha banged on Hikaru's door "Yo, Feathers you wanna spar or what?"
"Go away mutt I'm not in the mood!"
"Why should that matter!?" He said forcing her door open. Hikaru's eyes glowed red and a gust of wind threw the male hanyou back from the door and slammed it shut again. What the #*$& was that for!?"
Hikaru put a hand to her head, couldn't the moron take a hint. "Leave me alone baka, I don't feel well."
"Keh, That's bullsh*t! Youkai and hanyou don't just get sick... unless."
Before he realized it Inu Yasha was slammed against the wall by the wind with a set of Hikaru's talons at his neck. "You tell anyone at all and I shall slay you where you stand."
Inu Yasha grinned, "Well you had best do it soon then, your claws are loosing their edge." She stiffened a bit at that remark before baring her teeth at him. "Don't worry," he said more sincerely, "I know what an important secret it is. I won't tell."
She blinked, then stepped back, removing her talons from his neck. Maybe he's not so bad after all. "Thank you, I'm sorry I attacked you."
He sniffed, "You don't change at sunset do you? You change sooner right? I can smell it."
She blanched then dragged him into the room closing the door. "You can't just talk about that in the hallway! Are you nuts!?"
Inu Yasha smiled sheepishly and shrugged. "But I'm right aren't I?"
Hikaru nodded, taking a look out the window to the morning sky, "Midday to Midnight."
Inu Yasha cocked his head curiously. "Of the full moon huh? Should I leave now?"
"What's the point now? You already know, but I won't leave the room today, I don't want anyone else to know." She grinned at him, "Besides I doubt I could keep you off my back for long you annoying mutt."
"heh, got that right, see you later feathers," he said as he walked out the door.
***
"You're serious?" Yuki asked before sighing and shaking her head, "Honestly I can't believe Inu-chan sometimes."
"Yes Inu Yasha does have a pension for being indecisive and putting his foot in his mouth."
"I can't believe he put Kagome-chan through so much over his dead ex."
"And it doesn't help that Kagome-chan is her reincarnation either."
"-Hmph- and I thought Sesshoumaru was bad about living in the past."
"Nani?"
"Mmm? Oh nothing. I think I'm going to have to have a little chat with Inu-chan sometime today."
"No offense Yuki-sama but how are you going to talk him into making up his mind?"
Yuki grinned and winked, "Oh I have my ways believe me. I am his big sister after all."
Sango seemed skeptical, "Yes well Sesshoumaru is also his big brother and he doesn't seem very good at talking Inu Yasha into anything."
"Yes well we both know Sesshoumaru and I are very different now don't we?"
***
"Hikaru-san would you like to join us for lunch?"
The almost human hanyou rolled her eyes, The one day I really want to be left alone and they just keep coming! "No thank you Kagome. I'm not hungry."
"An hanyou that's not hungry? Boy you are differnet from Inu Yasha."
"Yes well whoever told you all hanyou were the same?" Hikaru snapped.
She heard Kagome giggle, "Well you're both rather snippy ain't ya? I'll bring you some food later Hikaru-san."
The hanyou girl just stared at the door. What a strange, strange girl.
***
"Inu-chan, will you come with me for a moment?" Inu Yasha stiffened at his elder sister's request. They had just finished lunch and the tone in her voice did not bode well for him.
"uhh.. What for aneeue?"
Yuki grinned mischievously, making Inu Yasha even more nervous. "Oh I just want to talk to you about something."
Oh yeah, Inu Yasha was in trouble, big time, and he knew it. "And what's that aneeue?"
"Oh you'll see," she smiled, as though she was giving him a surprise gift, one he was sure he would not like. "Come along now Inu-chan." She grabbed one of Inu Yasha's arms and half dragged him away from the table. The other's watched blankly the entire time.
"What do you think that was all about Kagome-sama?" Miroku asked.
She blinked, "Not a clue."
Sango took a sip of her tea, "I believe she plans on trying to talk him into letting go of the past."
"We know she's good," Shippo interjected, "but I don't think she's that good!"
"She's Sesshoumaru-sama's big sister!" Rin announced, "If Sesshoumaru-sama can do anything so can she!"
***
"So Inu-chaaaan," The sickenly sweet way she said his name, the way she overdid it, set of major warning signals for the hanyou. "Why didn't you tell me about the whole Kikyou, Kagome thing?"
Inu Yasha paled, "How did you-"
"Oh you know I have my ways, I just have to wonder why you're so caught up on your old love." The hanyou was vaguely surprised, most people would ask him why he loved a corpse.
"She was the first, the first person after mother died to treat me like a person. Like I wasn't just a monster or a half-breed. How can anyone expect me to just forget her?"
"Ahhh young love," Yuki sighed.
"Don't patronize me Yuki, do you even know what it's like to love someone?"
"What did you say?" she asked her voice perfectly even.
Then he continued with Inu Yasha standard procedure: open mouth, insert foot. "I asked if you knew what real love was aneeue? If you're trying to talk to me about this you damn well better know what you're talking about. I know you well enough, you keep people at arm's length with this ridiculous act. Your exactly like Sesshoumaru only you take it to the other extreme. Have you ever been serious with anyone?"
He knew he had made a mistake when his sister's eyes narrowed and glowed dangerously, he had never seen Yuki angry before. Suffice to say it scared the crap out of him. "You insolent little pup!" she growled, he backed away for a moment before she grabbed the front of his kimono. "What do you know of me other than what you have seen? And how often had you seen me once your mother took you away? You were too young to understand then and too inexperienced to understand now."
"Inexperienced?"
Before he could continue she cut him off. "Yes. You have had one real relationship in your life Inu Yasha. ONE."
"But Kago-"
"Don't." the look in her eyes cut him off faster than her voice. She let go of his clothes. Her voice was steadily calming down as she spoke. "You are living in the past Inu Yasha. You want with Kagome what you had with Kikyou, but what you must remember that Kagome is not Kikyou. You may have had Kikyou, but the same need not apply to Kagome, even though she is her reincarnation she is not bound to the same fate as her predecessor. I can understand your attraction to her, dare I say it, Kagome is a unique creature. However all you seem to want is the Kikyou in her. She would never be happy with you Inu Yasha, she would constantly wonder if she were just a replacement." She sighed and put one arm around her young brother, pulling him to her side in a half hug. Her voice was almost motherly now. "Inu Yasha, you will never meet another like your first love. But that doesn't mean there's not someone else out there who's better for you, who will you make you happier."
"She wanted me to be human for her," he muttered.
Yuki blinked, not expecting him to say that. "Do you like being human? Do you like it when the new moon comes?" She felt Inu Yasha shook his head, and she leaned her head atop his. "Were you willing to be human, for the rest of your life, for her?" he nodded. "Why?"
"Because it would make her happy, set her free from guarding the shikon no tama. Because then she would get to be human."
"And what does she want now?"
"For me to go to hell, with her... where I belong."
Yuki was appalled at the ease with which he accepted this. "Inu-chan listen to me, and please think about this before you react." She took a steadying breath, trying to sort out how best to word her next statement for her darling half-brother. "Kikyou was not as nice a person as you believe, she was selfish."
He almost pulled away from her to defend the undead miko, but she asked him to think first, and he had listened. So instead he asked "How do you mean?"
"She wanted you to become human for her she wants you to die for her. Did she ever once ask you if that's what you wanted?"
The hanyou thought back, "You could become human.. then the jewel would be gone... and I could live a normal life." Nowhere in there was a, "the jewel would also dissappear if you wanted to be youkai instead," or suggestions of the like. He sighed, "No."
"Love isn't about getting what you want Inu-chan, it's about wanting to please someone else, the same with friends as with loves. It's being happy as long as they are happy. She wanted to make you human, so she could live a normal life. So she could be happy, not you. I can tell you loved her Inu Yasha and Kikyou may have thought she loved you, but think about it. After the jewel was gone and her duty complete what makes you think she would have stayed with you Inu-chan?"
His eyes were beginning to water, the possibility of what she said hurt. "She loved me aneeue..." The way he said it sounded as if he wasn't so sure if he believed it anymore. Had Kikyou been using him all along? Just because she didn't like her lot in life?
"I hate to say this to you Inu-chan, but it seems to me she was using you, whether or not she was completely aware of it, she was using you for her own happiness. She loved you for the happiness you could bring her, not because she wanted to make you happy."
"I feel like a fool," She heard a tear land on his fire-rat fur, she brought a hand up and rubbed the top of his head between the ears.
"It's alright Inu-chan, we each have our turn to play the fool in love. But do not blame Kikyou, she was probably fooling herself as well."
His voice was hardly a whisper, "Hai aneeue."
"Do not fret pup. It may take a bit longer but you just have to get over Kikyou, which I imagine will help you get over Kagome and Sesshie." She heard a small growl emit from his throat and giggled. "I never said you had to like it by the way. But once you move on you'll find a nice girl that will be perfect for you I'm sure."
"Sesshoumaru said I should hook up with Hikaru," he grumbled like a boy who was told he had to dance with his bratty little sister.
"Well she is a hanyou like you, what else did he say about that?"
"He said that us sparring was like courting for youkai, or even," he blushed, "foreplay." Yuki couldn't help herself, she burst out laughing, "What's so damn funny?"
"I'm sorry Inu-chan but I never knew Sesshou could be be such a good story teller!"
Inu Yasha nearly chocked, "WHAT!?"
"You mean you actually believed him!? Oh Inu-chan you are so gullible! ahahaha.. Foreplay! HA! That's rich!"
"You mean he lied about that?!"
"Let's just say he was teasing you," Yuki said, still trying to control her laughter. "I know that with some youkai the foreplay thing is true, but it is definitely not true with all youkai."
"I swear to kami I'm going to kill him," he growled.
"Oh Inu-chan," she sighed, pulling him back to her side. "you're so cute."
"I am not," he grumbled, which only seemed to proved her point.
Yuki simply laughed.
***
"I see, you may go now Juutsuma." As the tiger left Sesshoumaru looked out his window at this part of the western lands. He took a deep breath, taking in the mountain air. Yes this would take a little getting used to, the air smelled different here, as was the view. Where he could once see his gardens out his window there was now a vast plain of grass and some woods. Oh well, he never really minded where it was he rest his head. Though it was likely that he would miss his own home.
He took a talisman out from the folds of his sleeve. He ran a finger over the runes on the simple silver disk and closed his eyes. Focusing on the item and it's counter part an image of Kagome entered his mind. As he was shown, Kagome was currently playing with Rin and Shippo in the garden. A small smile tugged at his lips when the two children she had just been chasing tackled her and assaulted her with tickles. He wasn't quite sure what they were doing but at least they were still safe and having fun. Apparently all is well, he thought before the memory of his dream and the danger it proposed came back, for now.
***
Night had fallen over the Western lands, a small group of youkai scent's concealed by magic gathered outside Sesshoumaru's castle. But inside the guests and residents inside remained unaware. "Yo Feathers!"
"What?" Kami can't I get a moment alone?
"I got some food here, ya want some?"
"You what?" Hikaru was very surprised, Inu Yasha, being courteous? Either being in a caslte environment was rubbing off on him or he was up to something.
"I said I got some food here wench! You want it or not?" he growled, he was only doing this because Yuki had insisted. "The poor girl hasn't been out of her room all day. She simply must be hungry by now don't you think?"
She grinned, So much for him being courteous. But I am hungry. "Yeah Sure, come on in."
He walked in closing the door behind him, a tray in one hand, and a scowl on his face. She was on the floor strecthing, wearing a tight pair of pants and a gi top. A jet black pony tail hung over her shoulder, this time it was real hair and not the feathers the usually sprouted from the top of her head. Her irises did not take up so much room in her eyes anymore and had deepened to a mahogany brown, barely remiscient of their normal vibrant red. Her features were now also more delicate, no longer as sharp in appearance. Her lips were a bit thicker and her eyes were more narrow, no longer so round as to try and imitate a hawk's eye. "What are you doing?"
"What does it look like? I'm strecthing?"
"No shit, but why?"
Hikaru sighed, she rolled back on the floor and did a kippup, "Just because I am human for a day is no reason for me to stop my normal workout."
The look on Inu Yasha's face clearly said "Huh?"
She shook her head and took the try from him, "You can learn to hide very well as a hanyou, but hiding doesn't always work as well as you would like. Sometimes you need to fight as a human anyway."
"Don't I know it?" he grinned, getting an idea in his head.
"I'm sure you do." The moment she put the tray down he lunged for her, just to test her reflexes. He landed face first in the side of the futon. He turned and there she was, hands on either side of the tray and doing a handstand on the table (remember they are low to the ground) and a grin on her face. "And so do I." She got off the table and backed away from it, her hands up in a guarding position.
Inu Yasha grinned, "So you wanna spar after all."
"Why Inu Yasha, what ever gave you the idea that I didn't?"
About two minutes later, about a minute and a half longer than he expected her to last, Inu Yasha had the human-hanyou in a lock. Holding her hands behind her back with one and the other arms wrapped around her neck. "You're tough I'll give you that, but what do you do when I gotcha like this?"
"Usually," she breathed, "This is where my brother intervenes."
"So you're brother guards you at your time?"
She nodded, "I may be cocky but I'm not stupid." They stood there a moment longer, "Would you mind letting me go? I'm sure my food's getting cold."
"Huh? oh yeah, sure." He did so and she began working the kinks out of her neck.
She turned to him and bowed, "Thanks for the spar Inu Yasha, see you tomorrow."
"Yeah, g'night," he said as he went to leave the room.
"Night." The door shut behind him and Inu Yasha looked at it a moment. Was it just him or was he more confident around the fellow hanyou? Sesshoumaru couldn't be right could he?... He thought about it then shook his head, Nah! What does he know about me anyway?
***
"What is the point of me wearing these again?" Sesshoumaru asked staring at the swim trunks Kagome had given him.
She sighed turning to him, "You're supposed to wear them so you don't go swimming around in your birthday sui- EEK!" She immediately turned back around her eyes over her face.
"What?" There he was just standing there, stark naked save for the swim trunks he held infront of him.
"Just put them on!"
"It is not like you haven't seen me in the nude before," he said while putting on the odd garment.
"I haven't!" she turned around hands over her eyes and her face beat red.
"Oh really?" he asked, obviously referring to the night when he bandaged her arm.
"Yeah well I didn't mean to and I tried really really hard not to look!"
He stepped up to her on the beach and pulled her hands away from her eyes, "You tried not to look?"
Her blush deepened, "No! That's not what I meant, and you know it!"
He chuckled lightly, then slid a finger under the strap of her swimsuit. "Now what is it we are supposed to do in these very inappropriate garments again?" He purred.
"Go swimming." She answered plainly
He raised a brow.
***
With midnight fast approaching and most of those in the caslte asleep the three youkai lept into the compound. They had been watching long enough and now was the time to act. They had a general idea where the human woman's room was and that she supposedly had a slight bit of youki on her. So you can imagine their slight confusion when there were three rooms next to each other that had both female human scents and traces of youki in them. Since it was nearly midnight Hikaru's demon blood and youki were returning, Kagome of course still had her youkai traits and Kirara's close proximity to Sango were all being sensed. Not willing to take any chances the youkai decided to take all three.
***
He looked around for her in the water when all of a sudden Sesshoumaru felt a tug on his leg as he was unexpectedly pulled underwater. Once there he opened his eyes to she her grinning face before him. He wrapped his arms around Kagome and kissed her, breaking the surface as he broke the kiss. She laughed, then abruptly stopped. "What is it?"
Her eyes squinted in thought, "I don't know... something doesn't feel right all of a sudden."
"You mean here?"
"No.. I don't but I think someone's-" Suddenly she faded out. Kagome had been woken up.
***
Seshoumaru's eyes bolted open, he immediately reached for the talisman and focused on Kagome. She was already unconscious again by the time the image presented itself in his mind. Someone one was carrying her, but he could not see who, which meant he did not know the person. His amber eyes glowed in the darkness of his room and a growl emitted from his throat. His hands clenched into the fists, the one that didn't hold the talisman began to bleed. So it has begun.
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Next Chapter: Hikaru's Past and three pissed off children of Inutaisho
Hika-chan: -whew- well that took me long enough didn't it? I got don't know why but I got some more inspiration when I finally got to see the Inu Yasha movie! YAY! It was pretty cool (but not enough Sesshoumaru like in this chapter), but it was cool. Sesshoumaru knew Kagome's name! I was like "wow". Anyway yeah, I don't where the whole thing with Kikyou came from but it makes sense now that I think about it. Once again no promises on when the next chapter will come out, now if you don't mind I have to go study for my Art History exam.... yeah.. rrriiight. ^_^'
An Inu Yasha Fanfic by Hika-chan
Chapter 10: Oneechan Makes It All Better
"Sango, might I ask you a question?"
The youkai exterminator paused in her excercises, "Hai Yuki-sama, what is it?"
"I am just wondering, what's the deal with Inu Yasa and Kagome?"
Sango blinked, then sighed, "You had best take a seat Yuki-sama, this is going to be a long story."
"Oh?"
"I can't give you too many details, I wasn't always there. But it all started with Inu Yasha and Kikyou fifty years ago..."
Inu Yasha banged on Hikaru's door "Yo, Feathers you wanna spar or what?"
"Go away mutt I'm not in the mood!"
"Why should that matter!?" He said forcing her door open. Hikaru's eyes glowed red and a gust of wind threw the male hanyou back from the door and slammed it shut again. What the #*$& was that for!?"
Hikaru put a hand to her head, couldn't the moron take a hint. "Leave me alone baka, I don't feel well."
"Keh, That's bullsh*t! Youkai and hanyou don't just get sick... unless."
Before he realized it Inu Yasha was slammed against the wall by the wind with a set of Hikaru's talons at his neck. "You tell anyone at all and I shall slay you where you stand."
Inu Yasha grinned, "Well you had best do it soon then, your claws are loosing their edge." She stiffened a bit at that remark before baring her teeth at him. "Don't worry," he said more sincerely, "I know what an important secret it is. I won't tell."
She blinked, then stepped back, removing her talons from his neck. Maybe he's not so bad after all. "Thank you, I'm sorry I attacked you."
He sniffed, "You don't change at sunset do you? You change sooner right? I can smell it."
She blanched then dragged him into the room closing the door. "You can't just talk about that in the hallway! Are you nuts!?"
Inu Yasha smiled sheepishly and shrugged. "But I'm right aren't I?"
Hikaru nodded, taking a look out the window to the morning sky, "Midday to Midnight."
Inu Yasha cocked his head curiously. "Of the full moon huh? Should I leave now?"
"What's the point now? You already know, but I won't leave the room today, I don't want anyone else to know." She grinned at him, "Besides I doubt I could keep you off my back for long you annoying mutt."
"heh, got that right, see you later feathers," he said as he walked out the door.
"You're serious?" Yuki asked before sighing and shaking her head, "Honestly I can't believe Inu-chan sometimes."
"Yes Inu Yasha does have a pension for being indecisive and putting his foot in his mouth."
"I can't believe he put Kagome-chan through so much over his dead ex."
"And it doesn't help that Kagome-chan is her reincarnation either."
"-Hmph- and I thought Sesshoumaru was bad about living in the past."
"Nani?"
"Mmm? Oh nothing. I think I'm going to have to have a little chat with Inu-chan sometime today."
"No offense Yuki-sama but how are you going to talk him into making up his mind?"
Yuki grinned and winked, "Oh I have my ways believe me. I am his big sister after all."
Sango seemed skeptical, "Yes well Sesshoumaru is also his big brother and he doesn't seem very good at talking Inu Yasha into anything."
"Yes well we both know Sesshoumaru and I are very different now don't we?"
"Hikaru-san would you like to join us for lunch?"
The almost human hanyou rolled her eyes, The one day I really want to be left alone and they just keep coming! "No thank you Kagome. I'm not hungry."
"An hanyou that's not hungry? Boy you are differnet from Inu Yasha."
"Yes well whoever told you all hanyou were the same?" Hikaru snapped.
She heard Kagome giggle, "Well you're both rather snippy ain't ya? I'll bring you some food later Hikaru-san."
The hanyou girl just stared at the door. What a strange, strange girl.
"Inu-chan, will you come with me for a moment?" Inu Yasha stiffened at his elder sister's request. They had just finished lunch and the tone in her voice did not bode well for him.
"uhh.. What for aneeue?"
Yuki grinned mischievously, making Inu Yasha even more nervous. "Oh I just want to talk to you about something."
Oh yeah, Inu Yasha was in trouble, big time, and he knew it. "And what's that aneeue?"
"Oh you'll see," she smiled, as though she was giving him a surprise gift, one he was sure he would not like. "Come along now Inu-chan." She grabbed one of Inu Yasha's arms and half dragged him away from the table. The other's watched blankly the entire time.
"What do you think that was all about Kagome-sama?" Miroku asked.
She blinked, "Not a clue."
Sango took a sip of her tea, "I believe she plans on trying to talk him into letting go of the past."
"We know she's good," Shippo interjected, "but I don't think she's that good!"
"She's Sesshoumaru-sama's big sister!" Rin announced, "If Sesshoumaru-sama can do anything so can she!"
"So Inu-chaaaan," The sickenly sweet way she said his name, the way she overdid it, set of major warning signals for the hanyou. "Why didn't you tell me about the whole Kikyou, Kagome thing?"
Inu Yasha paled, "How did you-"
"Oh you know I have my ways, I just have to wonder why you're so caught up on your old love." The hanyou was vaguely surprised, most people would ask him why he loved a corpse.
"She was the first, the first person after mother died to treat me like a person. Like I wasn't just a monster or a half-breed. How can anyone expect me to just forget her?"
"Ahhh young love," Yuki sighed.
"Don't patronize me Yuki, do you even know what it's like to love someone?"
"What did you say?" she asked her voice perfectly even.
Then he continued with Inu Yasha standard procedure: open mouth, insert foot. "I asked if you knew what real love was aneeue? If you're trying to talk to me about this you damn well better know what you're talking about. I know you well enough, you keep people at arm's length with this ridiculous act. Your exactly like Sesshoumaru only you take it to the other extreme. Have you ever been serious with anyone?"
He knew he had made a mistake when his sister's eyes narrowed and glowed dangerously, he had never seen Yuki angry before. Suffice to say it scared the crap out of him. "You insolent little pup!" she growled, he backed away for a moment before she grabbed the front of his kimono. "What do you know of me other than what you have seen? And how often had you seen me once your mother took you away? You were too young to understand then and too inexperienced to understand now."
"Inexperienced?"
Before he could continue she cut him off. "Yes. You have had one real relationship in your life Inu Yasha. ONE."
"But Kago-"
"Don't." the look in her eyes cut him off faster than her voice. She let go of his clothes. Her voice was steadily calming down as she spoke. "You are living in the past Inu Yasha. You want with Kagome what you had with Kikyou, but what you must remember that Kagome is not Kikyou. You may have had Kikyou, but the same need not apply to Kagome, even though she is her reincarnation she is not bound to the same fate as her predecessor. I can understand your attraction to her, dare I say it, Kagome is a unique creature. However all you seem to want is the Kikyou in her. She would never be happy with you Inu Yasha, she would constantly wonder if she were just a replacement." She sighed and put one arm around her young brother, pulling him to her side in a half hug. Her voice was almost motherly now. "Inu Yasha, you will never meet another like your first love. But that doesn't mean there's not someone else out there who's better for you, who will you make you happier."
"She wanted me to be human for her," he muttered.
Yuki blinked, not expecting him to say that. "Do you like being human? Do you like it when the new moon comes?" She felt Inu Yasha shook his head, and she leaned her head atop his. "Were you willing to be human, for the rest of your life, for her?" he nodded. "Why?"
"Because it would make her happy, set her free from guarding the shikon no tama. Because then she would get to be human."
"And what does she want now?"
"For me to go to hell, with her... where I belong."
Yuki was appalled at the ease with which he accepted this. "Inu-chan listen to me, and please think about this before you react." She took a steadying breath, trying to sort out how best to word her next statement for her darling half-brother. "Kikyou was not as nice a person as you believe, she was selfish."
He almost pulled away from her to defend the undead miko, but she asked him to think first, and he had listened. So instead he asked "How do you mean?"
"She wanted you to become human for her she wants you to die for her. Did she ever once ask you if that's what you wanted?"
The hanyou thought back, "You could become human.. then the jewel would be gone... and I could live a normal life." Nowhere in there was a, "the jewel would also dissappear if you wanted to be youkai instead," or suggestions of the like. He sighed, "No."
"Love isn't about getting what you want Inu-chan, it's about wanting to please someone else, the same with friends as with loves. It's being happy as long as they are happy. She wanted to make you human, so she could live a normal life. So she could be happy, not you. I can tell you loved her Inu Yasha and Kikyou may have thought she loved you, but think about it. After the jewel was gone and her duty complete what makes you think she would have stayed with you Inu-chan?"
His eyes were beginning to water, the possibility of what she said hurt. "She loved me aneeue..." The way he said it sounded as if he wasn't so sure if he believed it anymore. Had Kikyou been using him all along? Just because she didn't like her lot in life?
"I hate to say this to you Inu-chan, but it seems to me she was using you, whether or not she was completely aware of it, she was using you for her own happiness. She loved you for the happiness you could bring her, not because she wanted to make you happy."
"I feel like a fool," She heard a tear land on his fire-rat fur, she brought a hand up and rubbed the top of his head between the ears.
"It's alright Inu-chan, we each have our turn to play the fool in love. But do not blame Kikyou, she was probably fooling herself as well."
His voice was hardly a whisper, "Hai aneeue."
"Do not fret pup. It may take a bit longer but you just have to get over Kikyou, which I imagine will help you get over Kagome and Sesshie." She heard a small growl emit from his throat and giggled. "I never said you had to like it by the way. But once you move on you'll find a nice girl that will be perfect for you I'm sure."
"Sesshoumaru said I should hook up with Hikaru," he grumbled like a boy who was told he had to dance with his bratty little sister.
"Well she is a hanyou like you, what else did he say about that?"
"He said that us sparring was like courting for youkai, or even," he blushed, "foreplay." Yuki couldn't help herself, she burst out laughing, "What's so damn funny?"
"I'm sorry Inu-chan but I never knew Sesshou could be be such a good story teller!"
Inu Yasha nearly chocked, "WHAT!?"
"You mean you actually believed him!? Oh Inu-chan you are so gullible! ahahaha.. Foreplay! HA! That's rich!"
"You mean he lied about that?!"
"Let's just say he was teasing you," Yuki said, still trying to control her laughter. "I know that with some youkai the foreplay thing is true, but it is definitely not true with all youkai."
"I swear to kami I'm going to kill him," he growled.
"Oh Inu-chan," she sighed, pulling him back to her side. "you're so cute."
"I am not," he grumbled, which only seemed to proved her point.
Yuki simply laughed.
"I see, you may go now Juutsuma." As the tiger left Sesshoumaru looked out his window at this part of the western lands. He took a deep breath, taking in the mountain air. Yes this would take a little getting used to, the air smelled different here, as was the view. Where he could once see his gardens out his window there was now a vast plain of grass and some woods. Oh well, he never really minded where it was he rest his head. Though it was likely that he would miss his own home.
He took a talisman out from the folds of his sleeve. He ran a finger over the runes on the simple silver disk and closed his eyes. Focusing on the item and it's counter part an image of Kagome entered his mind. As he was shown, Kagome was currently playing with Rin and Shippo in the garden. A small smile tugged at his lips when the two children she had just been chasing tackled her and assaulted her with tickles. He wasn't quite sure what they were doing but at least they were still safe and having fun. Apparently all is well, he thought before the memory of his dream and the danger it proposed came back, for now.
Night had fallen over the Western lands, a small group of youkai scent's concealed by magic gathered outside Sesshoumaru's castle. But inside the guests and residents inside remained unaware. "Yo Feathers!"
"What?" Kami can't I get a moment alone?
"I got some food here, ya want some?"
"You what?" Hikaru was very surprised, Inu Yasha, being courteous? Either being in a caslte environment was rubbing off on him or he was up to something.
"I said I got some food here wench! You want it or not?" he growled, he was only doing this because Yuki had insisted. "The poor girl hasn't been out of her room all day. She simply must be hungry by now don't you think?"
She grinned, So much for him being courteous. But I am hungry. "Yeah Sure, come on in."
He walked in closing the door behind him, a tray in one hand, and a scowl on his face. She was on the floor strecthing, wearing a tight pair of pants and a gi top. A jet black pony tail hung over her shoulder, this time it was real hair and not the feathers the usually sprouted from the top of her head. Her irises did not take up so much room in her eyes anymore and had deepened to a mahogany brown, barely remiscient of their normal vibrant red. Her features were now also more delicate, no longer as sharp in appearance. Her lips were a bit thicker and her eyes were more narrow, no longer so round as to try and imitate a hawk's eye. "What are you doing?"
"What does it look like? I'm strecthing?"
"No shit, but why?"
Hikaru sighed, she rolled back on the floor and did a kippup, "Just because I am human for a day is no reason for me to stop my normal workout."
The look on Inu Yasha's face clearly said "Huh?"
She shook her head and took the try from him, "You can learn to hide very well as a hanyou, but hiding doesn't always work as well as you would like. Sometimes you need to fight as a human anyway."
"Don't I know it?" he grinned, getting an idea in his head.
"I'm sure you do." The moment she put the tray down he lunged for her, just to test her reflexes. He landed face first in the side of the futon. He turned and there she was, hands on either side of the tray and doing a handstand on the table (remember they are low to the ground) and a grin on her face. "And so do I." She got off the table and backed away from it, her hands up in a guarding position.
Inu Yasha grinned, "So you wanna spar after all."
"Why Inu Yasha, what ever gave you the idea that I didn't?"
About two minutes later, about a minute and a half longer than he expected her to last, Inu Yasha had the human-hanyou in a lock. Holding her hands behind her back with one and the other arms wrapped around her neck. "You're tough I'll give you that, but what do you do when I gotcha like this?"
"Usually," she breathed, "This is where my brother intervenes."
"So you're brother guards you at your time?"
She nodded, "I may be cocky but I'm not stupid." They stood there a moment longer, "Would you mind letting me go? I'm sure my food's getting cold."
"Huh? oh yeah, sure." He did so and she began working the kinks out of her neck.
She turned to him and bowed, "Thanks for the spar Inu Yasha, see you tomorrow."
"Yeah, g'night," he said as he went to leave the room.
"Night." The door shut behind him and Inu Yasha looked at it a moment. Was it just him or was he more confident around the fellow hanyou? Sesshoumaru couldn't be right could he?... He thought about it then shook his head, Nah! What does he know about me anyway?
"What is the point of me wearing these again?" Sesshoumaru asked staring at the swim trunks Kagome had given him.
She sighed turning to him, "You're supposed to wear them so you don't go swimming around in your birthday sui- EEK!" She immediately turned back around her eyes over her face.
"What?" There he was just standing there, stark naked save for the swim trunks he held infront of him.
"Just put them on!"
"It is not like you haven't seen me in the nude before," he said while putting on the odd garment.
"I haven't!" she turned around hands over her eyes and her face beat red.
"Oh really?" he asked, obviously referring to the night when he bandaged her arm.
"Yeah well I didn't mean to and I tried really really hard not to look!"
He stepped up to her on the beach and pulled her hands away from her eyes, "You tried not to look?"
Her blush deepened, "No! That's not what I meant, and you know it!"
He chuckled lightly, then slid a finger under the strap of her swimsuit. "Now what is it we are supposed to do in these very inappropriate garments again?" He purred.
"Go swimming." She answered plainly
He raised a brow.
With midnight fast approaching and most of those in the caslte asleep the three youkai lept into the compound. They had been watching long enough and now was the time to act. They had a general idea where the human woman's room was and that she supposedly had a slight bit of youki on her. So you can imagine their slight confusion when there were three rooms next to each other that had both female human scents and traces of youki in them. Since it was nearly midnight Hikaru's demon blood and youki were returning, Kagome of course still had her youkai traits and Kirara's close proximity to Sango were all being sensed. Not willing to take any chances the youkai decided to take all three.
He looked around for her in the water when all of a sudden Sesshoumaru felt a tug on his leg as he was unexpectedly pulled underwater. Once there he opened his eyes to she her grinning face before him. He wrapped his arms around Kagome and kissed her, breaking the surface as he broke the kiss. She laughed, then abruptly stopped. "What is it?"
Her eyes squinted in thought, "I don't know... something doesn't feel right all of a sudden."
"You mean here?"
"No.. I don't but I think someone's-" Suddenly she faded out. Kagome had been woken up.
Seshoumaru's eyes bolted open, he immediately reached for the talisman and focused on Kagome. She was already unconscious again by the time the image presented itself in his mind. Someone one was carrying her, but he could not see who, which meant he did not know the person. His amber eyes glowed in the darkness of his room and a growl emitted from his throat. His hands clenched into the fists, the one that didn't hold the talisman began to bleed. So it has begun.
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Next Chapter: Hikaru's Past and three pissed off children of Inutaisho
Hika-chan: -whew- well that took me long enough didn't it? I got don't know why but I got some more inspiration when I finally got to see the Inu Yasha movie! YAY! It was pretty cool (but not enough Sesshoumaru like in this chapter), but it was cool. Sesshoumaru knew Kagome's name! I was like "wow". Anyway yeah, I don't where the whole thing with Kikyou came from but it makes sense now that I think about it. Once again no promises on when the next chapter will come out, now if you don't mind I have to go study for my Art History exam.... yeah.. rrriiight. ^_^'