Disclaimer: I Do Not Own InuYasha But I Will Find Out How To Own Sesshoumaru!
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Part 8-
Sesshomaru woke up to feeling someone snuggle closer to him, as if trying to get warm. Though why and who was beyond him at the moment. He pulled the person closer to him, and realized that the feeling of the female in his arms was reason enough to want to stay in bed and not move at all. But he knew he would have to get up, mostly because she would be extremely uncomfortable when she wakes up and realizes a male is holding her. He slowlylet her go and moved out of the room to get her breakfast and to let her compose herself before she saw him.
"Sesshomaru..?" Kagome asked sleepily wondering if all that happened was a dream. But then she felt all the pain of her wounds and knew InuYasha had betrayed for the last and final time. When she turned her neck to look at the door she winced. Confused, because she couldn't remember getting an injury on her neck. She slowly sits up mindful of the injuries on her hip to look into the mirror.
She lightly ran her fingers over the bite mark on her neck as tears silently ran down her cheek. Not only had he raped, beaten her and left her for dead, he had to mark her as his mate. She didn't know if it could be removed but prayed to the gods that it could be.
Sesshomaru then chose that moment to walk in,"Kagome, what is wrong?"
Kaogme just showed him her neck and he saw the mating mark.
"It's okay Kagome. Look in the mirror."
She looked in the mirror and hers widened in disbelief, slowly the rough and crudely done mating mark was disappearing, her neck was once again smooth and biteless. She cried in relief and hugged Sesshomaru extremely hard.
Sesshomaru wrapped his arm's around Kagome and let his hand's run through her hair, then pulled back,"You need to eat."
Kagome then noticed the tray of food on the corner of the bed, and nodded, glad to have some food.
After they finished eating Kagome brought up the subject of her training.
"Sesshomaru will you train me?"
Sesshomaru vaguely shocked,"What do you want me to train you in?"
"I want to learn on types of weapons, better understand my miko and kami powers, and I want to learn judo."
"Alright we start once your injuries have fully healed."
Two years later
Kagome had her sword to Sesshomaru's neck as he layed on the ground, his hair disheveled, his eyes wide in suprise, and mouth open in shock.
"You beat me?"
Kagome smirked,"I told you I would get good enough to beat you, and I have. Now I can go after InuYasha, right the wrong I made by allowing InuYasha to wish upon the the Shikon no Tama. I will set the Shikon no Tama's spirits free, I will atone for my mistake as their guardian."
Sesshomaru watched Kagome, listened to her speech, then helplessly and hopelessly watched as her eyes and face went back into their emotionless form, the form that they had taken two years ago.
"Kagome...?" Sesshomaru asked as his eyes reflected pain. Kagome saw the pain, but it couldn't get over the wall she had around her heart.
She pulled her sword back and allowed Sesshomaru to get up before addressing him again,"I plan to leave in the morning. Thank you for training me, I'll see you at dinner." With that she left him, to his own thoughts and she was left with hers.
Sesshomaru watched her leave, and the pain reflecting in his eyes only intenisfied.
'InuYasha, your worse crime was making Kagome like I used to be. I hope she makes you suffer greatly.'
Sesshomaru decided it was time for him to finish going over documents sent by the other Lords, they were extremely curious about Kagome, they wanted to know who she was and why she was in his castle. He laughed slightly as if they will find out anytime soon.
With Kagome
Kagome relaxed in the hot springs as she mentally cursed InuYasha to the ninth gate of hell and beyond. She missed feeling, she wanted to feel happy, and she wanted to feel the love that Sesshomaru felt for her. Yes, he loves her and she knows it. She just can't seem to break down the wall around her heart and love him back. Maybe, when she righted her wrong, maybe then she could love Sesshomaru. She sighed and decided it was time to get out and ready for dinner, if she was correct, and she was, dinner would be served in a few mintues.
As she walked down the corridor to the dinning hall, Kagome recognized the scents of the newest members of the Taisho clan, Isabel and Miela. The are also victims of horrible crimes made against them by someone they trusted and loved. Isabel was betrayed by her father, who had decided he needed to make his only daughter a whore, and Miela was betrayed by her daughter, who poisoned her food, hoping she could gain the wealth that her mother had. She was sorry she would live them but it was for the better she had to kill InuYasha before he could cause anymore damage. Whether it killed her in the process she would bring InuYasha down and send him to hell, and he would only have to wait a minute before Kikyo joined him.
As she sat down to eat she broke the news to Isabel and Miela.
"I leaving to search for and destroy InuYasha." There two distinctive gasps.
"But, Kagome-sama, isn't he the one that..." Isabel asked quietly, she was always to talk to loudly she had yet to realize her father or anyone could not get her as long as Sesshomaru was alive.
"Yes, he was, I have to kill him before the Shikon no Tama is forever tainted."
"But, Kagome-sama, you can come back after you defeat that monster!" Miela cried.
"I will not come back," Kagome said, and she knew Sesshomaru was standing outside the door listening, she could feel the pain radiating off his body, but it was the only way. No one knew she has to sacrifice herself in order to destory the Shikon no Tama and insure it stayed pure.
"I must now go and prepare for my journey." As Kagome walked away Isabel and Miela heard her last wish to them.
"Remember me, and heal yourselves the way I could not heal myself." And then she was gone.