From the Past

Disclaimer: Read the one from the last chapter.

Sesshomaru stared at the young man in the office emblazoned Treasurer. Sesshomaru recognized the man. They were only too familiar to each other.

The man looked up at Sesshomaru with a firm gaze. They stared at each other, both in pained shock. Both were steady in their gaze, but not hurtfully. But they dared the other to break to connection. The man was the first to speak.

"Hello, Sesshomaru. Have you had a good while after my mother died and you barely even notified me?" He spat out bitterly. "When I asked for a slight bit of shelter and you denied me and gave me barely anything instead? When you pretended you didn't even know me?" His words were cold and full of malice.

Sesshomaru stood tall and looked as if he felt no guilt. "Boy, you deserted me, your rightful guardian after your mother died when I made great effort to take you in. You believed that I was the reason your mother died and temporarily caused a time when I was close to bankruptcy. You insulted me by calling me a brainless fool and I gave you a small fortune instead to support you since I learned you were living on the curb. It was enough to support you for a lifetime. I pretended I didn't know you because you came up to me on the street and cruelly asked me if I had told anyone about my homicidal self. I have no such self. As you see I have perfectly good reasons why I did what I did."

The younger man glared at him. "Though you look the same age as me, you are an elder with such obviousness because of the crumbling of your feeble mind. And it is emphasized by many things, such as your leaving your successful company to become a teacher who receives little to no payment. (AN: No offence to teachers! He's rather opinionated and just wants to find reasons to hate Fluffy.)"

Kagome just stared as the two verbally sparred. The man was really the only person with harsh intentions. Sesshomaru was just giving reasons and contradicting the other's words. So it was really a one-sided battle. Nevertheless, the man was mad.

Who is he? Kagome thought. And how in the world does Sesshomaru know him? I mean, I've never seen him before. Maybe he's one of Sesshomaru's past acquaintances but I thought I'd met all of them. Plus, he looks kind of human, but a little demonic. Maybe he's half and half, like Inuyasha. But then how would Sesshomaru know him? I'm so confused…

"Kagome." Her name being said brought Kagome back into reality. "Her name is Kagome, boy." It was Sesshomaru. "It is not human, or wench, or something so demeaning and general. Now, let us get to business."

"Why don't you, moron, tell your wench who I am? Or is she not important enough?" The man said, emphasizing the word wench. His tone hadn't changed in the least.

Sesshomaru blinked and then turned to Kagome. "I'm sorry, I forgot about you." When he saw Kagome raise an eyebrow he added on. "This is Rin's son, Riku. He's a half-demon, born a few centuries ago. The date is rather painful for me. I am his guardian. We may have a delay."

Kagome nodded. "Okay." She said to Sesshomaru. Then, realizing that if Sesshomaru was going to do the talking, they would be going nowhere fast, she began talking to Riku. "I don't want to hurt you and I'm guessing we just need some money and that should be pretty easy for you to get, since you're treasurer, which is pretty big, I guess, so please just help us." Kagome scrambled her words all into one.

"What do I get?" Riku said indignantly. Clearly he didn't hold much respect for Kagome, seeing as she accompanied Sesshomaru. But, as she was not Sesshomaru and was a human, like his mother, so he felt slightly better about her than Sesshomaru. Still, Riku needed something to make his help worthwhile.

Sesshomaru was about to say something but Kagome interrupted. "You'll get a bonus for your paycheque this month!" Kagome cut in. "How about it?"

Sesshomaru was about to comment that he would do no such thing for Riku but Riku quickly replied. "Five hundred extra!" He announced triumphantly. "How about it?" He mocked.

Sesshomaru, again, desperately now, tried to cut in, but to no avail. Kagome had already spoken to Riku. "What's your original paycheque per month?" She asked, as if in a debate.

"Fifteen hundred! It's quite reasonable, wench! Just agree!" Riku said. Kagome immediately noticed that five hundred wouldn't be much and…

"Boy! I own this company! If you do not give us the information I will fire you and blacklist you from all companies I am in contact with which is almost every one in Japan, a few in Africa, five thousand in America, both North and South and all the important ones in Europe and Asia and one thousand in Australia! You will oblige!" Sesshomaru was so sick and tired of these two arguing while his reason was much easier.

Kagome was in shock but Riku had something to say. "Does that impeccable memory of meaningless things reside where your feelings should be?" His words didn't make Sesshomaru feel lower than Riku, just disappointed in his somewhat grandchild.

"Riku, I will fire you. Do you understand?" Sesshomaru made his point clear with those words.

Riku flipped around to his computer and started typing. Within seconds finely printed, almost new, thousand yen dollars appeared. Quite a few of them. More like quite a hundred of them. He flipped around and handed them to Sesshomaru.

"Here." Riku quickly stuffed them into Sesshomaru's hands. "Is this what you want? There you go, then. Good-bye. Okay?"

Sesshomaru stopped Riku from turning around. "Boy, since you're here I would like you to come with Kagome and I. Now, when we come back I will fire who ever takes your chair and you will have your old salary. If not, you will have the option from before. Now, come." Needless to say, Sesshomaru was quite convincing.

Rike jumped out of his chair immediately and followed Sesshomaru on his way out of the office, Kagome trailing behind. No one, except for Sesshomaru, knew where they were going.

As soon as they were out of the office Sesshomaru grabbed both Riku and Kagome and went at his demonic speed. They landed at the Higurashi shrine. Sesshomaru and Riku, with their sensitive hearing, heard a few police sirens in the fare distance. Sesshomaru figured they'd have enough time to do what they had to.

Sesshomaru, Kagome and Riku entered the Higurashi household and Sesshomaru shut the door quietly. He listened to where Kagome's family was in the house and entered the kitchen. Everyone dropped their chopsticks at the sight of Sesshomaru. Souta and Mrs. Higurashi just stared while Kagome's grandfather They weren't accustomed to demons other than Inuyasha who, noticeably, wasn't coming anymore.

Sesshomaru bowed and Kagome spoke up, seeing how it was her family. "Hi, Mom, Souta, Grandpa. This is Sukago Sesshomaru. He's my teacher who happens to be Inuyasha's half brother. Um, I'm guessing he needs a favour or something. I really don't know why he's here."

Riku coughed. He liked attention and clearly Kagome was forgetting him. He made a mental note to burn something of hers later. He had a mildly violent nature, unlike his mother.

"Oh! Yeah!" Kagome said, realizing she had forgotten the man. "Sorry, this is… er…" She didn't know Riku's last name and glanced quickly over at Sesshomaru for help.

Sesshomaru quickly coughed fakely into his sleeve, though it was very convincing. He mumbled 'Tomoyoshi' as he did so, indicating Riku's last name. He hoped Kagome, though somewhat naïve would take the hint.

Kagome eagerly took it. "Tomoyoshi Riku! Really great guy. Bit of a temper, though. Sesshomaru and he are cousins! Twice removed, of course. Sesshomaru's mom's side. They're great together!" She tried to make their relationship sound more believable and, well, on better terms than real.

Souta's face brightened up. "Is he like Inuyasha? Is he really, really cool?" He had a look on his face as if he had found out his birthday was on every day of the year and everyone on earth had to get him a present each birthday.

Kagome shook her head. "No, Souta. He's not rude or picky, he's much better." She said that to make Souta, well, shut up. If not she would hear so much about how Sesshomaru should be like Inuyasha when she got back. Now Souta would just be scared of him when they got back.

Sesshomaru bowed. "You see, I am a demon." The family flinched, even though they knew that he would probably be a demon, demons were still pretty feared in their world. Sesshomaru continued. "Though I am a very powerful and influential man I will no doubt be imprisoned. I refuse to let myself go to the prison. Kagome's friend Hojo knows I am a demon. He will not hesitate to tell anyone, especially the authorities. Therefore I need to buy things off of you."

The family didn't really know what to say to that. Buy their things off of them? I mean, what's with that? But they weren't exactly going to let a respectable demon become insane in a prison. They agreed.

Sesshomaru swept through the house quickly and bought little things and bigger things, but nothing the family would miss much. Strangely, nothing with a plug, but many, many batteries he bought. The family was paid very handsomely. Let's say a small fortune.

Sesshomaru left the house and Kagome trailed after him. "Kagome!" Her mother cried. "Where are you going?" She asked her.

"Oh, I'm going with Sesshomaru. He isn't very happy about it but he knows a lot of stuff about the Feudal Era and what happened to everyone. Don't worry about me, Mom." Kagome said to her mother, trailing after Sesshomaru.

To Be Continued…

Next chapter we find out where they're going… oOoOh! It's kind of neat, you know. I've set it u! Do you guys like Riku? He's Rin's son. I think his name means agony of separation. Fitting, eh? I finished this at 8:15 in the morning so be happy! I am a young, young writer who is a bum (okay, so I'm totally not) and very tired. But I have to get ready to practice a play today, so good bye!

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