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Reflections of the Past: Doubts And Reassurance chapter 12
Kagome sat stunned in Inuyasha's embrace, her breathing shallow, her eyes shut.
" So your telling us that Kagome is a full dragon demon, and because she mated with me her true form will be brought out?"Inuyasha asked, barely surpressing the awe in his voice.
"Yes Inuyasha,except she will not gain her full powers until ye are fully mated... Kagome, has your 'mother' ever mentioned anything to you about your past?" Keade asked, knowing by the look on Kagome's face that she was hearing this for the first time. Her 'mother' wouldn't have known the details of Kagome's past but she surely knew that there was a reason for Kagome being able to go back and forth between the two eras. Hopefully she kept the crowns that Kagome arrived with in a safe place.
Keade gazed at the two sitting before her, realizing that they niether one were listening anymore, that they were lost in a place that only time could return them from...Keade slowly got up and made her way around the couple to the two sleeping demons in the corner of the room. She picked them up gently and slipped silently out of the hut, her one eye barly catching the pale pink glow that steadily surrounded the couple.
Kagome's power was rising, seeking escape from the body that enclosed it for so many years..her aura continued growing around her, tentitivly brushing that of the demon next to it. Inuyasha's aura was also rising to meet hers, each brushing against the other, pushing and pulling, testing the others strength before merging together, causing the air to crackle around them as waves of energy lashed out, only to be reined back in...All Keade could do was watch what was happening before her, amazed that even though the two were not fully mated, they had accomplished the rarest of bonds, the spiritual bond that would hold them, as well as their reincarnations together, would make each soul search for the other until they were together...
Yet through all this, Kagome sat quietly, the stunned expression still etched on her beautiful face. She looked lost, felt lost, was utterly confused by what Keade had told her. She glanced down to her hands, noticing the beginnings of razer sharp claws protruding from the tips where her fingernails used to be. She turned them over and over, watching with amazement as her hands slowly became someone elses, small and well defined but not her own, not with these claws ..." How am I supposed to carry on when my life is nothing of what it used to be, what it should be..."I am Kagome...Mated to Inuyasha...I was raised in Tokyo...I have a family there, a grandfather, a mother, and a ...a brother...What am I to tell them, will they even understand, and what of Inuyasha, what will he think..I am not the person...demon, WHATEVER, he thought I was... I am not even what I thought I was.. These changes...So many changes...Longer hair, sharp claws, fangs...fangs...".The thought urging her to run her tongue along the length of them finding that they had indeed grown longer..."Oh lord how am I going to explain these to momma"...Momma, the title repeating itself over and over in her head, echoing off of the inner walls of her skull only to reverberate into her ears, reminding her that things were changing, without her consent, the life she knew ending right before her, right there on the cold, barren floor of the hut...
Inuyasha sat behind Kagome, feeling her tension, her doubt welling up inside of her, building to the point that it became utterly unbearable...He felt her struggling with it, struggling with herself as her mind reached out to his, calling him to her, needing him...so he comforted her, called to her, reassured her, but most important, he accepted her, loved her...whatever form she held, whatever name she answered to... To him she would always be his miko, his mate...his Kagome...
Unconciously he picked her up, moving her to straddle him, bringing her body closer to his... his soul calling to her, begging her to come back to him...
Then she felt it, the warmth of something indescribable weaving its way through her, caressing her broken soul, urging it to bring forth the happiness that once resided in its depths, calling to her, whispering her name, leading her to some great understanding that seemed to be just out of her reach.. It coaxed and pulled, lulled and coerced, it's fingers of warmth picking up the pieces of her shattered soul, mending it, pulling it back together, making her whole again... And yet it still called to her, a voice that was to distant to hear, yet right next to her...Calling, begging for understanding, needing, yet forgiving, urging her forward through her depths of despair, pulling her from deep within herself, not letting her lock herself away...It pleaded with her to come home, to accept who and what she was because it would, it did.. It kept calling to her, but the warmth still faintly eluded her...She yearned for it but it remained just out of reach, urging her forward, urging her to the warmth that it offered...to the love that it offered, unrestrained, untainted, all consuming...Then she caught it, and allowed her soul to be wrapped in it, around it...She allowed understanding to hit her full force...This was what she was meant to be, this was her place in life,...She hadn't lost a family, just mearly gained another one...and she still had her love, her Inuyasha, and she could feel him with her, his soul mingling with hers, his energy and power merging with her own... He had been the voice that called her, he had been the warmth that penetrated her very soul, it was his love and acceptance that made this bearable, that pulled her from her own despair...and it was his love that she clung to... his eyes that came into focus, and his body that she wrapped her arms around, knowing finally that everything would be okay...that as long as he accepted her, and loved her, everything would be okay...
He stared into her eyes, their black intensity staring back at him, an intense shade if pink encircling what should have been her iris's. Her fangs were fully extended reaching to just below her full blood red bottom lip.Her ears were pointed, and the claws that extended from her fingertips were nearly as long as his own... Her midnight black hair still whipped around her, mixing with his own silver locks, a sharp contrast between the shades ... resembling a pitch black night, the only light available coming from the rays of moonlight as it stroked it's way soothingly through the endless waves of nothingness to give those surrounded by it a sence of peace. This was her demons human form, and she was breathtaking...
" Kagome?" Inuyasha asked, "are you okay?" the worry in his voice easily detectible as he made no effort to hide it...
"Inu--Yasha", she said as she raised her finger to lightly trace the purple markings that had reappeared on his cheeks, "what's happening to us?"What does Keade mean by fully mated?We are mated, I don't understand."
Inuyasha spoke up then, his voice low and unsure..."We are mated because I marked you,and your life expectancy will extend to match mine but when we are fully mated we will be able to 'feel' each others emotions, be able to comunicate in our minds, we will be soul mates for the rest of eternity, our reincarnations will seek each other out, and their reincarnations will do the same..We will be tied together for the rest of time...but to be fully mated you must mark me...Normally this only occures between two demons, not a demon and a human...I didn't know...if we could ever be mated fully, but I was happy just knowing that we would be together always, that I wouldn't outlive you...but I felt you Kagome, I felt you calling me..I felt your doubt and uncertainty, I don't understand what's happening to us either...
"I felt you too, Inuyasha...I felt you too...
Kagome leaned into him then, a soft smile on her face as she looked into his golden eyes..." As long as I have forever with you, I couldn't ask for more.." she said as she leaned forward to place a quick kiss to his lips," The question now is can you be happy being mated to a dragon?"
" As long as I am with you Kagome, I don't care whether your a human or a demon, But I DO like the new changes...Inuyasha smirked...
Keade left the doorway then, content in knowing that all was becoming as it should...Carrying Shippo and Kilala's sleeping bodies, she walked over to Miroku who sat quietly at the side of the hut watching Sango as she walked leasurly tword them, just barely returning from her bath at the nearby spring..
"I believe we'll be needing to find new sleeping arrangements for the night..." Keade announced to the others, ignoring their questioning gazes..."All will be known soon enough...
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Hey guys, It may take a couple of days to post the next chapter, I am kinda stuck on what to do with it...Please review though, if you can.. It helps motivate me...Thanks to all who have reviewed and those who regularly review, I'm happy to see that you all are still interested in the story...and I look forward to hearing from you again...I hope you all liked this chapter, it wasn't intended to be this way..I didn't want to make Kagome seem whiny, but some close friends really encouraged me to post it,and I trust their judgement...Anyway, let me know what you think okay...Neisha