Here is Chappie 4, I do hope it meets expectations. Tomorrow I am leaving and will be gone for a week, give or take, but the story will continue promptly when I return. Please don't abandon me! I have to take care of my own adventures for a bit, but this one will go on!
Chapter 4
It had been about an hour since Kagome left, and Inuyasha was already on the end of his nerves.
He hated being bored.
He hated waiting for Kagome.
He knew that she missed her friends and wanted to spend time with them, but he was bored and he wanted her to come back NOW.
Meanwhile
Kagome looked up at the tall stranger that walked beside her. He was a stranger with the face of Sesshoumaru. No doubt about it, it was him, but also it wasn't.
He walked the same...His voice was the same...He looked the same...
But he wasn't the same.
He wasn't cold or bitter. He wasn't regal and dominearing. He was just a handsome youkai with a history...a long forgotten history.
Sesshoumaru smiled now, and laughed and joked...but Kagome could see the sadness that lay hidden in his eyes...she could hear it hidden in his voice...and felt it hidden in his touch.
He was almost human...almost. He was still a youkai, but over years and years of blending in with people, it seems that he lost himself...that he no longer felt important or powerful.
This caused pain to shoot through Kagome's heart.
The very thought of Sesshoumaru being sad... Kagome didn't like it.
Kagome looked up to the sound of windchimes, that danced in the chill of the breeze.
How whimsical.
Kagome smiled.
"Welcome" Sesshoumaru said as he opened the door and stood to the side as a gentleman.
"Thank you" Kagome smiled as she entered.
The warmth of the house hit her and immediately she felt better.
The house smelled of patchouli and in that smell she found a comfort that relaxed her shivering bones.
Sesshoumaru led kagome into the parlor where he had her sit at a low table with two overstuffed cream cushions.
"I'll go find gimpy" Sesshoumaru smiled as he exited out into the hall.
Sesshoumaru stopped by the kitchen to ready the sake for he and his guest. He chose two bottles, ...one white, and one blue.
'And I will see you when she leaves' He said as he inspected the blue bottle, before placing it next to the white bottle in the warming lid.
"Jakan!" He called, leaving the kitchen to search for the imp.
Kagome sat in silence, observing her surroundings. It was a very nice place...she felt at home, like she had been here many times.
She snooped over to the cabinet table which held an impressive stereo.
'Lets take a look at the real Sesshoumaru' Kagome mused in her mind as she opened the small cabinet door that she knew would have a collection of CDs.
Pantera–
Mudvayne–
Killswitch Engage–
Slipknot–
Deftones–
Lamb of God–
Slayer.–
Ramstein–
...The list went on...
'Very dark...I suppose it was to be expected...' Kagome gave a smirk.
She turned back and jumped alittle at the sight of Sesshoumaru leaning on the door frame.
"Find anything of interest?" He teased.
Kagome just looked at him with a smile...and kept looking.
In this moment, Kagome was transfixed on him...How tempting his features were...
The way his bangs shadowed his eyes when held his head at that angle... The way his eyes taunted and criticized, ...
Kagome had always thought Sesshoumaru a beautiful man... but know he was just damn sexy and it made a blush pinken her little face.
Sesshoumaru knew what she was thinking...He was still concieted enough to know when someone was checking him out.
"Kagome" he said staring back at her deeply in that rich silken voice.
"Yes" Kagome almost whispered.
"I was wondering..."
"Yes"
(Arrogant smirk) "I was wandering if you were ever going to take your coat off."
"Huh? Oh , yes...thanks." Kagome said touching down on Earth again.
'What a jerk...making me feel all weird and stuff...' Kagome fumed in her mind as she jerked at her coat, trying to free her arms from it.
"Kagome! Kagome it is you! Do you remember this Jakan!" An overly excited Jakan burst into the room.
"Of course I do!" Kagome beamed. "I don't ever remember you being excited to see me though!"
"ahah" Jakan rubbed his hands nervously.
"I'm happy to see you Jakan" Kagome kindly assured him.
"Jakan, take Kagome's coat , and bring the white bottle, NOT the blue." Sesshoumaru ordered as he kneeled at the table.
"Yes milord..." Jakan bowed , and then he took the coat that could swallow him and hurried down the hall.
...A few moments went by before Sesshoumaru finally spoke again...
"So what shall the starting topic be?" Sesshoumaru asked, eyeing her questionably.
"Im glad to see you have your arm back..." Kagome nodded towards his hand that was combing through his hair at the moment and she smiled.
Sesshoumaru stopped mid-comb and looked alittle taken-back. He would have been insulted if he hadn't seen that her smile was genuine.
"It took some time, but it did regenerate nicely." He said as he started to inspect his hand.
Kagome examined his striped wrist from across the small table, and couldn't stop the question that jumped from her lips. "Where else do you have those stripes?" And immediately she was embarrassed at the invading question.
Sesshoumaru raised his brows and smiled before answering. "They are usually hidden to others by my pants...but I will show you if you must know."
"Nononono! I'm sorry, thats not necessary!" Kagome waved her hands in front of her face wildly as Sesshoumaru stood.
Kagome thought she really would die when he hiked his leg onto the table .
She squeezed her eyes shut in disbelief...
"Kagome."
"No!"
"Kagome, open your eyes."
Kagome cracked one eye...then she opened them both to see Sesshoumaru holding up his pant leg, showing off two stripes at his ankle.
Sesshoumaru started to laugh, clearly enjoying her embarrassment.
Kagome glared, as a smile crossed her face, and she finally began to laugh as well.
Meanwhile in the kitchen...
Jakan pulled a chair to the counter and climbed up, setting the serving tray on the countertop to ready the sake.
As he reached for the white bottle that steamed fragrantly, his fumbly little fingers knocked it over, spilling the sweet sake.
"AHK! What a mess!...know I have to heat more sake...Sesshoumaru-sama will be angry if he has to wait any longer..."
Jakan looks up to the blue bottle, ready and warm.
"Aha!"
:pours sake from blue bottle into white bottle:
Back in the parlor...
"Jakan stayed here in Japan to look after the old house I used to own."
"So there isn't a single place you haven't been?" Kagome asked, very interested in their current conversation.
"There are a few, but not many." Sesshoumaru explained.
"Where all have you been in the last hundred years? Just from 1900 to today?" Kagome asked eagerly.
:Jakan quietly enters and places the sake and sake cups on the table, bows, and leaves
"Past hundred years...hmmm.." Sesshoumaru thought as he poured the sake and gave Kagome a cup.
"From 1891 to 1912 I was in France, until I journeyed to America on the biggest ship ever made at the time. The Titanic."
"You did not!" Kagome gasped, almost choking on her sake.
"I do not lie." Sesshoumaru said with pride. "The ship sank into freezing water and I had to swim for days, until I finally reached New York."
"Do you know how many died from that event?" Kagome looked at him seriously.
"Yes...I do remember...and there was nothing I could do to help them." He said in a far away voice.
"So where did you go from New York?" Kagome changed the subject quickly.
"I traveled North America for many years, meeting many good and bad people and visiting many places that would go down in history, Blah blah and all that." He said taking a sip of his sake.
"Good and bad people? Anyone interesting?"Kagome asked, starting to feel tingly and warm.
"I became a woodstock junkie in the mid sixties, and met some very interesting people. I did many things that I would not brag of...I was into the whole 'expand your mind' theme." He said with a big grin. "I was very accepted by those strange people.
"So you were a trippy hippie! Oh my god! Did you wear little flowers in your hair and sing made up love songs?" Kagome teased.
Sesshoumaru swallowed his sake hard and looked at her.
Kagome thought she saw a look of pain in his eyes.
"Did I say something wrong?" She asked concerned.
"Little flowers and made up songs...That is how she lived..." Sesshoumaru said feeling a bit light-headed.
Instantly, even through the fog in her head, Kagome knew he spoke of Rin...Sweet little singing Rin.
"How old was she Sesshoumaru? When she...passed..."Kagome trailed off as she asked the bold question, feeling very woozy.
"She followed me for fifteen years. Then she was gone..."
"Please tell me...you don't have to,...I love her too though." Kagome almost slurred.
Sesshoumaru absorbed her words...I love her too...not loved...love...she still gets to love Rin...in the past...she still gets to see her.
"I learned that it was cancer of the breast..." He downs his cup of sake "Everytime I revived her, she would just die again..."
Kagome didn't know what she expected him to say, but she sure didn't expect breast cancer...
She must have not been older than just twenty one...a true tragedy...
Kagome was over whelmed...and over drunk...tears slipped from her eyes as she pictured the small girl who she would see when she returned to the past...She would see Rin...and know her cruel fate...and Kagome's heart broke, as she knew Sesshoumaru's did the day he lost her...
"SesshNoumaru..." Kagome slurred sweetly.
"That is the way the world is, and that is the way it has always been so do NOT dare to feel sorry for me" Sesshoumaru said coldly.
But even a very drunk Kagome could not help but pity him.
Sesshoumaru felt dizzy...regular sake will not phase him, but he felt very fuzzy.
He looked at Kagome who was swaying and staring at him with fluttery eyes, tears still wet on her lashes.
She hadn't even finished her first cup.
...wait one damn minute--------
"JAKAN!"
'What has that unworthy toad done!'
"JAKAN!"
'I'll kill him! Where is tha——' Sesshoumaru's thoughts were cut off by a wobbly Kagome crawling over the little table and reaching an outstretched hand to him, crawling on three limbs.
He didn't move, only sat there as she pushed off the table with her foot, (scooting the table across the floor a bit), and launching her arms into his hair and around his neck.
She pushed her head up under his chin making his head raise up, and curled her legs on his folded knees.
"You're so strong...its okay...its okay...life is supposed to hurt...its okay" She whispered, nuzzling the words into his neck. "Time is so ruthless ...yet you're sooo strong...You really are..."
Sesshoumaru felt her warmth and her words and the beat of her heart against his breast...her breath on his neck...
This Kagome that cared for everyone...this Kagome who everyone cared for with such passion that he never understood in those days...This Kagome that his brother killed for and would have died for...This kagome that gave her life so he, Sesshoumaru could live forever...And now she held him to her, reaching out and wanting to heal his pain...
He let his cheek lay on her dark head and slowly wrapped his arms around her frame...
It was a beautiful embrace.
And in this embrace, Sesshoumaru made this promise:
"This Sesshoumaru will be stronger than he once was...Time will give back what was taken..."
'I will not allow it...I will not let her die for me...I will save her.'
And there sat Sesshoumaru , clinging to this girl.
And there he stayed, clinging to this girl.
...This girl, drunken on demon sake...
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I hope you like it! I cant wait to come back and tell you what happens next!
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