Chapter Eight: Ressurection
"Please do it Lord Sesshomaru!" the young girl pleaded.
"I have no motivation." Sesshomaru replied coldly.
"But you have to Lord Sesshomaru! He protected me when I was kidnapped." Rin continued to beg.
"Indeed. Right before he tried to kill you." Sesshomaru added.
"I don't mean to interject Lord Sesshomaru, but the boy was under the control of Naraku at the time." Sesshomaru's toadying henchman, Jaken added.
"I suppose." Sesshomaru admitted. He looked down at the dead boy that lay in front of him. If he awoke, would he still be under Naraku's power? Only one way to find out. Even if he was, it would be no problem to simply kill him again. He was nothing a pathetic human boy after all.
"Do it Lord Sesshomaru! Please? Please, please, please? With sugar?" Rin was practically on her knees.
The demon lord of the western plain rolled his eyes. "If I revive this boy, will you shut up?"
"I promise Lord Sesshomaru! Will you revive him?" Rin asked.
"Yes, but once I do, I will not hear another word out of you. Understand?" Sesshomaru explained.
"Yes sir." Rin agreed to comply.
Sesshomaru slowly drew his Tensiega. As blade pulsed, the hellish imps that quenched their hunger off the boy's soul came into focus. Sesshomaru dispelled the beasts with a single stroke. Kohaku's eyes opened. Fortunately, they didn't hold the same emptiness they did when he was at Naraku's command.
"You did it Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin squealed with delight.
"What did you expect?" Sesshomaru asked rhetorically with something that resembled a smirk on his face. "Let us leave now."
"But what about Kohaku Lord Sesshomaru?" Rin asked, perplexed at his readiness to leave.
"I have no use for him. He probably doesn't even remember who he is."
"But we can't just leave him!" Rin complained.
"Rin, if you do hasten to close your mouth this instant, you will find yourself left behind as well." Sesshomaru threatened.
Rin gave Sesshomaru the most pathetic look she could muster, but to no avail. Sesshomaru the cold cared not for a half-dead demon slayer. She gave Kohaku a worried look and shook him a little. "Wake up Kohaku!"
Kohaku's eyes fluttered open. "R- rin?" he asked, unsure of whom he was speaking to.
"You remember me!" Rin exclaimed. "Get up quick; we need to catch up to Lord Sesshomaru and Lord Jaken."
"Who?"
"Lord's Sesshomaru and Jaken. I'll explain later." Rin promised, grabbing Kohaku's hand and pulling him along. "Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin shouted into the woods. "Wait for us!"
After Rin had introduced Sesshomaru and Jaken to Kohaku, she struck up a conversation with the boy. "So you remember anything else? Your father or mother?"
Kohaku thought on it for a moment. "No."
"Nothing at all?" Rin repeated.
"I remember…a half-breed." Kohaku said. Rin and Jaken immediately stiffened as Sesshomaru halted the march.
"What did he just say?" Sesshomaru asked, knowing full well what he had heard. As if he could miss anything with his super-sensitive ears.
"Nothing Lord Sesshomaru." Rin replied. Sesshomaru new she was lying, but he decided to let it pass. Once Sesshomaru continued walking Rin pulled Kohaku closer to her and whispered in his ear. "You mustn't ever mention half-breeds around Lord Sesshomaru. He hates half-breeds more than anything!"
Kohaku was confused. "Why?"
"Lord Sesshomaru has a half-brother, Inuyasha. Inuyasha's mother is human, and they both bring shame upon Sesshomaru's family!" Rin explained. Anyhow, do you remember anything else?"
Kohaku's brow furrowed in deep thought. "I remember… a priestess and a monk." He paused for a moment. "And a huntress."
"Their names?" Rin continued.
"The monk I do not remember. The priestess was…Kagome."
Sesshomaru halted again. He turned to Kohaku. "What did you just say boy?"
"He said nothing Lord!" Rin spoke up in his defense.
"I did not ask you." Sesshomaru retorted. "What did you say?"
"K-kagome." Kohaku stuttered, intimidated by the demon lord. "The priestess' name was Kagome."
"Odd don't you think that that happens to be the name of my shameful brother's woman?" Sesshomaru asked. Kohaku said nothing. Sesshomaru turned and faced east. "Come along Jaken. Let us return this boy to my brother and his trophy wench."
Back in Kaede's village, Inuyasha finally let spill that he loved Kagome. Miroku had asked him whether he really loved Kagome or if everything he had just said was a lie. With Kagome right there, he didn't have much of an option.
Kagome sighed as she leaned into Inuyasha's chest. "I can't believe you actually love me."
"Yeah, well don't let it go to your head." Inuyasha replied.
"So I see Inuyasha has finally confessed his love for you Kagome. I told ye twas only a matter of time." Kaede said.
"Guess you were right." Kagome admitted.
"You knew?" Inuyasha asked incredulously, more shocked than any intelligent person should.
"Everyone knew Uncle Inuyasha. Even Shippo and me, and we're just kids!" Haruko chimed in.
Inuyasha pouted. "Impudent little…"
"Sit boy!" Kagome shouted before Inuyasha could finish his sentence.
Sango smiled broadly. "Isn't that cute?"
Miroku grinned too. "Indeed. When they aren't arguing like an old married couple, they actually look pretty good together."
"I don't like the old married couple metaphor. I mean look at us, we are an old married couple, and we don't fight half as much as those two ever did." Sango reminded him.
"Old? You're nineteen, I'm twenty three. I wouldn't call that old." Miroku commented.
"Perhaps not but three years, four months and twenty seven days is a pretty long time!"
"You keep count down to the day?" Miroku asked.
"Don't you?" Sango said, answering Miroku's question with another question.
"I know our anniversary is April 31." Miroku tried.
"Well I will compliment you there. Better than most men I know could do." Sango admitted.
"I suppose if I did the math I could count down to the exact day." Miroku said.
"But seriously, don't you think they're the cutest couple that ever lived?" Sango pried.
"No." Miroku replied.
"Then who?" Sango wondered out loud. "Who's cuter?"
"Well, I can only think of one of the top of my head. They're right here in this room." Miroku finished, kissing his wife.