Tainted Silver
-Chapter 18-
Her gasps for air were ridiculous, her wide eyes were incredible, the hands that firmly grabbed at the white sheets were miraculous. Sango collapsed onto her husband with wide eyes. Souta bust into the room with Kohaku by his side, Rin and Shippou not far behind.
"Kohaku said he had a vision of Kagome-!"
They turned to see Kagome's chest struggling with ragged breathing.
"Her aura is so alive," Souta quipped in awe.
Sesshomaru tore the white sheets off her body and gripped her to himself, her head snugly fitting into the crook of his neck. He couldn't get enough of her heartbeat pounding against his ears, the warmth she was starting to radiate against his skin.
"Is this a whore house?"
Kagome giggled tiredly.
/Livingroom/
Sesshomaru sat pensive in his chair, questioning Kagome's revival. Miroku held his wife in his arms, all the adults immersed in their thoughts.
"I think-."
Kohaku bust into the room with the rest of the younger generation in the house.
"Alright," he began, "it's like this yall."
The adults looked to him expectantly.
"The sorceress, miko, whatever, she cast another spell. It was meant to turn all the villagers into demons once they struck Sesshomaru. Then they would turn on each other blah, blah, blah.
"But it backfired on her when you guys showed up."
"Yes," Souta agreed. "She had not expected for the villagers' minds to change once they saw children."
"Therefore, the only one that got even close to striking Sesshomaru-."
"Kagome, when she took the blow for me."
"Ano-."
"Her nails dug into my back as she slid to the floor..."
"So I'm not human anymore?"
All of their eyes turned to Kagome's figure in the doorway. The change was great, her figure was smaller, her hair longer, everything about her almost perfect.
"Genetically no, emotionally yes."
Their eyes traveled to Rin's smiling figure on the floor, "Mommy's like Daddy now."
/Finale/
To wrap up this story, Kagome admitted to her fondness of her captor, as Sesshomaru did to her. The barriers disappeared, but the newly found freedom was slightly useless. The household soon found that anything they could possibly desire was within the walls of the estate.
Kagome later visited her grandfather, much to the shock of the entire village. Kikyou and Ayame found themselves forced into community service under the local priest. InuYasha and Kouga, much to Kagome's sadness, left the village to fight a local war against a lord whom had taken over the local city through corruption.
"I told you she'd return for her old grandfather!" the elder Higurashi shouted at all the pedestrians as he hobbled after his granddaughter.
Higurashi-sama indeed returned to live out his late years with his granddaughter in the castle. The boys often visited the village to keep themselves occupied. Kohaku, with time, gained control of his power and made money as a fortune teller at the village festivals. Souta earned himself a position in the village's judicial system. Shippou deemed himself the guardian of the entrance to the village, which was now enclosed by a brick wall with broken glass embedded around the edges.
Rin, to the impatience of her demon father, found herself a tutor in the village and asked him the questions that so plagued her young mind.
"Sensei-sama?"
"Hai, Rin-san?"
"What is sex?"
The teacher grew red as all of the other children, whom had been learning to add, turned with curiosity.
"What is a whore house?"
The man needed medication after each and every one of his classes to calm himself down, the future generation was steadily growing more astute in the art of... copulation.
Sango and Miroku, much to their happiness, had twins without air voids. However, much to the panic of the entire household, at the time of labor Sango seemed to give birth to... air.
"Miroku! Where is it! Where is the baby!"
Miroku looked down and promptly fainted.
"No, don't faint you moron!"
Much to Souta's discomfort, Kohaku had alerted him days before as to what would be happening, and he arrived just in time to be able to help. The aura around the baby helped him deliver, albeit sick while doing so, with great success.
Kagome and Sesshomaru's relationship grew day by day, their trust increased with their daily interaction. Sesshomaru's ability to communicate with others remained the same, much to their chagrin, but alas he had to allow himself time to change. He'd confided to Miroku that he only did it to please Kagome.
Kagome, after coming to accept who and what she was, slowly found herself inheriting the late Midoriko's powers and so set out to do justice to those whom she'd wronged. Midoriko and the sexually estranged henchman were given a fair trial in the village, though most of the village wanted to hang them without the legality. Instead they were taken by InuYasha and Kouga and forced into the war.
Until next time, this is the end of Tainted Silver.