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AN: Fellow reviewers and faithful readers, I am so so so so so sorry that it took me so long to update. My new job takes up my every hour of the day and I hate it! But I hope you will still read my chapter, and thank you so so much for all the reviews!
Chapter 22- Getting Back Home
"Wow, look at that!" Rin said excitedly for the millionth time. She pointed at a by riding by on his bike. Everything around her fascinated her. It was like a completely brand new world.
"Yes, Rin. That's called a bicycle." Kagome said as she looked around. Her mother already had an arm full of clothing bags, and she had a couple on her own arm, which were full of kimonos for Rin and a few for herself. "Mom, do you think we can go home now?" Kagome asked, getting tired of shopping. She swore her mother could shop for twenty-four hours if she had the money.
"Soon, soon honey. There might be a nice sale over there." She smiled and pointed.
"But mom, how much money do you have? I'm afraid of leaving Sesshoumaru alone in the house for this long. Especially when he's been left alone with grandpa." She said, wishing to just turn around and go back. Who knew what Sesshoumaru would do if grandpa annoyed him enough. And everyone knew that grandpa could talk and talk and talk.
"Oh, alright. We can go now." Her mother said and turned around. "Let's head back to the car." She said happily.
'Phew. For a second I thought we'd be shopping for another two hours.' Kagome thought and held Rin's hand as they headed back to the car.
"Can I wear one of my kimonos!" Rin asked or more or less demanded.
"When we get back home Rin." Kagome replied.
"If you don't stop eating all that chocolate, you are going to make yourself very sick." Grandpa said, watching Sesshoumaru chow down more and more chocolate. Sesshoumaru had already eaten two boxes of chocolate pop-tarts, and then he found the chocolate chip cookies. After eating the entire box of cookies, he found Count Chocula serial and ate that. Now he was slurring down some chocolate milk that he found in the fridge.
Sesshoumaru ignored the old man and continued what he was doing.
"You have to stop that. And what of the engagement ring? I guess you're not planning on getting her one?" Grandpa tried again.
Sesshoumaru stopped for a second. "I'm a youkai, not a hanyou, a youkai. And youkai's need lots of food." He said, making up an excuse to keep eating the delicious chocolate.
"Yes, you may need food. But you don't need chocolate. It's unhealthy and will make you sick. I don't know how you're not sick already."
Sesshoumaru lifted up his head to look at Kagome's grandpa. He had to admit that his stomach did feel unusually full. "I don't get sick." He said and rose out of the chair. Instantly he felt an internal pain shoot up his stomach and he sat back down. His head felt heavy and suddenly he wanted to barf. 'Is this from the chocolate? How can food make you feel this way?' He thought.
"See, I told you. Now Kagome will come home and we won't have any ring to present her with." Grandpa said and then left the room to see what's on TV
Sesshoumaru hunched his body over the counter and lay his head down. He couldn't remember ever feeling this full and icky. Suddenly he just wanted Kagome to get home and shifted his eyes towards the door.
"I hope Sesshoumaru is okay." Kagome said as they pulled up to the Shrine.
"I'm sure he is. Why wouldn't he be?" Kagome's mother reassured her with a big smile as she got out of the car and unpacked all the bags.
"Well who knows. I just get this bad feeling." Kagome replied and helped her mother with the bags.
Rin happily carried her own little bag that had a chocolate bar, chips, and her favourite Kimono in it. "Sesshoumaru seems to always be okay Kagome. I don't think there would be anything wrong." Rin said.
Kagome nodded and followed behind Rin. Once they arrived at the door, Grandpa let them in to relieve their arms of all the bags. "Sesshoumaru?" Kagome looked past her Grandpa to see Sesshoumaru's body hunched over the counter. Sesshoumaru didn't move, so she walked up to him and instantly knew why he was lying there. All around him was empty pop-tart cartons, an empty bag of chocolate chip cookies, crumbs, and a carton of chocolate milk.
"Sesshoumaru are you okay?" She asked softly and budged him a little with her hand.
Sesshoumaru turned his head around slowly and looked up at her. "I'm fine."
"You don't look fine. How could you eat all this chocolate? You know if you eat too much you can get sick." She said, rubbing her hand against his cheek.
"Food doesn't make me sick. It must be something else." Sesshoumaru said, not willing to admit that it was the chocolate making him sick.
"This time the food did make you sick. So now you know not to eat so much chocolate. Jeez, you must have really liked that chocolate pop-tart." She said, crossing her arms.
Rin and Kagome's mother just stood and watched.
"I don't like chocolate that much." He said untruthfully.
"Sure, whatever you say Sesshoumaru-sama." Kagome said and went back to bring her bags up to her room.
"Wait, where are you going?" He asked, raising his head up a little more.
"I'm going to put this stuff in my room." Kagome replied.
"I told him so. I said that if he didn't stop that he'd get a stomachache. But he didn't listen! And now we don't even have an engagement ring!" Kagome's Grandpa said, pointing at the sick youkai.
"It's okay Grandpa. We don't need any engagement ring." She said nicely and then began to go upstairs with Rin behind her.
Sesshoumaru watched Kagome disappear and then rose to his feet. His stomach still hurt a little, but he knew he'd be fine. After waiting for so long for her to come home, he wanted to go and see his mate. At the moment, he also just wanted to go back to the palace.
Kagome took some clothes out of the shopping bag and looked at them. Most of them were for Rin, which Rin was overjoyed about. She looked over at Rin, and saw her putting on the kimono that had been in her bag, which was her favourite one. Suddenly she heard footsteps coming towards her room and then Sesshoumaru's pale face arrived at her door. He leaned against the doorpost and just looked in at them.
"Did you have a good time?" He asked, looking down at Kagome. For some reason, being sick and recovering from it, made him want to be in Kagome's arms.
"Yes, we did. But after so long I just wanted to come home. Mom loves shopping." Kagome smiled.
"Isn't it lovely!" Rin said, and ran up towards Sesshoumaru, twirling the end of her kimono around. The kimono was a dark blue and had sparkling gold swirls all over it, and sparkling roses in between the swirls. Being in the feudal era, Rin had never seen such pretty sparkly material.
"Yes, it suits you." Sesshoumaru replied and watched Rin run back to sit with her stuff.
"You look terrible. Are you sure we should leave tomorrow morning?" Kagome asked.
"No matter how sick I get, we are leaving tomorrow. Besides I'm recovering, I feel better already." He replied and then walked in to sit on Kagome's bed.
"Sure you are." Kagome said sarcastically. "Fine, we're leaving tomorrow."
"I'm going to go see the television okay!" Rin said and ran out the door.
Kagome giggled and then went to sit on the bed beside Sesshoumaru. "She likes it here."
"Yes, I know. This era has more things to keep her busy." He replied.
"I'm sorry if my Grandpa gave you any hard time over marriage." Kagome said.
"It's okay. I just ignored him."
"I can't believe you ate that much chocolate." Kagome said, smiling up at him.
Sesshoumaru didn't say anything, he just looked down at her and then quickly swung her down on the bed. "It's been a little while." He said, already moving his hand under her shirt.
It took nothing for Kagome to lay there and give in.
"It's been great mom, Grandpa, and Souta. I'll miss you." Kagome said as her family watched her before the well. It had been a good visit, and they had even gotten to see Souta (who Rin really liked). Now they were headed home and Rin was almost crying.
"We will miss you too Kagome. Don't forget to come visit us again soon." Her mother said.
"Oh we'll be back again." She said and then turned around to face the well.
Sesshoumaru grabbed both Kagome and the sad Rin, and then jumped down into the well. Within seconds he could feel his senses relax and the fresh air of the feudal era fill his lungs. Oh how he loved it in this era.
"Well, it's back home we go." Kagome said. She was kind of happy that they would be able to just go back home and relax. She wouldn't be able to relax for long though. Her mind kept telling her that it was coming closer and closer to the war. It got worse everyday that she thought about it, and she knew that soon she would have to do something.
"What's that look for?" Sesshoumaru asked, seeing the distressed look on Kagome's face.
"It's nothing. Let's go." She replied with a smile and wave of the hand to tell him he's over-reacting.
Sesshoumaru looked at her, knowing it wasn't nothing, but he would wait until later to ask her.
They took off and the trip was long as usual, but half a day later they arrived back at the palace. Of course Kagome had a stiff back from being held onto for all those hours, and Rin was restless as ever. She had been slightly surprised that they didn't really see anyone on the journey back.
"Come Rin, it's near bedtime." Sesshoumaru said and guided her up to her room. He wanted some alone time with Kagome; something he feels like he hasn't had in awhile. After he put Rin into bed, he walked back downstairs to see Kagome staring at the floor. "Kagome?"
Kagome looked up at him.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"Thinking."
Sesshoumaru looked at her and then glanced over to the door of the bathroom. "Why don't you go have a warm bath and then you can tell me what you're thinking about?" He said, hinting for her to walk towards the bathroom.
"Alright." She replied and slowly went to the bathroom. Once inside she found the tub was already full of warm water. She took off all her clothes and stepped into the tub. Instantly she felt way more comfortable. Although her thoughts didn't fully leave her.
"So what is it that you are thinking about?"
Kagome turned her head to see her mate standing just behind her. He was wearing his bathrobe and began to take it off. "Sesshoumaru, I'm afraid." She replied.
Sesshoumaru dipped a foot into the fairly large tub and then let the rest of his body slide in beside Kagome. "Afraid of what?" He asked, not sure what she could possibly fear with him always with her.
"Everyday that goes by is a day closer to the war. I almost feel like I'm wasting time. That I should be doing something to stop it." Kagome replied, staring down at the water. She had never taken a bath with Sesshoumaru, but she didn't mind. It seemed normal.
"You're right. The war is getting closer, but it is still months away. We will find a way to stop the war, but for now you don't have to worry about it. When the time comes, I will help you." He replied and put an arm around Kagome. Her skin was so soft and he just couldn't resist holding her, touching her.
"Thank you." Kagome said softly and let Sesshoumaru pull her in front of him so she was leaning on his chest. Knowing that his strong arms were around her, made her feel much better.
"So, when are we going to use the jewel?" He asked, wanting to wish on it now so that Kagome could be with him for as long as he lives.
"I don't know. I'm not sure what we should use it for." She replied, closing her eyes.
"What do you mean? We're using it to make you live as long as me." He said, suddenly confused.
"I know we want to make that our wish, but you never thought of one thing."
"What's that?"
"That Rin would grow old and pass away hundreds of years before us. And I don't think it's fair for me to live longer than her when she was with you for much longer. She deserves the wish more than I do. Plus, I won't have it. It's not right for children to die before their parents. I would never want to see that happen." Kagome answered.
"Can't we wish for both of you to live longer?" Sesshoumaru wondered. It had never really crossed his mind that Rin wouldn't live as long as them.
"I think that would be two wishes though."
Sesshoumaru sat in silence. Now he didn't know what to do.
"And what about the war? Maybe the only way to stop this war would be to use the jewel." She said.
"If that's the case, then I will let the war go on, and we will just hide until it's over." Sesshoumaru said stubbornly. He would not let the jewel be wasted on this war, if he could keep Kagome and Rin safe, and use the jewel to make them live as long as himself. He knew it was selfish, but he is a selfish person.
"You don't know if that will work. If this war is as big as it sounds, then even you may not be able to save us." Kagome said sadly.
"Don't say that. Let's not talk about it right now. We'll figure things out later." Sesshoumaru ordered, not liking how the conversation was going. To rid his mind of the thoughts, he turned Kagome around and kissed her lips softly. It worked, and minutes after he completely forgot about the war and jewel, and enveloped himself in Kagome's sweet scent and delicate body.
AN: Wow guys. I am so so so so so sorry that it took so long for me to update. Ever since I've gotten a new job, I haven't had any time to write or get to the computer. I hate it! I hope soon though that I will find a job that won't make me have to work so so many hours. Anyway that was more of a filler chapter, the next one is going to be much more exciting!
