Welcome to 'Blind Truth' chapter three I hope you enjoy it and please read the note at the end of the chapter. Enjoy!
Kagome followed the silent servant down the halls of the western castle. She was thoroughly unhappy with her situation. She hated the fact that she was not only staying in the feudal era but staying in the feudal era in Sesshomaru's castle.
"Here is your room my lady, a spring room is connected to you room and it links your room with Lord Sesshomaru's. A servant will come get you when it is time for dinner." The servant told Kagome before she disappeared.
Kagome opened the door to her room and withheld an awe inspired gasp.
The room was decorated in red, black, blue and white and looked magnificent. The room was as big as her house in modern Japan. Kagome stepped inside and closed the door. The room had a vanity, a dresser, a closet, a giant silk sheeted bed and a window seat that looked out onto the most beautiful garden Kagome had ever seen.
Kagome walked over to the closet and opened it. She looked upon regal looking silk kimonos fit for a queen.
She gingerly touched a black and silver one and then let her hand drop.
She shouldn't get attached to anything in the house or get used to anything for she wasn't going to be there long, if she had it her way.
She closed the closet door and went and sat on the bed.
Her soul was screaming and her mind was reeling. She was so distraught it was making her sick. She looked around the room and let her eyes wander into the garden, where Rin was playing. She started thinking about all the reasons she wanted to leave and now…all the reasons she wanted to stay.
On the negative side Sesshomaru was InuYasha's brother. InuYasha hurt her so much she couldn't even stand the thought of looking at her. Staying meant she would have to keep protecting the jewel and that meant fighting off Naraku.
On the positive side Sesshomaru's castle was amazing. She would be able to see her friends and, more important, stay with her beloved Shippo. She would be able to see Rin as well and she wasn't completely against having to see Sesshomaru everyday.
Kagome already knew she was not attached to her modern family. She loved them but she didn't know them anymore. Every time she went back to her era everything seemed so foreign to her. She felt out of place and knew her family wasn't used to her being there.
Souta had grown up without his big sister, her mother had raised him herself and her grandfather was more attached to her brother than he ever had been to her. It seemed almost cruel for her to return, for both sides.
Kagome let a tear slip down her cheek at the turmoil she was in.
To stay or to go? Either way she didn't know if she could truly be happy. She doubted she could find happiness in the domain of Sesshomaru but her doubt to find happiness in her era was greater.
She laid back on the bed and eased into the silky soft red pillows and closed her eyes.
Kagome didn't remember falling asleep, nor did she remember what she had dreamed. All she knew was, it was dusk and she felt drained.
She opened her eyes and watched the sun set through her window. Moments later there was a knock on the door.
Kagome opened it to find a servant.
"Lord Sesshomaru requests your presence in the ball room my lady." The male servant told Kagome.
Kagome nodded and followed the servant, not really paying attention to where she was going.
The servant was a male youkai and he pitied the miko behind him, whose aura was so pain felt it almost brought him down.
Kagome was lead into a grand dining room where Sesshomaru, Rin and Shippo were waiting.
Shippo ran to his mother with tear filled eyes and hugged her. Kagome hugged her son but was still as unemotional as she had been while being lead there. Something about the way things had played out had affected her in a way she didn't even know. She couldn't even describe her own feelings past the words very confused.
Kagome sat next to Rin, who was sitting to Sesshomaru's left while Shippo sat beside Kagome.
The food was served and the two children started to inhale the food as if they hadn't eaten in days.
Kagome's stomach protested the thought of having food in it. Kagome's body protested moving. In essence, Kagome's body had shut off. She just wanted to sleep.
"Miko, why do you not eat?" Sesshomaru asked her.
Kagome lifted her head and her hollow blue eyes clashed with his icy golden ones. They held gazes for what seemed like forever before Kagome pulled her eyes away, unable to compete with his iciness.
"Just tired." Kagome answered in a soft voice.
Sesshomaru studied Kagome. Her aura was…off, to say the least. Her presence made Sesshomaru uneasy and he did not know why.
Taking a closer look at the miko he also noticed her absent mind of missing her surrogate son.
Kagome stood up.
"Where are you going miko?" Sesshomaru asked her.
"I'm going back to my room…I'm tired." Kagome replied in a dead sounding voice.
She made her way out of the room and backtracked, as if being lead, to her room where she collapsed on her bed.
Kagome stared into the space around her in the barely lit room.
How had she let it happen? How had she gone from a normal teenager to what she was now? What fate had decided that she was to be miserable?
She let a tear slip down her cheek thinking about all the horrible things she had had to endure in the feudal era.
Everything from InuYasha to Naraku, from Kagura to Sesshomaru from demons to having her life thrown around like a play thing, like her heart. Could she really learn to live again? Could she really return to being the Kagome she was before everything happened? Could she recover from all the damage that had caused her to be the way she was now?
Kagome was startled out of her thoughts by a knock on the door. She got up and opened it to find Sesshomaru and another male youkai.
"What's up?" Kagome asked, as upbeat as she could.
"I have asked…" Sesshomaru started but was cut off.
"My name is Bousan. I am Sesshomaru's personal healer." The youkai, not known as Bousan, told Kagome as he swept in his room. "It is so very dim in here." He announced and instantly the room was lit by several candles and a fire was lit in the fireplace. "Much better."
Kagome walked back to her bed and sat down as Sesshomaru shut the door and nodded at Bousan.
"Sesshomaru tells me that you are ill." Bousan announced.
"I'm fine, just tired." Kagome replied.
"We can smell when you lie miko." Sesshomaru announced icily.
Kagome let the fact slide that he called her miko but deep down inside her the old Kagome was flaring up.
"Sesshomaru." Bousan scolded. "Kagome is it? Kagome what seems to be the trouble? Your aura is reaching out for help, letting off a distress signal of sorts." He told her.
Kagome just sighed; she didn't exactly know what was wrong.
"She doesn't know either Sesshomaru." Bousan announced. "Sesshomaru, perhaps you should leave me with the young women for a little while."
"Very well." Sesshomaru replied as he swept out of the room, closing the room behind him.
"Why were you crying?" Bousan asked, sitting down in front of the fire and motioning for Kagome to join him.
"I guess memories seem to reply in my mind without my consent." Kagome told him, sitting across from him.
"Kagome, I need your permission to help you. You're miko powers, untrained I see, will purify me if you do not understand that I am not going to hurt you." Bousan replied.
"Alright." Kagome said, taking a deep breath as Bousan took her hands in his.
"Close your eyes Kagome." Bousan told her.
She did and instantly she felt better. She felt…like her old self.
"That's good. Let yourself drift into a peaceful place. Are you there Kagome?" Bousan asked and Kagome nodded. "Okay, now just let yourself go and concentrate on what exactly is bothering you." Bousan told her.
Kagome's eyes suddenly snapped open.
Okay so that's where it's ending. I know, I know it's a shorter chapter but chapter four will be coming soon. I must say that this story will be wrapped up fast. I will try and have all the chapters posted in a maximum of two weeks. I don't want to rush the story but I have another story that I want to work on but I don't want to start another and then forget about this one. So, I will write until I can not write anymore and try my hardest to update a lot so the story can be complete and I can work on the other one. Thank you for reading, I am off now to work on chapter four…and eat food.