The Other Side
Chapter 41
What The Hell Hapened?
Where was she? She glanced around. The last thing she remembered was passing out on the way back from the East. Ugh; why was it always her? She looked around the room that she was in and immediately honed in on the TV that was in front of the bed she was in. Her eyes widened on that; where the hell was she?
She moaned; this was becoming a happening. "Mommy!" She heard and blinked with wide eyes at the small male child that was bouncing on the bed. She scrambled away from the child—not in fear, mostly in surprise and all right fine, fear as well. "Mommy, are you all right?" the child asked, tilting his head to the side in confusion before trying to crawl over to her.
Kagome couldn't help it but feel a bit heartbroken when the child started to sniffle. The door to the room opened up and in walked Sesshomaru, holding another small child—this one was a girl—with a smile on his face. Holy crap! He was smiling! Kagome looked to him in fear that caused him to put the girl down and frown at her. "Kagome, are you all right?" he questioned her as she hit the headboard of the bed when he tried to reach out his hand to her.
"Don't touch me," she uttered. Sesshomaru blinked then furrowed his brows in thought.
"Akira, Hikari, why don't you two go wake up uncle Inu?" The children beamed at the idea and ran from the room. Sesshomaru turned back to Kagome, who looked like she was terrified of him. "Kagome, what's wrong? You can tell me. Was it Kouga? I told him to stay away from you; even after all this time and he still tries to mate with you." He shook his head with a roll of his eyes.
"Who the hell are you?" Kagome stared at him like he was going to bite her.
"Pardon? Babe, did you hit your head or something? What's going on?"
"Where the hell am I?"
Sesshomaru sighed and paused as he said slowly, "Let me—go find Shiori. I'll be right back." He left Kagome to her thoughts.
What the hell was going on?!
He was back faster than she could continue to think to herself with a young woman that Kagome couldn't help but gape at. Oh my lord, she thought as the woman smiled to her. "Good morning, Kagome. You have your mate panicking with the state that you're in at the moment. Perhaps you can tell me what it wrong? Or better yet, what is the last thing you remember?" she asked, her voice was soft and calm as Kagome watched her sit down on the end of the bed. Sesshomaru was closer to the door with an unreadable expression; one that Kagome saw on more than one occasion.
"We're not going to hurt you Kagome," he said, his tone softer than she remembered.
"I'm Shiori, Inuyasha's mate." Kagome gasped loudly and stared at her like she was crazy. "Please talk to us. Maybe we can figure something out? What is the last thing you remember?"
Kagome looked to her lap before she sniffled and looked away. She saw that Sesshomaru looked like he wanted to go over and comfort her. "I-I don't know. I was walking with Kenichi and Sesshomaru...and he was mad, said that he regretted his decision and then I felt like I couldn't breathe. I guess I passed out or something."
She didn't miss the look Shiori sent Sesshomaru, who had paled. "Sesshomaru, do you know what she is talking about?" Shiori gently asked, noticing that the male seemed highly upset.
"Yeah, I do but that was hundreds of years ago." Kagome sharply looked up. Sesshomaru looked into her eyes and just knew that he could read her. "You're not lying...Hm, I need you to call Zhou-Mao and Saiyu."
"Say what?" Kagome looked at him for a moment then said, "You hate Zhou-Mao though."
There was definitely a twitch of his lip when she said that. "That's entirely besides the point. I will deal with him but he needs to be here."
Shiori switched her gaze between the two of them, a bit confused on what they were talking about then Kagome closed her eyes and a man was suddenly standing on the other side of the bed, closer to Kagome. She gaped at him.
Zhou-Mao looked around the room in wonder then his eyes landed on Kagome. "I just got rid of you; why did you call me back?" he demanded but all Kagome did was point to Sesshomaru as he glanced to him. Then he looked around the room and focused back on Kagome. "Oh."
"Don't 'oh' me," Kagome warned as Zhou-Mao smirked knowingly. "You knew this was going to happen, didn't you?"
"But of course but like I said, I couldn't tell you. You had to figure it out on your own. I wasn't about to simply hand it to you."
Sesshomaru growled at this as the dark male glanced back to him. "Where the hell is my Kagome?" Kagome blinked at the tone.
He stifled a laugh. "There is only one Kagome and this is her," he said, patting on Kagome's shoulder; she glared at him. "This one is merely a couple of hundred years younger; that's all, as am I for that matter."
"So what you're saying is that I'm trapped?" Kagome managed to get out, her fear suddenly taking a hold of her. Zhou-Mao stroked his chin in thought.
"Trapped isn't the right word; stuck, maybe, for the time being. Perhaps this is a lesson to you."
"You're the reason that Sesshomaru absolutely hates me!"
"That was a bonus."
"You complete and utter jackass—"
"—Thank you," he interrupted.
"—I should have you castrated. Maybe throw you in a lake and drown you!"
"I would simply freeze time and get out of that situation."
Kagome groaned and flopped in the bed as she angrily screamed into the pillow.
Sesshomaru and Shiori shared a look with each other as the door to the room opened once again. This time with Inuyasha, dragging two small children into the room as well. They were attached to his legs, making it a struggle to walk further into the room. "Sesshomaru, you bastard, call off your brats!" he whined as his brother chuckled.
"Akira, Hikari, let go of your uncle," he said as his children begrudgingly let go of Inuyasha. They pouted afterwards.
"Is mommy okay, daddy?" they chorused together.
"Oh wow, you two end up with brats; that's hilarious," Zhou-Mao mocked with a smirk.
"Daddy, that man is mean," Hikari pointed out as Inuyasha grinned at this.
Inuyasha did a double take on the man near Kagome. "Yo, Sesshomaru, I thought you didn't like males near Kagome?"
"I don't but that's not Kagome," he responded that made Inuyasha shift his eyes between his brother and the woman on the bed.
"Um...are you seeing something I'm not? Cause I'm almost positive that that is Kagome."
Zhou-Mao ran a hand through his hair and sighed. "I told you; it is Kagome, just a couple hundred years younger. There has been a relatively bad accident recently. So, she is stuck, here, with you lot."
"I hate my life," Kagome mumbled against the pillow but all the demons heard this.
"Whoa, w-wait, what?" Inuyasha stuttered before breaking out into a grin. "Oh Kagome, you got into trouble again, didn't you? Don't tell me you teleported here and switched with Sesshomaru's older Kagome? Cause I could see that happening." He barked a laugh as a thought just occurred to him. "Oh god, can you imagine older Kagome trying to seduce younger Sesshomaru? That I would pay to see!"
There was silence, to which, Inuyasha's ears flattened against his head as if he just noticed that he said something wrong. "Oh, you don't think that happened do you?" Kagome asked to all.
Zhou-Mao chuckled. "I could show you what is happening with the other Kagome." They all looked to him as Kagome threw him a skeptical look.
"You're not that nice that you would," Kagome pointed out.
"Yeah, I'm not nice but I am a bit curious and curiosity with time is not a good thing." He flicked his wrist as a screen appeared in front of Kagome, who eeped when this happened.
On the screen showed Kenichi trying to wake up Kagome, mumbling things that they couldn't hear. Sesshomaru was behind them with an annoyed look on his face. He was talking but yet again, they couldn't hear what was being said. Suddenly, older Kagome sat straight up quickly, glanced around before her eyes laid on Kenichi.
"Oh christ, what did I land into this time?" Oh wow, they could understand her. They pointedly looked at Zhou-Mao for the answer to this.
"I am apart of Kagome. You can hear what she says but the people around her, you cannot," was his response.
They looked back to the screen. "Oh, Sesshomaru if you're mad about me breaking your mother's vase, that was entirely Inuyasha's fault." Inuyasha paled when his brother gave him a deadly look. "But judging by your face...oh my god, you're young. Oh god, no." Kenichi looked confused and looked between Kagome and Sesshomaru in wonder. Their mouths moved, no voice coming out, of course, then Kagome said, "Is this the time when Sesshomaru rescued me and Kenichi from his father? Cause if it is, I feel really bad for my younger self."
Zhou-Mao looked for once in his life, in awe. "Damn, she actually came to that conclusion faster than you," he said to Kagome, who sneered at him in annoyance.
Sesshomaru's mouth moved and from what Kagome could see, he was probably asking what was going on. "Oh that's easy. You see, I was hiding from my mate since I didn't want him to know what I was doing and well, let's just say that it worked out better than I originally thought. I was in the middle of seeing if I could go back in time and Zhou-Mao said that I could if I really focused on it. Little did I know though, it would be mean that I would switch places with my younger self... Then again, Zhou-Mao does in fact like to see me suffer so it's only natural that he left that tidbit out."
"Oh my god, that was what she was doing?!" Inuyasha exclaimed, then remembered where he was as he got a face full of Sesshomaru.
"You mean to tell me that you knew what she was doing?!" Sesshomaru yelled as Inuyasha held his arms in surrender. "You are dead."
"Now, now, honestly, I didn't know she was planning on time-traveling. If I did, you think I would have allowed her to do that?!"
"Run." Inuyasha flew out of the room with Sesshomaru trailing after him.
Kagome blinked then slowly narrowed her eyes on Zhou-Mao, who grinned back at her. "Oh you jackass; even later down the line and you still act like this!"
"What can I say; I love to see you suffer."
"Why is it always you though? Why can't I talk with an of the other elements?" she asked as he shrugged.
"You normally just seem to call upon me if that's the case."
"Sesshomaru said earlier that I should call upon you and...Sai?"
"Saiyu," Shiori helped out.
"Yeah that, so clearly I don't just call you," Kagome said with a twitch of her eye.
"Oh don't look at me like that, mister. One of these days, you're actually going to love me and I happen to know all the places you love to be touched. Your ears are really sensitive, as is your neck, and your hips. Oh you're not happy that I know this? Well believe me, when my younger self gets back here, she'll probably listen to me cause I'm almost positive that Zhou-Mao is allowing them to listen in on us. If he's not, then I'll just have to contact my younger self another way."
Zhou-Mao smirked, Kagome groaned, Shiori blushed hard, and the children stared on in confusion.
"I wonder how long I'll be here?" Kagome said softly as Sesshomaru walked back into the room with a self-satisfied smirk. Inuyasha followed shortly after with a black eye and a limp. Shiori ran to him to check his injuries.
"On a plus side, you're stuck with me for the next two weeks. Prepare for me to do some damage while I'm here; that much you should know."
Kagome whined as Inuyasha laughed. "Well, we're stuck with you for two weeks. What you couldn't do before, you can do now. We won't hold you hostage here but at least have someone with you. That's all I ask," Inuyasha told her; she whined harder. He chuckled at this.
"Well, I'm gonna go. If you need me, please don't call upon me," Zhou-Mao said before disappearing once again.
"Kagome," Sesshomaru started as she looked to him. "Call upon Saiyu now."
"How?"
"The same way you do with Zhou-Mao," he offered as if that would explain it all.
Kagome frowned. "Which one of the elements is he?"
"He is your healing."
Kagome's frown deepened but she tried to call upon him regardless. Zhou-Mao was always saying that she needed to follow her heart so she listened to that. As if automatically, she said, "I call upon Saiyu, cover me in warmth." She noticed that everyone in the room closed their eyes and Sesshomaru used his hands to cover the children's eyes. She closed her as well as a blinding light came out of her.
Once the light vanished a man stood there with a bored expression on his face. Kagome looked at him, taking in his odd clothing.
Saiyu was a white-haired male with chestnut eyes. He was pale and wrapped in a dark blue cape that flared around his neck and mid-back with a tie that held it together at his front. He wore a white puffy shirt with black crosses down the front of the shirt with darker blue fingerless gloves. His vest was a lighter shade of the blue he wore with white buttons.
From there, the fabric flared like the cape around his waist in layers. He wore black pants that were tucked into his boots; they were black with white criss-crosses that wrapped around his calf.
"How may I be of service, milady?" his voice was gentle; complete opposite of Zhou-Mao.
"Actually, Saiyu, this time I am in need of some service," Sesshomaru told him as he casually looked to him. He glanced back to Kagome, who nodded then turned his attention back to the male. "This is a younger version of—"
"Yes. My apologies for interrupting you but I have heard what has happened to milady. You wish for me to see if she is hurt?" he asked as Sesshomaru nodded to him, completely unfazed that he got cut off. Saiyu moved over to the left side of the bed before settling himself down in front of his lady. "Milady, it is a pleasure to meet you. I have seen and heard the tales that you have been on." Kagome blushed in embarrassment. "Now placed your hands in mine and we shall continue."
She was hesitant but Saiyu smiled gently at her. She placed her hands in his and felt his warmth. Their hands glowed a light blue color with specks of white floating around them. It was over faster than she could blink. "Whoa; that was awesome," she told as Saiyu nodded.
He turned his head to Sesshomaru. "There is nothing wrong with her." That answer seemed to please him but then Saiyu frowned and added, "Although, I am not entirely sure what is up with her mark. The point for her mate is red and sore; is it not milady?" Kagome bit her lip in worry but he took that as an answer. "Which means that whatever happened before she came here, has caused a strain on her bond."
Well that certainly didn't sound good. "I see," Sesshomaru started. "A couple hundred years ago—or in her case, a couple minutes ago—I said I regret my decision." Saiyu looked horrified at this. "Having Fate attack the bond was one thing; having myself attack, it was another. That was not good wording on my part."
"Oh dear." Saiyu held his gaze with Sesshomaru, who looked away after a minute. He sighed as he dropped his hands with Kagome. "Milady, at any point in time that you feel like you are hurt, please call upon me. I will help you through whatever you need. For now though, I will leave. I will be around." He planted a soft kiss on her forehead before disappearing altogether.
The day passed without so much as a glance. Kagome was placed in a room—she supposed that it was a guest room. Now that she thought about it, it would be weird to sleep in the room that Sesshomaru used, considering she wasn't in the right time. Or she was. God, that's confusing...
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