A Step in the right direction
TrueLoverKagome
~In The past~
Sesshoumaru headed back to where kagome's old pack is as he looked to shippo that sat on his shoulder, as if it was his own mother's shoulder. It was strange to him as usually he would tell the kit to get off him and to never touch him again but he didn't seem to want to do such a thing with this kit.
"So we're going back to your castle?" asked shippo as he seemed to really be curious about just what they were doing.
"No we're…..going to kagome's father's castle on the way we're gathering Kagome's pack" he stated as he knew that he was to go to her father and advise him what was going on. With his daughter more so he knew that he had to keep to his word even if it was given for him. It annoyed him to no end at the thought that he was going to be forced into a marriage no he was in control of his life even in death his father controlled him.
"Kagome's father lives in this time?" the kit asked as shippo had thought his mothers father had been killed long ago.
"All will be explained when we reach the castle" Sesshoumaru stated to the young kit. Shippo was smart enough to know that was a subtle sign that question time was over. Though as they flew about the air on his cloud shippo couldn't help but wonder why sesshoumaru had changed so much. Sesshoumaru wouldn't admit to it but he had changed.
It wasn't long before the monk and slayer appeared below them as Sesshoumaru lowered them to the ground. Sango was on the ready just in case though in truth it was not needed.
"What do you want here" she asked him as sesshoumaru just stood there. They had yet to notice shippo as they did they were both shocked from how close the kit was to Sesshoumaru.
"We're going to meet kagome's father" shippo spoke up feeling that he might have used up all Sesshoumaru's patience on his own questions.
"But shippo she spoke of her father being dead" Miroku said as shippo shook his head.
"Lord Sesshoumaru said that he is and that everything will be explained there" he said with a smile as if he trusted the lord with everything. It was that right there that got Miroku and Sango to think about it. Usually they would say no but under what has happened they felt that they needed to make it up to kagome.
"And just why would we be needed there" asked Sango this time as she just wanted to know. This time shippo didn't answer for sesshoumaru.
"I'm planning a festival for Kagome's birthday and think she might enjoy her own pack to be amongst the guest list" he stated coldly as he was starting to tire of all the questioning.
Sango nodded her head for a moment as she knew how that maybe as she understood a little more. "Alright I say we go" she stated to Miroku who in turn nodded his head.
"Yes now just where will we be going?" he asked sesshoumaru how looked to the north.
"To the Northern Lands Castle" Sesshoumaru answers as the cloud once again formed under him as he knew the two had the cat demon to ride upon to keep up with him.
~Back To the Future~
Kagome woke up the next morning feeling strange as she had her eyes closed she could still hear all the pots of down stairs clanging about. She gave a growl as she sat up and opened her eyes. It was then she noticed that she had really just growled! She had never done that before though as she stood up she noticed the changes. As she looked herself in the mirror. She couldn't' believe how she looked as she stood there things looked so much like sesshoumaru in her mind. The tail the mark in the same spot and her hair was just so long. She didn't know what to think as she looked about herself.
Kagome wasn't sure what to think as she looked for every difference she had. As it just seemed that much surreal for her as she did. Though as she stood there she couldn't help but hear as her mothers foot steps as she walked up the stairs. She looked back just in time to see her mother come in. Her once brown eyes now blue as she looked to her. Her mother gave a gentle smile as she moved to the bed. With the tray of new foods. Kagome wasn't sure what to think as they just seemed so raw.
"What are those?" she asked her mother as she came to sniff at it ((I couldn't resist lol)) Her mother shook her head as she looked towards her daughter.
"Starting now we'll start you getting use to what demon life will be like including what your new powers will be" she said to her with a smile.
"Okay but what's new food about" she asked her as susume gave a small laugh.
"This is demon food. Something you'll have to get use to seeing more than actually eating so I started you out rather clean today" she said to her with a smile as she knew she might have a small fight about this one. "I'm not saying you have to stop eating human food all together but you must regularly eat demon food if you want to keep your strength" she stated as she had seen that look in her daughters eyes.
"Alright fine if I must but can't I get something good to drink it with now?" kagome pleaded as she didn't like the sight of the blood still oozing out of parts of the meat. There was no vegetables on the plate at all though a few fruit.
"That's what the fruit is for kagome now eat" she said as kagome really wasn't liking the way this was getting. It was amazing how her mother had been even knew where to get such items. As most were something you would have to had done yourself. Though as kagome saw the look her mother had in her eyes even with her height her mother still seemed to get her to do what she was suppose to do.
Kagome nodded her head finally taking a seat on her bed as she picked up a white grape and a little of the meat hoping to mix it so that she wouldn't taste it all that much. Though as the meat entered her mouth it was what tasted the best. She couldn't believe how it seemed to make her mouth just water. She was a little shocked but still pulled on another piece of meat getting another bite out of it. As she kept eating she couldn't help but enjoy it as she went. By the time she was finished she was a little more than shocked that she had eaten the entire tray.
"See now was that so hard" Susume teased her daughter as kagome let out a low growl of annoyance. "You've got to work on keeping those growls to yourself missy" she snapped back. She might be human now but she was still just as fierce as she had ever been.
"Sorry" kagome answered back as she really couldn't help feel such strong emotions. She stood up as she helped her mother with the tray and started down stairs with her. She noticed a few things sitting out was a large trunk that had her family crest on it. They walked into the kitchen placing everything away as she went about to bring kagome into the living room with the trunk.
"Now kagome starting from here on out you must remember your true roots. You are not just any demon but one of royal pure blood" she said to her daughter as she stood next to the trunk that came up to her hip. It was huge and decorated with gems and lined in gold. It was just amazing as she looked to it.
Susume turned towards the trunk unlocking it with a chant as she pulled the lid open kagome could see into. There was this fine sets of kimono all looking about the same with the family crest on the back of it in black as the kimono itself was dark red with levels of gold that seemed to just float about the kimono. Susume pulled this out as she showed it to her daughter.
"This is the kimono that you must wear at a council meeting. In the demon world you must show honor to your people and pride when you wear the family crest at such an event anywhere else worn would be a dishonor." she stated in a serious tone that kagome had never heard from her mother. Kagome watched as her mother gently laid that aside as she pulled out another kimono. She went over each and every one as they all had special times and places to wear them along with a few casual kimonos for her. Though as her mother pulled out one that seemed the most like Sesshoumaru's she was a little shocked. In her mind they were exactly the same though her mother knew the truth. They had made this to pair them up in battle.
"This is the training wear its heavy in the cloth so that when you wear its match for actual battle you'll be moving much faster" she stated as she handed the kimono over to kagome. Though when the kimono was actually in her hands she couldn't believe the weight as it was partially a strain on her to hold it folded up. She looked to her mother with amazement as she didn't know how she was able to hold it.
"I actually kept my demon strength don't ask me how but I'm not questioning a gift like that" she said to her daughter with a smile. "Now lets you get you dressed in that and we'll start your morning warm ups."
~At the Northern Castle~
Sesshoumaru had long left the three alone as he went off somewhere into the castle. Still nothing had been answered as of yet and they were beginning to wonder. Sango sat in a nice dinning room as Miroku and shippo sat downward of her. The servants started to rush out their meal as sesshoumaru had ordered that they were fed. Sango just didn't understand what was going on. Why had kagome left shippo with sesshoumaru of all people and what had changed.
"Why did we go along again?" she asked Miroku as she just couldn't believe that they had trusted sesshoumaru.
"Sango if kagome trust Sesshoumaru we must trust in her judgment" he answered back as a feast of a meal was placed in front of them. He was in awe as Sango just sat there glaring at the food.
"Come on Sango we've not had a good meal in a long time" called out shippo as he started to pull apart his meal with his bites of food. He would give little sounds of how it tasted as he did trying to egg Sango to eat. It was that that had Sango to start eating her food as she couldn't believe the taste of it.
Sango kept eating as she couldn't help but wonder just what to think about it all. She stopped for a moment looking to Miroku. "What do you think about this supposed father of kagome" she asked him as Miroku really didn't answer back just shrugged. He was just so much into his meal.
~The Office With Sesshoumaru~
Sesshoumaru sat in the office as he waited for the northern lord to enter. He hadn't been in these walls in so long it brought back memories of his childhood and even his first meeting with kagome back before his father had died. She was small at the time a good ways under his age but still seemed to smile and play like a child might while he was cold and hard. He would watch and act as if he was to old for such games. Though in truth he felt sorry for acting in such a way. He had started training almost two years before he met kagome so the act of being cold was already there he just wasn't use to acting like a child like the girl before him.
It was the sound of the door opening that pulled sesshoumaru out of his memories as he stood to watch a much taller black dog demon enter the room. His presence seemed to just dominate the air before him. Though it did nothing to Sesshoumaru others that might come to meet him think him to no doubt be the alpha male. Compared to him sesshoumaru was still put a pup.
The lord looked very much like Kagome though he had no streaks within his hair and he had only two marks of black about his face. He stood proud as he walked in his hair pulled into a high ponytail as he entered the room in casual kimono of black with golden leaves floating about. It was one of the things the northern lands were known for was the color their leaves turned in the mountains. So many of the royal family's kimono held leaves on them somewhere as like a sign that they were to the northern lord.
"Lord Sesshoumaru what brings you the please to come here" he asked as he took a seat allowing Sesshoumaru to take one as well. Though Sesshoumaru was cold to most he would not dishonor another lord in their own home. He knew better than do such a thing though he was sure it was something Inuyasha would do without even knowing it. ((Yes I had to say something bad about him lol *Smirks*))
"Your Daughter is what brings This Sesshoumaru here" he stated coolly as he knew this would shock the lord as he hadn't though kagome was back as of yet.
"What do you mean Kagome shouldn't be back in this time for another month" he stated as that had been the original plan for him and his mate.
"Yes I've been told but I believe the well had other plans for your daughter" He mentioned as the lord seemed to be on edge now.
"Then it seems you have much to tell me of young lord" he stated coolly as he wasn't liking the fact that this lord knew more of his daughter than he did. He knew that it was true that Sesshoumaru was to take kagome as his mate but if he already knew she was back he should have been consulted long before now.
"Indeed This Sesshoumaru does Lord Taikan" he said back as he began to speak of the tail from how kagome was original brought back and stayed with his half brother all the way up to where she is now.
~Hours Later With Shippo and Friends~
Shippo played about the garden as he chased about the fireflies as they fluttered about the garden. They had been told to wait here and how they would be having a late dinner with both lords. Sango wasn't so sure of all this things just seemed to keep paling up on what wasn't being told to them. Though she seemed to still relax as she sat there in the garden with Miroku and shippo.
"So how much longer you think they'll be?" Miroku asked Sango as she gave a small laugh.
"Oh yeah like I'm suppose to know such things" she said to him though as he leaned in closer with his mouth almost right on her ear she blushed.
"but Sango your so smart I thought you knew everything" he teased her though while she was blushing from what he was doing he reached down and got a nice grope of her ass before he felt her weapon come down on his head knocking him out. Though she had stood up to do that she noticed the two demons coming towards them. Sesshoumaru was the one of them while the other had a black star on his head showing her that he was indeed the northern lord.
"My a feisty slaver still lives" Taikan said with a small grin on his face. He knew better than to act like he had with Sesshoumaru as the Onna might just feel threatened and he could already tell she was thinking this was strange enough.
"Yes I'm a slayer how would you know?" she asked him as she usually didn't get called out just like that.
"Well first Sesshoumaru had mentioned you and the one call Miroku right? His a monk with a curse while…the little one is the one kagome calls son" he said with a grin as he had seemed to shock Sango not really him but of how sesshoumaru new of those things. Though she figured that they had been brought up while kagome stayed with him.
"Yes that's right" she said to him with a nod of her head as Miroku was now recovering nicely from the knock on the head.
"So you know us but might we know you?" Miroku spoke up while rubbing the back of his head just as shippo came over and jumped on his opposite shoulder than the hand that he was rubbing his head.
"I'm Lord Taikan Of the Northern Lands as well as Kagome's Father" he stated very bluntly as Miroku's jaw almost dropped to the ground though he was able to keep composure. Sango however wasn't so lucky as she seemed a little shocked that the girl she felt like she was her sister was his daughter.
"But My Lord, Kagome is human while you are demon" Shippo spoke up as he seemed to be the first out of the three to recover to ask such a thing.
"Yes well young one there is much that you don't know about kagome and in truth she hadn't known about her demon blood but a few months ago herself so do not believe she kept such a thing from you" he stated as he could already tell from the story Sesshoumaru gave that this was her chosen pack and he would not dishonor that. He was not one like Sesshoumaru as he knew humans had a place in this world just as much as demons did.
Sango nodded her head as she was starting to feel a little better about this. She knew that more questions would come but there was time. That much she was for sure of.
"All will be explained as you eat dinner" Taikan said to them and just as he did the scent of dinner entered the garden as the group nodded their heads before turning to enter the house. Sesshoumaru all the while was quiet as he wasn't sure why he was doing this. Just made him think to bring them with him. Sesshoumaru almost felt the need to sigh much like his loyal retainer.
((Alright What's in store for the next chapter kagome comes back and meets her father along with what else sesshoumaru does for her. There will be a time jump as I'm going to keep what powers kagome has and what plans Sesshoumaru for kagome til the very last minute but trust me its good!!! I'm almost failing Math class and this is already the second time taking it so chapters will be coming slower I'm hoping to keep at least once a month if I'm lucky twice a month for next semester will be five classes and work as well god help me just find the job first . damn depression))