-Disclaimer: InuYasha is the property of Rumiko Takahashi
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-To Come To Me
-Chapter VIIII
-For Kagome
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Kagome stared blankly at the pages of the book on her lap, depression closing in around her as if the walls of her room were squeezing in around her. It wasn't just her, everyone she loved in the Sengoku Jidai felt this same oppressive weight bearing down on them and would as long as their beloved Kaede lay unable to be put to rest because the torrent of rain that had fallen for the two days since her death had made a funeral pyre impossible.
Finally unable to stand it Kagome had returned home for the afternoon to visit her family and pick up school work. Truthfully though, she was finding no relief here, and missing InuYasha was only making her pain worse.
Kagome slammed her book shut just as a soft knocking sounded at her door.
"Yeah?"
The door opened to admit the very object of her thoughts, the only place she had been able to find comfort.
"InuYasha." She smiled a little "Did it finally stop raining?"
InuYasha bent down and kissed her forehead before sitting down next to her and pulling her close to him.
"Keh, hell no. I don't know what were gonna do if it doesn't soon. I really fucking hate having things delayed like this...it's not right...not for Kaede."
Kagome reached out and stroked his cheek.
"You miss her as much as I do don't you?"
"Me? Miss that old hag?"InuYasha snorted then shook his head a little "She was a pain in the ass. She was like you and Kikyo...she treated me like I was worth something, she was my friend."
"She loved you too InuYasha." Kagome smiled, knowing even if he couldn't say it.
InuYasha fingered the beads around his neck.
"She could have shot me with an arrow the night I attacked you, she could have killed me the second I lifted my claws to you. Instead she bound us to one another with these beads."
Kagome touched the beads, "She knew long before we did that we belonged together."
"Keh, I knew it from the moment I opened my eyes wench."
"Keh" Kagome mimicked "Liar."
He shrugged "I know it know it now, thats what matters."
"I miss her so much InuYasha." Kagome whispered, closing her eyes and resting her head against his shoulder.
"Me too." He pulled his arms tight around her, reaching up to stroke her hair.
"InuYasha, Kagome?" They were interrupted by a soft knock as the door to Kagome's room opened.
"Yeah Sota?" Kagome looked up at her little brother.
"Mama wants to know if you will be here for dinner."
Kagome shook her head "No, I was just getting ready to go back actually."
"Okay." He turned and shut the door behind him.
"You were?" InuYasha looked at her and she nodded
"I can't study, no point in staying here when I can't..."
"Actually, that's why I came for you." InuYasha interrupted her.
"Oh, I thought it was just cause you missed me." Kagome feigned a pout
"Baka" InuYasha rolled his eyes. "Besides, you'll forget all about me when you find out who is waiting back in the village just to see you."
"Who? Koga?" Kagome slid off the bed to gather her things
"Koga makes you forget about me?" InuYasha's eyebrow twitched making Kagome grin a little.
"Of course not Baka. But who else...?"
"The bastard."
"Sesshomaru ?" Kagome looked at InuYasha in surprise
InuYasha rolled his eyes "The bastard came to "offer his condolences and support you in your time of mourning" or so he says in his bastard language that only bastards like him speak and understand."
"I wish you wouldn't call him that."
"He is a bastard, what's he ever done for me but be a complete and total..."
Kagome turned away to shove more stuff into her backpack and InuYasha felt his insides clench in memory. He went to her and turned her around gently, then pulled her against him, cradling her head into his neck.
" I'm stupid." He bent his head and kissed her.
"It's okay InuYasha, I forget too sometimes."
"It's not okay Kagome. Sesshomaru gave me everything when he brought you back. He does deserve more respect, hell, I should be falling down and kissing his feet."
Kagome giggled "That might be a little extreme."
InuYasha grinned "I'm glad you think so, cause I really didn't want to do it."
Kagome laughed as she slung her pack up on her shoulder and headed for the door.
"Just be nice...and don't let him get under your skin. How difficult can that be?"
InuYasha stopped at the top of the stairwell and gaped down at her.
"You HAVE met my brother right? Tall, arrogant as hell, condescending, talks like he knows everything."
"Oh come on you." Kagome took his hand and pulled him down the stairs. They stopped in the kitchen to say their farewells and then were off again to the Sengoku Jidai.
Kagome pulled the doors of the well house closed and found herself once again in InuYasha arms. He held her tightly against his chest and stroked her hair and back with his fingers.
"InuYasha?" She put her arms around his waist and held him close to her, puzzled about what was bringing on this sudden show of sentimentality
His hand swept her hair from her neck and his lips whispered her her name over the skin just under her ear.
"Kagome"
InuYasha pressed his lips to her neck in soft kisses down into her collar.
"InuYasha...?" Kagome gasped, surprised when she felt a tear drop roll from his chin onto her skin.
"Kagome..." He pulled her closer, wrapping an arm around her waist, the other rested on the back of her head while his lips continued their barrage on her neck and senses.
"InuYasha...what's wrong?" Kagome brought a hand up to caress his cheek and he lifted his head and gazed into her eyes. His eyes were glazed with tears that he didn't attempt to hold back, yet they burned with passion and desire.
Kagome swallowed, her breath caught in her throat and she struggled for coherent thought. InuYasha's hand moved from the back of her head and his thumb brushed over her cheek as his fingers wrapped around to cup the back of her neck.
His eyes refused to break their lock with hers as his lips moved down to hers. A moment before they touched hot breath whispered over her lips as he spoke simple words.
"I love you."
InuYasha's eyes closed as his lips covered hers, then tiny hands pushed at his shoulders to push him back. He opened his eyes in fear that he had overwhelmed her with the heat of his intensity and scared her. Fear melted when he was met by her trembling eyelids resting so close, her forehead still so close to his.
"InuYasha"
Her eyes fluttered and a wash of tears tumbled down her cheeks.
"I love you."
Kagome opened her eyes and wrapped her arms around his neck, burying her face against his neck.
InuYasha pulled Kagome against him until she eeeped. Still, it didn't feel close enough. He felt an overwhelming desire to love and shelter this woman with everything he had and everything he didn't have. He knew that he would kill anyone who would dare to harm her, even if it brought about his own death. At the same time he felt a need to take more care to protect himself too, so she would never feel the horrible sense of loss that she was feeling over Kaede because of him.
"So, InuYasha, you gonna tell me what brought this on?"
"What? A guy needs a reason to be all mushy?"
"A normal guy? No. You? Yes." She teased, taking his hand to pull him towards the well
"You know, I'm not totally sure Kagome, but I think I actually resent that remark."
"Very funny, now quit stalling."
"Nothing really" he shrugged "I've come too close to losing you too many times lately, taken too many things for granted in the past where you are concerned."
"And?" Kagome leaned her hip against the side of the well
"Shit, I've let you take too many of those test things, you ask too many questions wench." He hopped into the well pulling her along with him.
They surfaced on the other side and Kagome tugged on his long side hair.
"First, don't ever do that again dog boy, you scared the hell out of me. Second, you never LET me do anything. Third, your evading the question."
Kagome climbed on his back and he jumped out of the well, he didn't let her down but continued on towards the village.
"First, I did too let you do stuff all the time and Second, I don't even remember the question, was there a question? Third, I evade noth..."
"InuYasha?"
Kagome looked up in surprise at the soft voice in front of them.
InuYasha flinched nervously then moved ahead again.
"Kikyo...what the hell do you want now? I told you to leave us alone." He asked rudely
"InuYasha...it's okay" Kagome wiggled to be let down when Kikyo turned away slightly.
"Knock it off wench, I'm not letting you down and no it's not okay."
"InuYasha...I've only come..." Kikyo began, but was cut off by InuYasha
"Why? To upset Kagome again? Don't you get it Kikyo? Kagome almost died because of us, I'm not going to hurt her like that again. I love her now. It's over, I thought you understood that."
"InuYasha, put me down" Kagome wiggled
"Why so you can hurt yourself again?"
Kagome yelled "Put me down Baka! Did it ever occur to you that Kikyo is here for her sisters funeral?"
InuYasha flinched, amazed by his own stupidity. He slowly let Kagome slide to the ground and she rushed past him and slugged him on the arm while shaking her head.
"Really InuYasha, sometimes you are such a baka!"
She walked forward to where Kikyo stood and took her hands, then the two of them walked off alone together.
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"Kikyo...I'm sorry, about how InuYasha was."
"It is okay Kagome, I understand."
"I hope you don't think it's you he's mad at." She shook her head wiping at her tears "It's all about me trying to kill myself, it was stupid and selfish and I wasn't thinking about anyone but myself, feeling sorry for myself."
"Well, I will not argue with you about that. It was very foolish to throw your life away. Kagome, you did not try to kill yourself, you did kill yourself. Were it not for Lord Sesshomaru, you would have been lost and InuYasha along with you."
Kagome turned to Kikyo with a look of shock "I don't understand. InuYasha..."
"InuYasha was about to put your arrow to a second use when Lord Sesshomaru appeared from the darkness of the brush, I am sorry, when I saw you had traveled with Lord Sesshomaru, I assumed he told you the entire story of that night."
Kagome shook her head "He didn't like to talk about it, and I...I was so confused about so many things."
"I am pleased that it seems you and InuYasha have cleared your troubles."
Kagome looked at Kikyo doubtfully, then was pleased to see a sincere smile on her face.
"Yeah, I guess we have" She smiled with a small blush.
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The rain held off the next day and they were able to finally proceed with Kaede's funeral. Miroku spoke a blessing over her body and then the pyre was lit. By dark her body had burn to ash and her remains were laid to rest in a newly built mini shrine next to Kikyo's. Only InuYasha, Kagome and Kikyo remained, then InuYasha left the two women alone watching from a distance, still wary about this new friendship between the two women.
A part of him was afraid to trust Kikyo, Kagome had been through too much lately and if Kikyo was up to something he would never forgive himself if Kagome was hurt. Yet if Kikyo was sincere, what better support could the two ask for in their mourning than another woman who loved Kaede as much as the other.
"You do not worry that she will attempt to harm Kagome?" Sesshomaru had as usual arrived behind InuYasha on silent feet, usually InuYasha would have caught his scent coming closer, but his attention was fixed on the two women talking at the grave sight.
"No Sesshomaru, I'm standing here watching the sunset" he rolled his eyes in emphasis and annoyance. "Kikyo is ... was Kaede's sister. I couldn't very well forbid her from coming to her funeral now could I?"
"This Sesshomaru suggested no such atrocity."
"Why are you still here anyway? I assumed you would leave before nightfall to return to the coast for your kid and toad."
"Soon, This Sesshomaru is not afraid of the dark. There is a matter I wish to discuss with Kagome."
"What?"
"To the best of this Sesshomaru's knowledge your name is not Kagome, or am I misinformed?"
"Bastard."
"InuYasha!" Kagome chastised, approaching the two "You promised to be nice."
Sesshomaru nearly smirked at InuYasha, while InuYasha bit back the urge to tattle that Sesshomaru was the one who started it. As it was he had to fight the urge to smash Sesshomaru in the face when Kagome hugged him FIRST and Sesshomaru smirked smugly over Kagome's head.
Kagome stepped away from Sesshomaru and kissed InuYasha on the cheek and buried her face in his neck while she hugged him, InuYasha of course returning the smugness war, then left his arm around her waist.
"So, you wanted to talk to me?" Kagome smiled tiredly at Sesshomaru
"Yes, actually" Sesshomaru shifted his feet slightly, annoyed that he had to do this in front of InuYasha after all his bather about it being non of InuYasha's business.
"I will be returning to the palace at daybreak and while I am there I have a chore I must attend to that will be most difficult. This Sesshomaru wishes for you to join me on the journey and chore for support."
InuYasha growled under his breath.
"InuYasha is welcome to join us as well" Sesshomaru grit his teeth at this last bit, with what he had to do, the last thing he wanted was two days on the road with his baka brother beforehand.
"I...I'm sorry Sesshomaru, I can't. Kikyo is staying on to begin my training in the morning."
"Training for what?" InuYasha ground his teeth together to hold his temper.
"For me to take over Kaede's miko duties in the village. I just agreed. It was what Kaede wanted to ask of me."
"Are you sure this is what you want Kagome?" InuYasha asked, his eyes wrinkled in concern.
"I feel like the last few years have been leading to this...and Kikyo thinks this is why she didn't move on when Naraku was killed."
InuYasha shrugged "Makes sense I guess. Guess your out of luck Sesshomaru."
Kagome had a thought in her mind but instantly dismissed it. It was crazy, they were barely getting along when she was around, days together almost nonstop with no mediator could not possibly be a good thing...not to mention she had no idea what this chore even was that Sesshomaru needed help with.
Then she looked up into Sesshomaru's eyes and saw the pain and loneliness reflecting back, instinctively she knew this had something to do with the woman he had loved and lost, someone else she knew might just be the best person for the job.
"Wait a minute" She put her hand on Sesshomaru's arm "Sesshomaru, InuYasha would be more than happy to go with you."
For two brothers who supposedly hated one another, their thought's were amazingly the same.
'InuYasha WHAT?NO FUCKING WAY!'
'I FUCKING WHAT? NO FUCKING WAY!'
Kagome smiled at their shocked expressions, she had no doubt she would get her way.
She always did.
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Dear Readers,
This is the end of "To Come To Me" I will be posting an epilogue sometime this weekend or early next week. So, what's coming next?? Well, the sequel to "To Come To Me "of course! Right now about all I can really tell you is that it will pick up where "To Come To Me" leaves off. Here's a preview.
Sesshomaru and InuYasha
Two brothers who hate each other, bullied by Kagome, a woman one loves and will spend his life with, and the other adores as his best friend, into taking a six day trip together to the palace of Sesshomaru's mother, Lady Shankoutetsu and Grandmother Lady Nagoyaka-Chikara. On the surface it appears crazy, but Kagome knows that Sesshomaru has a deep sliver of pain buried in his heart caused by losing a woman he loved. Who better to understand then one who once had his own sliver of pain, the one that Kagome herself removed? InuYasha.
As the ice melts between them and the brothers bond, through flashback's Sesshomaru will reveal the truth about his painful past, what forced his heart into a deep freeze and his passion to burn into blistering rage. In turn InuYasha will learn secrets about his parentage and just how close he came to repeating a tragic history from four hundred years before when another destroyed the heart and soul of a another young beauty named
"Cassayah"
Coming Approx the end of May-first week of June!
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Thanks to everyone who has loved and reviewed this story! It's funny how this little couple paragraph tragic one-shot has grown and taken on a life all it's own and it's not over yet! Hope to see you all back soon for the sequel!
Puppy Love-
-CJ
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Coming After Cassayah
The First Sequel to" THE SEARCH!!"
Sesshomaru has been left alone in the Sengoku Jidai with three kids to raise all alone!
HOLY SHIT!
"Mr MomYokai"
Tentatively in Late June-Early July
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Also The Return of Doctor Miko Sometime Soon
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