Chapter 12: Stuck Inside Out
Kagome looked at her necklace it still glowed pink, she smiled. She was still pure, she still had strength to go on, she could still stretch her wings and fly.
And she would, and no Sesshomaru or marriage was going to stop her from being where she belonged, in Inuyasha's arms.
When they got to what seemed to be a mansion. The toad who she now knew as Janken held the door for them. He gave a bow and then parked the limo. Another demon came with her bags to put them in her room. A girl kitsune with red fur was at the front, she looked no older than Kagome, she had a human body but red hair and a huge red tail. But she was at least 100 years old, Kagome wondered if when you're a half demon you can live almost as long as a demon.
"Rin, send my fiancé off to her room. I have important business to report to" Sesshomaru said flicking his fingers to the girl.
Rin smiled, and her tail swayed from side to side "so you're the girl who master Sessh is going to marry? How wonderful! How exquisite! How um… excruciating!" she bounced up and down somewhat; which gave Kagome the idea that she was much younger in spirit and mind than in body.
"Um… I'm sorry, what's your name?" Rin asked lifting a finger to her chin.
"Kagome"
She smiled again "oh what a wonderful name, as you know my name is Rin; I'll be your caretaker and your children's nurse" at the word of children Kagome held up her hands "no, no, no I will be taking care of my own children" Kagome thought in her mind 'even if this is an unwanted marriage'.
"Oh" Rin's tail slumped and she sighed "your very lucky you know; follow me" she held a hand to the stairs.
"How so?"
"Well even though Sessh seems rough on the outside he's all soft and mushy on the inside" Rin said using a slimily.
"Well if you like him so much you can marry him" Kagome sighed, "I have other people in plan" 'Inuyasha…'
Rin opened a door just off the stairs, "this will be your room; there's clothing in the closest, there's a full bathroom in the room, as well as a porch".
Kagome nodded sadly "thanks" Rin nodded understanding that Kagome wanted to be left alone by her scent.
"I'll knock to bring you dinner later" Rin said walking off.
Kagome felt numb not just her body but, her brain felt the same. She looked in the mirror and punched the face she saw. It was hers all right, that's why she did it; without her lover, without Inuyasha, without her dog, without her friend, not even with herself. She was left with nothing, well at least nothing she wanted.
Tears rolled down her face again, she walked to her bed with a numb pain going through her body. Falling on the bed she didn't even smell something familiar. She stood up and walked to her bag, removing the shirt Inuyasha had been wearing every time he was human.
It still retained his smell even to a weak human nose she could smell his woody hair. She lied back into the bed and quickly fell asleep, just before Rin was about to bring her food in.
Rin sighed seeing Kagome, a smell of sea salt tears and anger flowed through her nose. She lifted the sheets and covered Kagome in them.
"You're lucky ya know? Wanna know why?" she asked the sleeping form, "cause your gonna marry Sesshomaru; my love. And if it weren't for the fact that his younger brother was gone I could have married him if you married the young master" she growled resiliently.
She walked off shutting the door.
Buyo padded through the mansion looking around, completely unaware about what had happened to his precious Kaggy. Sniffing around he had found out a few things, it turned out Sesshomaru was Inuyasha's brother; well half. He'd stole a picture of when Inuyasha was just a little baby, his small butt hanging out of the tub waving at whoever had taken the picture smiling with one tooth hanging out of him mouth. He would remember to give to Kaggy and annoy Inuyasha about it forever but, forever could wait.
Right now he needed info, where's, who's, whys, things like that. He had found out about Sesshomaru's job, he was a rich man who owned most city buildings in western and a little bit of northern Tokyo's city.
The house was huge! Full of gossip one of his favorites to stop and listen to was the one about Sesshomaru being gay. Sesshomaru had stolen girl's hearts away since Pre School yet he's never accepted any of them. Along with that he'd never in his life had a female tender to him. Other than cook or bring him tea never anything else.
Buyo roamed through the top floor halls, he walked into the room of his office. It had a nice lit candle smell; there were many books and papers. Knocking one book down he found it fill with pictures, this time it was of a man and woman. The woman was human and the man was a full-demon.
They had to be Inuyasha's parents; after all he saw a picture of his mother carrying a white haired golden eyed child and her husband putting an arm around her shoulder.
There was also one of Sesshomaru glaring intently at Inuyasha, who was asleep in a cradle. He seemed to be jealous of his own half baby brother. There was one with both of them older Inuyasha was laughing with his older brother in a waddling pool. He splashed his older brother in the next picture and in the next Sesshomaru did the same.
Buyo laughed they seemed close, what could have happened to the two of them to make them hate one another with such a fierce flame? He turned the pages to find them sleeping with one another on quiet summer afternoons. The first day of school, plays, Halloweens, Christmases, and many other things. Then all of a sudden it stopped at what seemed to be an eight year old Sesshomaru and a four year old Inuyasha.
The rest of it was history, "So cat you want to know what happened with me and Inuyasha correct?" Sesshomaru said sitting down in his seat.
"Yes, it's very intriguing how two brothers who seem like such a close nit bunch; want to scratch out one another's guts" Buyo said holding up a paw.
"Well see when Inuyasha was four and a half our parents died, and it all went down hill from then on. When Inuyasha turned five he was basically a mute, he got into a accident that I just barely missed" Sesshomaru kept his lifeless face through the talk, "when he was in high school fist year a miko girl, Kikya, cursed him to be a dog. Only because she thought he had deceived her and fallen in love with another girl"
"I of course studied this more, my little brother has been missing 50 years now; I'm amazed he's still alive. But, this is just a matter of faith, somehow I met him with my fiancé" he said smirking somewhat at the end.
Buyo licked his paw, his tail flicking around him "Well isn't that interesting I never knew Inuyasha and you had such a history. I'm not too interested but, if you could can you send all the photo albums to Kaggy, I'm sure it would pick up her spirit even just a little".
"Of course it would give both me and Inuyasha something to laugh about" he said in his normal voice. There was a knock on the door "come in".
"Sessh she's asleep, but she didn't eat her dinner" Rin said a little sheepishly "should I just bring her some could water?"
He nodded then she noticed Buyo "aww cute cat" Buyo smirked proudly. Thankfully foxes other than clansmen couldn't understand cat, only dog and a few other languages.
"Well cat I should expect that you'd rather go exploring, but do not make anyone suspicious of anything" Sesshomaru said opening the door for the fat cat.
Buyo flicked his tail with an evil smirk "when would I do otherwise?" his feet padded down the hall in merry toned steps.
Rin took some cold water with ice in it to Kagomes room, Buyo followed just far enough that she wouldn't be able to smell him. She opened the door and he watched her put the water down. Kagome was awake and she could smell and hear that, she kept quiet though walking out like as if she was still asleep.
She closed the door behind her "good night Kagome".
Kagome sat up as soon as she left, picked up the water and swigged it down. She did a parched sigh when she finished, looking once again in her surrounding feeling sleeper she lied back in bed. Drifting off into the world where she and Inuyasha had little puppies surrounding them.
She woke up once again to the smell of pancakes and an omelet, maybe some apple juice with that. She opened her eyes and saw Rin putting the food down on her bed in a tray "good morning Miss Kagome".
"Don't call me 'Miss' just call me 'Kagome'" Kagome said looking at the food.
"How do you like it, I hope we made it good enough for a humans tongue; I'm sorry all of us are demons, so if you only put a little spice on something it will taste like an entire bottle of it" Rin laughed a little, "oh, yes and I do hope you've had a nice sleep".
Kagome nodded, lying. "Well I'll be back in half an hour to get the plates and there will be a couple of boys who'll come to bring you a few things Sesshomaru wanted you to see" Rin said nodding to herself and closing the door behind her.
Kagome took a bite of her omelet it was delicious but still not as good as her mothers or her own. She cut a pancake in fours and took on bite, again good but not like her mothers or hers. She gulped down the apple juice; she remembered the summer when Sota had just learned how to walk, she and him made many different home made juices and sold them at the shrine.
Their best seller had been the lemon-lime-fruity punch. Sota chose the name himself and was very proud of it.
Kagome laughed a little remembering his little pink cheeks weld up in pride whenever someone bought his juice. Then she sighed, would her children be like Sesshomaru?
Emotionless, sad, and scary?
Or would they be like her?
Enthusiastic, funny, helpful, and kind by nature? Hopefully they would.
She finished her breakfast and put it down on the floor, she walked over to the closet there were many different types of clothes. None her taste or style, walking over to her bag of clothes she took out a large white shirt and a green skirt. She walked to her shower putting the clothes on the counter and stripping down.
She turned on the shower water which started out cool but then become somewhat hot. It felt good on her tiered skin and bruised body. She managed to wash her hair and dry it with a towel.
She changed into her clothes but stayed in the bathroom drying her hair with a new towel. Her skin became damp and warm, her cheeks rosy, pink. Finally she sighed, walking out to find a little boy sitting on her rug looking through an album. He had silverfish white hair and dog ears like Inuyasha; one of them was slightly bent.
When he looked up she saw he had blue eyes and a tail which was slightly trying to go in-between his legs like a scared puppy. He wore full blue, from his shirt to his pants; Kagome noticed that he had put the book down.
"I'm sorry Miss Kagome, I wanted to know what the lord wanted me to deliver; and well um…" he bowed many times "I'm SORRY!"
"It's ok; would you like to read them with me?" Kagome asked him.
"Yes, please!" then when he was about to pick it up he said "wait I need to go get the rest of them. You wait right here" he said running out of the room.
He ran in and out an exact 10 times before he was done. He wasn't too tall; the books were just about the same size as him when he sat down. "Ok done, by the way my name's Koinu" he said proudly jumping on the bed next to Kagome. He reminded Kagome so much of her baby brother it was almost funny.
"Ok" she opened the one that said months 0-2 years. There was a baby he looked like Sesshomaru Kagome laughed when she saw him sitting in his mothers lap. There was one where Sesshomaru threw paint all over and his hair was filled with reds, greens, and blues of all different shades.
She saw him in the bath pouting when his father tried to get the paints out. Koinu laughed with her. When they finished that book she took out the next one that said 3-4 years. She was greeted by a crying Sesshomaru he had a cut in his face and a bruise on his knee. Behind him was his bike.
She saw him standing next to a bathtub and he was fully naked, he looked happy as he threw the bubbles in the air.
When they finished she found one that said 0-2/ 5-8. "Hu?" she opened it and saw a baby in a human mothers arms their was Sesshomaru's father next to them an arm around her shoulders. The next one was Sesshomaru scowling at the baby who had golden honey eyes; white hair and two little dog ears sticking out of the blanket.
Then there was one of him leaning on the bath naked not with bubbles but he was staring intently anyway. Then there was one of Sesshomaru and him taking a nap together on what seemed to be a summer day. There was one where both were waving at the camera in a little waddling pool. The next one the little child splashed water on Sesshomaru. In the next one Sesshomaru splashed him.
They ate watermelon and Kagome didn't figure out who the little boy was till he was sitting and watching his mother sow.
He was Inuyasha, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were half brothers. Kagome laughed with tears in her eyes. Koinu stopped laughing "why are you crying Kagome?"
She made no attempt to remove them "I'm just so happy" she answered. He tilted his head to one side "why?"
"Nothing it's nothing Koinu" Kagome said smiling "say Koinu you like strawberry shortcake?" Kagome asked the little boy.
"Do I ever!" he barked jumping up and down.
"Come on lets go make one I'm in a cooking mood" she said standing up and walking to the kitchen.
Koinu led her to the second floor kitchen "nobody ever uses this kitchen because it's too small but for about two or three people it'll be perfect" Koinu said smiling sitting on the counter.
"Ok let's get started" Kagome said looking through every closet and the fridge.
Kagome tied her hair back and put on an apron for Koinu she pulled his sleeves back and put his hair in small high pony tail.
"Ok I need sugar, flour, strawberries, an egg, milk, baking powder, and whipped cream" Kagome said thinking from memory of the last time she made the desert.
"Ok" Koinu said he started looking for everything Kagome asked for; he got out the strawberries, whip cream, an egg, flour, and sugar.
Kagome got the bowls, pans, spoons, and measuring cups and spoons. "Ok Koinu you know how to slice those strawberries right?"
Koinu nodded, he took a short knife and started cutting the strawberries in half. (Yes, this is really a recipe for strawberry shortcake I've made it and that was yummy! It's not exact or the original but, well it's my version minus the details and secret ingredients I used)
Kagome preset the oven and both she and Koinu started to make the bread by mixing the flour, eggs, 2 table spoons of sugar, and baking powder. "Koinu, I'll handle this can you mix ¼ of a cup of sugar, whipped cream, and 7 ½'s of strawberries into the blender to cream them"
Koinu nodded doing as she said. Kagome put the mix into the oven to cook. Koinu dipped his finger into the frosting Kagome saw him do this and he hid his icing covered finger behind his back. "I didn't do nothing" Koinu said blushing red. "Oh, really" Kagome put some icing on her finger and put it on his lips and on the tip of his nose, "I don't mind you tasting go ahead" she laughed as he licked it all gone. Somehow he got his tongue to his nose.
A maid came in at this moment "Hello Miss Kagome, Koinu what are you doing here?" she asked Koinu his arms behind his back he frowned.
"I was baking a cake with Kagome Nee-san" he said jumping off the counter.
She flared with anger "You have a job to do you're not supposed to be playing around with Sesshomaru's fiancé".
"I know but…"
"No Buts!!" she yelled, he winced "You should be sent to Sesshomaru to find some other way to pay for your mother! In fact I'll take you with me right now!" she tugged on one of his soft ears, "Owww!"
"Hey, you leave him alone if he bakes with me it counts as work!" Kagome yelled lifting the crying Koinu into her arms and away from the maid.
"Peh, we don't need his help anyway" she said "and be glad she chose to save you this time".
Koinu snuggled into Kagome's chest "you're warm, did you know that Kagome? My mommy was warm last time I saw her" he said, he was a child. You know most kids send out questions that explain something.
"What happened to your mother" Kagome asked him, bouncing him like a small baby.
"My Mommy's in the hospital, she got hit by a car with my daddy. She's alive just asleep for a long, long time. Sesshomaru say's if I work I can stay here and he'll pay my Mommy's bills" he said wiping some of the tears away.
His ear was slightly red, after being tugged it was more bent over than usual. "Ok I'll make Sesshomaru pay even when you and me just play, I hate it when kids have to work and I'm lonely here all by myself" Kagome said putting him back down on the counter.
"For real!" Koinu said smiling.
"Yep" Kagome nodded, "now lets finish that shortcake".
Koinu and Kagome put the frosting in between the two halves. Then they played around putting the frosting allover the outside of the cake. Koinu took the strawberries and started the bottom. Kagome did the top and the middle. When they were done it looked good enough to eat, "oh, wait" Koinu said "put your hands on your eyes and don't peak".
"Ok" Kagome did as she was told; she heard more frosting put on the cake "ok open" he said. When she did she saw the words 'I love my Nee-san' on it she smiled and gave the boy a hug.
"Thank you!" she said he laughed and she did the same.
"Now, lets eat" he said holding up a fork and a knife. Rin was close to the edge "Rin? Is that you? Come on lets eat we can't eat this whole cake by our selves" Kagome said.
"Ya, come on" Koinu said lifting a few plates and plastic forks.
Rin smiled "Ok" she said helping them serve the cake onto the plates.
It was a time like this Kagome could appreciate the little things with no worries. She knew her dad was watching over her and Christmas was almost coming, it was going to be another year.
And besides she had Inuyasha, Koinu, and Rin she wasn't all alone. She could enjoy time… at least for now.
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A/N: Yay! Why I'm happy well…
I beat my record (again) for amount of words in 1 chapter
I actually got my chapter done in one week, and yes I'm sorry about that. I had test, HW, and half writers block. But, after I made some cake I just needed to put that in here
um… I love getting reviews!!! YAY!!!
Dedicated to:
amkess09: aww who cares it took me a long time to add this chapter thanks!!!
ox0Inuyasha-and-Kagome0xo: really? My cousin said that it goes on a little to much off topic
kagomeXinuyasha95: well I kept going, what do you think?
suikidoen: I did but, Sesshy's not gonna warm up to anyone till I want him too so to bad.
Anonymous:
pure happiness: don't worry you gave me an Idea with the rain thing I just winged with it a little.
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