Promise Me

Chapter : 12

Alas, I give you chapter twelve. I hope this is what you were expecting, not sure if it is or not. But anyway on to the story and hope you enjoy this chapter.

Also a note to you guys... I have changed my pen name from Sesshie's Mate to Celestial Demoness... But despite the change I am still the same as I have always been.

Kagome slowly opened her eyes and looked around the room she was in. She didn't know who's house she was in or why she was in this room.

"So you're awake..."

Kagome turned her head and standing in the corner of the room was a man with silver hair, Sesshoumaru, her mind supplied for her. She slowly nodded at him and he walked over to her and towered over her. She just looked into her lap and fiddled with the material of the blanket.

"I found you... But you are not the same person you were when you left me..."

Kagome looked up to the man and studied his eyes. His eyes, those same eyes she remembered from her dreams, those same eyes that the boy had had in her dream. Those same eyes she now remembered from her time in the orphanage.

She wanted to cry, to hug him, to do anything but be stared at by those cold, yet welcoming warm eyes. She wanted to run and never return to him or all the memories of the beatings or the new friends she had made. She had never planned it this way. What had she really planned to begin with?

There was never really a plan to begin with... She had never expected the boy in her dreams was a real live person and had been searching for her since he was old enough. And apparently she had been searching for him but never really known it, yes she had been looking for him!

A tear rolled down her cheek as she looked into those golden eyes. She wouldn't be surprised if he returned her home and never turned back to look at her again. She had forgotten him, after she had promised she would never forget about him, after she promised to wait for him.

More tears made their way down her cheek and she looked away, for some reason not wanting him to see her cry. She then felt his hand under her chin and turning her head. She once again was looking into those golden eyes, his thumb reached up and wiped the tears from her cheek.

"I had never liked seeing you cry..."

She looked at him and sniffed, and opened her mouth and asked, "why?"

He just looked at her and then shrugged. She then looked away causing his hand to lose its place from under her chin.

She heard him shift and walk away, her heart sank and she didn't know why. Was it because she was tired of holding everything up by herself? Did she want someone to be there by her side and love her like no one had ever loved her?

She didn't know and she called out his name, she heard him stop and she turned to see his back toward her. She pushed the blankets from her and made her way to him.

Stopping behind him she looked to the floor and wondered why in the hell she would call him back when she didn't know what she was going to say. But something took hold of her heart and her speech and spoke out.

"I... I never meant to forget you. I hung on to your memories but soon that's all they became... memories. You were in my dreams every once in a while... protecting me and I thought you were just someone my mind made up to protect me." Kagome looked up to stare at his back, "soon I only knew you as someone from my dream. Someone who wasn't real and who I would never get the chance to see... but here I am, standing here, talking to you."

What she did next was unexpected, she took a step forward and wrapped her arms around her waist and held onto him. She didn't want to let go lest she lose him again. She felt him take hold of her hands and her heart was beating with fear of rejection.

Instead he turned around and searched her eyes, and when he was done he stepped up to her and took her in his arms and held her close to his heart. Tears streamed down her face and she wrapped her arms around him as well and they stood there for as long as they could before Sesshoumaru finally pulled away and smiled down at her.

"I knew I would find you someday... It's late... I have work in the morning and I have to take you back before I go to work. Get some rest... Kagome."

Kagome looked up at him and nodded, she walked back to the bed and climbed in. She then watched him leave the room and slowly shut the door. She pulled the blankets close to her and huddled into them, within minutes she was sleeping again.

It seemed like she had only slept for fifteen minutes when she opened her eyes to see sunlight shining in from the window. She slipped her legs over the bed and looked around the room, the memories from last night playing through her head.

She stood up and walked to the door and opened it, looking into the hallway she saw just how big his house was. She sighed and walked out into the hallway and made her way to the stairs. She walked down the stairs and heard the voices of Sango and Miroku.

She walked into what seemed to be a kitchen and saw her friends sitting at the table talking to each other. She made her way over to the table and sat down beside Sango and looked around the kitchen.

"Good morning, Kagome."

Kagome looked at Sango and gave her a small smile before turning her attention back to the kitchen.

Inuyasha

Inuyasha laid in his room, running the conversation over and over in his head. She had found him, the man in her dreams... his heart clenched and he winced like it really did hurt.

He wanted to be the one to protect her and hold her within his arms. He wanted to be the one she came to and cried her heart on his shoulder. His teeth involuntarily started to grind at the thought of the man taking away his Kagome.

He got up and paced the room, he would be damned if he let that bastard take her from him. He didn't even know her like he did, he didn't know that her step father beat her every chance he got.

Sure, he himself was never there for Kagome, but she never let him close to her and if she did he would always be there for her. He clenched his fist and punched the wall in front of him, making a hole in it, he cursed and looked around for something to hide the big hole in the wall.

His mother would kill him, nevermind his mother, his father would kill him. But he thought about it and decided that Kagome went through worse.

Sesshoumaru

Sesshoumaru paced in his room, she had caught him by surprise when she wrapped her arms around his waist. It had been the first time someone did that, and the last time it happened was when Kagome was taken away from him. But she was here with him again and he would keep by her side as long as he could.

He ran his hand through his hair and walked to his door and made his way to the kitchen where he heard the voices of the two he had brought with him last night. He turned the corner and bumped into Kouga, who grinned at him and slapped him on the back.

"Do not do that to me ever again, or you will be in pain."

"Okay, okay!" Kouga said but his voice held no fear in it.

They walked into the kitchen together and the three figures looked up at him. He looked over at Kagome and saw her look away from him.

"Are you ready to go home?"

The three nodded and he motioned for the two to go with Kouga. The girl gave him a glare and walked off with Kouga and Miroku. He looked over at Kagome and asked her if she was ready to go home.

"I could have went with Sango and Miroku, I'm staying at Sango's for two weeks..." was the answer he got.

"Nevertheless you will come with me."

She nodded and he motioned for her to follow him, she got up and started to follow him. They walked out and into the garage where they got into his car and they drove off for Sango's house.

Glancing over to her once in a while he wondered how he would stay close to her without losing her again. He trained his eyes back to the road and continued on to her friends house.

"Kagome?"

From the corner of his eye he saw her look to him, so he continued, "listen, I know I haven't been there for you through the years. But I don't want to lose you again.

This is entirely up to you... I want to come see you at least once every week. I won't hurt you or ever do anything to harm any of your friends, nor will I disrespect you if you tell me do stay away from you." He waited quietly for his answer and hoped that she would not ask him to leave her alone.

Many things ran through her mind as the works came out of his mouth. But the one that was screaming at her was that he would be hurt by Naraku if he were to be around her. The answer was clear and she would tell him before she got off at Sango's house.

She couldn't let anything happen to him just when she found him. Maybe someday she would be free from Naraku and search for him again. But she wouldn't know what he would think when that time came when she once again found him, would he finally have found someone better than her and have a child of his own?

If that was the case then she would be happy for him, if she knew what happy was. She looked out of the car and watched the other cars go by.

She wasn't saying anything and a hand wrapped around his heart and took it within it's palm and squeezed. The pain felt unbearable and he just wanted to hear her voice... he wanted to hear her answer.

Time ran out as her friends house came into view and there sitting on the steps were her friends, Sango, Miroku, and the boy who had walked off on him last night.

He looked over to Kagome and watched as she reached for the door handle and opened up the door. She sat there in the seat for a minute and then without turning started to speak to him.

"I... I don't want you to ever come near me again... LEAVE ME ALONE!" she yelled as she slammed the door shut and took off.

His heart shattered and he opened his door to go after her but was confronted by a young man with black hair and brown eyes. He looked into those angery eyes and the next thing he knew a fist was flying at his face, though he easily dodged it only to be hit with the man's left fist.

"You stay the hell away from 'MY' Kagome!" yelled the man as he turned around and ran after Kagome.

'His Kagome? What was this damn boy talking about? Kagome was no one's. Not even he could call her his.' He rubbed his cheek and swore that the young man would pay for that.

He looked to the house to see the young woman glare at him before she too took off for her friend. He couldn't leave her like that, yet she had told him to stay away from her.

With a sigh he got back into his car and looked in the direction she had run, hoping she would appear and walk back to his car and ask him to stay. But after a few seconds of sitting there it was apparent that she wasn't coming back. He started up his car and with a final sigh he drove off into the distance.

Updates :

Wednesday May 11 - Chapter 9 Time Heals All

Friday May 13 - Chapter 3 Prophecy of the Miko and Hanyou Child

Saturday May 14 - Chapter 13 Promise me

New Story for June 1st

Summary:

Years and years have been spent on a war between the humans and demons. Two warrioresses, fighting since the days of their youth and have never known anything else. Kikyou, stubborn and head warrior, commands all that goes on in the camps. The other, Kagome, a skillful warrior, much better than Kikyou, but lacks the skills of leadership.

Four lords calling the shots, all but one are controlled by the notorious Naraku. The Western Taiyoukai, Sesshoumaru, only fighting for the purpose of passing by the time.

Naraku captures one of the warrioresses and sends her off to the Western Taiyoukai's lands. Sesshoumaru returns back to his lands with the filthy human wench in his charge.