"Love is not what you want but what your heart leads you to." Her hand laid upon her heart as she said these words. If it was true than why were there so much obstacles standing in their way? If it was meant to be than why was everything so difficult?
Question after question was unanswered but she continued to walk down the asphalt with her head hung forward. She couldn't decide whether to go to Sesshomaru or just head to the park so with tears beginning to dry away she let her heart lead the way.
She died the day I left her.
"What would I do if you went away Sesshomaru? Would I die along with you or will I end up like Hiro? Moving on and passing that love to someone else." If there would be a chance that Sesshomaru would suddenly disappear than everything would seem lost. Blood would only lead her back to the only love she had in this world and heaven wouldn't judge their love like the world would but only eternally bond them together. Just thinking about it seemed to turn her heart into stone.
"I would die along with you Sesshomaru." Finding herself at the park, she sat down and leaned up against the tree as the clear sky caught her attention. If the breeze weren't so crisp and pure, there would be nothing of this earth but remorse and sadness, which goes the same for her insides.
"Sesshomaru? Would you follow me, even when I die?" She buried her face into her knees and sighed deeply.
"I would follow you to the ends of the earth, I would follow you throughout your life and even if you die. I would chase after you with no doubt in my mind."
"S-Sesshomaru. What are you-"
"Didn't I say I would follow you?" He smiled, kneeling down in front of her. The feeling of his hands caressing her cheek eased her in so many ways. Just his eyes alone gave her a sense of calming though with so much bliss just looking at him there was also remorse.
But even with that sadness upon her face, Sesshomaru remained smiling, trying to emerge that smile upon her lips as well.
"I wouldn't believe that." Before she could catch her words, they just suddenly came out without her consent. She tried to even hide her mistake with a smile but she knew to well that what she said was the only thing that bothered her now aching heart.
"Kagome…"
"It's funny. I thought when you said you loved me that everything was going to be alright, that everything was going to be a path where only happiness would follow us but I was wrong."
His gently eyes that searched her hazel hues became uneasy and Kagome didn't fail to notice this change. She didn't want to hurt him or herself but as she laid her cold hands upon his hands that cupped her face, she withdrew her tears and smiled.
"Kagome we are happy aren't we? I've never been so happy being with you. So why are you saying this?"
Squeezing his hands tightly, Kagome pulled them away from her face and laid them upon her lap. "I'm not happy. You're my brother and I know dad is getting suspicious of us. I want you to have a normal life. Where you go to college and ultimately become successful. That's where I want you to be in the future and if dad doesn't fund your college than everything I hope for you to become won't happen if you're with me."
Even when everything she said pained her to the very core, Sesshomaru remained smiling and suddenly his arms tightly wrapped around her. There wasn't time to think of a combat to this, she just remained silent as she leaned up against him. Feeling all his warmth, and love that seemed to melt her into his arms.
"I don't care about that Kagome. All I care about is you. If I wanted success than I can easily get it without dad's help. If he finds out than we'll figure it all out together."
He's change so much. She mused with a sigh. Then a thought of having her whole point of view on things to come came to mind. Change was the one thing that Sesshomaru had done for her and now as she gently pushed him away, she gave him a true smile.
"If you think that everything will work. Than I won't question you." Arms tightly wrapped around each other gave them more than warmth but a lovable taste of passion. Before Sesshomaru could reply with a sweet 'I love you'. Kagome had lunged towards him, stealing away his words as well as his lips. They smothered themselves with alluring words between deep kiss after kiss.
"You mean the world to me." Was his repeated mesmerizing supplemented words of 'I love you.
"You too." She would reply breathlessly, not waiting or wanting a second wasted, as their lips would entwine and their tongues taking vacancy in the depths of their mouth.
With so much happiness emitting off of the couple, Kagome couldn't help but cry. She didn't know if it were tears of joy or sadness because in the back of her mind, she knew that the arms that now protected her so dearly had wrapped itself around another woman the night before.
At the thought of this, she unconsciously departed their lips. Sesshomaru tried to find an answer to her actions and tried to kiss her once again but she refused.
"Kagome what's wrong?"
"That girl."
Sesshomaru cupped her chin and brought her eyes to lie upon his own. "What are you talking about? What girl?"
"The one that you-"
"The one that you embrace so passionately across the street." The clean-cut man that stood before them baffled her. His presence was not only out of place but too coincidental, but she averted her eyes away from him, burying her face into Sesshomaru's chest.
"What are you doing with this man Kagome? I thought you were engaged to my son? I knew to well that Hiro was pulling the wool over my eyes. How disappointing." His long pitch-black hair that was braided neatly, was slung over his shoulder and as he stared on at the couple. He immediately turned his smirk toward Sesshomaru.
"So Sesshomaru. About last night, I think you should keep your action more concealed." The taunting smirk that Kagome peered upon was upsetting to see. It was disturbing for Hiro's father to be here and see her in such a situation. If only she could just disappear, if only she was somewhere else.
"Can we talk about this at another time and place?" Sesshomaru said this in a stern but respectable way as if not to agitate the man.
"I didn't know you two were romantically involve. It such a shame that your using my son as a lamb in your little forbidden romance. So which is it? Is it incestuous love or a conspiracy to destroy my son? Which one is it Kagome? It can be both if you like."
That interrogating tone mixed in with a sweet desire to toy with their mind not only cause Sesshomaru to push Sesshomaru away, but to also cause the two men to scowl at one another straight on. It was when Sesshomaru walked pass the man and lead him a distance away from Kagome that they started to talk. Though as she stared at the two with bewildered eyes, she couldn't do nothing but figure out what was going on.
Sesshomaru backed up against a tree and crossed his arms, putting together words to say. Than he looked up and irritable sighed.
"What are you doing here Naraku? You know every little thing about me so why are you bringing up this incestuous bullshit. What the fuck are you plotting?"
He merely smirked at this while digging deep into his pocket, taking out a pack of cigarette and propping one between his lips.
"I'm just telling the truth. Did you know your little sister was at my home, with my son and declared that she was engaged with him? You know how much I wanted to laugh when I heard such shit? I know every single thing about you and your family and that's why I own you."
Placing his hands into his pocket once again, he took out a piece of paper and lent it out to him. "Take it. It's your new assignment."
With a distant stare, Sesshomaru hesitated. " How much times do I have to do this? You still didn't answer me when I asked you before.
"Look at your sister. Those worried eyes." Naraku said with a chuckle. " You don't want those eyes to die now would you?"
Sesshomaru didn't reply but took the paper and looked over the address that was legible written with a pink pen. As he read it over for the third time, he handed back the piece of paper as to not to have any trail in his pockets of his whereabouts during the night.
He started his way back to Kagome though with a hand unexpectedly stopping him in his tracks, Sesshomaru glared at Naraku who had a stern expression on his face. It was rare to see such an expression but Sesshomaru said nothing to it.
"You better not screw this one up. I heard that police got a hold of your hair at the scene of the crime. I had to take care of that myself and luckily I got the evidence you left behind before the examination. So remember, if you get caught, your sister's dead."
"I understand." There was this lingering anger between the two men. Sesshomaru had no doubt in his mind that things would get out of hand if he suddenly gets out of his grasp, so he waited until he let go of his arm before walking to the now worried Kagome.
"What happened? You know Hiro's father? What did you guys talk about? What-"
Overwhelmed by the sudden question, Sesshomaru tucked his arm from under her legs and supported her back with another, lifting her up from off of the ground.
"You ask to much question." He said laughing. "We better get you home."
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There, they were getting the yelling's of their lives but to Kagome's astonishment, she didn't get hit at all. The alibi that Sesshomaru had come up with was simple nonetheless believable.
Being at Sango's house on the night she so to say, disappeared, was a great closure for both Sesshomaru and Kagome. Although, her father wouldn't know about anything of her venturing outside of her home because her father was rarely with theme. If he was a normal stay at home dad than he would know that Kagome would never sleepover at anyone's house unless something catastrophic had come up.
"I'm sorry father for not calling." Kagome apologized with sincere eyes. But as always, Onigumo turned his back on the child and went up stairs, slamming his office door. For what it was worth, Sesshomaru's presence was the only reason why she didn't receive such cruel beatings. It was a blessing but as Kagome pondered on this thought, she didn't recall having her father care who was present when punishment had to be received.
"You guys are the worse case I ever saw. You're lucky I didn't tell your father about that auction at the mall or you two would have been in bigger trouble. Lucky thing I'm a nice person."
Sesshomaru didn't bother to retort to Hiten's words but went upstairs moments late. And seeing that having Shippo with Kagome wouldn't dare provoke Hiten to try anything suspicious, Sesshomaru had a sense of calming. Though before he ascended the staircase, he looked towards Shippo.
"No matter what your brother says, stay with Kagome at all times alright."
Giving a stiff salute, Shippo replied with an up beat: "Yes Sesshomaru sama!"
"Already he thinks I'm going to pull something. Oh well I better be heading out."
Kagome's eyes followed Hiten as he went out the door but as he laid his hand on the doorknob, something tugged at her lips and stopped him from leaving.
"Where are you going?"
He was set aback for a moment but quickly smiled. "I didn't know you would be concern about me."
"It's not that I'm concern, it's just that I want to know where you are going that's all."
"If you're not concern than why even open your mouth." Hiten went out the door as he said this and Kagome just glared.
"Your brother can be such an idiot."
Shippo nodded. "Yup, sometimes he can be like that but he's nice when you're nice to him."
"Well, I don't think that kindness will ever be mutual between us so you want to do something today."
That brought a smile to the child's face seeing that all this time Shippo was here, they never spent any time together. So as a child, Shippo pulled Kagome out of her seat and out the door in the matter of seconds.
"Where are we going Shippo?"
"Just watch."
It was cold but that chill didn't seem to affect Shippo in any way. All that was on him mind was their destination but where were they going? Kagome did not know where they were going because she never really knew her little cousin or if he knew where he was actually going. But to make Shippo happy, she followed closely behind with her hand tightly held by Shippo, zooming through the streets and running along the asphalt.
"Shippo? Where are we going?"
"It's right there. The amusement park." There wasn't going to be a crowd, Kagome knew that much due to school and with Sesshomaru just staying in his room it was kind of obvious that they were skipping for today. If her father knew than it would be more yelling but with the bright smile Shippo presented, it really didn't matter from here on out. All that mattered was how they were going to get tickets.
"Shippo we can't go in there but we can go somewhere else if you like." Kagome said, trying to break the news gently.
He shook his head. "No. Hiten found a girlfriend in town yesterday. I met her but you weren't there to see her. I forgot her name but I saw big brother put the tickets in his pocket and I-"
"You stole it."
Like an angel he smile while nodding. But Kagome sighed and grinned as he led him toward the amusement park entrance. It wasn't to busy as Kagome expected. So it was all at ease getting into the park and having to guilt what so ever giving the estimated 100-dollar tickets to the man dress in a bear costume. With every bit of anxiety shown on Shippo's face, it was pretty hard to keep up with him while being pulled to one ride and than the other. The rides were to hectic such as the tea cup ride or the merry go round. But with this entire running around here and there Kagome's stomach couldn't keep up with Shippo who never wanted the fun to end.
"Come on Shippo let's eat." She pulled him off to the other direction but seeing that the ride they were walking away from was one of the roller coasters, Shippo immediately yanked her arm.
"I know you're scared Kagome. You're just making excuses."
"No I'm not. I'm really hungry so let's go get a hot dog."
He pouted. "I want to go on the roller coaster."
"We can go on that later so let's just-" Getting out of her grasp, Shippo ran towards the structure he was dieing to go on. Kagome merely shook her head in disappointment and was about to run after him until a hand yanked on her arm. To her surprise she turned to see Hiro who beamed no other than that easing smile of his although even with that smile on, she couldn't help but wonder why he was here, during school hours.
"I see you ditched school." Hiro stated, still holding on to her arm.
"You're doing the same." She pointed out.
"Well you're right but I would want to ask you a question."
"Um-Well I have to-"
"Did you patch things up with Sesshomaru? I saw you two at the park and I kinda guessed that you talked things out." Hiro had somewhat of a crooked smile, although he was trying to be charming and casual he still had this worried look in his eyes. But Kagome answered with a simple 'yes' that got Hiro to nod and release her hand.
"I'm glade that every things okay." Hiro finally said after a couple of seconds of silence.
"Um…yeah well I better go… I was with my little cousin Shippo and-" Kagome looked to her side when she said this and than around the area. That was one of the things she was missing, which she was chasing and with out another word she headed off towards the roller coaster as Hiro looked on.
Her heart was pounding not by the run but the anxiety of not seeing Shippo anywhere. He was a brat, a big brat who wanted everything he wanted and now with the roller coaster in his eyes, Kagome knew Shippo will stop at nothing to get on that thrill ride. Though with many people in line and a little kid still nowhere in sight, Kagome's head was already spinning with worry.
She searched through many faces but still, after 15 minutes of searching he still wasn't in sight. Kagome frantically searched throughout the park screaming. "Shippo! Shippo!"
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"What do you mean you couldn't find him?"
She looked toward Sesshomaru on the verge of tears. "I-I don't know. I searched for him until the place closed. He was going to the roller coaster and I was chasing after him but…" If it was possible he was lost than there was still a chance that he could get back home on his own. He was old enough to remember the address and the streets though there was still this lingering feeling that something bad must have happened. Something as if plaguing Kagome's mind for the longest time but wasn't able to say anything to it.
"He can get home but we'll just wait. Don't tell Hiten about anything."
Kagome nodded. "How about mom and dad?"
"They went on a trip. He said he was stressed out and needed to get away again. I said nothing to it but was glade he was leaving."
There goes the family Christmas. She hung her head down and sighed. It was a matter of waiting now. There was nothing else to do. They both sat in the kitchen in silence, trying to figure out someway to make the process of waiting go by faster. It was a type of reckoning of anxiety just killing her in side. Just imaging her little cousin out there alone was just stabbing her repeatedly in the chest.
She snapped her eyes open as Sesshomaru's arm slung over her shoulder and his face clearly in view. "He'll come back. He's just a little kid, wondering around somewhere and having a time of his life. He did steal Hiten's tickets and maybe along with that he stole some money so he'll survive. Just don't think about it to much and relax." While his fingers traced the thin line of her cheek his elegant eyes targeted her lips, enchantingly moving closer and smoothly his tongue licked his lips.
"He's a fighter." He said softly, grazing his lips on to her cheek. "He's persistent and an annoyance but he's still the type to always find his way back home. Just like you."
His hands fastened onto her waist, pressing her back up against the Kitchen table. A smile was finally appearing upon her face to Sesshomaru's amazement, Kagome was so into the moment that she grabbed his face and lunged toward him, his lips and mouth under her control. There wasn't an amount of ecstasy flowing through every action she made as her tongue slipped between his lips.
"You're calling me an annoyance?" She mumbled.
"Maybe not an annoyance but persistant."
Sesshomaru pushed up against her body as his hand glided under her shirt, feeling the small of her back and smiled once she trembled. The heat emitting off of the both of there kisses and bodies didn't leave them into any temptation to let go. They both tried to remember the last time that they had a moment this deep, just touching one another and loving the kisses that just deepened with ever intoxicating breath. With mingling tongues and hands exploring the others features, it was about time that Sesshomaru lifted Kagome onto the table.
It was getting so hot that Sesshomaru quickly flung his jacket off and unzipped her pink leather jacket, both materials slipping off of their shoulders and onto the floor. As terribly pleasurable as everything was, there was still the issue of the missing Shippo and to top it all off, Hiten was still in the house. In the back of her mind she knew that Hiten could walk in on them but than the cloud of wanting more of Sesshomaru grasped her thoughts. Her fingers moved on its own accord, prying her way under his black T-Shirt and attempting to pull it off of him.
"S-Ses…homaru." She moaned as she desperately clung to him as the feeling of his lips nibbling her neck caused her words to utter into soft whispers. When his lips connected with her own, she finally was able to grasp the collar of his shirt. She departed their lips just for a second to slip off his shirt and throwing it beside her. She wanted him so much that she rammed their lips together and both their eyes shot open as the slight pain of their teeth hitting one another caused Sesshomaru to smile and laugh a bit. But as charming as he was, he paid no mind to it and kissed her once more, slight laughter heard.
Kagome grinned a bit as well but as a sound other than her moaning sounded; Kagome pushed him away and hopped off the table. "I-It's Shippo."
Once the doorbell rang again she ran to the door like rapid fire. It was Shippo; there was no doubt about it. It just had to be him and Kagome tried to convince her self that a child would be standing right in front. But having multiple knocks on the door puzzled her. If it was Shippo than why couldn't he just came barging in? It wasn't like the door was lock and that thought made her uneasy.
Once she opened the door a body fell before her feet and caused her to move back. "Shippo!" Blood smeared her hands as she turned him on his back. Absolutely mortified by the numerous cuts on his body and the amount of blood on his clothes left her breathless. She couldn't move or even check if he was breathing. It was all unexplainable as to why anyone would do this to a mere child.
"What the… Kagome carry him upstairs! I'll go get the first-aid kit!" Sesshomaru's words didn't break her through the horrifying trance she was in. All she could do was repeat to her that it was her fault.
There was no time for this and Sesshomaru carried Shippo upstairs and into his room where he laid him gently on to his bed. Checking for a pulse he unbuttoned his shirt and when he felt a pulse he hurriedly got the first-aid kit.
He couldn't understand himself why this would happen or who would have done this. Though as he made his way back and took off Shippo's shirt to treat his wounds he paused for a second. The wounds that could have only been inflicted with a knife had been covered with a piece of paper where a thin piece of rope wrapped around Shippo's body made sure that the folded paper stayed in place.
Sesshomaru cut the rope and unfolded the paper. His eyes widened and his hands tightly curled a fist around the letter that read:
You failed to kill him and now as you see before you, your punishment.
If you try to pull another stunt like that again you know what will happen.
Your sister will be my next target and this time I'll kill her.
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Hey you guys. It's been a long time. Well sorry about that but I didn't have an internet so I couldn't update but now I do… finally. Well I hope you liked it and left you guessing. hehe