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Inuyasha and his characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi not me
Chapter 3
It had been a month since she had last seen Sesshomaru. The sun had set not to long ago. She was just returning from the doctors in her time. Tears still streaking down her face Kagome as she threw her big yellow bag over the rim of the well. She was climbing out when she noticed that an arm was dangling over the side. Quickly she made her way up the side of the well to see that a young man was unconscious and bleeding from his side.
She thought that maybe he had been one of the villages because he looked vaguely familiar. Long black hair, nice build, tan skin, but he looked to clean almost pretty in the face not rough like a field worker. Maybe he was a traveling monk that they had encountered in the past? He had no shirt on, but he wore white hakama and black boots like Sesshomaru. Strange clothing for a monk or maybe he was one of the wealthy lords that they had stayed with on their journeys.
Casting aside any questions that she had about who he was until after she looked at his wounds. So into her work that she was performing that she did not even notice that the man had regained consciousness until she heard a hissing noise coming from his lips. A little startled she flinched back to look into his light brown eyes.
" I am so sorry. I am trying to be as gentle as possible, but this is pretty bad." Kagome said. The man looked at her curiously
"What happened?" he asked a little confused and as he tried to sit up before falling back again.
"I am not sure I just found you like this on my way to meet my friends." She answered.
Kagome had just finished last of bandages on the man when Miroku walked into the clearing. He had felt her come through the well, but started to worry when she had not arrived back in the village. With Inuyasha still gone Sango and him had been worried about the girl. She had been sick and went to see the doctor in her time to find out the problem. He did not think that she would be helping a wounded man when he arrived.
"Gee Kagome he didn't grab your butt did he?" Miroku joked
"Oh shut and help me move him to my hut. He keeps falling in and out of consciousness." Kagome barked at him.
He looked at her eyes and noticed that they had a gold gleam instead of her normally color. This would be brought up after he helped her carry the man to her hut.
"I found him like this half hanging into the well and with Kaede in the other village I am the only one that can help him." She said.
"Do you know him?" he asked finally reaching her hut in the village.
"No, I was hoping that you could help me out with that one." She said lighting some candles to shed some light on the unknown man.
"Oh my Gods it can't be!" she screamed.
"Do you know him Kagome? Who is it?" Miroku asked staring harder before he realized
"Sesshomaru" they both gasped
The young man they now knew as Sesshomaru was running a fever now and she was wiped his face down with a cool rag. She had already given him some medicine to bring it down, but it was fighting in his system. She kept thinking about what she had just learned and how much more things could get fucked up. So many more questions left up in the air and not one answer. First and foremost where the hell were Rin and Jaken?
Brushing his bangs away from his naked forehead she leaned over to whisper "Your going to be a daddy."
She gave him a little kiss to his soft warm lips. Miroku and Sango had just arrived at her hut when they heard her say she was pregnant with Sesshomaru's baby. That was news and here Sango thought the big thing was Sesshomaru being human.
Sango gasped " Are you serious Kagome? When did this happen?" she asked rushing to her friends side. Kagome gave a nod of yes and answered
"The night Miroku and you stayed at the village and left us alone together. I love him and I think he loves me." Kagome said as matter of fact.
Kagome had convinced Sango to go and look for Rin and Jaken. Hopefully they were safe and maybe had some answers. Miroku waited until his wife left for her search to talk to Kagome
"Kagome, is that why your eyes have changed? " Miroku asked tilting his head slightly with a little smile.
"Oh I had forgotten all about that. I think so, but we didn't mate I am only having his baby." She said.
" Could be something with the Shikon I will look into it." He said with a smile.
Kagome was looking at the man laying on her sleeping bag even in a human form he seemed angelic and that was so far from the truth it was a bold face lie. His fever had finally broken.
"You spent all that time protecting me and now it is my turn to help you." She said on hand on his and the other gave a little rub to her belly.
Sango had finally found Rin alone and crying by a river not too far from the village.
"Rin, do you remember me?" she asked the frightened girl.
"They left me…they left me…I am alone again." Rin cried repeating herself.
Sango decided that she should just bring the girl and later she could explain what was going on. They had arrived back at the village and went into the hut. Rin looked to the man on the floor resting and then back to Kagome.
"What did you do to him?" Rin screamed sliding to the floor in front of the man she thought of as a father.
Rin was crying and leaning onto his chest. "No, Rin honey I found him like this. I was hoping that you could tell us what happened." Kagome said while kneeling next to the girl.
"Lord Sesshomaru was looking for the other lords. We had set out to find them when he came back to palace, but everywhere we looked they had vanished. Then when we where walking a heavy fog came and he disappeared. Then Jaken and I waited thinking that he would show back up but he didn't. The next night we where attacked and Jaken told me to hide and I did. He never came back either. I thought that I was going to be alone." Rin sobbed harder into Sesshomaru's chest.
"Rin, you and Sesshomaru will stay her with me until we can figure this out." Kagome said firmly.
Kagome, Sango and Miroku where sitting in the hut trying to figure out what was going on. Sango and Kagome thought that maybe the man that Sesshomaru had been talking to in the forest had been one of the other lords. They also figured that what ever went after the lords maybe had been the one to take down Naraku, but why didn't they take the jewel? If the same fate that had killed Naraku had befallen Sesshomaru why did it only make him human and not kill him? They had a new quest and Miroku was still trying to figure out the physical changes to Kagome.
So here she was in her little hut in the middle of the night with the great demon lord now turned human and his ward sleeping peacefully. She moved over to him to change the bandages on his side again. As soon as she finished she looked at his face to see that his eyes had opened.
" How are you feeling?" She asked sweetly. He grunted and let out a breath of air.
"Like shit, but better since I have seen your face." He said with a smile. Well that threw her for a loop and all she could do was raise an eyebrow.
"Umm, Lord Sesshomaru?" She questioned that maybe everyone had guessed wrong about who this was.
"Lord Sesshomaru? Is that who I am and who are you." He asked tilting his head.
"What do you remember?" She asked.
He tried to sit up, but found himself wincing in pain and then looked once again to her face. A flash of her tossing her head back and moaning his name.
"Are you my wife or my lover?" he asked pulling her to him.
"Well I am not sure what you would call us. You are a lord, um you use to be a demon, a powerful demon, you see that girl sleeping over there she is your ward and….you are the father of my baby." She said in barely a whisper that he had nearly missed it all together.
Then his mouth fell open.
This is a hell of a way to wake up he thought. He could not remember anything except for this woman in front of him in throws of passion.
"Are you sure I am a lord? I don't feel like one." He asked while laying his head on her lap.
"Um you normally don't act like this, but yes you are a lord." She said while smiling and running her fingers threw his hair.
"You are a demon lord and I am a miko. If you would like I can heal you. I had asked you this before, but you told me no." she said as she looked into his eyes.
"Why are your eyes gold?" He asked pulling her lips closer to his.
"I am beginning to think that it has something to do with the baby." She answered before brushing her lips with his.
"I trust you. You can heal me if you like."
Kagome reached over to his gashed side. Deep in concentration on her healing abilities. A warm pink glow had filled the little hut and a calming aura was sent into the sleeping village. She watched as the wound began to heal under her touch. When she finally watched the last of the wound knit back together she looked up into his face to see recognition. Apparently when she healed his arm she had also held his mind.
Sesshomaru had been flooded by memories as she healed his body. By the time Kagome had finished he recalled everything that had happened. He took a piece of the silken black hair between his fingers as if to study it. Kagome had reached into her backpack for her mirror and handed it to him. So plain and human he thought as he traced the places where his stripes and moon had once been. He looked to Kagome and handed her back the compact lowering his eyes with a look of defeat.
"I still think you look perfect." She said with a small smile.
He pulled her to his form in a tender embrace. Kagome held onto him running her fingers through his midnight hair. Closing her eyes for a brief moment to take in the feel of his embrace.
"Your pregnant with my heir." He stated pulling back to look at her once more.
"Um yeah, I am. Don't worry I will not bother you anything. I know you don't want to deal with hanyou and a human wife." Kagome said in almost whispered sad voice.
He almost laughed, but smiled slightly at the humor of the situation. Okay she was confused on why he was smiling about the problems that lay ahead of them.
"You don't think it is funny?" He asked quirking a brow.
He pulled her to sit in his lap to comfort her. "At the moment you and our child are more power than the lords of these lands. That includes myself." Sesshomaru did laugh then.
"I don't understand what happened to the other lords?" She asked worriedly.
"In the morning I will explain, but you and our child need to rest for right now." He said laying her down next to him and holding her comfortingly in his arms. It took no time at all before both had found their sleep.
It was late in the afternoon when a tapping was heard at the hut entrance. Sango and Miroku had come to see how the demon lord and Rin were fairing. When they entered Rin began to stir from her sleep. Sesshomaru and Kagome had also started to rub the sleep from their eyes.
Rin seeing that Sesshomaru was okay and awake had run over to him and hugged him. " Rin thought that you had left her. Jaken disappeared and I was alone until the nice lady brought me here." Rin cried as she hugged.
"Rin calm I am here and we will find Jaken." Sesshomaru said giving the girl a little pat on the head.
Kagome had made some ramen for the little group with some help from Rin. Once they had finished Sesshomaru decided it was time to speak. Kagome came to sit next to him.
"I need your assistance in finding the lords. They will also be human so I would think they took refuge in one of the villages on their lands." He said looking at the little group of humans who looked at him as if he was crazy.
Miroku was to say the least shocked for one of the demon lords to be human, but all to be human. Not to mention Sesshomaru was asking them for help.
"Lord Sesshomaru what exactly has happened to you and the other lords." He asked.
At the moment he felt he needed a little more explanation before running head long into another adventure. The last one had almost cost him and his beloved Sango their lives. No, he would need to know what was happening first.
Of course Sesshomaru knew that this was going to be asked he just didn't want to admit that he had been bested by anyone especially by females. This brought another question that needed to be asked first
"Where is my brother?".
