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Inuyasha and his characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi not me
Chapter 5
The little group had made their way to a village on the way to the southern lands. Just as they entered the edge of the village a group of priestesses came to confront them. The head priestess narrowed her eyes at the youki Sesshomaru.
"Lord of the western lands it high time that you pay for crimes." She bit out in distaste.
"I think that you are mistaken. I am not the western lord. I do not know what crimes I would be paying for." The youki Sesshomaru said casting a glance to the human.
"He is telling the truth. I give my word as miko that this is not the lord of the western lands. The real lord is already paying for his crimes against humanity as we speak." Kagome said and the feeling that his past was catching up to her Sesshomaru was dominant.
An angry frown crossed the head priestess's face. "Of course the whore of the youki lord would protect him. I see your changes already tainting your soul with that evil bastard growing inside." The priestess said drawing her dagger. "I can help you. I can free you. Just let me cut it from your body and you can be free of him. You can join us and rid the world of men like him!"
Fury rose inside of Kagome as the priestess came closer with the dagger in her hand. "Bitches are you for real. I don't want to rid the world of him. I think the world is a better place with him in it. If you don't get the fuck out of my face I will rip your fucking heads off and shove them so far up your asses that they will come back out the hole in throats." Kagome snarled as her body shifted.
Fangs fell from her mouth as poison dripped searing the ground. She went to lunge for the women, but the youki Sesshomaru grabbed her and held her back. "Kagome, this is not you. If you kill them it will haunt you. Do you want to be a shell for your child when it comes?" He asked as he nuzzled into her hair.
By this point the women had taken off in fear screaming gaining a slight chuckle from the human Sesshomaru. That was until he noticed the youki holding his women a little too closely for his liking. Walking over to the youki pulled Kagome to him as she started to weep.
"I am sorry I forget that she is not mine." The youki said bowing his head to the human.
"Try harder to remember next time." The human frowned holder her tighter
The humans decided to go into the village to ask about any rumors that may have been heard. Kagome and the youki Sesshomaru thought it best if they stayed and made camp near a small lake on the outside of the town. After the confrontation Kagome had no desire to be around anyone. Her body was sore from the transformation and she felt tired from the amount of power she had harnessed.
The youki watched as pulled out her sleeping bag and lay upon it. Shifting to her side she looked at the youki. True he did look like her Sesshomaru, but he did not seem to be the violent type.
"So your Sesshomaru seems to have a little bit of anger issues. I wouldn't see you two together. A kind of war and peace air to the both of you." He laughed as Kagome gave him a little smile.
"Yeah but, I think it has to do with the time. He could not be an emotional person and hold onto his lands. He does what he does because it has to be done and yes I realize that he has done some terrible things to humans, but he has done terrible things to youki also." she said not sure if that made it okay or not.
The youki raised an eyebrow at her in response. "He needs me just as I need him. While I am the emotion he is the strength. I am the day and he is the night one can not be without the other. Ying and yang is just meant to be. I knew it the minute that I saw him, but we both fought it for so long, but you get it. That's why you love her right, because she is so different from you." Kagome concluded as she looked at the smile that graced his face.
Kagome let out a little yawn and the youki told her that he would watch over her while she slept. Rolling onto back her eyelids grew heavy as she gave way to sleep.
After a few hours of investigating the village Sango met back up with Sesshomaru near the edge of the village.
"Well I got nothing on the those priestesses that attacked us earlier. I was told that they showed up around the same time as us." Sango said in a huff crossing her arms.
"Hn, I spoke to some of the elders of the village. They kept saying that karma was out for revenge on those who had wronged her. I asked what karma looked like and they informed me that her aura was powerful, pale face, black eyes and long black hair." Sesshomaru said looking towards the camp.
"Karma sounds like Kikyo. Hey have you seen Miroku?" Sango asked. She was a little worried the monk had not showed up yet Sesshomaru nodded a no to Sango.
Sesshomaru and Sango searched everywhere for the missing monk. After a while Sesshomaru finally convinced Sango that maybe he had returned to the camp.
Reaching camp Sesshomaru motioned for the youki to come over to them. "Has the monk showed back?" He asked the other Sesshomaru.
"No, I thought that he was still with you." He answered as he wrapped his arms around the now hard sobbing slayer. A scream ripped through the air causing everyone to whip around.
Kagome had been sleeping comfortably on her little sleeping bag when she felt kisses being laid on her face. Well to be more exact it felt like someone was licking her face.
Kagome woke and jumped to her feet screaming. The others whipped around drawing their weapons for attack. Until they saw the evil doer cowering at Kagome's feet.
A puppy? A sweet white puppy with fluffy fur and big golden eyes sat trembling in fear at her feet. The human Sesshomaru was the first to double over in laughing at her. Sango and the youki Sesshomaru tried to contain themselves but, to no avail.
Poor Kagome had utter humiliation written on her face. She let out a groan and sent a glare to her so called friends. Once again focusing on the little fur ball at her feet she picked him up to calm him. Holding him in her hands he began to lick her hand and wag his tail happily.
Letting out a little giggle. "Hey guys how did things go in the village?" Kagome asked looking towards the others.
"Miroku has gone missing." The human Sesshomaru said.
"What do you mean he is missing. We have to find him." Kagome was starting to get as bad as Sango had been, which could be problematic for the baby.
"You need to calm down. We will find him." The human Sesshomaru said
The human Sesshomaru began to walk closer to Kagome still trying to calm her down. He noticed that the closer that he got to Kagome the angrier the little dog in her hands would growl and just to test he gave Kagome a little kiss. The puppy started snarling and trying to lunge at him.
"Huh I don't think he likes you Sesshomaru. Do you know him?" Kagome joked laughing as the puppy continued to snarl and bark at him.
Sesshomaru listened to the puppy's barks and raised a brow to the question. The Sesshomarus started to bark back at the confused puppy explaining what has happened. It did not seem to help.
A smirk graced the human Sesshomaru's face, as he looked to Kagome. Oh yes he knew this pup. He knew him far to well and the pup was pissed at him. " It is Inuyasha." He stated with cool composure.
Sango and Kagome had not fully grasped what he meant by that statement. They started to look around for the red avenger to come flying out at them. Then shock smacked Kagome in the face as she muttered
"Oh my….You mean the puppy is Inuyasha?" she asked inspecting the puppy to see how he knew it.
"I may be human, but I can still understand them and he also could understand him" the human said nodding to the youki.
The growls and snarls grew when the pup sniffed the air.
"It seems that he is more upset about the fact that you are pregnant with my child than the real problem at hand. How predictable little brother." Sesshomaru said as the puppy whimpered and looked longingly into Kagome's eyes.
The youki Sesshomaru found this rather interesting. He had not realized that Inuyasha was the human's half brother. How come the pup was so pissed that Kagome was pregnant? He wondered. Unless Inuyasha had been in love with the girl first and his brother stole her. Looking up to the human Sesshomaru he shook his head.
Kagome sat next to fire with the puppy in her lap as the human and the youki Sesshomaru held a rather strange conversation of barks. Sango had gone back to the village with Kirara to see if maybe Miroku had showed back up. Kagome feared that something terrible had happened to him also.
"So, has anyone asked Inuyasha what the hell happened to him?" Kagome asked giving the puppy a loving stroke.
" He was betrayed."
