I am soooo sorry it is short. I had only this part and wanted to post it for those who want to read this story and for it to continue. I'd had it for a month but couldn't figure out how to start the next part. Anyway please review and those who read me, I have a poll voting for the next updated story since it has been so long since I've posted things. Please let me know which you'd like to read next.
Jamila watched Xanthus and Kumi, who was now her lady's maid, flirt from her perch on the roof of the house with narrow-eyed amusement. It had been two months since Naraku and Kanika were killed and Jamila had seen Sesshomaru twice since their hot spring dalliance. He'd been called away to deal with issues that cropped up now that the dark presence had left the land. Inuyasha and his friends stopped by often to see her and Kohaku and Rin but the only real amusement Jamila was left with was watching Kumi try to seduce Xanthus.
"You are truly magnificent." Kumi gushed and Xanthus blushed before swishing his tail at her.
"You're much too young girl." He responded again trying to convince her to give it up. It wasn't that he didn't like her, Jamila knew, in fact he was very attracted to her but he was afraid to get involved, he'd already lost one wife and didn't seem to understand Kumi's reference to life mate. But then again he wasn't truly a demon.
"You keep saying that and you are wrong." Kumi stated suddenly sounding serious and older. "I act young because I am a filly, excitable and giddy. I am four centuries. Not as old as you no, but old enough to know what I want." She turned away and headed for the stable. "Stop treating me like a child."
Jamila sighed as Xanthus stood shocked and amazed by the sudden turn of events. It seemed as if everyone's love lives were going down the river. She rolled over and stared up at the beautiful blame sky and could only feel self-pity.
Sesshomaru had shut himself off from her. It seemed he truly did not want her love. She wasn't going to stop trying but at the moment she was at a loss of how to proceed. She'd tried seduction and while he'd enjoyed it, it hadn't changed much between them. She did the game with Kagome and blood lust but he always closed himself off from her.
"Love is weakness." He once told her. "A foolish emotion that poisons the mind." Her response had been to turn away and tell him that she was poisoned beyond hope before walking away.
He hadn't tried to stop her.
"Jamila? Are you there?" Kagome called from the balcony below her. Inuyasha had gone off after Sesshomaru and left Kagome here alone with Jamila.
"Yes." Jamila replied rolling off the roof to land before her on the railing. "What is bothering you?"
Kagome signed and leaned against the railing beside Jamila. "I just wanted some girl time."
"I see." Jamila replied turning to gaze out at the forest. Where was Sesshomaru now? Was he out hunting something? Was he talking to tenants?
"Are you lonely?" Kagome's voice broke into Jamila's musings.
Jamila smiled widely and closed her eyes. "Why would you ask that?" She asked curiously. Did it really show?
"It's lonely…loving someone who doesn't love you back." Kagome's voice was quiet but Jamila could hear the knowledge and truth in her statement.
She let her smile fade and she and Kagome looked at each other with matching expressions. "Yes…it is."
"Some times…I wish I could just leave, get my head clear and just leave everything behind." Kagome sighed.
An idea began to form in Jamila's mind and she began to smile. "Why don't we? Go take a week or two and just find a place to vacation?"
"Can we?" Kagome asked chewing her bottom lip gently in thought.
"Why not? Xanthus can watch the house and Rin and Kohaku are with Sango and Miroku and Shippo. Kumi can go with us. Sesshomaru isn't around to stop us and by the time he gets home we'll be at the vacation place if not already back from it." Jamila argued ready to get going now.
Kagome began to smile as well. "Alright, why not? The three of us are down on live." She apparently had heard Xanthus and Kumi's argument. "I'll go pack."
Jamila let her run off before leaping to the ground to tell Kumi and Xanthus their plans.
An hour later the three of them took off galloping out of the front gate and into the sky. Kumi was in her normal horse form with Kagome riding bareback and Jamila rode Fatima and carried all three of their bags. "So where are we going?" Kagome called out looking sideways to Jamila, holding gently to Kumi's hair. She had been told that Kumi wouldn't allow her to fall off and she took it on faith.
"I was thinking of traveling to the sea to the West. It is the very edge of my territory now. Your book called it 'The Sea of Japan'." Jamila responding thinking back to the geography book of Kagome's she'd looked at before they left.
"That sounds nice. A nice vacation on the sea…" Kagome sighed wistfully. "How long until we get there?"
"We can make it in half a day if we go full out demon speed." Jamila replied looking to Kumi who tossed her head nodding.
"Go for it. I trust you to not let me fall and die." Kagome laughed finally getting into the spirit of their escape.
"Then let's go." Jamila shouted and leaned down over Fatima's neck. "Fly my Zulieka!" She whispered to the horse and she neighed prettily before charging.
Jamila laughed into the wind and tried to enjoy the moment and forget about the constant pain in her chest.
Also you get to vote, do you want to me switch chapters between her and Sesshomaru's point of view or keep it all her? Cause I think I should do him as well but meh, well let me know!