Ok, some parts might come out kind of silly, but there should be also some fun :). In this chapter I will be referring to Sesshoumaru from feudal era as to 'this Sesshoumaru' and Sesshoumaru from Kagome's time as 'the future Sesshoumaru'. I just hope that it won't be too confusing XD.
And thank you 'Dark Priestess66' and 'NekoxUsa' for your suggestions :).
Chapter 12 – One Extra
I was sitting near the campfire with my head lowered in shame. After I woke up, Rin told me everything what happened. At first I didn't even want to believe it. I didn't remember anything of it, but when I saw the glares Jaken was sending me and the still not healed scratches on Sesshoumaru's hand, there was no way to deny it.
I still couldn't believe that I almost killed Jaken, tried to attack Rin and then even fought with Sesshoumaru. I still felt the pain in my throat as he was suffocating me, but I knew that he only did what was necessary. I was more surprised that he actually didn't finish me off when he had the chance.
Of course, I told him that he's my father in the future and there was a few proofs which couldn't be denied, but technically in this time there was no connection between us at all. That connection is between me and the future Sesshoumaru, not this Sesshoumaru.
Wait a second. Talking about the future Sesshoumaru, he must have known this will happen. He knew it and he didn't tell me a thing. I growled and stood up. Everyone looked at me.
"Where are you going?" Sesshoumaru asked unconcernedly.
"I'm going to have a talk with you." I snapped at him and wanted to go off, but some strange feeling stopped me. Sesshoumaru beside me stood up and watched the forest in front of us with unreadable expression. Someone was approaching our camp and it was someone familiar. But it was strange. I was sure that the one who was approaching was Sesshoumaru, but he was standing right beside me.
The mystery was explained right away, though not completely. Sesshoumaru from my time appeared among the trees and I gasped. What is he doing here? And how did he get there? I was confused and when I glanced at this Sesshoumaru, I saw that he was confused as well. That was even more strange, but what would you expect from someone who was just looking at his future self who looked completely like a human while you are a demon. Yes, Sesshoumaru from my time was here and he was here in his human appearance.
"What are you doing here? And how did you get there?" I expressed my questions
"You wanted to talk with me, right? I just wanted to save you the the path." He said with smirk and I frowned. Who does he think he is anyway?
"Fine, but that still didn't give me the answer for the second question." I folded my hands and waited for him to answer with challenging look in my eyes.
"That's something you don't need to be concerned about. Right now there are other things you should pay attention to." He stated calmly, obviously unaffected by my glares. I was curious how did he get here, but he was right, that's not important. I wanted to talk with him about something else. He surprised me so much with him coming here that I almost forgot about that. With remembering this, my anger also came back to me and his confident smirk didn't help me to calm me down.
"You!" I pointed at him angrily. "You knew what's going to happen and you didn't even warn me. I could have hurt someone!" I yelled at him.
"But you didn't." He replied still in the same tone. I sighed.
"I did hurt you." I said quietly.
"The only damage you caused and which is worth to mention would probably be just hurting my pride." The future Sesshoumaru said with laugh and I stared at him confused by what he just said and how he said it. When I got over the shock, I glanced at Jaken and this Sesshoumaru and it gave me a hard time not to laugh too.
Jaken was very confused as if he didn't know what to do or say or even to think, which was very unlikely for him and Sesshoumaru? His face was now completely blank and emotionless as anytime before as he watched his future self and our conversation and he didn't react at anything what was said, but I could tell that it took him a lot of effort to keep it that way.
I also looked at Rin and Ah-Un. Rin was turning her look from one Sesshoumaru to the other and in her face were changing the emotions as confusion, disbelief, skepticism but also surprise, awe or interest. Ah-Un solved the situation in his own way and each of his heads was watching one of them. I looked back at the future Sesshoumaru and sighed.
"Ok, this is all nice what you've told me until now, but I doubt you came all the way here just to chit-chat with me." I stated and he nodded, but didn't say anything else. I growled. So he wants me to figure it out by myself again. I was thinking about it for a while and then came up with a solution which seemed to be the right one.
"You came here because I transformed and you want to give me something to control my demonic blood as Inuyasha has the Tetsusaiga, right?" I asked with hope so I wouldn't have to go through that again.
"Yes and no." He answered and I tilted my head in confusion.
"I came here because of what happened to you but I'm not going to give you anything. It's silly to depend on some thing when there are in question the lives of you or your friends. You have enough power to be able to control it by yourself without any such thing, you just have to train." He finished and I stared at him not being able to say a single word.
I understood his logic, but how can he expect me to be able to control something like this when I don't even remember what did I do at that time? As I was thinking about the best way how to get back at him, he turned at this Sesshoumaru and I focused my attention at their conversation.
"You will help her with training. She could make more damage than help if she will use them wrongly." The future Sesshoumaru ordered and I just waited for what will come out of this.
"You have no right to order me like this." This Sesshoumaru opposed and I noticed that the future Sesshoumaru almost rolled his eyes.
"Actually, I have all rights to order you. After all, I am your older self, but if it really bothers you so much, then don't take it as an order but as an advice." He said with smirk and I could tell that for some reason he was enjoying this. Does it count as a masochism if you are torturing your younger self? Even if it is just verbally. I chuckled and they both looked at me.
"Don't mind me and continue in your conversation, it's just some funny thought that crossed my mind. It has nothing to do with you." I tried to convince them, but from their looks I assumed that I didn't succeed and I sighed in defeat.
"Fine, it had something to do with you, but it's not important." I tried to avoid it once more, but they didn't need to say anything to make me continue. One Sesshoumaru was hard to handle, but two were impossible.
"I was just wondering if you are masochist." I said towards the future Sesshoumaru in defeated tone.
"Masochist?" This Sesshoumaru asked and I realized that he couldn't know this term. Good for me. I definitely wasn't going to explain that to him.
The future Sesshoumaru stared at me for a while and then started to laugh. It was just a short laugh and when he stopped, he looked at me again with serious expression.
"What makes you think so?" He asked.
"I don't know." I shrugged. "Maybe the way you're talking with yourself?" I stated sarcastically and then paused. "Damn, this sounds pretty weird." I shook my head. This whole situation is ridiculous. He approached me and I looked at him startled.
"Take this." He gave me another rosary as when I was in my time.
"Didn't you say that depend on some thing is silly?" I asked.
"That's right, but it's not the same. If you loose this rosary, you will just have to explain your appearance to anyone who doesn't know about it yet. If I would give you something to control your demonic blood, you would depend on it too much and in case you would loose it or something else happened to it, it could cost someone's life." He explained again and I took the rosary from him.
"Now I'm going to take my leave." He stated and before I could stop him or react at all, he was gone. There was an awkward silence after he left and the first who broke it was Rin.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, you looked cool with black hair." She commented innocently with smile and I had to put my hand over my mouth to restrain myself from laughing, because unlike her I could see Sesshoumaru's face when she said it.
'Is there something funny?' He shot me a glare and I shook my head and had to bit my lip to keep myself calm. He probably noticed that and turned in the opposite direction than where the future Sesshoumaru went to and started to walk off. Rin seemed to be a little confused so before I followed Sesshoumaru, I came to her at first.
"I don't think he wanted to hear what you just said." I whispered to her, though I knew that he could hear us anyway.
"But it's true." Rin opposed and I chuckled. I looked at the rosary which was still in my hand and then put it around my neck. I still preferred my appearance as a human so it didn't take me long to decide whether to wear it or not.
"Kagome! You look like you did before!" Rin exclaimed and I smiled at her. At least it made her to change the topic from Sesshoumaru to myself.
"I'm more used to this look, but it's just an illusion, I'm still the same." I told her and she nodded. After a while of silent walk I decided that Sesshoumaru could be in better mood already.
"Sesshoumaru?" I called at him but he showed no sign that he heard me. So he wants to ignore me. I came a few steps closer to him.
"Sesshoumaru!" I tried again, but still no reaction, so I continued. "When are you going to start to train me?" At this he stopped and I smirked, but then my smile faded as he started to walk again without even looking at me. I folded my arms angrily and returned back to walk beside Rin. At this moment I really started to wonder how could I be related to him at all.
I was so caught up in my sulking, that I didn't even notice that we approached some clearing and I barely dodged Sesshoumaru's whip when he attacked me.
"What are you doing?" I yelled at him.
"You wanted to train, so prepare yourself." He stated and charged at me again.
"Isn't it a little too late to tell me that?" I mumbled after I dodged another of his attacks and he smirked.
"Fine, as you wish." I growled under my breath and charged at him angrily. He didn't move at all until I reached him and then, when I was just a few inches from him, he suddenly disappeared from my sight and somehow I ended up lying on my face on the ground. I rose up on my knees only to be almost knocked back down by dizziness in my head. I shook it off but stayed sitting on the ground.
"Don't let your emotions take over you." He stated and I looked up at him confusedly. He attacked me again but this time I didn't react quickly enough and the blood started to soak my left sleeve. I looked at my wound and it was really strange to be able to smell my own blood. I turned back at Sesshoumaru who was standing calmly just a few steps away from me.
"And don't ever let your guard down." He struck at me even though I was wounded and I quickly jumped back to avoid his attack.
"Don't you think you're a bit too harsh?" I hissed at him when I was in safe distance for the time being. But it was really only for a short time before he went on me once more. I dodged his attack but in the process I tripped over something and fell on the ground. I looked at Sesshoumaru and my eyes widened. Is he really going to wound me again? I was already prepared for the impact as much as one can prepare for something like this, but something else happened.
"Inuyasha." I breathed out as he blocked Sesshoumaru's attack at me.
"What do you think you're doing you bastard!" Inuyasha yelled at him and they started to fight.
"Kagome, are you alright?" Sango's voice came from my right and I looked that way as the others started to come out from among the trees.
"Sango! Miroku! Shippo! Kirara!" I screamed out happily and then paused.
"Kikyo?"