Tokyo Angel
Chapter Six- The Chosen
"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world
that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice."
-Terry Pratchett, Sorcery
Inuyasha walked slowly down the stairs, occasionally looking back up stairs, at the door where he could hear the shower going. He couldn't figure out why he was acting the way he was. Hell, he was never this touchy feelly with Kikyo. But the thing that was really freaking him out was that it felt completely natural, as if this was what he was suppose to be doing. But only with Kagome.
"Inuyasha, you okay there?" Miroku was looking up at him with a slight frown. "You look a little dazed?
Inuyasha snorted, and looked back upstairs involuntarily, "'Dazed' is an understatement. I feel like I've been knocked in the head and thrown into an alternate universe." Inuyasha shook his head again when the thought of going back upstairs and helping Kagome take her shower entered his mind. It was really freaking him out; not the thinking about helping out a naked woman that was fairly normal, but the thought that all he wanted to do was help her take a shower. Nothing else, no kissing, no, ah, strenuous activities, just helping her take a shower. It was freaking abnormal!
"What is Kagome to you, Inuyasha?" Miroku was still looking up at his friend, but a sparkle had entered his eyes that Inuyasha didn't like the looks of. "You were extraordinarily gentle with her; after you found out it was indeed her. I don't believe I have ever seen you act as such with any other person." His innuendo was perfectly clear; he had never even seen him act that gentle with his own girlfriend.
Inuyasha hissed at him and pushed his way past Miroku. It didn't matter that he was thinking the same thing, he didn't want anyone to know that. "Where's my dad? I think I need to talk to him." Miroku pointed into the kitchen and followed after him.
Inutashio was sitting at the table talking to Izayoi. "I don't know how to ask her about it, Izzy. I mean it's not something you can just pop out with." Inutashio looked tired, and he was showing some of his years.
Izayoi sighed and looked over at her mate, "Are you sure that it was bruises from someone else? It couldn't of been from an accident or something." Izayoi looked over at her son and smiled slightly.
Inutashio, Inuyasha and Miroku were all shaking their heads; all of them had seen the bruises shaped like hands on Kagome. Izayoi sighed and turned back to the stove, "We have to find out where she's staying. I didn't even know that she was back from America. I thought that she had moved there permanently after losing her parents. Too many memories here, you know."
Inuyasha sat by his father and hanged his head. He still felt like a complete bastard because of that. He had found out about his so-called new friends reasons for becoming his friends just days after ending his friendship with Kagome. After that he couldn't bring himself to say anything to her, he knew that she must hate him after what he did in front of everyone. So he convinced himself that he was doing her favor by staying away from her, that it was best if he stayed out of her life.
He recognized the lie he had told himself when he read about her parents death in the paper. All he had thought was that he needed to be with Kagome; she needed someone to help her through this. But when his parents and him had gone over to the shrine, he had found she had already left for American with her grandpa and brother. No one seemed to know when she was going to get back so he had kept out an eye for her. He seemed to see her every where for the first few months, but after the first year he didn't see her quite as much.
In the past few years he had only 'seen' her in a crowd a handful of times, and each time it gave him a start, and hope would course through his veins, but when he ran to her, he couldn't find her. Some times he would catch a sniff of her scent and that would send him on a spree of looking for her for a few months, after which he would stop, the hope eating at him and making him crazy. He would vow not to chase after her, that she wasn't here, he was wasting his time. And he would follow his vow, until he saw her again. He swore sometimes that he should have been admitted to a crazy house. And now here she was, solid, real, and apparently in need of help.
"Where's Fluffy?" Miroku asked innocently, and Izayoi and Inutashio both turned to look at him like he was crazy. "Kagome called him that." He explained.
Inutashio smiled and Izayoi laughed softly, "Now that's something I haven't heard in a long time. Sessomaru would let only her call him that." Izayoi walked to the table and sat next to Inutashio. "I think that he thought of her as a sister. I even caught him playing house with her once."
Inuyasha choked on his own spit and Miroku laughed out loud. Even Inutashio looked shocked, and he had to cover his laugh behind a cough.
"Oh, stop. He was absolutely cute, and I believe he will beat all you to a bloody pulp if you say anything about it." Izayoi shook her head at her mistake but laughed along with them. "It was kinda funny seeing Sessomaru play daddy to a doll. He was actually really good." They all laughed at the image of Sessomaru playing daddy to a doll.
Sango walked through the door and stared at the four laughing people like they could possibly be insane, "Should I even ask?" All they did was laugh even harder. "Never mind." Sango sat by Miroku and layed her head on the table. "I'm sorry for being the downer here, but when are we going to talk about the hit on Sessomaru. I'm guessing that it has something to do with your company."
Everyone stopped laughing rather abruptly, and Inutashio sighed. "We've been getting more than normal threats lately." Izayoi looked at him in surprise and Inutashio looked at her in a plea, "I didn't want to worry you, Izzy. We've been receiving threatening notes ever since I refused to sell my company to an anonymous buyer. We've been trying like crazy to try and find out who the hell it is."
Izayoi closed her eyes and seemed to be keeping a thin thread onto her temper. "Is that why you increased security around the house?"
Inutashio nodded, "Along with higher security around you and the boys." Inutashio looked at Inuyasha. "Did Kagome say anything about seeing the people who did this? God forbid, did they see her?" Panic was close at hand, but he held it at bay, barely. "I'll need to talk to her when she comes down. And see what Sessomaru remembers after he's out of the shower." Everyone fell silent and looked at the table.
"Do you think that Kagome could be in danger?" Inuyasha broke the silence and looked to his dad for the answer. The way Inutashio just looked at Inuyasha was more than answer enough. "She's not leaving this house."
"Inuyasha, be realistic." Sango said in exasperation. "She has to be staying with someone, a friend, family, a room mate, maybe a boyfriend." Inuyasha growled at the mention of a man in Kagome's life, but Sango pushed on. "You can't just dictate what is going to happen."
Inuyasha growled again, and he had to dig his claws into the table to stop himself from striking at something. Kagome couldn't have a boyfriend; it was unthinkable. And if she did he would have to make damn sure that he never got near her again. No one would get near her, no one would touch her. Inuyasha growled again and though he wasn't aware of it his eyes flashed a dangerous red.
Izayoi gasped and Inutashio jumped up and grabbed Inuyasha around his shoulders. "Okay, Inuyasha. Okay. Kagome's staying here. She's not going anywhere." Inutashio whispered into Inuyasha's ear, trying to calm him down with assurances that Kagome wasn't going anywhere. Everyone looked on in shock as Inuyasha battled his inner demon.
Inuyasha knew what was happening, and he was fighting it with everything he had. He didn't understand what had set him off; he hasn't had an episode like this for six years. Slowly, infinitely slowly, he heard his father's words and he began to feel the receding of his demon blood through his veins. He was left heavily panting and tired.
"Are you okay, Inuyasha?" Inuyasha looked up at his father and realized that he was the only person left in the kitchen.
"What the hell just happened?" His voice was slightly choked and he had to clear it before he spoked again. "I haven't done that in six years! What set me off?" Inuyasha shook his head and before he could stop himself he quickly checked to make sure that his canines were their regular size.
"I have a theory, but I'd like to ask you some questions before I say it." Sessomaru walked in through the doorway and waved off Inuyasha's surprised look. "Mom filled me in. Besides I think Father is already thinking along the same lines as me." Sessomaru nodded to his father and sat down next to Inuyasha.
Inutashio was looking at Inuyasha as if he was a wonder to behold. He seemed surprised and ecstatic and happy beyond understanding. "Could it be? Could both my sons . . ." He had a grin on his face and he started laughing, a deep baritone laugh that vibrated in the people around him.
Inuyasha was looking at his father like he was crazy. Here he was scared shit less, well, not scared, more like concerned, ya, concerned, and he was laughing his ass off. Sessomaru put a hand on his shoulder and softly squeezed it. "Don't mind him. He reacted the same way with me. Of course I was pissed off about the whole thing and I became, well, volatile."
Inuyasha looked from his father who was still laughing, to his brother who was looking a little too damn smug for his comfort. "What the fuck is going on?" Then something happened that even Inuyasha couldn't take-Sessomaru started laughing right along with their dad. "AHHHH!" Inuyasha tackled his brother before he could stop himself, not that he would. They landed roughly on the floor, and Inuyasha took great pride in the fact that Sessomaru's breath was knocked out of him. Before either one of them could make the next move, Inuyasha found himself dragged off his brother and into a hug.
"I can't believe it! Can't believe it!" Inutashio hugged Inuyasha even harder and looked over to Sessomaru who was trying to pull himself from the ground with some dignity. "I can't say I'm sorry that you got tackled, son. I was rather glad not to get another one to the face." He laughed yet again, and if Inuyasha could breath he would have been yelling, 'What the HELL are you talking about?' But since he couldn't all he did was choke a little on his spit.
Inutashio finally let him go, and Inuyasha took a gulp of air. Sessomaru and Inutashio both took their seats and waited patiently for Inuyasha to join them. Inuyasha took a seat across from his father and brother and waited.
"Well, let's do the whole process first. Do you have any questions for me, regarding Kagome?" Inutashio asked but it was as if he already knew what he was going to say.
Inuyasha looked away from his dad and refused to look at both of them. "Ah, I've been feeling different."
"Different how? Besides the obvious possessiveness?" Sessomaru was amazingly taking this serious and Inuyasha became a little more relaxed.
"I don't know how to describe it. Besides some of it is . . . personal." Inuyasha felt his face heating up and he knew a blush had to be spreading across his face.
Sessomaru sighed, "Brother, we are all Inu demons here. We all know how very strict our mating rituals are. Both father and I have found our mates, we both know what you are going through, so throw aside your embarrassment."
Inuyasha was rather caught up on the insinuation that he had found his mate in Kagome. "I think you have something mixed up; Kagome isn't my mate."
"Well you have that right. First you have to court her, then she's your mate to be if she accepts you, then after you have the mating bond done, then she's your mate. Right now she is just your Chosen." Inutashio still had a smile on his face and Inuyasha was finding it rather annoying.
"Chosen for what?"
Both Inutashio and Sessomaru groaned. "Weren't you listening to me when I was telling you about finding your mate, and the rituals, and rules?" Inutashio looked horrified that his son didn't know about the mating rituals. "Oh, God, please tell me you haven't done anything with that Kikyo girl? Please, Please, oh, God." Inutashio looked like his little happy balloon had just popped in front of him.
Inuyasha waved his hands in front of him, trying to fight off his dad's worries. "No, no! I admit that there were parts where I lost track of what you were talking about, but I definitely remember when you told me I couldn't have sex with anyone but my mate, and even then the first time could only be on the night that we complete the mating bond." Both of the men in front of him released a sigh of relief and Inuyasha felt slightly insulted. "But you know I really never got that. Every demon says that an Inu demon's sexual drive is legendary, but we're virgins for years after we reach sexual maturity. We live as monks until we find our mate, if we find our mate. I never understood that."
Both Sessomaru and Inutashio blushed and seemed to find a spot above his shoulder very interesting. "Well, of course we notice when an attractive woman walks by, and we're men and our body responds as any mans does." Inutashio coughed and looked down at his hands to inspect his nails. "We could . . . indulge in other women but then we would be being unfaithful to our Chosen."
Inuyasha nodded and waved his hand to indicate for his father to move on. "I understand that, I even agree with it. But where does this extraordinary, legendary sexual drive come in?"
Sessomaru sat tall and erect and said rather proudly, "As soon as you do find your mate, that's when the extraordinary, legendary sexual drive comes into play, Little brother. You love her, you think about nothing but how to care for her. The sexual energy plays an essential role in every Inu mating, it brings them closer, it seals the bond between you, and it lets every demon know that she is yours, as much as you are hers. Plus the spike in your sexual, uh, thoughts let you know when you find your mate. It's an instinct, saying that you need to mate her, because she is your Chosen." Sessomaru seemed to be very satisfied with what he said.
Inuyasha was embarrassed that he just had to sit and listened to his brother say that. And because it seemed to be the way that he was reacting to Kagome. Inuyasha's ears twitched and he heard the shower turn off from upstairs. H frowned; he had wanted her to spend a longer time relaxing in the shower.
"What I want to know is why he didn't notice this when he and Kagome were still friends? I highly doubt he would of abandoned her if his demon side recognized her as his mate?"
Inuyasha looked at his brother in surprise, "How do you know about that? I didn't tell anybody." Shame swept through him and he looked to his father to see if he had known. He nodded his head; he had known the whole time. Inuyasha couldn't make himself look into either one of their eyes.
"I think it was because he hadn't reached sexual maturity before he and Kagome stopped being friends." Inutashio sighed and looked across at Inuyasha. "You didn't know she was suppose to be your mate because your inner demon hadn't yet told you. Although I think you knew, subconsciously, that she was your Chosen. That's why you were so fond of her, and why your were so very protective."
Inuyasha rubbed his forehead, "I'm with Kiko. She's my girlfriend." But even as he said it, it no longer felt right. Something very drastic had changed inside him, and though he still cared for Kikyo it wasn't the same. "Fuck." Inuyasha heard Kagome open the bathroom door and he thought about going upstairs to meet her.
"Son, I know this is hard. But if Kagome is really your Chosen, it won't matter. Nothing will matter but your Chosen. It may sound a little harsh since you've been dating her for a few months, but Son, Kikyo will cease to exist to you. Every woman that you see won't measure up to your Chosen. I can't say that I'm sorry about it either." Inuyasha looked at his father in disbelief, and he waved away Inuyasha's look. "I married Sessomaru's mother because it was a good business move. Both of us knew that we weren't each others Chosens' but we both went into it. I eventually grew to love her to a degree, and we both held high respect for each other. When she died I was sad and missed her. But when I met your mother, Inu, I could finally see what I was missing. Amaya and I weren't meant to be together and for years after meeting Izzy I felt guilty for finding my Chosen and Amaya hadn't." Inutashio's eyes were so very serous that both Sessomaru and Inuyasha were listening very carefully. "I was scared that Sessomaru and you wouldn't find your Chosens' and would eventually marry the best woman you could find. I was so happy when Sessomaru found Rin, found his Chosen. But you," Inutashio pointed his finger at Inuyasha in an accusing way, "You were scaring me to death. Dating that girl that wasn't your Chosen, I wanted to hit some sense into you. I thought you were going to go off the deep end and marry her, and I lost many nights sleep over it. You'll see, Inuyasha, that your Chosen beats all the others."
Inuyasha thought about it, and though he knew that his father was right, he couldn't help but ask one more thing. "If you can't sleep with anyone but your Chosen, how did you get mom. Because you obviously slept with Amaya to make Sessomaru. Why shouldn't you sleep with other women besides your Chosen?"
Inutashio actually shivered, "I had to go through a Cleansing Ritual. They are very dangerous and many don't make it out alive. I had to cleanse myself so that my soul would bond with Izzy's when we did the mating ritual. If I hadn't I would of killed her."
Inuyasha hadn't of known that and processed it away. Inuyasha's ears flickered upstairs at the sound of something small. He listened and when he was about to pass it off as nothing, he heard it again. It was a small sounding whimper and before anyone else could do more than blink, Inuyasha's was all ready up the stairs, flying to his room. As he drew closer he could her sobs coming from behind his door. He hesitated for just a second before opening the door.
Slowly he pushed the door open and walked into his room; he couldn't smell her and he cursed the barrier that she seemed to never take down. He found her curled into herself on the floor by his bed. Her sobs tore at him, as if every whimper, and moan was a knife cutting at him. He felt a physical response to comfort her, and to make what ever was hurting her to go away.
Slowly as if he was approaching a hurt animal, he sat down next to her and hesitantly wrapped his arms around her. She didn't react at first, he thought it was because she was too caught up in what ever was making her cry like her world had fallen apart. She suddenly stiffened up and whipped around in his arms, a flash of purple blinding him for a second, fear clouding her eyes. He didn't like that, it was unacceptable, her being afraid of him. He cuddled her into his arms, with her head resting against his chest. She resisted at first, but slowly she melted against him and cried even harder. He could feel her tears soak into his shirt even though he couldn't smell them.
"Shh, Kagome, it's all right." He ran his hand through her hair, the damp black as night strands clinging to his fingers. "I'm here, it's alright. I won't let anything hurt you. Everything is going to be fine. I'm here." He noticed that she had put up a shield around them, and thanked whatever God was listening that it hadn't thrown him back when she had called it up. That would of hurt really bad, even for him.
She grabbed a fistful of his shirt and hanged onto it tightly, almost as tightly as she was hanging onto his words. She knew that you couldn't trust what people said, even if they said it in sincerity. But right now it was nice to lean onto someone, to take comfort in them. Even if just for a moment. She slowly started to calm down and became aware of the softly spoken words he was whispering into her hair. She smelled his shirt and was happy to find that his scent hadn't changed that much from when they were friends. Slightly more musky, but the same smell of rain and trees and earth. She briefly thought that his smell is probably the reason she felt so safe in the forest. It smelt just like him.
"Are you smelling me, Kagome?" There was a smile in his voice, and Kagome blushed. "I don't think it's very fare that you get to smell me and I can't even smell you."
Kagome hiccuped and looked up at him, "Tough."
Inuyasha laughed and gently kissed her forehead. "You used to do that when you thought I was asleep, too." He laughed again when Kagome gasped and a blush crawled up her face. "Yeah, I knew that you sniffed me."
Kagome looked at her nails and pretended not to be embarrassed, "I was making sure that you took a shower that day."
Inuyasha choked and a small sound of what might have been a laugh escaped Kagome. "I take offense to that. My shower rebellion was only in second grade, after that I took a shower everyday."
"I was just checking." They laughed a little and eventually fell in to a comfortable silence.
"Are you going to tell me why you were crying?"
Kagome shook her head. How was she suppose to tell him why she was crying when she didn't even know herself? She slowly started to sit up but Inuyasha tightened his arms around her and pulled her back down.
"Just for a few more moments? I could really use them." The quiver in his voice convinced Kagome that he was telling the truth and she laid back down. She lightly twined her hand with one of his and just held onto it. Kagome wasn't sure why she was acting like this. She always thought that she would act indifferent and show him how it was to be ignored, to be forgotten. She pictured herself giving him the bird as she walked away from him. But here she was forgiving him before he could even ask for it. She was too weak sometimes.
As they just sat there leaning on one another, Kagome slowly became aware of how her body had just naturally curled and molded into his. Her breasts were pushed against his chest and her head was on his shoulder, her breath fanning onto his neck. Her legs were folded on his lap and one of his arms were holding onto her around her lower back and the other was just resting on the top of the curve to her butt. It felt very intimate, and natural, which was what was making her nervous. This shouldn't feel natural, this should feel weird and slightly uncomfortable. She hasn't even hugged another person since the night her brother got on that plane.
"Ready to go downstairs?" Inuyasha didn't know how long he could stay in this position. He could feel her soft breast pushed against the hard muscles of his chest, and it was driving him crazy. He felt her nod and he helped her to her feet. Her eyes were a little red but other than that she looked fine.
Kagome looked at her shield in confusion. This wasn't right, something was wrong.
"What? What's wrong?" Inuyasha looked at her in concern and Kagome became even more confused.
"Why didn't my shield push you away? Why is it purple?" She reached out a hand to touch the purple energy shield and she stared at it in perplexity.
Inuyasha coughed and looked a little worried. "It doesn't just change colors?"
Kagome looked at him suspiciously, "No, it's only ever been pink." She looked at him and called down her barrier. "What aren't you telling me? You never could lie very well."
Inuyasha rubbed the back of his head and coughed again, "Well, see when you were, you know, knocked out, these. . . lights come out and danced around." He twirled his fingers around himself to display where the lights were dancing. "And I think they might have, maybe, taken a. . . light from me. And when it was danced in your shield they, it, kinda changed."
Kagome looked at Inuyasha in disbelief, "It changed?" She suddenly waved away his answer before he could even say it. He didn't know what had happened, hell, she didn't know what had happened. She didn't even know it could happen, from all that she had heard a miko couldn't change the color of her energy. The color was a part of her aura, her dominant color and you couldn't change it. Apparently she was misinformed. She would have to call on her mentor in America. She wondered if she still remembered the number.
There was a knock on the door and before Inuyasha could say anything or even make an attempt to open the door Sessomaru opened it a crack, "Mother wants you two to come and eat. She said she made your favorite, Inuyasha." Then he closed the door and left.
Kagome suddenly felt very awkward and started fiddling with the hem of the shirt she was wearing. "I guess we should go downstairs?" She didn't mean for it to come out as a question but that's the way it sounded.
"Yeah, I guess we should." But he didn't exactly sound happy about it. He walked with her out the room and down the hall. "Who are you staying with?" He wanted some answers but he was also trying to figure out how her life has been these past few years.
Kagome looked at her bare feet and refused to look at Inuyasha. "No one. I live alone." She lived alone in the woods that smelled like Inuyasha, and slept in the top branches of a tree for a bed, where she dreamed her dreams of Inuyasha. Although it wasn't exactly true that she lived alone; many animals lived in the woods, too.
"Where at?" Kagome shrugged and stayed silent. Inuyasha sighed and stared straight ahead. "Your going to have to tell my dad. Your a part of this family, my parents consider you to be on of us and I do, too. My dad isn't going to settle for anything less than the absolute truth. And eventually I'd like it if you told me."
Kagome refused to say anything and they were both silent the rest of the way. Inuyasha's head was filled with what his brother and father just told him. He sneaked a look at Kagome and couldn't believe that this was to be his mate. It wasn't that she wasn't beautiful, because she was, it was because he couldn't believe that he would abandon his mate. He should of recognized her; besides he was dating Kikyo. He had already told her that he loved her! He loved her, damn it, and nothing was going to change that. He was loyal to her, he protected her. She was going to be his mate.
But in the back of his mind his demon was whispering that this girl beside him was to be his mate. That this girl was the one to complete him. There could be no other. He pushed all those thoughts away to think about later when he could actually comprehend what he was thinking. But one thing was for sure- he had no idea what to do.
Kagome looked at Inuyasha from under her eye lashes. He seemed different, like he was fighting with himself. He had that crease between his brow that he always got when he was little and knew not to do something, but was thinking about doing it anyways. Kagome smiled; she liked that she knew those little tid bits about him. She knew that even his girlfriend Kikyo didn't know all that she still possessed from their childhood; she had watched as they had fought at school and Kikyo hadn't seen the signs that Inuyasha was angry because he was hurting. That he was hurting because she had said half-breed without thinking. Or maybe she just didn't care.
Kagome had to look away in disgust when she had seen that. She couldn't understand why Inuyasha would want to be with someone who treated him so poorly. And she admitted it, if only to herself, that she was angry that he had chosen Kikyo over her. It didn't matter that he had met Kikyo three years after they stopped being friends, every one was a comparison between her. Because they were able to be Inuyasha's friends and he let them, unlike her.
"Kagome, could I talk to you? Alone." Rin, the small girl who seemed to have captured Sessomaru's heart was waiting for Kagome at the end of the stairs. She was clearly not going to take 'no' for an answer and Kagome became slightly panicked. She didn't know what this girl wanted, and was slightly afraid to be with her alone. Which was ridiculous, she was just alone with Inuyasha and hadn't felt this way.
Inuyasha looked at Kagome and hesitantly nodded his head, and walked away leaving Kagome alone with this stranger.
Rin smiled, really smiled for the first time that Kagome had met her and she was surprised how it transformed her. Her eyes sparkled, dimples appeared, and she looked . . . simply beautiful. Kagome hasn't had a lot of extra time to admire beauty, or even to go in search of it, she just thought that it was normal that her life was bare of it. She was momentarily speech less, and the unease she felt being alone with this woman left her mind.
"I don't think that I've properly thanked you for saving Sessomaru's life. Thank you." She bent at her waist and bowed very formally to Kagome. "I could never repay you for saving my Chosen, but I would gladly offer my life to you if you ever need it, or any service I could supply."
Kagome recognized the formal thank you of a saved life. She could just remember Izayoi saying it to her mother, years and years ago after her mother had saved Inuyasha from a mob of people who were protesting in Tokyo. She now knew that they were protesting the Hanyou Laws, and it was because of them that the Laws took so long to pass. She could remember the look of surprise her mother had at the thank you, and how she had looked quickly at Kagome, and something had sparked in her eyes. Kagome remembered that her mom and Izayoi had began whispering but she never could make out what they were saying, so she had simply turned her attention to her best friend who was cuddled into her and who was slightly shaking.
Belatedly Kagome bowed slightly, "I accept you're thanks and you're offer." To do anything but accept the offer of her life would be an insult, saying that her life wasn't equal to the one saved. Kagome straightened herself and was relieved when Rin did the same.
Rin smiled again, "So you and Inuyasha met in school. Does that mean that your the same age?" Rin gestured for Kagome to follow her and they slowly started to make their way to the kitchen.
Kagome nodded, "He's three months older than me, but we're basically the same age."
Rin squealed and Kagome jumped and looked around trying to find the source of her yell. "Inuyasha just had his eighteenth birthday about two months ago, so your's is coming up right?"
Kagome thought about it and was surprised that her birthday was indeed coming up. She had forgotten all about it, "Uh, yeah, in about . . . two weeks?" It came out sounding more like a question, but Kagome couldn't help it, she hasn't even celebrated her birthday in the past four years.
"Two weeks? I bet your excited.I have a whole six months before mine. What are you going to do? Go partying?" Rin was actually, genuinely excited about Kagome's birthday, almost as if it was hers.
Kagome decided that saying that she planned on sleeping in a tree, and eating a handful of berries if she was lucky, and hiding away from her feared foster father wasn't a very good answer. So she did what anybody would do in this kind of question-she evaded it. "Oh, I was just planning on going to bed early. Nothing special."
Rin looked horrified and she was shaking her head before Kagome even finished. "No! That's no way of celebrating a birthday."
Who said she was celebrating it? She was damn sure that she never did.
"I'll just have to talk to Sessomaru about this. It'll just never do!" Kagome didn't tell her that she didn't plan on being around here that long, it would just raise questions she didn't want answered.
"So, I guess that since your eighteen that your a senior?" Kagome slowly nodded her head, but she tensed slightly not liking at all where this was going. "What school do you go to?" Ah, there it was, the question she was dreading.
"I kinda move around a lot. I went to middle school in America, and only came back here for my freshman year." Kagome had learned a lot about evading questions; you give them a little information but leave out the actual answer, and then you completely side track them with a question of your own. "Sessomaru isn't in high school any more, is he? But you are. How did you two meet?"
Rin's eyes lightened to an almost hazel color and her whole person became more alive; Kagome had asked the right question it seemed. "We met when I was a freshman and he was a senior. I loved him when I first met him through Sango, but he, well, he was kinda mad that he found his Chosen. You know what a Chosen is right?"
Kagome nodded her head. She learned all about Inu mating the same time Inuyasha did because as soon as his dad was done telling him he had come over to her house and talked about it with her, repeating everything his father had said.
"Well, anyway, he wasn't very happy about finding me. He told me that he was already engaged to a woman through a business deal he had set up himself." Rin slowed to a standstill and her eyes darkened just a little with remembered pain. She gestured to some French doors and Kagome nodded. They walked outside to the garden and slowly walked the pebbled path. "He was planning on ignoring what we were destined to be. For the first year I had to watch him with this beautiful girl who he had set up to marry." Rin looked at Kagome and her eyes were fierce. "Most people believe that Inu demons have the instant recognition of their Chosen and that the Chosen actually doesn't know they are the Chosen. That we have to be wined and dined and seduced. But we know, we have that instant recognition that they do, that this is suppose to be the love of my life."
Kagome watched her bare feet walking over the rocks; they didn't hurt, they were smooth and soft, probably river bed rocks. She peeked over at Rin and was yet again astonished at how she looked so different from the child that she had seemed but hours ago.
The moonlight and dark had conspired to make Rin look like a woman; who had known the pain of love, and broken trust, but she still had that innocence around her, as if she still believed in them. "Sessomaru couldn't stop how he reacted to me, much to his chagrin, and he became protective of me, which just hurt me more. I knew that he didn't want me and that I wasn't doing to get him but he was acting like he was my mate. It just showed me what I thought I was never going to have." Rin shook her head and looked around her as if she still had to make sure that her reality wasn't a beautiful dream. "I couldn't control how I reacted to him either, and after, uh, well, uh. . . after I kissed him and, well it got out of hand. He was so mad at me, for making him act like that." Rin looked at Kagome and she was actually crying, silently and with a self mocking smile, but still crying. "It was the best, most special moment of my life and he just threw it aside. I was destroyed and I couldn't face him. I ran home and cried for four days straight."
Rin grew silent, just kinda let her voice trail off, and she looked like she was trying to find out how to say what happened next. "I'm not good at hiding my emotions, obviously, and my father demanded that I tell him 'what the hell was the matter with me', his words. So I told him, even though I knew not to." Rin looked over at Kagome and demanded that she looked at her, "My father is very traditional and doesn't believe in demons taking human mates. In fact he would rather see them all dead." Rin gouged Kagome's reaction and apparently seeing what she wanted turned away and continued. "He threw me out and disowned me. I went to Sango's and she let me stayed there. I was . . . pissed at everyone. When Sessomaru came by I completely ignored him, and refused to talk to him. He didn't want me and I had lost everything because I loved him, and I wasn't even going to get him. I was mad at everything, and I didn't talk about what happened with my dad."
Kagome looked around at the garden as they rounded another corner. She couldn't see much because of the dark, but she could smell the dozens of flowers as they walked past them. The night sky was like a bouquet of flowers by itself anyway, with the constellations all so bright.
"Finally Sessomaru heard about what my dad did, and he came back over. Asked why I had done what I did. You know what I told him? I told him that he may be in the habit of lying to himself, but I wasn't. I told the truth, and someone didn't like it. Boo hoo, poor me and all that. Told him I couldn't control who I loved or how the person I loved treated me, but I could control what I did. Then I asked him to leave. The next week I had a ticket to India. I had been offered a scholarship there, as an exchange student for the last two years of high school. I was going to take it and make a life for myself, away from Sessomaru and my father." Rin shook her head and another smile graced her face. "Sessomaru found out and came back to stop me. I told him that I loved him, but that I deserved to be more than a passing thought or a mistress to a too busy business man. I told him that I wanted everything he couldn't give me, and I wouldn't settle for anything less. And that if he didn't want me, fine, I can find someone who could love me. He flipped out and said that no one but him could touch me, that I was his mate."
They rounded another corner and the French doors were in front of them, separated by a fountain. "Everything went he way it should of after that. Everything turned out alright. I had some trust issues with Sesso for a while, but I'm his Chosen and he loves me. The best thing is that he tells me."
Kagome was wondering why Rin had told her that. She liked that she trusted her with something so personal, but didn't understand why she had told her about her whole relationship with Sessomaru. As if Rin could read her mind, she answered Kagome's unspoken question. "I told you this to show that I trust and respect you. If you don't want me to know something, just tell me to mind my own business. You don't have to try and escape my questions like their bullets or anything. What ever you tell me I wont tell anyone, unless your afraid for your life or anything like that."
Kagome was ashamed. Mostly because Rin was smarter than she thought and had caught her trying to evade her questions. But also because she was just being nice and she treated her like she had an agenda. Softly, Kagome answered her original question. "Tokyo Academy for Special and Talented Persons." Rin gasped as Kagome knew she would. Why wouldn't she? She didn't expect Kagome to go to a school for demons and people with spiritual powers.
"Kagome! Are you out here?" Inuyasha stood outlined in the French doors, his face creased in concern. He spied her and his frowned deepened as he marched out to her and Rin. "What do you think your doing? Trying to give me a heart attack? My brother was just attacked and you decided to go for a midnight stroll? And you," he pulled Kagome to him and wrapped his arm around her waist as he pointed a finger at Rin, "You better go kiss up to my brother before he finds out you were out here alone."
Rin looked at Inuyasha in surprise as he wrapped his arm around Kagome, but none the less left before she got the wrath of Sessomaru.
"You should know better than coming out here alone." Inuyasha gently chastised her, and sniffed her hair, sighing when he couldn't smell anything. A small whine escaped his throat, and he did that funny little sound in the back of his throat that meant that he was begging. "Please. Just once."
Kagome debated with herself, but finally called down her barrier against her better judgment.
Inuyasha was shocked by the tidal wave of pure scent that washed over him. He pulled Kagome to him and buried his nose in her neck. She tried to get away but he whined and did that little noise she likes and she settled down for him to hold her. His hands clenched and he breathed deeply, trying to familiarize himself with the scent again and ingrain it in his memory. Kagome always had an intriguing scent and he found that it had only grown more addicting as she grew older, like a great bottle of wine stored away for a special day. Inuyasha suddenly knew that his father and brother had been right, and he knew that there was no use going against instincts. Look what happened with Sessomaru; the only thing he did was delay his happiness for two years. He accepted that Kagome was his Chosen and was happy and even a little relieved about it.
Kagome stood silently against Inuyasha and took comfort in his embrace. She missed him.
"Kagome? Why do you smell like your hurt? Are you bleeding?!" Hurt and raw panic entered his voice and Kagome suddenly remembered the half healed cut on her back, a gift from her foster father. As Inuyasha began sniffing her out, to find exactly where she was hurt at, Kagome suddenly came to the realization that she wasn't going to leave. That the Takahashi's were going to find out that she lived alone and were going to insist that she stay with them. And suddenly that realization wasn't as scary as it had been only a few hours before.
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Okay that it for this chapter.
I have some bad news. I'm leaving on a traditional visit to my family cemetery to clean the graves of my family members. I'll be gone for a week and out where I'm going there is no such thing as Internet connection, so the next chapter will be late. Sorry, but I made this one nice and long for you. I was actually planning on making it longer but thought that I should let you have one more chapter before I leave.
So, how did you like Sessomaru's story? I actually have it written out, the entire story of Rin and Sessomaru but since I started with this story I had to give you the short version.
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