Chapter 2
Sesshoumaru's future
Why did he allow her to leave three years ago? He should have known that the sapphire he gave her could have easily deflected the curse placed on the well. None of it mattered now though, he could smell her. She had returned, and he would have to get to her fast. Within the passing of three years he and the Eastern Lands have somehow gotten into a war with the Southern Lands. It wasn't an easy war either. Thankfully Miyori and Tsuin were there or the chance of him winning wouldn't be good. And now maybe he would even have his eldest son to assist him. He needed to get them fast though; youkai from the Southern Lands would take great advantage in seeing his mate unprotected.
Sesshoumaru looked through the trees and saw her climbing out of the Bone Eater's Well. He couldn't take his eyes off her. She had changed, but he didn't really mind it. Her body was more developed; well all of it except her loving face which had remained the same. Someone else then came out of the well behind her. Sesshoumaru could have easily mistaken her companion for his younger brother if it wasn't for his brown eyes and odd appearance. His clothes were all black and he couldn't help but notice the many chains and rings on his long baggy pants. The shirt itself was strange. It showed strange portraits of humans and above that were the words 'POD'. That wasn't even the strangest part about this kid, he was also wearing...jewelry? He had a few bracelets on his arms with various images and words, and what in the hell was that thing on his left dog ear?
"Were alive?" Koinu asked when he came out of the well after his mother while dragging to one of the duffle bags that contained his clothes, "hold on, were not at the shrine anymore!"
"Well duh," Kagome told him with a smile on her face, "why are you so surprised were alive?"
"Well," Koinu started, "I thought by the way you were talking we were committing suicide by jumping down a well. I just all of a sudden assumed my father was dead and you were trying to kill use off to be with him."
"Well before we jumped through you could have said your father was dead. We have just traveled about five hundred years into the past. I came here when I met your father."
"Five hundred years into the past? That's not possible."
"Fine don't believe me. We committed suicide and now were dead."
"So this is hell?"
"If that is what you what to think then whatever floats your boat."
"When do we meet my father?"
"Give it time. Until then we will just wait right here."
"That wouldn't be a wise choice," interrupted a voice that was still able to send shivers down Kagome's spine.
Kagome turned around and faced a pair of golden eyes she had not seen in three years.
"Sesshoumaru," she whispered.
"You," Sesshoumaru snapped at even though his eyes with locked with Kagome's, "leave me and your mother for now."
"Mom who is this guy?" Koinu asked ignoring the demand.
Kagome didn't move away from Sesshoumaru's gaze as she answered, "Koinu this is your father, Sesshoumaru."
Koinu stared at the man in disbelief. The only evidence he saw of this guy being his was the hair. And who did he think he was ordering him to abandon his mother. This guy could have been anyone for all he knew.
"No," Koinu told his so-called father.
"Koinu it will just be for a second," Kagome pleaded as she turned around and faced her son.
"Where am I suppose to go?"
"East," Sesshoumaru growled, "go to the village and wait."
"I am not taking orders from you and leaving my mother here with you."
Sesshoumaru's attention was no longer on his mate, but now on his eldest son. The two were just staring each other down. Kagome prayed that Koinu wasn't going to act like a little punk as usual and Sesshoumaru wasn't in a bad mood.
"You will do as I say," commanded the snarling dog youkai.
"No. I am not taking shit from some prissy dressed man wearing make up."
"Its not make up," Sesshoumaru stated calmly as he walked towards Koinu, "now I have defended myself so why don't you explain your jewelry."
"Sesshoumaru just leave him alone," Kagome pleaded, "that's just one of the styles from the future."
"I don't care," Sesshoumaru replied, "fighting with words and insults is the same as fighting on a battlefield. I have not lost nor has he. Battles rage on until some one is the victor."
"Your freaking crazy," said Koinu.
"You have already insulted me once Koinu. You have to defend yourself now without your mother's help. So tell me why are you wearing jewelry like a girl? Even your human sister doesn't wear that much."
"Fine I will play your little game. I have these because now that I am in the outside world and not locked up in an apartment hopefully no one will mess with me because of my appearance. That's where it works where I come from. So what do you think you could take me?"
"Take you?"
"You know, put up a good fight."
"We will eventually have to fight," Sesshoumaru simply said as he turned around, "you have to defeat me in order to complete your training."
"Why are you turning away?" Koinu asked while letting out his first ever growl.
Sesshoumaru then turned around and flashed his son the warning glare. Koinu did nothing but flash one of his own. It remained that way for a few seconds before a familiar whip of light ignited from Sesshoumaru's hand and flew towards Koinu striking him in the chest. The teenaged hanyou then stumbled backwards on to the ground and fell unconscious.
"Koinu!" Kagome shrieked as she ran to her son's side.
"He will be fine," noted Sesshoumaru as he stood by Kagome was now kneeling on the ground, "I didn't hit him too hard. I can tell you have babied him."
"Someone had too," Kagome responded as she double checked Koinu and saw the only damage on him was on his shirt where it had been ripped.
"Why have you returned after all this time?"
"The sapphire you have me deflected Naraku's curse that was placed on the well."
"You just now realized your jewel had that power?"
"Well if you knew this whole time why didn't you come and tell me? You told me you were able to pass through the well."
"I came through once. I witnessed the death of your family and thought it wasn't a good time for you and Koinu to come back to me."
"It actually would have been the prefect time. Life has been hell since then. That's why Koinu is the way he is. He is really a sweet kid when you get to know him."
Sesshoumaru wasn't listening anymore. Kagome could tell when she felt the neck of her shirt getting pulled down towards her shoulder. She moved her mouth to speak, but he silenced her with a content growl. A shiver when down her spine as she felt his finger tracing over something. It was the mark he put on her three years ago.
"It has gotten more of a darker shade since the last time I saw it," he whispered in his ear, "who have you touched?"
"There was just a few incidents beyond my control," Kagome answered nervously referring to times she had to shake hands with other men for job interviews or for when she accidentally bumped into them.
"You should have learned to control it; now I have to turn it back to it's original color."
"Hold on!" Kagome shouted as she got up after feeling his breath on her neck, "we are not going to play this game again. I don't even recall forgiving you for the first time you sunk your fangs into my neck."
"That is in the past and it doesn't matter anymore. You are my mate now."
"Can we not talk about that stuff now? We have more important stuff to worry about. Like you taking responsibility and taking your son in even though he has a bit of an attitude problem."
"I am taking you both back and your not leaving me this time Kagome. Like I said when you left, it was only the beginning."
"I know but it has been three years. I am just not use to it all anymore. Right now the thing that matters is what needs to be done with Koinu. I have not told him a single thing about the feudal era or what a hanyou or youkai is."
"It will all be taken care of. I have high doubts about this kid, but if he shares the same blood line as Tsuin and Miyori he should be just fine."
"Tsuin and Miyori? Will I get to see them? I need too. It's been so long. How have they been doing? Oh and Rin, she would be eleven now."
Sesshoumaru turned around and started walking east. He picked up Koinu by the pick of his shirt and dragged him. He motioned for Kagome to follow and she did.
"Rin has fared well," Sesshoumaru started, "I still don't know what to do with her though. She is not the fighting type like the other two. Right now she fills in a few things on my paper work, but I will find something else for her."
"And the other two?"
"It is disrespectable for one to brag, but I must say. We have the best daughter in the whole world."
"Miyori? I could tell from the moment I first seen her. Why has she been much help to you?"
"She is three. I am nine hundred and three, and yet she is able to defeat me battle."
"Wow, I wonder does she ever use any miko power while fighting?"
"No she does not."
"Okay then what about Tsuin."
"Tsuin could be as good as Miyori if he wanted too, but he has got a long way to go. He is much more of planner then a fighter."
"Well that's good. They don't all have to be good at fighting."
"Yes they do. He will not escape the battlefield. I will not have an exceptional daughter and a pathetic son. He has only gotten away with it for so long so far because he has had a few problems with illness."
"Illness? Our son has been sick?"
"It's only started up since two years ago. He has just had really bad head and ear pains."
"Then that note must have been real."
"Note?"
"Do you know what has become of Inuyasha?"
"We have been through a lot, then separated for three years, and you still think about that hanyou?"
"You should know I would never forget Inuyasha. He was my best friend."
"Even though he kept abandoning you for a dead miko that he has now died with."
"I have let that go. I think Inuyasha is back."
"Yes he is. Not really the real thing though, but our little friend Kagura was playing around with demon parts and human souls along with Inuyasha's youkai soul. She created a new version of Inuyasha."
"What?"
"I found out when I was investigating the whereabouts of the Tetsusaiga."
"So there is a new Inuyasha out there using the Tetsusaiga and he was created by Kagura."
"The Tetsusaiga belongs to me now. Mistakes were made in Inuyasha's creatation. He is no longer youkai, but he is nothing more then a small child. He resembles an eight year old human and he might be stuck that way forever."
"I think he ages a few years, because he made a visit to my house yesterday. He gave me a note from Miyori and that's what told me about the sapphire. I don't think it was written yet here. It probably will be in one year from now according to Miyori."
"Let me see it."
Kagome dug in her pocket and revealed the letter that was attached to the Tetsusaiga that Koinu claimed a hanyou named Inuyasha had dropped off. Sesshoumaru took it and unfolded it.
"What is this?"
"Like I said according to Miyori it's a letter from one year into the future. This is how things turn out."
"Naraku is dead."
"Yeah well according to the letter so are you."
"Do you actually believe this? For all you know it could be a trap. Someone could be plotting to capture you or something and that's why they made up this fake note to get you to come back."
"Why would anyone want to capture me? If I am out of this time period what does my existence matter to anyone?"
Sesshoumaru then stopped and gave her the piercing glare, "you seem to have forgotten your place. I don't care if you went missing for one-hundred years. I have marked you and you will always be the lady of the western lands. We are currently at war with the Southern lands and they would love to get their hands on you. I think three years has made you forget everything."
"It has. I have been too busy trying to raise Koinu that I am just not use to any of this anymore. I didn't think it mattered. I assumed by now you would have replaced me with a different mate and all I had to do was drop Koinu off."
"You are mine and you are staying here with me this time. Whether you like it or not."
"Strange. Before we were enemies, then we were both were just enemies who had to be burdened by a curse, and then somehow we have fallen in love."
Sesshoumaru started walking again at that point, "I don't know how I fell in love with you. Sometimes I still even want to accuse you of casting a spell, but it took me awhile to get to you feel the same way about me and I am not going to let all of that go to waste because you had to leave. Even if we have to start from the beginning."
"I wasn't even use to it when I first learned I had to live with you. I was use to both living in the future and always wandering around looking for jewel shards. Speaking of which do you know anything about them? I just have one and that's the one that came out of Koinu long ago."
"All I know is that when I returned after you fell through the well a jewel shard came out of Tsuin. There is still one in Miyori and that is one reason why she needs to be a superior fighter no matter what. Everyone wants that shard."
"Wow it came out of Tsuin. I wonder how that happened. I believe the note is real though, I am needed here for some reason and Naraku might be linked to it. He once promised to spare the lives of my children if I left and never came back, that's why the Tokijin transformed."
"Him wanting you to disappear was probably linked with the jewel shards. Inuyasha is dead and so is Kikyo so nobody could finish it but him and you."
"Maybe I should finish it before he comes back. I don't want this future to happen."
"I don't believe one word of it. That is not the future. I will not die at the hands of a hanyou that is dead."
"How do you know its fake."
"Its none of your concern."
"Fine don' t tell me, but if it is true then I am here now and there is a chance it won't happen."
"Are you done talking?"
Sesshoumaru knew he wasn't being that nice at all. Here was his mate he had not seen in three years now and he was treating her coldly, but how could he be nice? His emotionless face didn't show it, but he was worried. There was only one possibility that proved the note to be a fake, and he wouldn't reveal it to Kagome. And if his thoughts about that were untrue then he would die, and his mate and family would once again be endangered by the hanyou he killed.
"Well gee I forgot how rude you were," Kagome said interrupting his thoughts, "no I am not, let's talk about something else. What are your plans for Koinu?"
"This one needs an attitude adjustment and quickly. Then once that is done he will undergo training. I need more help with this war anyways."
They then stopped shortly after on the outskirts of a familiar village.
"Kaede's village," Kagome said under her breath.
"I was originally taking a trip to see the monk and demon slayer," stated Sesshoumaru, "Sango, I believe her name is, has just given birth to a child."
"Sango!" Kagome cheered, "her and Miroku? I always knew it would work out, always! I can't believe they have finally had a child."
"Second child. She gave birth to one shortly after you left, but it was a girl and that monk wanted to keep trying."
"Why would you go and my friends?"
"Because their the friends of the Lady of the Western Lands, that gives them standing and not seeing them would be unethical."
Kagome knew this would all be hard. During the period of three years she had forgot all about how traditional Sesshoumaru was. She also wasn't use to all the attention she was getting from him. She was a little scared on what the future held for her.
Sesshoumaru on the other hand couldn't wait for this little meeting with Kagome's friends to end. He would finally have something to distract himself from this horrible war. Not only would he have his son to put through hard training, but also his mate was back. She seemed so unsure over everything, as though she had forgotten her place. No matter he would show her again. Even if he had to train her too. There was also something else in his heart that made him happy to see Kagome. For the last three years his demon instincts had been eating away at him. He had already marked her, but he would not be satisfied until she was his full mate, which meant she needed to be mated with and fast. It was only getting worse by the way he looked at her new appearance.
"Miroku!" Kagome chirped happily when she seen the monk outside of a hut.
He had looked the same. When she looked at him she couldn't help but think of all the adventures her and Inuyasha had together. Suddenly none of it was a dream anymore. She could remember it all as reality.
"Kagome," Miroku whispered rubbing his eyes, "can it be you?"
"Yeah long time no see," replied Kagome, "I just came back today. I heard the news, I even heard the news from three years ago."
"Yep. I have two baby girls. I am just happy that Naraku is dead so they can live happily. Too bad I haven't met your children yet."
"Well now you can monk," interrupted Sesshoumaru's voice which sounded foreign to the conversation.
Miroku looked at the teenaged hanyou that was now growling after Sesshoumaru dropped him on the ground. Kagome rushed to her son's side and helped him to his feet. The meeting with Sango and Miroku lasted long and Kagome was happy for that. They all sat around and talked about the happy times they had when they were traveling with each other to recover the jewel along the side of Inuyasha. Their daughter's names were Sureiyaa and Kika. Soon their little meeting came to a close though when Sesshoumaru proposed they go back to the castle.
"Do we have to go?" asked Kagome while Koinu just sat in a corner with his arms crossed.
"I have to get back and take care of this war. And the sooner you get back the better."
"I want to stay here some more," replied Kagome.
Sesshoumaru let out a growl.
"That's it!" announced Koinu as he stood up, "there is no way you're my father so quit bossing my mother around. You can't just growl at her like that."
"Koinu," a soft voice said when a hand was laid on his shoulder, "you should come into the next room with me and Miroku. There is something you don't seem to understand that needs explained to you."
Sango lead both Koinu and Miroku into a small room on the right leaving Kagome alone with a snarling Sesshoumaru. Kagome didn't like this at all. She knew he was his mate and everything and being gone for three years couldn't change that, but she didn't want to be alone with him right now. Sesshoumaru on the other hand knew that they needed to get a talk in one way or the other. Kagome had clearly forgotten her place."
"Kagome," he growled, "remember the little talk we had before you left."
"I don't know Sesshoumaru," said Kagome, "we had many different talks before that happened."
"The talk about how we were going to mate and you were going to completely belong to me is the one I am talking about."
"Oh that one...what about it?"
"You are at the right age now so you have no more excuses for delay."
(End Chapter 2)
AN: That chapter goes on the I-Must-Revise-One-Day-List it seemed kind of choppy. But it was hard thinking of how Kagome and Sesshoumaru reuniting should be like. And to answer many of the questions that were in the reviews Miyori was trying to get that note to Kagome so she could go back in time before Sesshoumaru died. That's why he isn't dead yet because nothing has happened yet. Hence the chapter's name: Sesshoumaru's Future. Anyways thank all bunches for all your reviews. I have never though getting over fifty on just one chapter was possible before now.
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