Chapter 13

Sesshoumaru's apology

"You told your mother that did you?" Sesshoumaru asked his bedridden son sternly.

Tsuin let out a cough before turning to face his father, "she asked so I told her."

"I expected more out of you and Miyori," replied the inuyoukai as he turned his back on his son showing his disappointment.

"Well I am done with you telling me to waste valuable time by always sending me off to that shrine father," his son explained.

"So you decided to just raise your mother's hopes and shatter them?" he asked in a dangerous tone.

"I wanted her to find out why you always put me through this. Just a few minutes ago she explained to me that its because some kind of old enemy from your past possess my soul. Now that I know I have told her I have no more need for her."

"I never told you why I sent your soul to get cleansed and that was because I didn't want you to find out. So basically I can say you not only disrespected but defied my orders."

"Would you take it well if a secret was kept from you?"

Sesshoumaru was hesitant but he eventually answered, "not if it would anger my father and bring dishonor."

"Who is this Naraku and why do you think he is in my soul?"

"You look nothing like me nor Kagome and you are always ill while your twin Miyori is not. Something is odd."

"I have Kagome's black hair and my grandmother's eyes," Tsuin objected with assurance in his voice.

"Not Kagome," Sesshoumaru growled, "you will call her mother and mother only."

"Okay," the figure who had currently become pale replied, "I have my mother's black hair and your mother's eyes."

"No you don't. My mother's weren't that crimson and your mother's hair gives off a blue tint while Naraku's isn't dark enough to do that."

"Naraku was a hanyou wasn't he? Half demons are so inferior there is no way he could ever control my soul so I will be fine."

"Your a hanyou and you have won a few but battles, but your condition has gotten worse every month for the last three years. Naraku maybe be week but when it comes to manipulating bodies and tainted souls he is unstoppable."

"Then what must be done about it father? Like you have said it has gotten worse every day meaning the shrines you have sent me to have been useless."

"I won't do anything to save your sorry hide until you make amends with your mother."

"That bitch is human though."

Tsuin quickly closed his mouth when he heard another savage growl come from his father, "she is not only your mother but my might and if someone says something that offends her I must leap into action."

"Okay father."

"I don't know what confusion both you and Miyori share but once I find her I will make sure you both don't treat her horribly ever again."

"Fine go find Miyori and tell her that. I am sure she will take it well."

"That she will along with you, but first I have my own amends to make."

Sesshoumaru then left the room leaving Tsuin alone to wallow in not only his physical pain the fear of what would happen when Sesshoumaru would force them to be kind of the human who was indeed his mother.

"He won't find you here," Koinu reassured the young blue wolf demoness who peered out from under the staircase every five minutes.

"My father isn't an idiot," Corlee pointed out, "he will be able to smell me."

"Stupid demons and their abilities to smell," Koinu whined as he gave her the glare that told her to continue to hide herself.

"What should we do?" the wolf demon asked.

"Leave the castle of course," Koinu answered.

"Your nuts," Corlee replied with some of the language she had learned from him, "I have heard all about you Koinu. You are new to this world and you know nothing beyond these castle walls."

"Well what better way to learn then running away?" he asked with a sly grin.

"They would still be able to track us down."

"Not if we go to my time. There are so many people there it won't be hard to hide among them."

"Then I would be stuck in a place I did not understand."

"Then we will just settle for a place our parents would be able to track us down at. If we are found we will keep hiding again. Hiding makes us cowards anyways and if there is one thing I can't stand its a coward."

"So you are saying we should just confront them about it."

"No because we know what their answers will be and then there will be nothing that can be done about it for my father could beat me up. What we do is just leave and if they find us we leave again. That is the sign of a true rebel."

"No running is the same thing as hiding you sorry excuse for a hanyou," Corlee and Koinu both looked down to see Inuyasha looking up at them with a sly smirk.

"You sure get around don't you tiny?" Koinu asked rudely to the chibi hanyou.

"Nice to see that my size has an advantage you coward," Inuyasha stated.

"I am not a coward," Koinu growled back.

"You might have no other choice though. My brother Lord Fluffy does believe in love after all if he didn't he wouldn't put up with your mother, but he still does think of it as a distraction. If he finds out you have fallen in love before gaining any fighting experience or taking over any territories for him he will be angry. And Kouga won't be happy too for he wants Uindo to have Miyori and if both of them take a mate from my family there will be no full wolf demon heirs to continue Kouga's pack."

"Can't that stupid red head just pick a wolf mate for crying out loud," Koinu groaned.

"Thats kind of difficult," responded Corlee, "he was once engaged to the sister of my fiancée but unlike me he grew up with her for about a year and the two couldn't stand each other. That is why I was never allowed to meet my fiancée and why Uindo is free to do what he wants."

"How did the sister of your fiancée react toward Uindo?" Inuyasha asked curiously with another grin.

"She is still head over heels in love with him but he could care less," the blue wolf demon answered, "he just wants Miyori."

"Sounds just like the spawn of my old buddy Kouga."

"I know you are faking it," Sesshoumaru told his mate who was lying in bed with her eyes closed, "I know the difference between a sleeping human and someone is just trying to avoid the outside world by pretending."

Kagome gave off an irritated groan as her eyes flung to life revealing eyes filled with anger and hate towards the inuyoukai, "what do you want now?"

"I thought that you would be excited to learn that those children of yours are finally going to respect you," Sesshoumaru told her taking a seat at the foot of the bed.

"I would rather have things stay the way they are," Kagome admitted, "it already hurts to know that my own children hate me and it won't help to see them pretending to like me."

"I assure you that they don't hate you, they are just confused because they don't know you, which is all my fault," he told her as she began to feel him stroking her leg that was covered by her thin blanket.

"Get your hands off of me," she told him quietly.

Sesshoumaru was having a hard time doing that though. His inner demon was commanding him to continue to touch the one he had marked. His claws eventually moved up to her thigh where he continued to stroke until she gave him another one of those deadly glares. Upon seeing it he remembered he was here to make amends not anger his mate any further.

They went through a few seconds of awkward silence before her voice reached him like a sweet melody just as it had always three years ago, "is it just me or did you admit something was your fault?"

"Youkai lords have been known to make plenty of mistakes," he said, "if we didn't my father would still be alive right now."

"How could you forget to tell your own children about their mom? Was I that unimportant?"

"Miyori had a lot to do with it."

"Miyori?"

Sesshoumaru ended up accidentally stroking her leg again when he went into the story.

The youkai lord leaned against a tree as he watched over the garden. It had been twelve days since he lost Kagome the only one he would probably ever feel love for. Even with her disappearance he was still carrying out her wishes. If he hadn't one of the servants, such as Aoi who had immdetly begun working for him after Kagome's disappearance, would be watching over the children right now. Kagome had said it would be better for the children to be raised properly by their own parents though, he hoped that she was doing the same treatment for Koinu if he had survived the spider bite.

"Lord Sesshoumaru Miyori did it again," Rin who was currently watching over the toddler Miyori called.

Sesshoumaru wasn't surprised when he glanced over his daughter's way and noticed her hair had gone from sliver to black and eyes went from gold to brown. He really needed to get that checked out soon. Hanyous were suppose to change human once a month not every other day.

A sharp crying sound told Sesshoumaru that Miyori's transformations were the least of his worries. Tsuin was sitting by his leg crying once more. This was the first day the child had not been suffering a fever and already he was acting sickly again.

He already knew the cause of Miyori's problem. It was that wretched shard that still inhabited her body. He had learned from Koinu and Tsuin that the jewel shard would remain until her demon blood and human blood were able to combine with each other without fail meaning that she was unbalanced.

Tsuin's problem remained to be seen though. The young hanyou child had gone through many check ups each one resulting in nothing wrong with him. Sesshoumaru had the slightest suspicion that it was internal.

"Her brother is becoming ill again," the inuyoukai stated, "just watch over Miyori a little more until I can calm him down."

"Yes Lord Sesshoumaru," Rin said before tending to the young hanyou girl.

It was amazing how fast hanyous who were reproduced due to a jewel shard curse grew. Just yesterday Miyori had took her first step and now already she was running all over the place. Currently the girl who was currently human was chasing after a butterfly only stumbling a few times making it easy for Rin to catch up.

It became a little difficult though when Miyori stumbled into some long grass hindering Rin's supervision until the eight year old heard a small toddler voice say, "pretty."

"Lord Sesshoumaru!" Rin called towards her guardian again, "Miyori said her first word."

Sesshoumaru picked Tsuin up and walked towards the long grass peering at his daughter.

"What did you say Miyori?" he asked gently.

"Pretty," the temporary human repeated holding something up in the air.

Sesshoumaru looked into her tiny hands and saw a jewel shard, "Miyori where did you get that."

Miyori still unable to talk just started to crawl on the dirt again. He slowly followed just now noticing the smell of death. He found the source when he seen Miyori climbing by a dead oni.

His daughter still appeared in the shape of a human meaning the shard didn't come out of her. It had to have been from the Oni. Now that Naraku had died many creatures with shards were making themselves visible. His question was how could a creature with a jewel shard just suddenly die without the shard being stolen?

Another question then came up. Even as a toddler Miyori knew better then to touch anything dead. He had taught her so a few days ago. That meant she must have known about the shard. Miyori was fallowing in her mother's footsteps and sensing jewel shards.

Kouga's growls were beginning to echo off the walls as he stormed the hallways with Uindo close behind him. The wolf king knew coming to the Western Lands to do some trade was a bad idea. The whole revival of his clan depending on the mating between his daughter and the prince of Eastern tribes and now he was slown down. Dinner was to be served at his home is exactly three hours and Corlee was missing. The growl got louder as he took a sniff and didn't locate Corlee's anywhere in the castle.

"What can you tell me Sano-san?" Sesshoumaru asked the castle doctor after receiving Miyori back who was currently a hanyou.

"Her blood is definitely off balance," the elderly fox demon reported, "her transformations are the result of her blood fighting for control. Normally the demon blood would dominant no problem like it did in the other two children, but her mother's miko blood seems to be more powerful in this one and the shard is helping that power weaken."

"Will she always be going through these transformations then?" the lord asked curiously as he let Miyori bite the sides of his finger.

"It will continue until one of side of her wins," Sano answered, "I just pray it isn't her demon side. We don't need another repeat of your brother."

"That problem is already being taken care of. Totosai has agreed to make all of my hanyou children a weapon out of my fangs. Both weapons will be twice as powerful as the ones me and Inuyasha received and they will contain the powerful demon blood that has been inherited from me."

"Then it won't be long until Miyori becomes a full human."

Sesshoumaru winced at that. Even though his mate was human he still had a hard time having a tolerance for the creatures, mostly because they were fragile. He wanted Miyori to become a strong demon warrior who would help him protect the Western Lands, not a human who was defenseless just like Rin.

"Is there anyway I can prevent it?"

"Either she doesn't receive the weapon and you allow her demon blood to gain control or you convince her that she is a full demon."

"How would convincing her stop in the transformations?"

"The blood battle is taking place within her body. The winning blood will take over the heart and there is only one thing stronger then the heart and that is the brain. Convince her mind that she is a demon and her human blood will be sustained."

"Simple is that?"

"Not really, but it is better then having a human as a child. She will still transform into a human every once in awhile, but she won't know because when she transforms she will no longer hold any memory. Basically she will just have split personalities every once in awhile."

"How often will she change into a human?"

"Not very much. Just make sure she no longer continues to collect jewel shards or have an overflow of human emotions."

"I see," Kagome said not really noticing Sesshoumaru was back to stroking her thigh, "so you lied about me so Miyori wouldn't suspect she had human blood. Why the sudden change of heart?"

"Your her mother," Sesshoumaru answered glaring at her legs, "I can't deprive you of your child because of my selfish needs of having demon blooded children."

A small smile then appeared on Kagome's face. Another reason why Sesshoumaru admired the miko he had taken as his mate. No matter how dark situations became it seemed nothing could ever stop her smile. It was a smile that could shatter all darkness.

"Its too late for me to go back to pretending to be the demon princess of Atlantis isn't it?"

Sesshoumaru got a hold of her chin and lifted her face up so they were eye to eye.

"I am sick of always pretending and being ashamed of the humans that are close to me. No matter what happens to you, Miyori, or Rin I will always tolerate every bit of all you."

Kagome's eyes then widened as she felt a pool of warmth consume her legs. She looked down and saw Sesshoumaru's hand. She didn't try to escape him. Kagome would probably never admit it to him, but she enjoyed his touch. Even though three years had passed she had not forgotten it. Hence the reason she didn't deny him. She wasn't thinking about everything that had just taken place earlier that day, it was like she hit a time warp and she was back to three years ago when they had accepted each other.

"We can't really say we are in love," he then all of a sudden said looking away from her and through her window, "we were just brought into each other's lives by a small curse that turned out to be a gift, but I thought I had fallen for you so you were marked. I would like to make it so maybe we can at least have love on our side for the rest of our years, but I can't do it without forgiveness."

Kagome realized that Sesshoumaru had a point. Clearly she wasn't going anywhere and due to the marking her life exceptancy had grown, wouldn't this new fate be a lot better if she could learn to love him? It was worth a try.

"You are forgiven," Kagome told him.

His amber eyes then stared directly into her chocolate ones. He was forgiven. The one thing his emotions wanted was granted that meant he could finally have love and he was free to no longer hold back his inner demon.

"Mine," Kagome could hear Sesshoumaru growl.

(I hate interrupting you people from this fanfic...but I feel as though when I put things at the bottom they aren't read...I would like to make a statement for all infancy writers. KAGOME'S EYES ARE BROWN! BROWN DAMMIT! All the fanatics I have read lately they always claim Kikyo's eyes were a dull brown while Kagome's were blue or trey. Thats getting annoying dammit both of them have brown eyes and if you want to argue about it we will just go through pictures if we have too)

"Should we be hiding in here?" Corlee asked with concern as she lit more inscents to hide her smell from her father.

"Tsuin seems to be asleep and I am sure he doesn't care," Inuyasha replied looking down at the hanyou who was currently sleeping in bed.

"So just relax," Koinu advised to the wolf demon as he sat down in a chair on the other side of the room, "and remember we are not hiding we are rebelling."

"Save it," Inuyasha grunted looking around the room, "we are hiding."

Corlee just sighed, "we will probably be in here for awhile."

"Perfect time for conversation then," Koinu pointed out with a grin, "so Inuyasha do you like love my mom or something? I heard you are only in this castle to watch over her."

"Sorry kid but I don't love your mom," Inuyasha answered a bit ticked off that he had talk about this type of stuff, "maybe once but not now. I am here to watch over her as a friend though, that and I wanted to see you."

"See me?" Koinu asked before his ears twitched.

His eyes darted towards Tsuin. The black haired hanyou had begun to moan in his sleep. It sounded like a very painful moan too. The three occupants in the room gathered around him and looked down. Something was causing him pain.

"Tsuin are you going to live?" Koinu asked curiously.

The only reponse was more painful moans and then...a snarl? Both Corlee and Koinu looked towards the ground to see Inuyasha growling in pain. His eyes were closed and he was rolling back in forth.

"What in the hell is going on!" Koinu growled.

(End of Chapter 13)

AN: I already know half of you are confused about the whole Miyori thing so lets just pretend that doesn't exist when it comes to your reviews. And to answer another question thats coming up this chapter pretty much takes place before Miyori discovers Aoi. I know I can't make anything simple can I? Oh yeah and Sesshoumaru won't be answering no more reviews he is busy making out with Kagome.

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Sorry not a lot of reviews answered in this chapter thats because...I am just plain lazy.