A/N: Surprise! I actually had some really good ideas for this chapter so here is new chapter! I got this funny/ annoying review on my other fanfic A Lion's Heart. Apparently is the place to advertise your religion XP The reviewer disabled the private messaging function so I just reported it as spam. Does anyone know how to delete it? Any help would be appreciated. I put a lot of work and effort into writing ao a comment like that really annoys me.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha
I nuzzle into Naru's neck as we rest in Kaede's hut. I had returned to the village completely ignoring Sesshomaru's brooding figure. Sleep had clearly calling my name so I cuddled up to Naru in his normal size and conked out.
Now I roll over blink blearily up at the ceiling. I had fallen asleep without dinner and now I was starving. The sun was just starting to rise over the horizon so no one was awake to feed me. I would have to be patient. However my stomach had different ideas, it growls loud enough to wake up Naru. I'm assaulted by morning kisses so I push the slobbering dog away.
I quietly undress and then slip into some skinny jeans and a faded blue sweater. I lace up my black leather boots with haste then slip outside with my guard dog beside me. My other guard dog sits up in a tree staring down impassively at me. I stick out my tongue at him and spin my back to him. There has to be a berry patch of some kind in the woods. I lift my nose to the wind and catch a faint whiff of raspberries.
In the chilly morning air I crunch across the grass covered in delicate frost. As I walk away from the village I am aware of Sesshomaru following behind at five paces. About two hundred feet into the forest I find the raspberry patch. I settle down and start picking off berries and popping them into my mouth.
"How is your mother doing?" I suddenly ask, unable to stand the oppressive silence and tension. Sesshoumaru shifts slightly against the tree he had settled against.
"Fine." What a great answer I roll my eyes at the raspberry bush. "Why did you leave?" I freeze at the question.
"Why did I leave? I didn't leave!" I spin around to face him. "I loved you and still do! I would never willingly leave you! My brother kidnaped me and threw me into the future. I was held captive for years where I was someone's personal mini goddess. I would never leave you on purpose!" My outburst surprises me and I spin back to the raspberries and glare at a leaf.
"Caroline…" Sesshomaru touches my shoulder and I flinch away.
"Do not touch me." I growl at him. His face shows a touch of shame. The first emotion I have seen besides annoyance. "I just can't right now." I raise my hands in front of me. My sleeve slips down and reveals the nearly gone scab from my tumble yesterday. Sesshoumaru reaches out and catches my wrist defitly. He is really good at taking directions.
"So fragile," he looks concernedly over the wound, "it appears that we both have a lot of explaining to do."
I slide my arm out of his grip and sigh. I cross my arms and bite my lip. Nothing had gone according to plan Taisho was dead, Sesshoumaru appeared to be emotionally constipated and l had yet to slice off my brothers head.
"I need to hear your side of the story." I lock eyes with him. "But my heart can't take it right now. I will cry and throw things if we talk about right now."
"Hn" he does smile a little bit though and raises his hand to swipe his thumb across my cheek. "Now we wouldn't want that."
I briefly lean into his touch before I move away. "Is our niece still alive?" I think of my older half sister's daughter Cana she had been two years old when I left. Sesshomaru's nod brings ease to my heart, she was the last that I knew of my mother's line besides myself. "That's good."
I fiddle with my hair and decide to pull it up into a high ponytail. As I tighten my hair I catch Sesshomaru staring at my neck. I run my fingers along the gold mark in my neck subconsciously. The impression was clear as the day I received it unlike a certain somebody.
My voice is flat when I ask how being the Western Lord is treating him. His eyes pinch slightly in the corner as if recalling a bad memory.
"Currently we are at peace so I have no excuse not to be at the palace." Sesshomaru has never been expressive but he is like a brick wall now. It was sign that he didn't want to talk about it in the past so I decide to drop the subject entirely.
"Well, I've got to get going!" I spin away from him for him to only appear right in front of me.
"No."
"What do you mean no?!" I place my hands on my hips and glare at him.
"I will not be separated from you again." His tone of voice tells it all there will be no arguments.
"Well tough shit! I'm leaving and you're not coming with me." I barely restrained the urge to snarl at him.
"Caroline do not test me." Sesshomaru glares right back at me.
"No you don't test me!" As my anger increases I start to lose grasp of my powers. I shake violently and my eyes glow an ocean blue. Sesshomaru's eyes bleed red but he makes not threatening movement. "You have no right to tell me what to do!"
"I am your mate." His calm attitude annoys me.
"An unfaithful one! Several times by the look of it!" He looks briefly ashamed before his face hardens.
"You do not know the circumstances nor do you want to talk about it." I hate it when he is right.
"As I said tough shit! Go be lord or something." I roll my eyes and try to walk away yet again.
"You are lady of the west." Now I really hadn't thought of that. I'm sure there was something I was supposed to do as lady. Let see, have children (that isn't happening right now), tend to the lord's needs (he is a grown ass man who can fend for himself), sit there and look pretty (check), hold parties (I hate people), and other small tasks I assume. "You are needed at home."
"You have managed without me so far. I'm sure you will be fine for a month or two." He just blinks at me.
"A month or two?" His voices holds quiet anger. "You are gone for five hundred years and you want to leave soon as I see you again?"
"Ummm, yes?" I get the dirtiest look in the world. "I have things to do! I can't devote my time and attention to you at this point. As much as I would like too, I have responsibilities to take care of." I take a calming breath. "As my father's daughter I need to do certain things. You know this."
"Fine, but I am coming with you."
"What makes you think you can enter the temple? Even me using you as an anchor burned you."
"I have healed." Is he serious right now? I look him dead in the eyes. I recognize his steely determination.
"If you can handle my power coursing through you enough to remove the black and purple from your neck we have a deal." Logically once the mating mark is purified then maybe he won't be fried open entering the temple.
"That is acceptable." I stretch my arms above my head before briefly reaching down to touch my toes. I cock an eyebrow at Sesshomaru's emotionless visage.
"Let's get to then." I jump into him like a monkey and he takes a step back to steady himself. "When did you get so tall." I grumble. I am suddenly scooped up into long arms and raised to Sesshomaru's face level. I detect amusement in his eyes and snort. I place my hand delicately across the mating march. "If it is to painful let me know."
"I will be fine." I want to smack him upside the head so bad. He sighs, "I will let you know if it becomes unbearable."
"Good." I let my power pore into him through the palms of my hands.
Naru whines nervously from the ground below.