Chapter 29: What was learned and to be learned; A Curse?

"Go to sleep everyone we will meet in the library again tomorrow, tonight has been long enough already." said Sesshomaru as he helped Kagome to stand and walked with her back to his rooms.

Inuyasha and Miroku looked at each other before sighing and deciding that they would too retire to their individual rooms, tomorrow was to be a long day.

Miroku was surprised that Sesshomaru was going to actually let Kagome go alone and was wondering what the dai had planned.

Back in Kagome and Sesshomaru's room Kagome was laying curled up in the lap of her inu stroking his cheek as they stared out into space. Sleep was the last thing on her mind as her brain decided to play out every possible torture the children could be on the recipient end of. She was suddenly very sick. She pushed the thoughts from her mind as she tried to clear her mind she was stressing out her inu she could tell. Even though his face showed none of the feelings that he was feeling she could feel from the mark the feelings of remorse and neglect. Ever since they curled up in their bed there was this great weight upon him and she felt sick just watching him look, well, feel so pathetic and hurt. She began to stroke his cheek and arm as she laid in his arms and the feelings seemed to lessen a bit and that made her feel better. She couldn't take seeing, well, feeling him like that. It was sad. He had nothing to feel such remorse from. Yes the children were taken, but it had nothing to do with his capabilities to provide or protect them, damn it they were only home for an hour or two! What could he possibly do? Nothing, that was completely out of his control, if anyone was to blame it was more her fault than any of theirs. If she wasn't there, this Naraku guy would never have used the children to get to her. Essentially it was her fault. She frowned, she had to keep her thoughts happy, if she fell into depression now, he would know and then feel worse. She continued to stroke his cheek, not realizing that her hand had stopped moving.

He watched his little mate, she seemed to be fighting with something. She was worried he could tell, but she wasn't letting it rule her emotion, it was a show of strength and made him proud to have such a strong onna be his mate. He watched her stroke his face in an attempt to distract his mind from the problems at hand, it worked...somewhat. He mentally sighed. He wouldn't think of tomorrow, it was disturbing, he couldn't let his little mate go it alone. He would go with her...somehow.

Randomly through the night cries and cursing with some crashing were heard with in the castle. Kagome sighed loudly mirroring exactly what Sesshomaru himself felt like doing. Kagome would open her eyes and look up at him with a small smile when such would happen.

"yasha?"

"Hn." he agreed. He would then feel slightly better at hearing her amused giggle on his hanyou half brothers behalf, but even Inuyasha's pain wasn't enough to lighten the mood of the night for long and soon the darkest of hour of the night was upon them. With time left only to the deep breaths of those with in the room, their thoughts and Inuyasha bumping things in the night, the hours passed quickly.

The sun peered into the room through the open window, he had stayed up the whole night, he looked down at Kagome to see her eyes closed, he nudged her gently and one blue eye fluttered open and to greet his own.

"you are ready?"

"Lets face the day together?"

"Hn." she didn't know it yet, but she had just solidified, in his mind at least, that he would be going with her, for better or for worse.

The group had made it to the library by 7 no one had really slept well knowing that the children were in the hands of that monster, whose name no one wished to speak aloud.

"Miroku, what have you found?" asked Sesshomaru.

"Ah, yes that just some things here and there including some mythology I would like to be verified, that is if you can, Kagome?"

she smiled, she would be put to use. "i will try my best."

"Good, then I guess we should begin there that way I can make sure I have something relevant to bring to the table. Oh by the way I had received some news on Shippo and his training while you guys were away. He had learned and showed mastery in a number of spells including some illusions and masking of aura and scents, so maybe with the recovery he would remember to use those."

"Hn... we shall discuss that next, now speak monk."

"This betta be good too, got me wakin up early in the bloody morn..."

"Yasha, quiet, you were up all night raiding the kitchen and swimming laps in the pool."

"How do you know..."

"I heard you yasha, gosh you act like you didn't knock over things last night, and all your cursing if the children and were here and awake..." Kagome stopped, she didn't want to finish that thought... the whole room fell silent. Miroku coughed slightly.

"Well, I guess I should begin, we have lots to do today."

"Indeed."

"ok so I was looking through some mythology books when I found a particular one that had to do with mythological creatures and their existence, for instance you are considered a mythical creature left up to only fairy tales and nightmares, Kagome."

"Really?"

"Mhm, and it is said that you feast upon the flesh of men and demons alike."

"Gross, I would never..."

"You did not let me finish, this may not be the kind of feasting you are thinking about, however lets take it to a more... sensual level."

Kagome stared at Miroku with a look of pure confusion as Inuyasha gasped and sputtered, spitting out the water he had just been drinking. Sesshomaru's eyebrow rose into his hair line

"What do you mean..."

"Miroku, move on to something more relevant, I will not have you enlightening my mate on matters of carnal pleasures."

Kagome looked at Sesshomaru, even he got what Miroku was talking about...and... and he wouldn't let him tell her. She instantly pouted. Miroku looked sheepish. Sesshomaru felt like rolling his eyes, his mate was sooo... he bent over and whispered softly in her ear, never making eye contact with her.

"I will teach you those things myself if you do not already know my mate, trust me I am not withholding them from you out of spite, but I would like to do it myself." he quickly licked the shell of her ear as he finished, to make sure his hint would be more then obvious. "It would be my pleasure to educate you on how to please me, for I tend to be very insatiable when it comes to such matters, as you will find out first hand, mate." he whispered low, his voice dark and shudder inducing. Kagome was beat red, she had gotten the very unsubtle hint.

"OH GODS, Sesshomaru you fucking bastard, get a god damned room! My ears! My eyes!" groaned Inuyasha as he whined.

"No one told you to watch or listen half-breed." said Sesshomaru as he straightened and turned his eyes upon the monk who was hiding a very obvious nose bleed. Sesshomaru's right eye twitched, nothing was going to get done, he decided to ignore the monk for he did not feel like castrating the fool at the moment and had better things to do with his time, like find out what the bleeding horn bag knew and get Kagome's and his, kit and daughter back..

"Miroku." he growled dangerously

"Sesshomaru-sama, that has to do with the topic in part it is one of the many reason why Naraku could want her." he stated.

"go on." Sesshomaru said as he held his mate securely on his lap.

"that and the legend that a child of the sea shall be cursed with the seas tear."

Kagome looked up at Miroku then. She frowned.

"And whats that supposed to mean you damned lecher!"rasped Inuyasha.

"Patience, yasha," called Miroku just to piss the half demon off more. "the seas tear or otherwise known as the wish granting crystal, it is said that if you capture the mermaid that is said to have this capability and get her to cry, her tear will produce one jewel. The crystallization of her powers and that of the sea and moons. This however only happens in a few chosen merpeople and they are hard to find."

Kagome sat rodstraight and listened to Miroku recount what he had learned of her people, no indication of if she found this to be true or not.

"Now heres the story behind it, the creation of the mermaid. A being said to have the most beuatiful singing voices known in existence.

The moon and the ocean were said to be madly in love, the ocean singing songs to her lover when ever he was close and the moon would embrace her as she did so, but the land was jealous and wanted the ocean all to himself. He cast the moon far away into the sky and took away the oceans beautiful voice. The oceans cried for days on end flooding the world and killing many. The land feeling bad for being the cause of her pain decided he would give her back her voice, but not directly. He grudgingly let the moon and the ocean create a pure being through the rays of light from the moon and the songs the ocean would sing. This being was a mermaid. She gained the all the radiance and beauty the moon possessed as well as the voice of the ocean. The first mermaid was queen and gave birth to many others by singing her songs under the moons light. And when the mermaid cried they water produced would flood the earth all over again, so the land grew angry and cursed the mermaids. The mermaids were stripped of their ability to cry tears, all except for one. The first born and it would have to be the princess. She would be able to cry tears, however when she does her tear will become a jewel that could grant any wish, the very same wish that the land had taken from the moon and ocean;to be close to one another. The mermaid was the proof of their coming together, and if one found the right one; the holder of the tear; then they would be able to use her to have their wishes come true. This curse made from spite angered the moon and ocean in that they granted all the mermaids powers and the holder of the jewel held powers within her that would be umatched throughout the land, sea, and skies. The moon then would create a single soul to help the mermaid from the land if he be needed."

"Are there any accounts of the jewel ever being found or the helper in the past."

"No, nothing, but if Kagome is able to produce tears, then she will be targeted by many."

Kagome sat up and looked the monk in the eye. " I am the first daughter born to the royal house of the seas. My father is the king of the oceans, but you left something out, underwater my tear is useless, only on land does it crystalize."

everyone but Sesshomaru stared at Kagome. "Also it is because of their forbidden love that when the two were able to meet I was produced."

"What do you mean you, dont you mean your..."

"No, I mean exactly what I said, I am the same as I was then, when I was first born as I am now, hundreds of years later, the moon and ocean are my father and mother respectively, it is not the first born you seek though. It has always been me and shall forever be."

now Sesshomaru was confused. He looked at Kagome's face to see that it was blanker then his, then it occurred to him that she was trusting them with things long hidden from the world and only known by her own kind, her father may have shared that she was part of the prophecy but he didn't mention any of this, he didn't trust him, but she did, and she trusted the monk and yasha as well to share her biggest secrets with them.

"i dont understand?" spoke Inuyasha for once not being crude or rude in his mannerisms.

"i am like your phoenix..."

"from its firey ashes it is reborn, just as magnificent as and firey as it had died."stated Miroku. Sesshomaru knew well the story of the phoenix.

"So you are saying you dont age normally."

"Yes, except, I dont truly die, I have reached this peek in my life several times, and I shall for many more moons. Only thing is I can pick my age, I can go up and back down again, I can decide the next day that my people would be better off if I was 5 years old, harmless and dependent upon my mother and father for everything." as Sesshomaru watched her speak, she seemed older, colder, elusive, dangerous, sexy. The complete opposite of her bubbly personality.

"your story isn't completely correct. One of my people wasn't cursed, I am the curse, or rather, punishment that the moon and ocean had to pay for coming together behind the lands back. The first time they came together they created a mermaid and merman. My mother and father and they created the first generation of my people through her song, or rather known as the voice of the ocean and the moons rays. Then those few men and women got together and made children of their own through the easier mean of coupling." Kagome blushed. "My people cried easily and quite a bit and yes the waters did over flow, this is how the land came to know of our existence and the treachery that had taken place right underneath his own nose. He then in punishment made the ocean and moon live forever in a dance of push and pull creating a balance where they could never be to close together or to far apart so that they would never forget, he then helped to create me, the "curse" as your scroll has called me. I was the creation the first and only truly tearless mermaid. The land took away the power for all the merpeople to cry tears and then gave it to me. The power of those tears of pain and sorrow are what give the jewel its power to grant a wish. The sorrow of my people, of the moon and of the ocean. I am the curse who was born so many centuries ago. The punishment that was placed upon my people, the reason they have these powers and strength, the reason why they must always hide because if I was found, it could be doom to all of the world. I have carried this knowledge since my creation and for a long time I did not age, not because I couldn't do so, but because I chose not too. There was no reason for me to do so I stayed one years old for about 50 years before I decided I wanted to be two and then slowly maybe after hundreds of years passed I decided to age, no real reason to do so because if I did I could possibly endanger my people. When Ren was born, I decided I would age with her, I waited for her to catch up to my meager age of 5 when I had truly lived for over several centuries. She took a liking to me at birth, which was odd, because being the curse all the merpeople instinctively knew who I was and what I was and the fact that she wanted to be my friend regardless...that pleased me and so I decided I would age with her till I got 17 and stop. So that is pretty much why I have the jewel and some background history as well."

she looked at Miroku. He smiled. "That is one heck of a story lady Kagome, the wish part of my story is true I presume?"

"Yes, I grant wishes through my tears, the only thing is, I can cry many tears, and many jewels, but only one wish can be granted from the single jewel and the first one." she frowned "Do you understand?" Sesshomaru was completely confused and his brother had obviously stopped paying attention a long time ago.

"So you are saying that the first jewel you cry is the wish and once that is used then then next tear could also grant a wish?"

Kagome smiled "Exactly!"

"Just as I thought, then, your tear is obviously what Naraku is after, he may wish to recreate the whole story as well in his own way, I fear, I do not know what that would entail, since the only thing I had to go off of was a myth and what you had done in front of us."

"Understandable. What else have you found out?" asked Sesshomaru.

"Naraku is a hanyou yes, but not by birth, he was also created through a pact he made with a demon and he uses other demons to build up his body and power. He is a being that is constantly seeking power, so of course he would be drawn to the idea of a wish granting jewel and the fact that he knows who you are Kagome is enough to assume that he also knows of the jewel. He also knows that Kagome has powers and he knows about all of us, but he doesnt know everything there is to know about the merpeople, no one does."

"Ok, spit it out monk." spoke Inuyasha getting tired of all the stalling the monk seemed to be doing.

"well then, we should use what he doesnt know against him, ive been thinking about it, what do we really know, besides what we were just told, about the merpeople. Absolutely nothing the most I could find on them was some scroll on their history and another scroll on supposed mermaid powers." said Miroku as he dangled a second scroll from his hand as he smiled at Kagome. "Now here is where we go in to the plan, Kagome is the secret weapon, what I found out is that we know absolutely nothing about her and neither does our enemy, and we can use that, what we do know is that I have a scroll of somethings she and only she should be able to master and we should start training now because whether we wanted it to or not, the fight begins tonight."

"Indeed, so your saying let Kagome be our secret weapon against Naraku?" asked Sesshomaru.

"Mhm, thats exactly what I am saying." replied miroku

"YOU. ARE. INSANE!" Said Inuyasha as he stood about ready to walk out of the library. "That girl cant fight, shes weaker then you and your human, she can barely stand how is she supposed to fight against Naraku let alone be are secret weapon!"

Kagome raised one eyebrow and in that exact second looked like the splitting image of Sesshomaru

"Oh really, thats what you think Inuyasha?" she stood.

"Miroku Im ready lets show the world what it truly means to be Utako Kagome mermaid of the tear and song and bearer of the mermaids "Curse"."

Miroku followed behind Kagome as she walked proudly out the door and to the training fields, going right passed Inuyasha without even casting him a glance. When Sesshomaru stood to follow Inuyasha ran from the room, he was scared shit-less at what he had just witnessed. His cold, emotionless brother had just smiled.

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