Chapter 33: What Now?
Back at Sesshomaru's palace, Miroku, Shippo, Inuyasha, and Sesshomaru were sitting in his study. Sesshomaru just had gone over everything from when he met Kagome all the way to what happened for the part of the battle they missed, making sure everyone present knew what was going on and was on the same page as well as living out some of the more private details.
"It will be a long road and in order to find her we must figure out what the wish meant and what exactly was wished."
"Naraku said that he wished that Kagome would go somewhere far away where she would be out of not only his reach, but also my own." stated Sesshomaru.
"Well that can mean a lot of things. She is obviously not in your reach because if she was still here then the jewel would be glowing a light blue, yes?" spoke Miroku who had just found out about the necklace not but a second ago, as well as his new found immortality, and simply put he was bit shocked by all that had gone on not only between all of those that met the girl he now knew was a mermaid, but also the relationship she had with Sesshomaru.
"Indeed, but there is a small part of it that is still blue on the under side of the jewel that I did not notice until I was messing with it earlier."
"So that means she is still on the earth, just not where you can go yet?"
"Yes thats the only thing I can deduce from it."
"Wait, what about that thing the witch doctor said, about Kagome going somewhere where it will be 500 measures before we can reach her?" said Shippo finally happy that he could contribute to the situation.
"Good job Shippo... That could be why the jewel is not fully glowing on both sides and only a small amount of it." stated Miroku.
"But what is the 500 measured in, feet ,yards, miles, lands? All those things I could reach!" stormed Sesshomaru loosing his mask for a second, before it quickly fell back into place. "The mark I placed on her flesh, I can feel her, but its so cloudy; barely there?"
everyone was quite as they watched the disturbing display of emotions coming from the dai, they would never speak of it, but they now knew what kind of pain Sesshomaru was feeling while his mate was no where to be found and out of their reach.
"Well look at the bright side, she cant be dead and in the underworld because Naraku is there and she is out of his reach too." interjected Shippo.
"Great job runt, state the obvious, even I knew that!" quipped Inuyasha feeling very much ignored. Everyone continued to ignore him.
"Hm, Shippo is right, did Kagome by any chance say something while Naraku made the wish, since she was the one still holding the jewel, ne?"
Sesshomaru lifted his head not even knowing that he had lowered it. "Yes, she did she said... find me inu, save me. But what could that do?"
"Well you see it could change the wish somewhat, instead of her always being out of your reach forever, you might be able to find her and catch up to her somehow..."
"that's why the witch doctor said in 500, because it will take you till you get to 500 somethings till you can finally reach her." chirped Shippo.
"But I am sure lord Sesshomaru could travel 500 times around the planet in search of Kagome, even though it would take some time..." Miroku 's eyes widened as he thought and everyones eyes moved to his face as he trailed off.
"What Miroku, what did you figure out." urged Sesshomaru.
"It's not a matter of where Sesshomaru, its a matter of when."
"What are you saying monk?"
"Kagome is not lost in a place thats why you can somewhat feel her and the necklace hasn't completely gone black, she is still here, and you cant reach her because she isn't here. Shippo get me some paper so I can draw this out for you guys to understand." Shippo quickly hopped up to do what Miroku said, finding some ink, a brush and some paper. He then returned and sat at the table that the other two had gathered around.
"Oi, monk you better start making sense-"
"Shut your mouth half-breed and let the houshi finish. As you were saying?" stated Sesshomaru as he cut off a now pouting Inuyasha.
Miroku quickly drew a line and put two arrow heads at both ends pointing in opposite directions. He then drew a circle at one side of the line and another circle at the other end.
"Ok, this is a timeline. Here we are at this side of the line." he pointed at the 1st circle he drew and labeled it "US". "and here is where Kagome-chan is." he said as he wrote her name on the other side of the timeline. "She is still here on the earth, but she is 500 somethings up on the timeline." he then drew a bracket line connecting the two circles and placed 500 and then a blank above it. "Now we just need to know how many days, months, years, centuries, score, or whatever is separating us from her.
"Days would go by to quickly for me, we can cross that one off, months and even score also considering I age more slowly then you would, Miroku."
"yes indeed. Well that leaves us with years and centuries."
"I may live long but even centuries, I dont think even I could go that long without her, my marking her would kill me."
"What why? She is not dead. You didn't mate officially yet right?" cried out Shippo.
"yes I only got the chance to mark her as an intended, but my beast and I have decided on her as ours, the pain of separation alone would do me in." said Sesshomaru solemnly, pain evident in his fiery eyes.
"I guess we just have to cross our fingers and hope that it is only 500 years then." replied Miroku.
"Indeed."
"However, I see how this could fit somewhere else also!" exclaimed Miroku as he brightened up with a smile.
"what are you yammering on about now monk I dont need another headache." Whined inuyasha.
"the prophecy of course."
"a girl of noble blood, the oceans own creation
gives birth to the jewel of the nations
hidden within her, only her voice will reach
but the trouble lies where the darkness creeps
she walks the trail of space, but the path may be out of Fathers control."
"she noble because she is the princess and the oceans creation because she is mermaid, a creature of both the ocean and even the moon. Only her song, her voice could have the final say on any wish because she had to sing to the jewel, as she did at the last battle, even unconscious I could hear that blood curdling, spine tingling, mesmerizing song. The darkness as we all know can apply to many things, night, Naraku, evil, even the sadness lurking in her own heart. Now the trail of space is what we were looking for. Till now I had believed it to mean that she would travel far from home, as in onto land and that even her father ruler of the oceans wouldn't be able to stop her, because it was her destiny, but now, I am not too sure about that."
"What are you thinking monk? Are you saying that the prophecy has yet to be completely fulfilled?" asked Sesshomaru.
"yes, actually, thats exactly what I'm saying. The trail of space could mean she is to walk the space of time, and have you ever heard of the phrase "father time", well it could be out of his control, not her father but father time."
"so basically your saying that the prophecy had already foreseen that she would be thrown forward somewhere in time and space?" asked Shippo.
"Exactly." said Miroku as he sat back into his chair, pleased with his self.
"then that means Naraku was only the beginning and there will be more after her tear." said Sesshomaru. Everyone looked at Sesshomaru with wide eyes.
"that was only half of the prophecy, the rest of it cannot be all about Naraku if he has already died never to reach her again because of the wish he made."
"True." sighed Miroku. "then what does that mean for her future? Our future?" he said as he gestured to the rest of them.
"Hanyou's spawn... does that mean he had a kid?" asked Shippo.
"i don't know, maybe." said Miroku.
"We should hunt the bastard down and kill him then." said Inuyasha as he stood up.
"Sit down Yasha." spoke Sesshomaru, Inuyasha quickly did as he was told, frowning afterwards. "We do not know who this kid is, or even if he will be the one in the prophecy, all we can truly do is wait and see." sighed Sesshomaru.
"keh, whatever then." pouted Inuyasha. But they all thought of the other portion of the prophecy and shuttered at what they knew was soon to come.
"and blood will spill on her mothers children, death and destruction assured
its her choice that will kill and the the price will fall to the world
but if life be her choice,
and she fights the good fight,
with the help of the west.
he will put them to the test
but all is not lost with the moons strength and life
she may bare the strife
take on the gore to right the wrong
of the Hanyou's spawn."
sooooo tell me you guys dont think part two aint gonna be amazing right! Am I the only one excited! Lol hit me back with a review or a pms or something and let me know how you feel, and ima start writing about poor Sesshomaru being soooo lonely I might even use the song mr lonely bcus its so cute and works so wellish with this fic lol. Anyways ttyl real soon I hope lol
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