InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Forbidden Pain 2 ❯ Chapter 2
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
Side note: There's a few things in here Kagome says later that aren't going to be explained either until the end of this fic or in the middle of the third. So if it gets confusing…Everything's explained as everything unfolds. Enjoy.
Chapter 2
Kagome woke finding herself slightly comfortable and immediately froze. She thought she had escaped the humans, but smelled them everywhere. With the smell…Feeling a bit ill she sat up almost whining out feeling pain. She still wasn't slightly better. Meaning she did need to sleep more. She heard people speak to her and knew never to open her eyes around humans.
`Red eyes equals monster meaning kill me.'
Kagome got onto her feet finding that a sheer challenge and, deciding to take the easy way, let them put her back on the sugar cane. She couldn't get out of their village without passing out anyway. When she woke the next time she noticed that she had forgotten where she was by the alarmed look of the local's faces. Terror. Before she could get up completely she felt a rod going into her back and let out a small shout quickly falling back down. She growled pulling it out of her knocking the natives away from her with it and jumped into a tree swinging as much as she could, landed in mist of brush and stayed low. Exhausted. Needing to find a different location.
`To find Sesshomaru.'
She continued limping for a while until she made it to an over growth area, covered the opening with ice and moss and curled up on herself. Tired.
Zokusai trotted down from the village making sure to keep his tails low catching the scent of his mother's blood in the distance going after it. He jumped down finding a ledge greeted by over growth and moved the moss away finding his hand too cold. In a tropic area. He turned into his humanoid form finding her ice colder than his fire and instead punched through the ice. His mother got up to her feet and went further back into the lean over, jumped straight up putting the weight onto her better leg noticing Zokusai already there. He looked at her.
“Please stop running from us Mom. From me.”
She looked at him, how smart, strong he had become. Intelligent, a hunter… To tell him that she lov-
Kagome knew there was no way she could out run him, with herself fighting to stay awake. She looked at him, shook her head, finding him in front of her before she could leave.
“Please say something Mom. Dad has rank, status. He can protect you they won't harm his mate if they know let him, me, us-“
Kagome pushed Zokusai down rolling over his back moving out of the way of a dagger aimed at her and created a small ice barrier tossing an ice ball at the head of the youkai killing it, beating it. She got up to her feet exhausted seeing Zokusai gazing at her, looking at her. She looked up at him, shook her head.
“Go away, please.”
Zokusai smiled. `I didn't remember her voice.' “Mom I'm not leaving. You're my Mom and I know you died for me and my brother but we want you to live, with us, and Dad and stop pushing me away to protect us.” He looked down. “Dad, already makes us say we're full blood kitsune so that no one even gets suspicious. When I was younger I didn't. Started to.” He looked at her. “I don't want to refuse you mom and I don't want to see you like this, always. You're about to pass out.”
She bit her lip looking at him still, blinking heavily. “Just go away, please. You don't want to realize how much better off you are without me.”
Zokusai walked up to her. “I will always be better off with you Mom. Come back to us.” He whined some. “You're going to black out, oozing blood.”
Kagome shook her head tears coming down her face. “Why don't you listen to your father Zokusai. I'm not even your mother, get it out of your head that I am, and move on.”
Zokusai smiled at her. “I had no idea that you really did love me this much Mom. Why you're hurting to look at me because you want to give me a hug, say how much I've grown and stuff like that but at the same time want to distance yourself as far as possible from me.” He smiled at her laughing a bit. “I do love you Mom. I have to refuse you in public, but you'll always know the truth, where, when it matters.” He laughed a bit more. “Sounds lame but the truth.”
Kagome shook her head. “Leave.”
He nodded. “Okay. I'm going.” He quickly moved forcing on the back of her neck knocking her out catching her before she fell. “You're coming with me.”
Zokusai looked around sending out a warning growl making sure no one messed with his mother and went to a near by brook and tended to her wounds. And hurt seeing so many. He gently washed off the blood then gathered plants to help speed up the healing process from what his father had told him. He would have gotten some in Makai, but he didn't want his mother there longer than necessary now. He washed her clothing off and dressed her again.
`So many scars.'
He picked her up and made his way towards the Makai portal alerting his father and brother, not sure where they were, that he was going back to Japan. Going through demon world discreetly he made it back to the forest on the other side of his house about half a day later and laid his mother down outside in an area in the forest he had constructed rather well hidden.
`Please don't leave Mom. I miss you and I can barley remember you.'
Kagome opened her eyes seeing it night time and knew exactly where she was at. Saddened she stood seeing no one around, smelling Zokusai and feeling like used shit. She started to walk hissing from the pain in her leg and looked around some more. She sensed Zokusai looking at her, from somewhere east of where she was at. He was getting better. He wasn't going to let her leave. She sighed and laid back down on her back creating an ice dagger dragging it along her forearm with a small smile on her face. She spoke eyes closed sensing Zokusai above her.
“If you're not stopping me I see you father's already told you why I do this.”
“He said since you can control your ice and fire parts unable to pass for one or the other your jakai's off balance, your energy in general and… This helps unless you have someone to keep it in check… I figure you have a higher tolerance to pain than I do, but that's deep Mom. Doesn't it hurt?”
“At first, then… It's relaxing, peaceful.” She looked at him. “You know once I'm able to I'm going to leave.”
Zokusai looked at her. “I know. And I want you to stay, and I know I'm not the one who is able to make you. Dad says he'll speak to you later.”
Kagome closed her eyes. “You wanted to have some time with me to yourself even though you know I'll never claim you a day in my life or death.”
“I know you won't. Because you want me, us protected and I know that only you know how much you've sacrificed for us. But I also know that I saw you biting your lip gazing at my brother when he first saw you, at how much he's grown, changed. You don't have to say it out loud ever, more than words.”
Kagome spoke still on her back. “Why do you want me around? It's not for protection, because you know you're safer not around me. That I could kill someone who tried harming something around you but then they'd just come for me and put you in dangers way. It's not because you miss your mother, because I'm not your mother and if by fluke I was you're grown-“
“-Mom?” She didn't look at him. “I'm only eighteen. I'm not leaving home for a long time now, I'm not old enough. I'm not grown. I've grown up, but I still have a lot to learn, from Dad, others, especially you. I miss you Mom, I love you and I can look after you.” He sat next to her seeing her eyes still closed. “Just let us, me. I need you and am better off with you.”
“You've been around Sesshomaru sama haven't you.”
“I used to, how can you tell.”
“When you're not emotional you speak like him on a lesser level.”
“You're still injured.”
She stood having rested for a few minutes and walked towards the brook, knelt down feeling the pain ignoring it and saw Zokusai next to her. “You do still have a lot to learn.” She created an ice pick in her hand looking at his going past. “You don't always get what you want, and if you think you can get what you want, if what you want is feasible it doesn't mean it's right. Maybe I do want to say here, maybe I don't. But I'm not. Other factors, some you know of, one for sure you don't and I intend to keep it that way.”
“About the last time you say Dad.”
“I figured that out on my own a while ago, not so much that. I'll stay for a while if you can get Kieko to want me to stay here.”
Zokusai was confused. “Kieko's told me that she considered, considers you her sister why wouldn't she want you here?”
Kagome speared a fish and walked off. “Family takes precedent over family. You really do still need to learn.” She went deeper into the forest sensing him still at the brook. “I won't leave.”
Zokusai watched his mother disappear into the forest wondering about what she had said, where she was going… And how confused he was. But without a doubt in his mind, he knew she loved him.
Yoko looked up leaning against a tree near the house seeing Zokusai approaching him. “Your mother woke up.”
Zokusai sat in front of him. “She said she'd stay for a while if I got Kieko to want her to stay and I knew how close they were, are probably an she said family takes precedent over family. I don't understand.”
Yoko spoke. “Your mother knows that Kieko will not want her here now because she has family of her own, children, and knows that her being around will put them in danger. Kieko does think of your mother as a sister but will chose her own offspring over her.” He looked at him still. “Is she doing better.”
“She's… Reserved, quiet. I didn't think she'd be able to walk but she just walked off, fine enough and said she wasn't leaving…By the way she was looking around she could tell you haven't seen her yet, at all. And I think she still thinks you hate her or something like that. Confused.”
Yoko felt bad. `All this time.' “Think on what is on your mind for a while then go speak to Kieko.” He looked up. “Nijuu has gone in search of your Mother.”
Nijuu wondered around in the forest with a smile on his face not worried about a thing in the world. The tip of his left ear was bent slightly looking around smelling exactly where his mother was. It made him smile. He eventually saw her leaning very well hidden from view in the crook of a tree eyes closed, half sleeping. He smiled up at her.
“Hi Mom.”
Kagome spoke not opening her eyes. “Nijuu.”
He nodded. “Dad said we're leaving tomorrow, living in Makai some place discrete apparently he hasn't shown us yet… or we don't remember I was spaced off. There was this cool looking bird flying about and I didn't know I was about to pounce on it until Dad got me in check.” He smiled showing a fang. “We don't really have much here, Zokusai even less, he's not here much. Anything you got hidden before we leave?”
She knew he would do something like that. `Stupid kistune.' “Nothing.” She landed on the ground seeing Nijuu next to her smiling and made the accident of looking into his eyes and bit her lip looking away. “I need to leave.”
“If brother said you're not gonna leave then can I come with?”
Kagome continued walking. “Fine.”
She continued listening to Nijuu, who in her mind hadn't changed much at all. Was still hyper, slightly controlled knowing when and when not to be. Curious, loving, caring, tender. Everything she wasn't but had wanted to be at one point in her life. And looking at him reminded her so much of Yoko, someone she had never wanted to see again. But she was already cold, hard, reserved… Things that she thought were sealed in her but from seeing her sons… She needed to work on it more.
`Because I didn't think it possible to love anyone this much.'
Nijuu looked at Kagome again noticing the same non expressent façade on her face. “Mom? You okay there? Almost broke a smile.”
She continued walking. “Go back to your brother and father. I need to see someone.”
Nijuu immediately stopped noticing the house. `One of Sesshomaru's.' “Uhm… I can come with you Mom. Really, no problem.”
She kept walking. “I'll be fine. Go back Nijuu.”
Kagome went inside knowing that if the twins had found her, Sesshomaru already knew and allowed it. And she needed to know why. She walked into his room knowing he wouldn't kill her if he left the door cracked open and already knew she was coming. She bowed seeing him sitting at his desk looking at her. She made sure not to look at him.
“Sesshomaru sama why did you allow Nijuu, Zokusai and Yoko to find me. I thought you wanted no one to have contact with me save yourself.”
Sesshomaru noticed she knew her place, stayed bowed and didn't look at him. “I was fine with the punishment I gave to you until Zokusai learned that I had known you were alive for some time. You know he had spent time with me. I had never seen such emotion in a creature save yourself centuries ago. You will stay with them, and leave the moment you sense or feel it, them.”
Kagome closed her eyes. She didn't control her life any longer.
“Yes Sesshomaru sama.”
Sesshomaru looked at her. “Don't become fooled. Leave now.”
Kagome walked out feeling horrible and wanting to shoot herself in the head but knowing Sesshomaru would only bring her back. She was assigned a duty she had had for longer than she-
“-Kagome.”
She stopped suddenly barley off of Sesshomaru's estate, hearing him. She refused to let herself look up at him and looked away, seeing his slipper clad feet, white skin, tail… But only half of him. She looked up at Zokusai and kept walking.
“Let's go.”
Yoko felt crushed and hurt at the same time. `She won't even look at me.' He let out a whine seeing Nijuu looking at him worried then prancing off to be next to his mother with Zokusai. “I'm sorry.”
Kagome ignored him and continued walking listening to Zokusai and Nijuu. They went through the makai portal and stealthy went for about ten hours until Yoko stopped knowing Kagome wasn't healed at all. And noticed her sleeping alone- completely awake looking up alone. They traveled similarly for another four days until he led them through a series of caves and tunnels. Knowing they could quite possible go on forever she heard Zokusai growl at Nijuu who trotted off in fox form continuing to explore. She looked up with her black and red long braid still behind her to see a regal silver fox looking at her, afraid. Not able to look at him any longer she turned around closing her eyes and walked off-
“-please do not run away from me Kagome.” He stood in front of her. “Don't. Just not me.”
Kagome looked up at him and bit her lip. “I can't stay for long.”
“Why.”
“He said I couldn't tell you, them. Anyone. And he does control most of my life-“ She caught herself looking to the side and down. She almost let herself touch him. “You need to forget about me.”
Yoko knelt getting to her level looking at her. “I pretend not to know if you know or not, but I still love you. I love you. I never stopped loving you and I apologize. I'm truly sorry. It wasn't your fault. I was just- I held anger at myself that I couldn't protect you again, stop that from happening to you and expressed that poorly. You are my soul mate Kagome. I could never hold anger at you.”
Kagome hugged him making a sound stopping herself from weeping as he stayed knelt on her level. “I can't stay for long.”
“I will fight even Sesshomaru if he tries to make you leave me again.”
Kagome wept on his tunic. “It's only him in part. But he said I couldn't tell you, why.” She sniffled weeping freely. “Oh G… Yoko.”
Yoko knelt holding her as she wept onto him, knowing she was hating herself for being weak in front of him, at all. And he hated himself for letting her think that that was a weakness.
“You by far my mate could never be weak.”
Zokusai walked into the cave he left his parents seeing his mother on his father's lap arms around him, his tunic soaked in tears in various places. She was asleep.
“I didn't realize how small Mom is until I look at her with you now.”
Yoko looked up at him. “She never let it stop her. I used to tease her about how small she is all of the time…” He looked down at her. “Actually she grew two centimeters.”
Zokusai nodded. “I knew you could get to her. Think I could spend some time with her tomorrow?”
“She'd find you both if I tried to keep her with me all of tomorrow. She won't open up to anyone though.”
“Is she still going to leave.”
“Admen on it.” He stroked her back. “Just a matter of when.”
Kagome woke up noticing she had slept and scolded herself for it. Without a word to Yoko she stood and walked off to a different tunnel hoping to find water. She couldn't smell her way around very well. After about an hour she washed up, drank and listened.
“Hey Mom.”
`He will never be depressed. He's never had himself covered with blood… It should stay that way.' “Nijuu.”
“Why ya up so early? I just woke up when I smelled ya going past and wanted ta see where you were going.”
Kagome still didn't look at him. “Habbit.”
He nodded looking at her looking at herself in the water. “Okay then. Can I try doing that quiet bonding thing with you? I've seen lots of others do it before, never tried.”
“Fine.”
Kagome looked at herself in the water with Nijuu sitting next to her, trying to keep quiet. `I don't want to do this to them. I'm surprised they can't sense it.' Her eyes smallened. `If no one comes in a month, if they don't get near…I'll stay. But until then I can't let them get attached to me, close to me. I won't make that mistake with Yoko I don't love him. I don't love him. I don't love him. I don't lo...'
Nijuu entered the cave dragging a carcass or some sort and sat next to Zokusai. “Hey brother did Dad ever tell Yusuke why we left? I'm guessing no `cause of Kieko but… Just wanted to make sure.” He dropped the carcass. “Want some?”
Zokusai didn't even bother looking at him. “He didn't and you should think more before speaking.”
He shrugged eating. “Whatever… You seen Mom?”
“She's to herself as normal. I'm worried about both of them though.”
Nijuu smiled at him getting some blood on his face. “I think Mom'll come around. Can't keep like this forever, she loves us remember?” He smiled eating with his mouth open talking. “We'll get her to open up a little.”
Kagome walked around in the cave aimlessly. Something she hadn't done in years… It felt good. She realized where she was walking towards and went down another tunnel when she stopped noticing it.
“I, don't want to.”
She went into a different cave seeing a pile of stolen goods and was surprised Nijuu hadn't gotten into it and sat eventually in a small room. After noticing how much time had passed she figured not even Yoko knew where she was and walked her way back to the entrance to the cave and sat on the opposite end of Yoko next to Zokusai, the three looking out at the moon in the sky. They all turned, the simplest gesture from her making them warm inside. And Nijuu began wagging his tail with a smile on his face until he heard a quiet bark telling him not to say anything. Having him quietly bark back why he couldn't, causing Yoko to growl at him…
Kagome looked on no longer looking outside but leaning against the cave wall looking at Nijuu yipping/barking at the two trying to knock some sense into everyone. She didn't have to understand what they were saying, she didn't care to. She really didn't want to leave, this.
Zokusai barked quietly. “I told you be quiet right now Mom'll think-“
Nijuu growled. “-You two are the ones who think that Mom'll run away or something but you don't talk to her I do I wanna-“
Yoko shook his head. “Quiet-“
The Yoko turned, his two sons following pursuit to see Kagome looking at them, him. With an extremely small smile on her face. But it was still there.
“I find this amusing as well, and that I dared to dabble in it.”
“Yeah… How big is your cave.”
Yoko smirked. “Very big, long, thicker than most-“
“-Yoko-“
He spoke with a smirk. “-why dear Kagome whatever is on your mind? The walls are thicker than most caves and it is quite large in general. I'm afraid whatever you might have bee thinking about wouldn't be proper to speak of in front of these two kits.”
Kagome sighed closing her eyes. “Arrogant kitsune.”
Nijuu smiled as Yoko continued. “You know you love me.”
Zokusai looked at Yoko. “I'd like to know the answer now Father.”
Nijuu spoke laughing. “Pervert!”
Yoko smiled. “Slightly over six hundred years. There's a ledger here I kept upon the first item I stole here and placed, I'm surprised you don't already know Nijuu.”
Kagome spoke. “He hasn't found it yet and that's not what I asked. Six hundred forty seven.”
Yoko moved sitting in front of her. “Dear mate I've asked you not to speak of things with the kits near. Very long indeed-“
Kagome opened her eyes, looked at Yoko and sighed. “Stop talking about your penis.”
Nijuu was on the ground laughing, Yoko spoke wrapping his tail around her waist. “We can start, at a later time if you'd like-“
Kagome stood getting out of his tail walking out of the cave. “-let's go Zokusai.”
Nijuu stopped laughing and sat up making a small yip. “I wanna come too Mom!”
Kagome continued walking. “I don't need a second Yoko around me right now, even if you won't talk about that all of the time.”
Yoko spoke seeing her not far from the cave yet with a smile on his face. “He won't talk about what he doesn't know love. Don't educate Zokusai on that.”
Kagome returned a few hours later seeing Nijuu sleeping in kitsune form next to Yoko, also in kitsune form. Zokusai walked off somewhere in the cave, and if it weren't for the fact that Yoko had more tails and was still larger than Nijuu, and that she had his body memorized she wouldn't have been able to tell the difference. Infact as close as they were circled up on each other they blended in. She walked past only to find one tail wrap around her bringing her to him. She noticed him still sleeping, or at least she thought until she felt another tail moving towards her-
Kagome's eyes widened finding herself unable to get out of his tail not wanting to feel that much right now, with Nijuu next to her. Hoping he just wanted her to pet him she did so hearing him deeply purr and soon turn around looking at her. She barley noticed preoccupied with petting him, stroking around his ears. Knowing he was even larger than her now she noticed Yoko kick Nijuu hearing him make a noise, growl, and trot off. Not wanting to think of what was going through his mind she found herself quickly at the mercy of the fox and smirked. Maybe she wouldn't try to fight this after all. They did love each other.
Yoko woke opening his mouth making a sound, yawhining, seeing Kagome eyes closed in his tail. He nudged her with his nuzzle knowing she was long awake, and wasn't even sure if she went to sleep at all. He couldn't tell anymore. He was going to break her of that survival instinct, habit.
Kagome looked at him. “Are you going to let me out of your tail so I can get your seed off of my entire body or do I have to get myself out.” Kagome sighed feeling herself moved as he rolled over onto his other side. “Damn kitsune.”
`I know for a fact you weren't thinking that mere hours ago, for hours my dear Kagome.' He licked her back. `Salty.'
“you're horrible, know that.” She laid onto his tail giving up fighting him. “Damned arrogant as well.”
`Once again not true. If I were horrible I doubt you would have been shouting that much, me feeling you that much around me. In a dainty attempt to milk me from the seed you seemingly would rather dri-`
Kagome got out of his tail shoving her way out and ignored the fox left in her wake. She went to the cleaning pool in the cave glad to have herself clean. When she went under to wash her hair she came back up seeing Yoko kneeling, humanoid form wearing his same tunic. He smirked at her.
“I also wouldn't be damned according to you, if you moan so loud even Nijuu has to go further back into the cave and you were the one who-“
Yoko smirked seeing Kagome going back under water speaking when she came up for air a few minutes later. “You need help.”
Yoko lifted her out of the water seeing her about to dry herself with fire but instead began licking her dry. Innocently enough with her hand, he worked his way up to her arm… Neck… Stomach-
Kagome growled at him. “-Damnit Yoko-“
Yoko smirked continuing holding her down with his tail. “-I went to sleep I never said I was done with you Kagome.”
Kagome wanted to clean herself put closed her eyes nudging against Yoko. “If you'd shut up from hearing your own voice.” She stood walking off towards the cleaning pool. “Better yet…”
Yoko smiled and after about twenty minutes went after her seeing her already out of the pool, body dry, running her hands through her hair drying it from heat. She put it back into a braid not caring if Yoko liked it or not still standing nude and looked at him still braiding.
“You got something to hold me down that isn't a part of your damned body since I doubt you have a sports bra laying around.”
Yoko tossed her something. “I didn't rip it.” He smirked. “I rather enjoy your breast I wouldn't want them tenderized from something or someone that isn't me. And I've cleaned it for you love.”
Kagome put the sports bra on that was a bit too tight, meaning perfect to make sure no movement and hardly any curves. She put on the kimono she found in a material far too extravagant for her and tied the obi.
“And I'm not going to sleep because I don't want your damn tail hands paw hand foot hair leg or anything I didn't name rutting with me for too damn long.” She walked past him. “That's what.”
Yoko smirked at her. “Harsh. What don't you want to tell me.”
Kagome sighed feeling him behind her. “That I'm not going to just spill out to you because we mated for six days strai-“
Yoko growled going outside in the moon light. “-aside.”
Kagome continued going towards a forest. “I'll tell you once I'm sure no one is around including animals, youkai, relations and ningen.” She jumped up into a tree. “You'll understand why then now get away from me now.”
Kagome opened her eyes from sleeping knowing no one who wasn't at least A class would mess with her smelling Yoko on ever crevice of her body washed or not and felt refreshed. She looked down a bit realizing she probably hurt Yoko.
`I wasn't playing. I did want him to leave from damn near fucking me for that long when I told him I didn't want to. Hell he should know first hand a body can react and not wanted. Why I killed myself in the first place.' She pushed off of the tree going to find something to eat. `But I'd never want to hurt him. Dumb fox. Just not used to being around someone who gives a damn about me.'
She walked up to Yoko after eating, always alone remembering the only time she was seen eating was when pregnant, and when he was there he never let her out of his sight. She saw him sitting in the cave against the wall and knelt in front of him. She walked past speaking quietly.
“I didn't want to say it like that. Just something else I'll like to get used to with time.”
“Eloquently put.”
“When are you going to Sesshomaru.”
“Now, if you'd like. That's not even the main reason I stopped causing you too much pleasure.”
Kagome was annoyed but hid it well. “Tell me something I don't know.”
“You're with my kits again.”
Kagome sighed hearing him laughing. He knew she detested him knowing when she was pregnant before she could. She ignored it and heard Zokusai and Nijuu coming from outside. Not having anything to say she remained quiet, walked back to Yoko and bent down slightly, he was that tall, and gently kissed him and walked off. The twins stopped at the entrance to the cave seeing Kagome going past them.
“Let's go.”
Yoko smiled feeling content knowing she didn't mean it at all but still slightly hurt. Even if she did he'd bounce back with very little time.
`I'd love you even if you hated me.'
Kagome led her two through Makai for hours to the appropriate portal back to the area of Japan they were looking for speaking as soon as out not stopping walking.
“Clean yourselves and go to the Uremeshi house until your father comes back for you.”
Nijuu spoke. “Uhmm… Okay! Later Mom!”
Yoko left the portal feeling Kagome already that far ahead and shook his head. He caught up to her sitting just outside of Sesshomaru's property waiting for him. She looked up at him seeing him just looking at her.
“You don't have to explain everything to me Kagome.” He sat down next to her seeing the look she gave him. “Unless I ask of course.”
Kagome sighed. “Arrogant kitsune.”
“You can take a walk for as long as you'd like my dear, no questions needed, asked.”
Kagome looked at him, then down speaking over the quiet. “The jewel of the four souls is as old as Midoriko trapping her soul with the three youkai that she couldn't defeat to ensure peace… Everyone knows that it only created more death, chaos… You know the stories. But regardless midoriko's soul is far older than most take it for. The jewel isn't one thousand years old, it's not ten thousand. How long I don't know but it's old. And Midoriko made it that since she was casted into her own creation that there would be someone to take after it to make sure that no one abuses it.”
Yoko spoke. “The guardian of the jewel.”
“Right. And once one dies there's a new one… Only that… Midoriko chose a miko to be the first guardian, how, no idea being a living spirit with no body. A warrior miko like she was. And it was passed down to other warrior mikos as they continued to be killed off then to mikos when warrior mikos weren't around…I still have no damn idea of how it got to me. Damn obvious I'm not a miko. Maybe Midoriko thought it would be better to hide something that's wanted in something already hated or something I don't know…”
Yoko looked at her. “What are you trying to say.”
Kagome still looked down. “When I went to Sesshomaru I told him I was going to kill Chenja and myself. I knew that it was, the shikkon no tama, was going to just sit in me wherever my body would be. And that the only possible back up plan the three youkai could have if they failed would be to use it some how, or wait the same time they had waited before. Which wasn't an option since they were sick of waiting. Sesshomaru listened to what I had to say and told me that he would not have someone who didn't even know what was in them trying to guard something that, this important, the youkai would just come up to her and kill her with ease.
So he asked me if I knew of anything, anyway to make it so that, since how he knew I was going to kill Chenja, I could come back, at least my mind, spirit, soul, and guard it. Bring me back to life. He said that was the only way I'd get the necklace around me again. So I told him I could bind my soul to the shikkon no tama, after he put the necklace on. And knowing no one lied to him and lived, knowing as how I wanted to die, did so. So I did it. My soul is in the jewel. I gave it to him to safeguard not trusting anyone else or wanting anyone else to have that type of responsibility and he told me he'd revive me and ensured that no one would burn my body, how I'd become reincarnated, be a mess. So when he did, he gave it back putting it inside of me, told me Chenja and someone called Akumu had ransacked my grave site and were looking for the Shikkon, had gotten close to him but figured not and told me to disappear.”
Yoko felt bad. “He told you more than just disappear.”
“Not like I had a choice. Regardless I figure you should know. It's in me now, around you. You being you can protect me but not even Sesshomaru could protect me with this from the world, everything.”
“Where's it at in you.”
“Hip, other side. I can live without it in me just fine. But once it's wished on I'll either die and have my soul trapped inside as well once it rematerializes or I'll just cease to exist.”
Yoko looked ahead. “What if a pure wish is made.”
“According to old crap everyone says the jewel will cease to exist.” She smiled some. “If I were some ningen, making a pure wish or finding someone who could would be my goal… Sesshomaru told me though, that if someone did make a pure wish, if it were even possible, that I'd get my soul back and would live…So…”
“And you want to keep running because you don't want Chenja, Akumu to find you. Least of all around Nijuu and Zokusai. Never around me.”
“We couldn't stop them before, we have far less and more responsibilities… And I honestly don't want to put you in that position but I do love you Yoko and seeing you not knowing I was alive… I can't do that to you, even if it kills you.”
Yoko looked at her and kissed her head. “Okay.” He stood walking. “Let's go to Sesshomaru.”
Kagome stood and looked at him. “Yoko?”
He stopped, smiled and turned towards her. “Let's go love.” He spoke when she caught up next to him walking. “Does he know you're here.”
“I doubt it.” She looked down. “I'll wait outside then.”
Yoko entered the large estate through one of the back doors not trusting a single entrance and stealthy made his way towards Sesshomaru's bedroom in the middle of the night. He knew he didn't have a chance at slitting his neck so deep his head would roll off of his head unless he did this perfectly, then better than that. This was him breaking ties with Sesshomaru, his oldest living non enemy slightly more in favor than neutral alliance. But that didn't matter much at all. He had sentenced his mate to a death worse than death and that was unforgivable. If he did manage to kill Sesshomaru, he'd be the most powerful youkai in existence, the title Sesshomaru has had…For about five hundred twenty two years now. He'd also have ever dog demon after his head. If not and he wasn't killed by him…
Yoko, seeing the doors closed laced a plant around the old fashioned hinges and opened the door. He saw Sesshomaru wearing only traditional pants holding his fully clothed mate. He had never seen her before, heard of what she looked like. Black hair, green markings, blue eyes, black tail. He looked around making sure nothing was going to disrupt him, made his way behind Sesshomaru and took out a sword he had thieved inside of his own home from his tunic-
Sesshomaru reached up with his claws grasping the sword nearly severing his thumb oozing blood and pushed Yoko back and raised his lip showing his fangs eyes tingeing red. Yoko barked at him not wanting to let his instincts take over, and hoping not doing so would cause Sesshomaru not to go into his true state, which would give him no possibility for survival, for taking care of Kagome. He heard a low growl from Sesshomaru causing his mate to quickly wake up wide eyed in seeing yoko and run out of the room. And the moment she did so-
Kagome looked up outside sensing Yoko and Sesshomaru's yoki growing by the second as they fought. She knew that unless Yoko had injured him before hand gravely there was no chance he'd survive. She looked down.
`Even less that he'd let him live. You know I don't care Yoko let it go and I'll beg for your life-`
Kagome turned around standing quickly seeing a silver/white inuyoukai standing directly behind her. With green markings. Kagome looked at him backing away noticing him countering her with every step. She bit her lip.
`He told me, you told me Sesshomaru. That I'm nothing now and that if it weren't for the jewel you would…You even got them to think the same thing, didn't you?' She looked away, remember who they were, who was infront of her, and what she was. What she was born as. `But I know it's best Sesshomaru, you do too. Why should you, when no one else does?'
“I do not want to fight Sesshomaru-dono or his.”
The inu shook his head. “Your mate made that decision for you-“
Kagome didn't have time to move out of the way much feeling claws grabbing a chunk of her side ripping it out. She side stepped out of the way quickly putting her hands up holding onto a block burning his hand finding him kicking her in the stomach. Kagome let out a shout coughing out some blood, felt the same kick and knocked down to the ground. She quickly rolled back seeing his claws coming at her and jumped to her feet creating an ice ball throwing it slightly slower than normal and quickly creating a large boomerang in both hands throwing it at him as quickly as possible feeling her ribs break from her side. She saw the inu jump over the ice ball that had split itself into two, jump on one boomerang catching the other and knock a smaller boomerang not noticed before with his tail. As Kagome jumped up in front of him with a fire encased ice sword in hand striking him full force in his stomach.
The inu fell off of the boomerang slightly in the air with a deep wound in his stomach and knelt, growling, eyes tinged red, seeing Kagome running away as quickly as possible in the distance leaving a blood trail.
Yoko felt an enormous gush of yoki outside at the boarder to Sesshomaru's main grounds and when thrown past the window again turned seeing a large white dog running in the distance extremely fast for his size. Knowing why he knew he had to get to Kagome before he killed her, clawed at Sesshomaru's throat making contact with sheer speed and ran out of the house in kitsune form.
Kagome couldn't think of a time she had run faster in her life. She had just found Yoko, his two sons. She did not want to leave them, that. She felt the yoki increase sensing a massive number of lesser youkai that had passed themselves off as animals fleeing the area leaving her alone in a massive grass field running. She felt the ground shaking once, figuring he took off running after her and wanted to be able to know how to run faster-
Kagome let out a shout feeling his paw land on her hearing a loud resonating growl and within the same second black out.
The inu growled seeing Kagome no longer moving at all and turned seeing a small in comparison silver creature running at him. He stepped in front of Kagome growling. The creature came to a stop with eight tails behind him snarling at the massive dog, took a step and pushed off for his neck when they were both stuck down by a poisoned whip. Sesshomaru looked at the inu.
“Maramaru.”
The inu morphed back with a massive cut along his stomach looking at Sesshomaru angry. “Father she-“
“-you are the one holding the most incompetence if you let a lowly wench injure you as such.” He turned to Yoko. “And I will kill you if I ever see you again a day in your life unwanted. Leave now.”
Yoko snarled at him, picked Kagome up in three of his tails and ran off to safety. Passing near Uremeshi house hold he let out a bark warning them, and that he'd come back for them later.