InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Love Found After Centuries: Part 2 ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

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Chapter 3

by: Inumaru_Rapture

Kagome's mouth was unhinged as she stared blindly at him. Sango patted her knee in silent comfort as Miroku continued. Inumaru and Gabriel exchanged glances. Wasn't their father named Sesshoumaru? Why was he being referred to as Lord Sesshoumaru? Who is Inuyasha? What had happened?

"By the time we got to Inuyasha's side to help him, Sesshoumaru had awoken, and was coughing up water…"

*Flashback*

Inuyasha dropped the body of his brother onto the ground as he started to stir. Sesshoumaru turned onto his side, arm braced on the ground. He coughed up some water, and laid there, panting.

"Where is…Kagome…?" He asked shakily through his coughs. When no answer came to his ears, he glared up at the mournful looking people.

"Where is she?!"Sesshoumaru demanded, breaking his usual emotionless facade and looked to Sango with a mix of fear and pain.

"She left…She thought Inuyasha had killed you…" came Miroku's response, Sango unable to speak.

Sesshoumaru stared at them for a moment. Two seconds later, he was up, running as fast as he possibly

could to the well. With an effortless leap he was over the side and on the dirt at the bottom. Looking up, he saw the same night sky.

"No!" He could barely whisper as he tried to jump again. When that failed, he fell to his knees and dug with his claws. "No! Kagome! I'm Alive! Come back!!" Sudden sadness racked his body as he fell backward into the well side. The humans had finally caught up with him and were peeking in.

"She sealed the well…the only way for us to get through is if she unlocks it…" Sango said softly as Sesshoumaru swore loudly and banged his fist into the dirt.

"Beloved…I'm alive…come home…" Sesshoumaru whispered too softly for him to even hear the words.

"FUCK!" Inuyasha's swore carried over the trees and echoed back and forth, birds stirred from their nests and flew at the sudden loud noise.

"What?" Miroku asked, glaring at him.

"She has shards of the Shikon Jewel!" Inuyasha said, anger dripping off his voice. Sesshoumaru had him by the throat before anyone could blink.

"Is that all she ever was to you? Your PRECIOUS jewel detector?!" Sesshoumaru's voice dripped in murderous venom. Inuyasha could only get a slight shake of his head out before he was dropped on his behind.

"Kagome…" Sango whispered sadly and fell into her husband's waiting embrace. Sesshoumaru growled. His pups! He would never see his pups! His heirs! His little versions of himself and Kagome's lovemaking brought into two little bodies. He would never be able to hold their newborn bodies…

It was Sesshoumaru's secret that he had always wanted to be a father…That was the reason he never grew angry with Rin…the reason he kept her around…

But of course, all this he kept silent. If he ever spoke of it to any of the humans or his idiotic brother who had single handily torn the love of his life away from him… His knuckled cracked as he clenched a fist.

"Idon't understand…how did you end up in the river, Sesshoumaru?" Miroku asked after his sobbing wife had quieted.

Sesshoumaru looked up at him, ran a hand over his face and sighed. Again he showed emotions as weariness crept into his eyes. Despair and pain hidden within the clouds that tore the gold from his eyes stabbed sharply at his heart.

"When this moron of a half-breed was aiming his sword, Ithrust Kagome out of the way, taking the energy from the swing into my hands, flying back to the river…Though Ido admit you've got some strength when yourfatheaded, doltish, idiotic, and lethargicself is replaced with your blind demonic self." Sesshoumaru didn't even take pride in the steam coming from Inuyasha's ears. Nothing mattered anymore. Miroku noticed.

"Why don't you leave Rin with us? You can stay here for as long as you would like…" the monk offered. Sesshoumaru looked at him, casting the cold facade over his broken and bleeding heart. He wouldn't take the sympathy of humans…even if they were Kagome's friends.

"Iwill not. Rin and Iwill leave now." He turned and started to leave when a hand grabbed the arm of his haori. Sesshoumaru glanced sharply at the woman attached to his sleeve.

"Stay one night?" Sango asked silently. "For Kagome…in case she comes back?" Sesshoumaru was silent, then nodded. Sango took his arm and led him back to the village.

*End Flashback*

"The next day, he left before the afternoon came, making me promise to send word to him if you ever came back…" Miroku's steady voice came to a halt as he finished his story. Sango was watching her friend's face closely. Kagome scoffed at her luck. "Three years living in pain…and he was alive after ll. No wonder the mark never left." Her fingers unconsciously rubbing her shoulder, index finger tracing the marks.

"Mamma?" Kagome started, looking at the little boy next to her. He looked so much like his father… Kagome pulled her son into a hug and buried her head in his hair. Inumaru came over and joined in the family hug. After a tense moment, Kagome let them go, tears glistening in her eyes.

"You boys want to meet your daddy?" She asked quietly. They both nodded. She nodded too. "Okay." With a look to Sango and Miroku, they knew what she was going to ask.

"We can leave tomorrow, okay?" Miroku said, before Kagome could open her mouth. Kagome smiled, then bowed gratefully. With a respectful bow, Kagome stood and shuffled her two children off to bed.

After they had left, Sango set her head on her husband's shoulder.

"You're not coming with." He merely stated. Sango hit him in the chest.

"If you want to ever have sex again, you'll let me come with," Sango smiled internally as he stiffened.

"That…is just evil."

In Kagome's Bedroom…

"Mamma?" Inumaru gently nudged his mother awake. Her eyes opened, and a small motherly grunt came from her. "Why were they calling Dad, Lord?"

Propping up on one elbow, Kagome looked to her sons, both awake and seated beside her futon. Kagome had told them all about their father, except that he was the Lord of the West, and that he had tried to kill her a few times. She also left out the reason why they had not ever met their father, and why they were just now coming into the past to see him. Though she had explained where they rightly belonged, Kagome found it difficult to choke out certain parts of her past and their existence.

"Well…There are some things I've kept from your knowledge, for your own good, up until now. I figured that if anyone was still here, that it would slip, but I guess it doesn't matter now." She gave a soft sigh to stop her babbling. "Your father is the Lord of the Western Lands, and you both are heirs to that power. I know you don't really quite understand what that means, but you are born to the privilege of being able to control a piece of land." Little `O's appeared on their lips as they understood that they could control people.

"Why didn't you tell us, Mamma?" Gabriel asked softly. Kagome's eyes softened.

"Because, I didn't want you to think too much on it. You have your whole lives ahead of you. You shouldn't have to think about too much of it now." Kagome opened her arms to the boys, who got hugs and kisses, then were shooed off to bed. They had a big day tomorrow.

The Next Morning…

Kagome walked with her sons next to Kirara, who carried the pregnant Sango, Emiko, and Gabriel upon her back. Miroku walked ahead, showing Inumaru some significant trees, and pointing out places on the hillside that were best for meditation.

When Shippo and Kirara suddenly sniffed and turned to look to the woods, Sango muttered a soft curse and called ahead to Miroku, who came back and handed Inumaru to his mother.

From the trees burst a figure in red, silver cloaking out behind him. Inumaru heard his mother gasp and tighten her hold on him. The feeling he got from her turned black and red, the colors of death and anger. Never sensing his mother feel this way, Inumaru growled at the intruder, assuming he was evil. Gabriel was soon at his mother's side, hopping down from Kirara's back and jumping into Kagome's free arm.

Miroku stood by Kagome, ready to hold either back from attacking at the sight of the other. Inuyasha landed on crouched legs and spun to stare at them.

"Ka…Kagome…" He breathed, staring at the children in her arms. He received a glare.

"SIT BOY!!" Kagome's voice rang out, followed by a thud and curses.

"I thought you would've forgotten about that!!" Inuyasha cried from the dirt. Inumaru giggled. "Shut up you brat!"

"SIT!! And watch your mouth around my children, would you?" Kagome added sweetly as his strangled cry came out again. Miroku sweat-dropped and looked at his wife, who was entertaining Emiko playing with some flowers.

"I'm sorry…" Inuyasha's voice came from the still figure in the dirt. He was trembling. "Do you realize how hard it was to wait three years to tell you that? You have no idea how lonely someone could get knowing that one of their closest friends had just lost someone, but hadn't…and left thinking they had?" Kagome set her children down and went to him, kneeling beside him.

"Do you have any idea what it's like to loose your true love to one you used to love?" She countered. The look in both their eyes screamed that they knew. They both knew what it was like. "Do you know what it's like raising two children for three years, and having their hanyou selves being hidden and them not being able to make any friends?" Inuyasha's eyes saddened, and he sat up, looking at her in the eyes.

"Kagome…had I been thinking…I would have just been happy for you."

"Had you been thinking…but I guess you were just jealous that Sesshoumaru was able to keep a hold of me and not lose me to some dead miko." Kagome's voice was bitter, but her anger had dropped. Shippo sat by his brothers and tried to whisper who the man in red was.

"Inuyasha…though I've spent the last three years hating you…for the most part…I …I'm glad to see you." Kagome whispered, leaning forward and hugging him. He returned the hug, glad to be finally forgiven, the weight off his shoulders. After the hug ended, Inuyasha had a sheepish look on his face.

"Two things…Kikyo is Naraku's mate…and who's the little kids?"

Kagome spent a few minutes introducing her two sons to Inuyasha, who poked at their ears, got kicked in the shins, and got walloped with a few more `sits' before they were on their way again, towards Sesshoumaru's palace.

"Will he want to see you, Inuyasha?" Miroku asked quietly as they paced in front of the women and children.

"Probably not…but I can be your body guard…since Sango is so far into her pregnancy, and there are so many kids now…" Inuyasha said softly, hoping his nephews didn't hear. `Heh…my nephews…sounds strange…but…I like it.'

-End Chapter-

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