InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Love Found After Centuries: Part 2 ❯ Chapter 7 ( Chapter 7 )

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Author's Note: Gomen nasai for taking so bloody long!! I feel so horrible! I have been so bloody busy I have barely been able to write a page every other day in my R&D (study hall). But I will make up for it! I will have this story done by April 8th and the sequel started and half-way finished by the 19th! ^_^; Gomen again, and arigato for being patient!

I've been blessed with a helper and an idea for a sequel to this second part! ^^;;; (I'm never going to end it with the way things are going…) The lovely, Ravenstar and I shall be writing a short…5 chapter maximum sequel describing what happens to the twins and the children as they grow into adulthood! ^_^ It will be delightful, I promise!!

Chapter 7

By: Inumaru_Rapture

What Happened Last Time…

Re-gathering her strength, that had faltered into her feet, she reached for the doorknob and twisted it, pushing the door open. With a soft step, she was in the room. Her breath caught in her throat at the thin man standing by the window, his arm borne across the wall, holding his small frame from falling.

Sesshoumaru felt a growl tremble in his throat. The vibrations almost shaking his body apart.

"I told you not to bother me, you irritant, to…" He turned, his glare angry and miserable, his voice choked as he stared at her. `It's Her…Her…the woman! The woman I love! Her name? What's her name?' His knees wobbled, his claws clenching into the wall. `She has to be an illusion… I've lost it now… She can't be here… she never is going to return to me… ever…' He turned from her, his shoulders slumping, claws clenching the wall harder, making holes in the wood.

Kagome gasped as the sadness entered his eyes again. He turned from her without a word. `I've hurt him so badly… He won't want me back…'

"Sesshoumaru…"

A stifled gasp caught in his throat as his body stiffened, that voice! It was hers! He turned so quickly that he fell to his knees, his limps turned into liquid. Suddenly, before he could move again, she was standing in front of him. His head raised and stared at her in shock.

"Is it…really you?" His voice cracked as tears choked his eyes and throat. She nodded barely an inch before he had latched his arms around her, his head resting on her chest and shoulder. He trembled at her warmth, feeling her arms encircle him, her tears drop onto his exposed neck as she held onto him.

They were finally together!

Kagome felt her knees give. She slid down his chest onto the floor. He was so pale, so weak… She shouldn't have locked the Well! She should've come back sooner!!

They held each other for what seemed like centuries, basking in the warmth given by the other -the smells forgotten, the feeling of skin blissful- until the light in the room started to brighten, the morning birds started to sing. The clouds had parted outside, showing the blue sky for the first time in three years. The rains had stopped, the new birth of the sun rose into the desolate west, soft songs of rejoice and praise filtered in from villages and packs of youkai in the western lands, drifting over the soft breeze of the morning. The soft breath lifted through the window of the embraced couple's room… the embrace never once loosening.

They had moved only once; Sesshoumaru sitting back, taking his mate with him, and settling against the wall, her on his lap, head on his shoulder, their arms around each other's body, still clinging desperately to the other.

No words had been uttered, there was no need for them. Both lover's cheeks were tight from dried tears, both shared passionate `hello' kisses with the other -the mating of their lips bringing forth fresh tears of happiness. Just to be with the other… just to smell the forgotten scent… just to touch the blessed skin.

"My beloved… My… Kagome…" Sesshoumaru felt his heard sour with the memory of her name. "By the seven hells and everything that ever has or will draw breath, I've missed you," his voice was a rumble, a forgotten passion burning in the depth of his being. Yes, he remembered now. He remembered it all. She was Kagome, his mate, his soul lover, his completion. He remembered how they became one, how they had traveled through their pains, the swollen of her belly before she was taken from him, her smiles and her purely wonderful heart.

He drank in her scent, memorized her face with his fingers, took bliss in the feel of her hair and the small incline and decline of her chest as she took in breath. She glowed like no mortal or immortal ever could possibly ever conceive the dream of glowing. She was more than anything he could ever wanted to see, ever could want to have, ever want to dream of knowing. Just to see her eyes, just to feel her lips, just to be by her… He was whole.

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The sun beams glistened above the slumbering couple. Never once was the door disturbed by the daily morning knock of the toad servant nor any other creature in the palace. The tiger spirit, Ra, stood guard even more forcefully than he ever had before, a beaming sparkle in his eye that his beloved master was once again reunited with his mate. Only when he heard the soft breaths fighting off sleep did he allow Jaken to bring the morning news and meal to his lord.

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Sesshoumaru glanced around, more awake than he had been in the last three years of his life, feeling more complete and content than before… and… was he ever hungry!

The goddess in his arms shifted, purring into his chest as she fought sleep to awaken. A smile took over his lips as she smoothed the bangs from his mate's forehead, her eyes fluttering open. She smiled an angelically bright and blissful smile at him, moving to kiss his smiling lips.

"I'm so sorry I was gone for so long, beloved," Kagome whispered as she drew back. "I didn't know…. I'm so sorry for putting you through so much pain… for putting you…us… through that…" Kagome's words were cut off by his elegant finger. Already, his color was returning and his strength awakening as he fluffed his tail around them, covering her completely.

"No more talk of that. We're together now… We always will be." A knock came as Sesshoumaru lightly kissed her forehead. A soft growl left his throat at being disturbed, but his stomach roared back demanding to be fed. Kagome giggled softly, kissing his throat lightly as Jaken opened the door.

"My Lord Sesshoumaru! Forgive this lowly servant's tardiness, that Ra spirit of yours wouldn't let me pass… said something about leaving you alone, but I told him you were always along… why are you sitting on the dirty floor, milord?" Jaken's squeaky voice rattled on before he could catch his tongue. Sesshoumaru moved his tail, allowing Jaken to see the female in his grasp.

"Leave the food and don't come back until I come out," Sesshoumaru growled, Kagome giving a look of superiority to the toad servant.

"But of COURSE! Forgive this fool of…"

"OUT!" Sesshoumaru yelled, cutting him off. Jaken quickly set the tray down and scrambled out of the room, shutting the door behind him. Kagome let out the trickle of laughter she had been suppressing and felt her beloved's arms tighten around her.

"How I've missed your laugh…" He whispered into her ear.

With hesitation, they released their hold on one another, moving to the tray, his tail never releasing her waist, their hands entwined. They sat and ate breakfast, Kagome filling him in on the life she lead, on his children, who he demanded to see as soon as his hunger was situated, and everything else that had happened. Sesshoumaru, in turn, told her of the ice lord he had become, how Rin had become utterly mute, and how he was ashamed to admit he had forgotten her after thinking of nothing else.

After he spoke, tears rolling down his and her cheeks, Kagome shifted and moved to press her body onto his side, wrapping her arms around him and laying her head on his shoulder.

"Gomen nasai, beloved… If I had not the constant reminder of you in our pups, I would have become as you did…" She whispered and kissed his mark.

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His hunger situated, the mated couple walked out of the room. Sesshoumaru chuckled as she went off into a small rant on the dusty path. A small child was walking, with her ghastly pale face turned to the floor, towards them. Kagome's breath hitched in her throat and she whispered the child's name. Rin looked up….and screamed.

"MAMMA!!!!!!!" Tears broke from the child's eyes as her mother raced to her, scooping her adopted daughter up into a huge hug. Kagome's kimono was crumpled on the floor under her knees as she held her sobbing daughter. Sesshoumaru felt his heart ache at the desperation at which Rin clung to Kagome. The poor child. Rin waved her father over, who quickly knelt by his mate's side and wrapped the both of them in a hug.

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With Rin in her mother's arms, the family made their way to the wing of the palace that the other pups and friends were staying. Ra passed through a wall into their hallway, his face frantic.

"Milord! Milord! Come quickly! The Lady Iiekna has attacked your pups!" Ra exclaimed. Sesshoumaru growled deeply in anger and took off running, followed by Kagome carrying Rin. Ra hovered before the taiinuyoukai as he spoke of what happened. "The pups had just awoken, the Lady Nea had been watching over them while the humans slept in the room next door, the Lord Yohaka asleep in the room across the way, and your half-brother in the room diagonal to it. The Lady Iiekna came so fast none of them had time to react before she pounced upon your Kitsune son." Ra had to hover faster as Sesshoumaru picked up speed, his eyes turning blood red. "The Kitsune was able to scorch her with fire, the human girl running to Lady Nea, who had awoken Lord Yohaka, and both had tried to get the female away from the children. That is when I left to find you."

Sesshoumaru burst through the doors of the nursery just as the Lady Nea flew at the doors. Sesshoumaru caught the red panda youkai, growling. The Lady Iiekna had blood dripping down her face from a gash above her eye, the pups were safe in the corner with Miroku and Sango protecting them. Inuyasha stood with his back to the door, but the lowering of his head gave away that he was afraid of the inu taiyoukai. Yohaka stood with his claws extended, in a stance to attack the rat youkai.

"How dare you attack pups in my house!" He roared, Nea having gotten away from him and moved away from the taiyoukai. Lady Iiekna seemed to shrink. "PUPS THAT ARE OF MY BLOOD!" He flew at the rat, taking her neck into his poisoned clawed hand and slamming her into the wall.

The lady grew bold and spit in his face. "Pups of filth blood on both sides!" She hissed. Sesshoumaru snarled, dragging her, kicking, screaming, and cursing, by her neck out of the room and down the hall. Kagome ran into them as she huffed with Rin on her back. She sent Rin on ahead to her siblings, and stared at the screaming rat in her mate's grasp.

"She's the one who attacked my pups?" Kagome asked, anger dripping off her. Sesshoumaru nodded as Kagome punched the rat in the face.

"You're the human bitch!? You're the wench he was so caught up on?! I curse you ningen! I curse you to death!" the rat screamed as Sesshoumaru's eyes flashed black. With all the power he could muster he slammed the rat into the wall…er… through the wall and dropped her to fall down the 14 stories into the chasm below, her scream echoing as she fell.

Sesshoumaru breathed, his hand bleeding from the impact on the wall, and he braced himself on his mate, who had rushed to his side. Yohaka has watched from down the hallway, his anger dwindling with the loss of the rat bitch. Lady Nea hurried to them.

"I'm sorry to interrupt, but the pups…" Nea pushed herself onto the wall as the couple ran by. Yohaka took his mate's hand and followed.

"Mamma!" Inumaru cried as he and Gabriel ran for their mother. She was down on her knees, scooping them up before she knew what hit her. Sesshoumaru was attacked by Rin and Shippo, who he hugged tightly. Sango was holding her new son, Kohaku, and Miroku was holding their daughter.

"Boys… This is your father… Sesshoumaru, this is Inumaru and Gabriel… your sons…" Kagome held each of her sons out to their father, who set down his two adopted pups and held a hand out to his sons. Inumaru shook his hand softly, shyly. Gabriel, who looked at him oddly, then launched himself into his father's arms.

"Daddy!" Gabriel's face was littered with tears as he held onto his father. Inumaru jumped in, hugging tightly. Kagome saw the tears fall down her mate's face, and moved to grab their adopted pups into a huge family hug.

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Naraku scoffed over Kikyo's shoulder. They were watching from Kanna's mirror.

"Damn Rat can't carry out simple orders," the dead miko muttered. A loud cry came from the room next to the one they were in, Kikyo moving to go silence the wailing. She came back out, holding a black hared boy.

"What is his problem this time?" Naraku asked without looking up from the mirror. Kikyo growled.

"Your son wants to see you, Naraku… You could at least look at him," Kikyo growled, setting the year old boy on the wooden floor.

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Sesshoumaru sat on the stone bench in the garden as his four children ran amuck in the fast re-growing flowers. Kagome sat on his lap as Nea and Yohaka stood in each other's embrace by the koi pool. Sango and Miroku were having a picnic on a green hill with their two children around them. The aura was peaceful as they all drank in the bliss of being together. Sesshoumaru set his lips on his mate's mark, his tongue lavishing in the taste of her skin. Kagome shivered, looking at him with a grin.

"Naughty boy…" He chuckled and followed her into the palace.

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"Lord Naraku, the demons are ready." Kagura muttered as she bowed behind the curtain. Naraku, who had just finished mating with the dead corpse again, growled.

"Good, Now get them to head towards the Western Palace. We need to get those shards!" He growled as he bit down on Kikyo's wrist, the blood flowing freely. In the crib beside the bed, the evil son of the two lay asleep, a burn on his palm in the shape of a spider.

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