InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A New Life ❯ Wishing for Love ( Chapter 21 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Wishing for Love
“How could I have been so stupid!” Inuyasha yelled as slicing down a tree with his transformed Tetsusaiga, watching as it crashed to the ground with a thunderous boom. Sweeping his sword back around he sliced through another tree and watched too as it crashed to the ground.
“I never meant those things I said to Kagome, couldn’t she see that?” he yelled to the sky that shadowed his own feelings swirling patterns that were dark, gray, and sad.
“Shimatta, shimatta, shimatta!” he cursed everything around him trying to take his anger out on something as he run his sword through another tree.
“If you keep that up you’ll hurt yourself” a soft voice floated on a light breeze. Cursing himself for not being more alert Inuyasha turned around to find a being watching him from underneath a white hooded cloak that was a demon. Being wary Inuyasha sniffed the air for the intruder’s scent. A strong scent wafted to him that he had never encountered before, the demon smelled of roses after a thunderstorm revealing her as a demoness.
“Who are you and what do you want?” Inuyasha asked drawing Tetsusaiga in front of him, pointing it at the demoness.
“My name is Shirokamnari and I am obviously lost” she spoke in a quiet voice as if she were shy.
‘Shirokamnari, white thunder, it suits her’ “What are you doing in these lands?” he asked keeping his scowl on.
“I said I was lost, are you daft?” she smirked in his direction.
“Are you saying I’m stupid bitch” Inuyasha snarled that this demoness would call him stupid when she was the one who got lost.
“No you’re not stupid but you are naïve, and you are correct that I am a bitch” she pulled back her hood from over her head and tossing her hair behind her reveling the most beautiful demoness Inuyasha had ever seen. She had silver hair like his hair but with a blue sheen to it that reached to her thighs. Her eyes were a bright purple that reflected intelligence, as was her skin a creamy white that blended with her cloak. Her lips were the rosiest red he had ever witnessed. On her face she bore a purple five-pointed star on her forehead and natural purple eye shadow that brought out her eyes. For once in his life Inuyasha didn’t have a comeback to the beautiful inu demoness standing before him.
“Are you going to drool over me all day or are you going to help me?” Shirokamnari asked with a tilt of her lips and amusement shining in her eyes.
“Ano…I wasn’t drooling!” said Inuyasha as he came back to his senses and sheathed Tetsusaiga thinking that he wouldn’t need to use it on a mere demoness.
“Well are you going to help me?”
“You’re in the Western lands, and you’re not to far from the ruler of these lands castle” Inuyasha stated as turning his back on Shirokamnari.
“Would you be so kind as to take me to see Lord Sesshomaru for he is the once I have to come to talk to in the first place” she said as she replaced her hood after tucking her hair back in it.
“Why do you want to see Sesshomaru?” he asked turning back around and felt oddly annoyed that she had covered her head back up with the hood on the white cloak.
“I can only discuss the matter with the royalty of the western domain, either a Taiyoukai or prince, which you are not.”
“What! Do you even know who I am?” He asked after she had literally bruised his pride.
“Iie, it matters not unless you are royalty” she said waving her hand in a dismissing gesture.
“Don’t act so smug with me!”
“Then what’s your name?”
“Inuyasha” he smirked when he saw the surprise flicker across her eyes.
“You’re the hanyou Inuyasha, Lord Sesshomaru’s brother; please forgive my insolence Lord Inuyasha” Shirokamnari bowed low to the ground.
“Hold on, you don’t have to bow to me or call me Lord for I am no Lord” Inuyasha said forcefully pulling Shirokamnari up by her upper arm.
“Gomen Inuyasha, but you are a prince so I should show you the proper respect,” she said rubbing her arm where Inuyasha had grasped her.
“I am no prince so don’t call me one, got it?”
“Gomen” Shirokamnari bowed her head in shame of offending the prince of the western lands.
“Come on I’ll take you to Sesshomaru” Inuyasha gruffly said as he started out at a fast pace for the castle. He could hear her light footsteps behind him trying to catch up with his long strides. Looking over his shoulder he was surprised to see that her head was bowed down as if she were afraid to look at him.
“I’m sorry;” Inuyasha barely said though he rarely ever handed out apologies but for some reason he wanted to make this fair creature forgive him.
“You have nothing to be sorry about Inuyasha,” she said as coming in step with him.
“I bit your head off and that’s why I apologized” he said glancing over at her.
“Thank you.”
“Douitashimashite Shirokamnari.”
“Just call me Shiro.”
“Shiro it is then…where are you from?”
“The eastern kingdom.”
“So you’re royalty?”
“Sadly yes” she said as she lowered her head to look down at the ground as she kicked a pebble in front of her.
“Don’t you like it?”
“Not really, I never did understand the court systems or the proper etiquette or I could never act like a princess.”
“So you’re a princess” Inuyasha interrupted.
“Hai, and I could never learn to love that I am a princess so I understand how you must feel being given royal treatment. I can’t stand to stay indoors for long periods of time, I feel as if I’m suffocating.”
“Me too.”
“Gomen…”
“For what?”
“For troubling you with my petty problems.”
“You are not troubling me, I am glad that I met you Shiro” Inuyasha said with a slight smile as she brought out the good side in him.
“Thank you Inuyasha” Shiro said as looking into his eyes that brought a light blush to her fair cheeks.
“We are almost there.”
“Good, I have been traveling for ever it seems like” she said with a sigh.
“Before you see Sesshomaru I suggest you eat and rest for a while before you faint from exhaustion.”
“I am not exhausted!”
“From your scent and the way you are dragging your feet and slumping your shoulders gives away that you are tired. I should know these things since I have spent my whole life living in the forests, scraping up enough food to eat for myself and protecting myself from demons.” Inuyasha couldn’t believe that he was spilling his entire past out to this stranger he just met not a few moments ago. He hadn’t even warmed up to Kagome this fast, could it be that he trusted this inu demoness. Maybe and why did her scent affect him so much not to mention her beauty, he wondered what the rest of her body looked like.
‘Mind out of the gutter’ Inuyasha said to himself using one of Kagome’s words from the future. Looking over at the demoness he could tell that she was completely exhausted and would collapse any moment if he didn’t do something. Using his demon speed so Shiro couldn’t resist Inuyasha swooped her up into his arms until he was cradling her bridal style with one of his hands under her knees and one holding her back up.
“What do you think you are doing?” Shiro asked trying to scramble out of his arms.
“I’m carrying you rest of the way, if I don’t then you’ll faint” he said as he bent his knees and pushed with his feet until he was practically flying thought the air. Jumping from branch to branch he couldn’t help but contemplate the feel of Shiro in his arms as she held tightly to his hakama. She felt as light as a feather in his arms and her scent surrounded him in a swirling aura. Breathing deeply he couldn’t get enough of her scent and wondered if she tasted as good as she smelled.
'What! Damn it Inuyasha what are you thinking she wouldn’t have anything to do with you, you’re an outcast half breed.’ Though he thought that he couldn’t help but to hope that he still had a chance. ‘A chance at what? Making her like me, who am I kidding, I’m only a worthless half-breed who was a mistake brought into this world to be an outcast and ridiculed.’ Inuyasha saw the tops of the castle and picked up his pace hoping to reach it soon so he would leave Shiro and continue on with his normal life. But unknown to him his life would be changed forever because he found Shiro and helped her.
Sesshomaru and Kagome had been trying to find Inuyasha but he was no where to be seen. Finally deciding that he had gone back to the castle since Sesshomaru picked up his aura heading there the two made it back to the castle in a scant few minutes.
“Inuyasha has brought someone back to the castle” Sesshomaru said to Kagome feeling a second demonic presence besides Inuyasha’s aura.
“I wonder who it could be?” Kagome thought putting her finger on her closed lips.
“Let’s go find out, shall we?” Sesshomaru held out his arm where Kagome put her hand through. They walked into the castle and into the dining hall where he could hear Inuyasha scolding that who was with him. Looking at each other in curiosity Sesshomaru pushed open the large dining room door with ease and was greeted with an amusing sight. Inuyasha was scolding a beautiful demoness that was rigidly yelling back at Inuyasha.
“You need to eat!” Inuyasha yelled.
“Iie, I will be fine,” the demoness said with growing anger.
“You almost fainted so you are going to eat even if I have to make you!”
“I’d like to see you try!”
“Maybe I will!”
“Then go ahead and try it, I won’t eat until I see Lord Sesshomaru!”
“He’s not here!”
“On the contrary Inuyasha he is here” Sesshomaru said showing his presence and Kagome’s to the two angry demons.
“Lord Sesshomaru!” Shiro yelled bowing before the demon lord.
“Sesshomaru!” Inuyasha said at the same time surprised that he hadn’t noticed him come in.
“Lady Kagome and I thought you got lost Inuyasha instead you have brought back a demoness, a beautiful demoness no less” Sesshomaru joked. Inuyasha blushed at Sesshomaru for knowing the real reason he brought Shiro along instead of leaving her in the forest. Shiro also had an identical blush on her face from Sesshomaru implying what she thought he was.
“What are you talking about?” Inuyasha asked hoping he wasn’t implying what he thought he was.
“Why Inuyasha it seems as if you have found yourself a possible mate” Sesshomaru joked as Kagome tried stifling her giggles behind her hand but with no success.
“What!” Shiro and Inuyasha yelled simultaneously as their blush deepened.
“There is no way I would become his mate!” Shiro yelled at Sesshomaru but quickly bowed her head in her outburst at the Lord of the western lands.
“And there is no way I would have her as a mate!”
“Surly Inuyasha do you have to yell” Sesshomaru said as his ears continued ringing.
“Feh” Inuyasha said a little more quietly this time.
“Thank you, now you wished to see me?” Sesshomaru asked the demoness who still had her head bowed.
“Hai” she replied.
“Then after you have eaten and have been rested then I shall speak with you.” Sesshomaru turned around with Kagome still on his arm intending on waiting for the demoness to become rested.
“What? I don’t need to rest!” Shiro said though she quickly apologized for her outburst.
“I am Lord here, do you question my authority?”
“I-iie but…”
“No buts I told you that you needed to rest so you’re going to if I have to tie you up” Inuyasha said grabbing Shiro by the wrist and pulling her towards the door. Shiro tried escaping from his grasp but was startled when Inuyasha picked her up bridal style and carried her from the room. She could hear the human girl with Sesshomaru laughing out loud and Sesshomaru’s light chuckle that made her furious that Inuyasha could make her seem so useless.
She remained silent intending on giving Inuyasha a piece of her mind once he took her where they were going. She gazed wonderingly at the castle as they wound through many different corridors. Her parents castle was not even as beautifully furnished as this one but it came close. Inuyasha stopped at a door and with one hand opened it. She was flabbergasted when she noticed that he had taken her to his own room. She could tell it was his room by the extraordinary furnishings and besides that there was a picture on the wall of himself when he was a young infant. She couldn’t think when he carried her over to the bed and pulling the covers back gently laid her down in the bed and pulled the covers up around her shoulders.
“What are you..?” Shiro started but was interrupted when Inuyasha laid a finger across her lips to silence her.
“You need to rest and I won’t hear no arguments from you until after you awake. I’ll have you some food which you will eat without any arguments, understand?”
Shiro nodded her head being too shocked to say anything sensible.
Inuyasha nodded removing his finger from her lips and exiting the room, closing the door softly behind him. Instead of arguing any more Shiro closed her eyes and drifted into a peaceful sleep filled with a white haired half dog demon.
“Do you think Inuyasha likes that demoness?” Kagome asked Sesshomaru as she sat down across from his desk on a large silver silk pillow.
“I believe he has some feelings for her though I doubt he will ever admit it” he said sitting down beside Kagome on another black silk pillow. He watched in amusement as Kagome kept sliding off the pillow.
“I don’t see how you can sit on these pillows” Kagome said finally being able to stay on the pillow with her legs crossed.
“Then why don’t I help you get better situated” Sesshomaru huskily suggested as he gave Kagome one of his rare mischievous smiles that left her weak in the knees. Good thing she was sitting down.
“Don’t even think about it” Kagome said trying to scoot away from Sesshomaru who crept closer to her on his hands and knees.
“Think about what koi?” he asked trying to be completely ignorant at her statement though he wasn’t so good at it because he still had the mischievous glint in his golden eyes.
“About what your thinking about” Kagome said scooting backward until her back came up against the wall where she was trapped.
“Oh then you won’t mind if I do this” Sesshomaru said. Coming in touching distance of her he stretched out his hand and laid it on her exposed leg. Being mindful of his sharp claws he followed the smooth skin of her leg and up her arm where he tangled his hand in her raven locks bringing her head forward. Kagome was shivering in delight at the sensation of his slightly rough hand roaming her body and when he stopped just an inch from her lips she almost flung herself at him when the sound of someone clearing their throat came from behind them.
Groaning in annoyance at being interrupted Kagome looked over Sesshomaru’s shoulder to see Inuyasha standing there impatiently; tapping his foot with his arms crossed at Sesshomaru’s desk with a scowl on his face.
“We were in the middle of something Inuyasha” Sesshomaru said with a frown on his face directed at Inuyasha who in turn glared back.
“Well sorry to interrupt your make out session but I need to ask you something” he said continuing tapping his foot in impatience.
Standing up in his usual regal manner Sesshomaru smoothed out the wrinkles in his clothes then turned around pulling Kagome up beside him. Making his way over to his brother he stood in front of him, waiting for his question.
“Did you know who that demoness was?”
“Iie though I have seen her before, I don’t know where” he said with a bored look on his face.
“Then does the name Shirokamnari ring a bell?”
“Hai she is the princess from the Eastern lands.” He thought back on the last time that he had seen her when he was just a teenager in human years though he was really a few hundred years old. He had gone to the Eastern lands on business with a threat to their lands that needed to be reckoned with.
“Do you know why she’s here?” Inuyasha interrupted his thoughts.
“Iie though I am sure it’s important because the Western and Eastern lands are not allies.”“Why not?” Kagome piped up curiously as she came to stand beside Sesshomaru.
“The last time I was in the eastern lands a threat was invading their lands and asked for our assistance. While we were engaged in battle the eastern armies left my armies at the hands of the enemy and from that day on we have been enemies.”
“Why would someone run from a battle to leave others to die?” Kagome thought out loud.
“Cowardliness” Inuyasha said to Kagome’s question.
“Hai I agree, I do not see why she has come but if it concerns an enemy attacking their lands then I shall not risk my men’s lives.”
After a moment of silence Kagome thought of something; “Inuyasha?”“Yeah?” he asked warily as he saw the innocent expression on her face that always meant trouble.
“Do you perhaps like a demoness?”“No” he drawled out thinking there was more to Kagome then what she was letting on.
“Then why did you insist on Shirokamnari getting rested and to eat.”
“What of it?”
“Well you carried her to your room, am I correct?”
“Keh.”
“You like her don’t you?” Kagome said as a huge smile spread across her face promising torture to come.
“N-no” Inuyasha said backing up towards the door hoping he could escape her. But he didn’t get to far when Sesshomaru appeared behind him preventing him from his only escape route.
“Come now Inuyasha, you do not have to hide anything from us” Sesshomaru said advancing on Inuyasha.
“I’m not hiding anything!”
“Sure your not, come on tell us what you think of Shirokamnari?” Kagome said.
“Even if I did think something of her she could never see anything in me except a worthless half breed!” he spat the word out as if it left a bad taste in his mouth.
“Inuyasha she wouldn’t think like that” Kagome said never seeing Inuyasha this emotional over anyone thinking badly of him as a half-breed.
“And how would you know?” Inuyasha said glaring at Kagome.
“Inuyasha calm down, there is no need to get angry with Kagome when she is only curious” Sesshomaru spoke up moving to stand directly behind Inuyasha.
“It’s none of your business, let’s just face it…no one could ever like me when all I am is a mistake, a worthless and stupid half-breed!" He turned around intending on leaving the room but was stopped when Sesshomaru grasped his shoulders roughly stopping him from going anywhere.
“Let me go!” he growled low in his throat.
“Iie not until you calm down.”
“I’m calm let me go damn it!” Inuyasha raised his claws to his brother. Even if Sesshomaru was his brother he had no right to keep him here when he just wanted to be left alone. He brought his claws down intending on removing Sesshomaru’s hands from restraining him when his hand was caught in midair.
Seeing Inuyasha’s intent on trying to injure him Sesshomaru acted quickly and caught Inuyasha’s wrist in midair stopping his tirade.“Stop this now Inuyasha!” Sesshomaru said as Inuyasha tried twisting out of his grip.
“Just let me go damn you!”
“I will not have you leave this room until you calm down.”
“And what would you care!”
“You might injure someone else or yourself if you keep this up.”
“Then I’ll leave and you won’t have a half-breed in your way!”
“Inuyasha don’t do this!” Kagome yelled never seeing her friend this way before.
“Stay out of my life, both of you; I’ve survived long enough on my own when I was a pup so I don’t need no one now!” Inuyasha forcefully shoved against Sesshomaru’s chest, which loosened his grip on his wrist allowing him to get free. Instead of leaving through the door he ran to the window leading to the balcony and jumped out.
Kagome and Sesshomaru watched him run into the woods as they held worried expressions on their face. Sesshomaru was both worried and saddened by what Inuyasha had said. Kagome seeing the regret and hurt in Sesshomaru’s eyes took his hand and led him back into the room and pulled him down with her on the silk pillows.
“Do you want to talk about it?” Kagome traced his stripes on his wrists, which seemed to sooth him.
“I blame myself for the misery I caused Inuyasha.”
“Why?”
“I should have took care of him when his mother was killed, instead I left him to the wolves.”
“It isn’t your fault.”
“If not then whose is it? I wanted to go to him but that was the time we assisted the eastern lands. I failed my little brother, now he thinks he has no place in this world and he thinks he is worthless.”
“I know how he must feel. Even though Inuyasha and I have different heartbreaks they are similar. My heart stopped shattering when I found you. Maybe if Shiro likes Inuyasha then maybe she came glue together the pieces of Inuyasha’s heart as you have mine.”
“Yes, though I first need to know the plans of the eastern lands because if they are the same as past experiences then I fear that Inuyasha will be left in the dust just as my men were ages ago.”
“Yeah…have you seen Rin lately?”
“No…I have not seen her since two days ago!” Sesshomaru quickly stood up and made it to Rin’s room in less than thirty seconds. Slamming open the door he found Rin on her bed crying into her yellow pillow with her hair billowed out around her head. He could hear the muffled sobs coming from the little youth that looked so sad on her crumpled up bed. Being sure not to scare Rin he quietly said her name to get her attention. Rin looked up with her small face that was streaked with tears with her small bottom lip protruding slightly. Seeing Sesshomaru she locked eyes with him for an instant then started crying even louder than she was a moment ago before he got her attention.
“Rin?” Sesshomaru said softly wondering what could of upset the child so.
“….” Rin remained silent sobbing into her pillow.
“Rin what is wrong?” he asked softly sitting on the edge of her small bed as his weight pushed down the mattress. When he reached out and tried taking her small hand in his own he was surprised when she pulled her hand back roughly and tucked it under her pillow.
“Tell me what’s wrong Rin” he reached once more out to take her other hand but she pulled it away also and backed up against the wall. Just seeing this adorable and sweet creature looking so sad made his heart break as when Inuyasha had first come to the castle wanting to take Kagome back. Though this was different, it was like she feared for her life when around him, as if he was the wolves that killed her.
Kagome found them like this when she entered Rin’s room, being able to locate to deep monotone of Sesshomaru’s voice and Rin’s saddened cries.
“Sesshomaru?” Kagome asked questionably looking towards Rin who seemed to be cowering at the corner of her bed, pressed up against the wall as if she wasted to disappear into it.
“I don’t know what’s wrong” he said desperately probely never dealing with this kind of situation before and feeling completely hopeless.
“Let me try” Kagome insisted as Sesshomaru stood up from the bed and she took his place.
“Rin hun’ what’s the matter?” she asked soothingly as she stroked Rin’s black hair that was so much like her own.
“L-Lord S-Sess-homaru” Rin said brokenly.
“What about Sesshomaru sweetie?” she continued running her fingers through the little girl’s hair.
“H-he don’t like Rin no more.”
“Of course he does Rin, why do you think that?”
“R-Rin don’t see him any…more” Rin’s cries became less as she continued talking to Kagome.
“I’m sure Sesshomaru has just been busy with other things sweetie, he would never abandon you.” Kagome looked up at Sesshomaru asking silently if he had though she knew he would never forget the little girl that first broke through his barrier.
“Uh-huh” Rin rubbed her eyes with her fists trying to stop the torrent of tears that seemed to arise from thin air.
“Rin he loves you, isn’t that right Sesshomaru?”
“Hai Rin I could never abandon you…you are my daughter” Sesshomaru said coming to sit beside Kagome but feared to touch her for she might pull from him again.
“Y-you mean that?” Rin looked up with wide mocha eyes that shined with hope.
“Hai daughter.”
Rin never dreaming he would call her his daughter sat stunned for a long while until she realized what he said was true and launched her self as if she were a demon herself into his arms that embraced her small form.
Kagome sat back watching the loving scene with tears in her eyes wondering if her kids would be like Rin was, that is if she ever had any which she wanted.
After a moment of the two embracing Rin looked up into Sesshomaru’s eyes and asked him a question she was hesitant about. “Can Rin call Sesshomaru father?” she said but did not use the puppy face this time.
“Hai Rin, you can call me whatever you desire” he said lovingly down at the human girl in his arms that he had come to see as his own daughter.
“Even Fluffy?” Rin asked with a smile.
“Have you been planning this with Kagome?” he asked in a serious tone looking at Kagome though he was really joking.
“Why what would make you think anything like that?” Kagome looked down at Rin and gave her a wink making the little girl giggle.
“Maybe it’s the fact that you two are exactly alike, making me give you everything you want when you use that face that gets me all the time.”
“What face?” Kagome asked innocently as she put on the puppy face with Rin.
“That face” he said with a pointed look.
“Oh this face.”
“Will Father go pick flowers with Rin and Kagome?” Rin asked with her puppy face still in place.Sighing at being beaten once again into doing what they wanted he gave in with a nod of his head as a grin formed on his features.
“Great” Kagome said with a smile. Sesshomaru walked with both of the hyperactive girls out to his personal gardens where Rin liked to be the most, picking the prettiest flowers she came across and giving them to him. Sesshomaru watched with interest as Kagome and Rin walked through the luxurious garden while Rin picked the flowers and Kagome told her what the flowers could be used for.
‘Kagome has been taught well, though she does dress weird as if she is not from this time’ he thought to himself as he trailed after the dancing pair of humans.
‘I’ll have to remember to ask her later’ he suddenly stopped when he heard a loud crash followed by a demoness yelling as Inuyasha’s loud voice yelled back. Chuckling to himself he knew that it was Inuyasha and Shirokamnari. ‘Shiro would make a fine mate for Inuyasha if only she was not from the eastern lands’ he thought with a sigh. Kagome obviously heard him sigh when she told Rin to continue to pick flowers while she herself walked over to Sesshomaru.
“Is something the matter?”
“Shiro is a good mate for Inuyasha though she is from the eastern lands.”
“What’s wrong with that?”
“I fear that if she did become Inuyasha’s mate then she would run off like the eastern lands did centuries ago.”
“Can I give you some advice?”
Raising a perfectly sculptured eyebrow he nodded for her to continue.
“You can’t judge a book by its cover right? Well anyway I say that you can’t judge a person by how they acted a long time ago, can you? Maybe you should give Shiro a chance and after she has told you what she came here for then she could possibly win Inuyasha’s heart over, though it would be a difficult task.”
“Hai, maybe you’re right.”
“Of course I’m right,” Kagome said putting her hands on her hips.
“You look like a kid when you do that.”
“Oh really Fluffy.”
“Do not call me fluffy, it is not befitting of a lord.”
“Well too bad Fluffy” she poked his chest playfully.
“You do not want to do that.”
“Do what, this?” Kagome poked his chest with her index finger.
“You asked for it” Sesshomaru smirked when he saw the confusion cross Kagome’s face. With in a second Sesshomaru pounced atop Kagome straddling her waist. Knowing what would get her to stop calling him Fluffy he began running his hands down her sides and just when she began closing her eyes he attacked. Being sure not to use his claws he began tickling her profusely as she wiggled beneath him trying to get away from the joyous torture on her sides.
“Do you give up?” Sesshomaru asked as he increased the tickling pace.
“O-Okay you win!” she collapsed against the ground when he stopped tickling, panting trying to regain her breath from laughing for so long.
“You’re mean” she playfully pouted.
“And you’re not my Kagome” Sesshomaru leaned down and whispered in her ear tickling the fine hairs on her neck.
“You’re Kagome?”
“Hai” he nipped at her neck and trailed kisses with nips across her jaw line and over to her lips. He lowered his lips closer and closer to Kagome’s when; “What is Father doing to Mother?” an innocent Rin asked from behind the pair. Pulling apart with a fastness that would rival any demon’s speed they turned with ‘caught-in-the-cookie-jar’ faces. Kagome realizing that Rin had called her mother she asked about it; “Did you just call me Mother?”
“Hai, is Kagome mad?” Rin lowered her head.
“Oh of course not sweetie, I love it, you can call me your mother anytime you want hun'.” Kagome reached over and pulled Rin into her arms giving her a bear hug.
“What was Father doing to you?”
“Ano…Sesshomaru you can get this one” Kagome said pointedly as she looked to Sesshomaru for help with answering this seemingly hard question.
“I was showing your mother how much I loved her” Sesshomaru said with a soft expression.
“Oh okay” Rin squeezed out of Kagome’s hold and ran back to the flowers skipping along the way.
“That was awkward” Kagome commented falling back in the grass.
“Hai it was” Sesshomaru said sitting beside Kagome watching Rin with a father’s eyes.
“You know what she’s applying now, don’t you?”
“Hai, she thinks we are her mother and father, husband and wife, or my favorite mate and mate.”
“Eh…Yeah.” A dark blush arose to Kagome’s cheeks at what Sesshomaru was implying.
“You are beautiful when you blush,” he said cupping her cheek in his hand and tracing the contours of it.
“Thanks” she said feeling like a baka for just saying that.
‘I love this demon more than anything else does in this world. Is this what true love is? Will I spend the rest of my life with Sesshomaru and become his wife and have children. I am oddly hoping so.’
Unbeknownst to Kagome her new life had begun when she had first set foot in Sesshomaru’s lands.