InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bad Day ❯ Chapter 4

 

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Bad Day

Chapter 4-Not What I Expected

 

 

 

“Huh?” Kagome stood there gaping like a toad for several minutes before she could get a hold of herself.

“Yeah. He's still kind of close mouthed, but he unbends sometimes at dinner and laughs at me and Lin. I know he'll be glad to see you,” Shippou said excitedly.

Kagome had trouble taking everything in until she heard the last words.

“WHAT!?” She shrieked.

“Come on Kagome. You haven't changed one bit,” Shippou laughed as he tugged her along into the house and through a small hallway. Kagome took the time to notice that Lin slid the doors to the home shut.

Suddenly Shippou stopped and slid open another door and Kagome was surprised to see a very traditional desk setup where a figure worked diligently at a computer. Kagome noted that the computer and printer were the only modern things in this room.

“Sesshoumaru, Kagome is here!” Shippou told the figure.

“I know that. Let me finish this sentence and I will be right, done” Sesshoumaru said. Kagome saw him save the document and he stood up fluidly.

“Hello Sesshoumaru,” Kagome told the youkai.

“Hello Kagome. I assume that you're taking a few days off from shard hunting in the feudal era,” He stated more than asked. Kagome nodded and Shippou snickered suddenly.

“I'll leave you two alone to catch up and everything,” Shippou told them. And very quickly,(too quickly for Kagome's taste) he was out the sliding door and it had shut behind him.

Kagome noticed that Sesshoumaru was wearing traditional Japanese black hakama pants, a black kimono, and a haori over the kimono. Very traditional.

“Would you like to walk through the shrine garden?” Sesshoumaru asked the nervous young woman. Kagome nodded and he walked in front of her and opened the door to the hallway.

She followed him and before he could slide open the front door, Kagome heard the running of several feet and idly wondered if there was a stampede of youkai running down the stairs.

She wasn't far off in her guess.

“Otooji-san! Where is Oto-san?” A cute little kitsune boy asked.

“He is working on another sculpture Miroku. Why don't you go find Sango and go play with Lin for awhile while I show an old friend around,” Sesshoumaru told the little fox demon.

Kagome watched the child nod happily and sprint off in search of Lin and Sango.

“Shippou named his kits after your friends, the monk and demon exterminator. They're twins. Their mother is dead. Shippou has not taken another mate since,” Sesshoumaru told Kagome.

A tear slipped from her eye and down her cheek.

“Do not be sad miko. Shippou had many happy years with his mate before she passed. And he has three children to remind him of her. Three children to love,” He told her. Kagome nodded.

“Where is the third?” She asked.

“The third is an antiques dealer. I have been sending him odds and ends I have collected throughout the years and in turn he sells them for me through auctions. It's a very profitable business. Some things I will never sell, but they are not important to me. And sometimes he finds an object that is of interest to me.”

“I always thought you'd end up being some sort of business man with millions. Instead I find out you work at a museum,” Kagome began.

“I started the museum. I've had several in the last century in different places. This is the newest one. About every forty years I get a new name and go to a new place, though recently I've been thinking of going back to my home is Osaka soon to take some time away from the city. And don't forget, I'm also an author,” Sesshoumaru told Kagome.

“What books?” Kagome asked.

“Well, your school textbooks on history for one,” Sesshoumaru told Kagome. Kagome felt her jaw drop as they continued to walk.

“I also write a few historical novels, but they're passed off as historical fiction. It's okay though, because some of my fans have expressed that the imagery is so real that even though youkai and hanyou are involved, they can easily imagine it being real. I've had a surprising amount of requests for a book about the Inu Youkai Sesshoumaru. There's also quite a bit of fanfiction about you and I on the internet. Some of it is…Well written,and other's nothing but porn without any plot whatsoever. I swear, some authors have the ability to make any man blush,” He chuckled.

“Even you?” Kagome asked as they walked around the shrine and towards the back.

“Given the fact there are a great number of fan fictions involving this Sesshoumaru, and what those fictions entail, especially me. You'd blush to the roots of your hair if you knew what some people wrote about you,” Sesshoumaru told her. Kagome felt her interest pique just as they arrived at the back of the Shrine and her eyes widened at the sight of the garden.

“How is it still,” Kagome began to ask.

“One of the demons I know makes a living this way. She builds gardens that she claims will last through the bitterest of winters. This is a meditation garden,” Sesshoumaru informed her. Kagome nodded and walked towards the center.

She passed a yuki yanagi tree, it's white flowers draping the branches in virginal white. She saw momiji trees with their green leaves intermingling with momo trees and their pink blossoms.

After passing several colorful blooms, Kagome noticed that several trees were barren of any blooms or leaves.

“I thought the tress would bloom in this garden, even in winter,” Kagome said aloud.

“Boke has not been able to make a Sakura tree bloom in winter yet,nor any other time besides when it is supposed to bloom. However, she has made the trees hardier, the blooms are not so easily washed away anymore.”

“I see. Your garden is beautiful,” Kagome told him as she watched water trickle gently over a small waterfall into a pond filled with koi.

“Yes, I would be lost without it. Rin always loved flowers,” Sesshoumaru told Kagome.

“Yes. I'm sorry for your loss,” Kagome told him.

“It was a long time ago, and grief fades over time, until there is nothing left but good memories,” He told her.

Kagome sensed that he was speaking of something else for a moment.

“Well, I know that you are often hopping through that well of yours, but will you be here for the festival a few weeks from now? The shrines are all planning to have one huge festival, instead of just several smaller ones. I know you live at a shrine, I was wondering if you and your family would be participating,” Sesshoumaru told her.

“I'm not sure. My family is with my aunt right now, she's doing poorly. And as for me being here, it's Inu Yasha's whim,” Kagome told him. Sesshoumaru chuckled slightly.

“Grow a backbone Kagome, or else you will never be able to face Naraku.”

“Do I face him, do any of us?” She asked.

“I'm not allowed to say. I was firmly told by your village priestess Kaede that it would be breaking several taboos. But think Kagome. I am here, as is Shippou. Use that information to your advantage. But I will also tell you this; I'm not allowed to tell you. But if you happen to pick the book up and read it, who's to blame?” Sesshoumaru told her.

“Thankyou,” Kagome giggled. He was right. She could get the book. If she didn't rush anything, maybe she could find a way to defeat the hanyou Naraku.

“I have to go Kagome, but please, feel free to stay and speak to Shippou, or to visit anytime,” Sesshoumaru told Kagome.

Kagome nodded and watched him walk out of the garden with a type of sad grace. His farewell had been very clipped and cut short, reminding her of the man he had been.

She began to walk through the shrine, and after looking at the statues of Shinto gods such as Baku,Amaterasu,Tsuki-Yomi and others. Unlike her shrine, there were no place cards here. She realized that this was an actual place of meditation and worship.

She left the shrine, much on her mind. As she was about to start on the path that would lead her to the streets, Shippou came running after her.

“Kagome, Sesshoumaru told me to give you this. It's the one about Inu Yasha and the rest of the group. I have to go see to the kids. But Kagome, please come back soon, I've missed you,” Shippou told her.

“I will be back as soon as possible. You know how Inu Yasha is,” Kagome told him as she hugged him. Then she began to walk towards the road, and with her human ears, she did not hear Shippou's sad reply.

“How he was Kagome. How he was,” He sighed as he turned back towards the house.