InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Changes: past and present ❯ chapter four ( Chapter 4 )

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

Disclaimer. Nope don't own them. I don't have the talent to keep making the show/manga work.

Chapter Four

“What the hell did you do to my woman this time dog breath?” came a all too familiar voice.

Before Inuyasha could form an answer, they all heard the air whosh out of a body. Followed by Kouga snarling at someone. “What the hell did you do that for bitch?”

As Kouga walked into the kitchen he was smacked upside the head again, before he was answered.

“First of all, I warned you before we got here that if you made that stupid comment to Inuyasha, you would be dealing with me, second you know as well as I do that Mina does not like anyone swearing in the house, and if you continue to do so, I'll have Kagome purify your tongue. Maybe then you'll get the point!” Ayume told Kouga, walking over to Kagome to give her a hug. “Hey there, how are you feeling. We ran into Jenenji and he said you where hurt, though he didn't say how bad."

Kagome stared at the woman in front of her. Not beliveing what her eyes where telling her. "Ayume.... but how? Wait don't answer that, I really don't want to know how you are here. What I want to know is why you didn't tell me you where my history teacher!"

Inuyasha's mouth dropped open "What do you mean your teacher?" He demanded.

"I don't know Inuyasha. But she really is my teacher. And Kouga is, I mean, was my babysitter."
Dropping her head into her arms, Kagome moaned. "I don't understand this. It seems that everyone that I knew in the past, has known me since I was a baby."

Sesshoumaru looked at Kagome and laughed, "I belive that I already told you what was happening." When Inuyasha and Kagome looked at him with wide eyes, he just shook his head. "The two of you must really start paying attention. I just you that when Kagome started being attacked here because of the Shikon no Tama, I started looking for help to keep her safe. I contacted all the youkai and hanyou that had contact with the two of you over the years, and inlisted them to help guard you."

Smiling at Kagome, Sesshoumaru continued, "And now that you know, we can all realease part on the consealing spell, so that you can sense us. You'll probably find that most of your teachers in school, are youkai or hunyou. And since you are going to be here, until you heal, I'll also start having them show up here at the shrine to start teaching you how to control you power to some extent."

"I told you already, she doesn't need your help!" Inuyasha growled at his brother.

"No Inuyasha he's right, I have to start learning to control my power. Otherwise I won't be able to help you and the others during battle."

"Keh, wench. If I've told you once I've told you a million times, I'll protect you."

Kagome just looked at the hunyou and smiled, "We'll talk about it later. Right now I need to understand why no one told me before this why you are still protecting me. I mean I have Inuyasha here with me most of the time now, why are the rest of you doing this?"

Ayume looked at Kagome, smiled and said, "Because dog boy here can't be with you all the time, and he can't go to your classes with you. Not unless we find a way to get him a teaching position in the school. And can you imagine what all your friends will say, if they found out that you are dating one of the teachers. Never mind the atttention he'll get because of his looks."

"Hey, what's wrong with my looks?"

Mama Higurishi looked at him and smiled. "There's nothing wrong with the way you look. That's the problem."

The others laughed when Inuyasha turned bright red. "On top of that Kagome, did you really want Inuyasha in a spot where he would be in contact with Hojo?"

"Ah no. That wouldn't be a good idea."

Before Inuyasha could comment on what he thought of Hojo, Sesshoumaru looked at Kagome, "And to answer your question, on why no one told you, it's really quite simple. Can you honestly see my brother letting you anywhere near me or the rest of us, once he found out?"

"No, actually I can't." Kagome said with a smile as she looked at Inuyasha. "I have a hard enough time convincing him to let me come home for tests. If he knew I would be seeing you here, he'd probably find a way to keep me as far away from the well as he possably could."

"You've got the right wench."

Folding his hands into his haori, Inuyasha looked at Sesshoumaru with a puzzled look in his eyes.
"Why couldn't we sense any of you? Your youki is familiar enough to both of us to feel you before you could come anywhere near us. And we should be able to sense anyone not familiar also, if they got near." Looking at his brother once again, Inuyasha admitted out loud, "I didn't even smell you until you got to the door. And your youki still isn't as strong as it should be."

"It looks like for once little brother you decided to use your head. The reason you couldn't sense us before, is because of the spell that I had cast on Tetsaiga, shortly after you first came through the well. It makes it impossable for you to sense anyone without removing part of the spell. And the reason I put it there is so you wouldn't go stupid and try to kill anyone here before I could talk to you. As to why our youki seems weak, it's because of the second part of the spell. I had to put it on after you saved that child from a fire in her apartment. When your picture made the news, I couldn't afford having our secret get out, so I put a consealing spell on your sword also. Since you have to have tetsaiga with you everywhere you go it was the simplest thing I could think of. Other then buying you new clothes, that is. This way you don't have to wear a hat to hide your ears, as long as you have your katana, no one who doesn't know you can see what you really look like. And at the same time no one will see Tetsaiga either. We seem weaker to you, so that you seem weaker to everyone else. You have no idea just how strong your youki really is, and you havn't even reached your full strength yet...." Sesshoumaru closed his eyes, and his head dropped forward, as he thought about all the years he wasted fighting his brother. Not realizing that everyone who knew him back in the past, was looking at him in amazment.

Kagome was the only one brave enough to break the silence. "Um, Uncle Sess, I thought that you hated Inuyasha."

"If I truly hated my brother, you would have never survived to set him free from that vile miko's arrow!!" Sesshoumaru stated. "And if I truly hated him, I would have never saved you, when you where hit while you where riding your bike just after your father died!"

"What do you mean?"

"Kagome, by the time Mia had called me to come down to the hospital after your 'accident', and mind you, she called as soon as they brought you in, you where already dead!"