InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Distant Love ❯ i got nothin to say... ( Chapter 9 )

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Sesshoumaru was putting out the fire and trying to save the half of the deer he had cooked.

More like over cooked actually. . .

Rin looked over at him thoughtfully.

"Papa. . ."she said making him look at her.

"Hai?" he asked.

"Why did you invite Mo-Miss Kagome to your house?"

"She had nowhere to go."

"Oh," Rin said and hung her head.

She was hoping that her dad had feelings for Kagome but it didn't seem that way. For him to fall in love would take a miracle! Well, at least he'd invited them. That's about all she could ask for.

But oooh! She didn't know how wrong she was! 'Cause her question got Shesshoumaru thinking.

'Why DID I invite her' he pondered.

Meanwhile. . .

"Shippo! Come out NOW!!! Shippo!" Kagome called, a hand cupped to her mouth.

She'd been looking for him for a couple of minutes now, but since her senses were closed she couldn't find him.

After a while, she came to a river.

'Probably an off-shoot from the one I saw. . . was it only yesterday? The time seems so slow one moment and so fast the next.'

She looked at the flowing water again. If Shippo wasn't lost she would have taken a bath and changed into her new kimono. But that could wait until later. Shippo came first.

So, deciding that she didn't stand a chance of finding him without her sense of smell, Kagome sat down on the bank and closed her eyes. She listened to the birds and tried to will her nose to open.

At first she thought that it didn't work, but slowly, faint smells drifted to register in her brain.

'Hmm. How could Fluffy NOT smell the heat earlier? Yuck! Humans, Rin. . . and Shippo. . . there!'

Kagome's eyes flew open and she stood up fluidly, dashing off to her left.

She came to a shallower place in the river and there she found Shippo. He was drinking some of the cool water. She approached him and he turned to look at her, grinning.

Kagome smiled and sat down beside him.

Shippo scrambled into her lap and hugged her. She smiled again and started to stroke his back.

"Are you hungry yet?" she asked him and he shook his head.

"Do you want to ask me anything?" He looked up at his adopted or foster mother.

"Where are we going?"

"Sesshoumaru and Rin invited us to stay at their house for a while. Do you mind?"

Shippo quickly shook his head. "No, 'cause I don't want that bad Inuyasha to get us." His lower lip trembled at a memory. "He was going to eat me!" he cried. Kagome tried to soothe him by rocking and gently rubbing his back.

"I know, baby. . . I know. . ." Kagome said. "I won't let him near us anymore. I'll kill him first. Believe me."

He nodded and looked into her eyes. "Are you going to be Sesshoumaru's mate?"

Kagome was shocked.

Mate with Sesshoumaru?! HA! That would be the day that she said that she wouldn't go back to her time anymore, even if she DID look like this.

"No Shippo. I very much doubt it. Come on, let's go eat. My stomach's complaining already. Maybe Sesshoumaru hasn't managed to burn the rest of lunch too."

Kagome stood up, still carrying Shippo, and walked back to the clearing.

To even THINK about mating with Sesshoumaru was forbidden, wasn't it?

But she'd already done that. And the thought sent shivers up her spine.

Isn't it true that the more something was forbidden, the more you wanted it?

She wanted him. Deep in her soul she wanted him. And she had to fight it, because it was wrong.

But. . . if it was so wrong. . .why did shivers still move up and down her spine?

Maybe. . .just maybe. . . falling in love with Sesshoumaru wasn't so wrong after all.

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