InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Finding My Heart ❯ Friends Reunited ( Chapter 7 )

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Chapter 7- Friends Reunited

 

“Ahh.” Kagome sighed in content as the warmth of the hotspring soothed her body. Her head rested against a rock with her hair draped around her body. Her hair had grown really long since the last time she cut it was when she still went to the feudal era. The thick mist hovering above the hotspring almost created a wall just for her privacy, so no one could see her.

 

`This feels so good. I'm glad Sesshoumaru let us stop so I could take a bath.' She thought and glanced down at her stomach when it made a hungry growling noise. `I hope he will have something to eat when I get back. I don't know how much longer I can go without food.'

 

After washing her hair and feeling as refreshed as she possibly could in the feudal era, she got out of the water and dried herself off. As she got dressed she remembered something that worried her. She hadn't told her mom that she was leaving through the well again! `Oh no! Mom must be worried sick about me.' She panicked, wanting to go back through the well and let her mom know where she was. That idea seemed ridiculous now. Sesshoumaru would never turn back now that they had traveled hours away from it. `Where are we anyway?'

 

Having no answer to that question, Kagome began to grab her things and walk back towards where she knew Sesshoumaru is.

Upon arriving at the clearing Kagome could smell what reminded her of one of her mother's meals. She found Sesshoumaru sitting in front of a small fire that seemed to have a dead animal hanging above it. As she got closer she realized it was the carcass of a deer. However gross seeing a deer roasting above the fire was she couldn't help but notice how good it smelled. `He must have some kind of extra ingredient or something.' She thought.

 

Sesshoumaru didn't even glance at her as he could see her arrive beside him out of the corner of his eye. He just continued staring into the fire and moving burning sticks around with a stick he held in his hand.

 

Kagome quietly sat a few feet away from the youkai and stared into the fire herself. `InuYasha. I've told myself and others over and over again for two years that I'm over you. And I believe that I am. But I still care for you and hope you're alright.' She thought. `If it is before the war like Sesshoumaru says then where could you be now? How could we stop this war from coming?' She wondered and then realized that Sesshoumaru was looking at her.

 

“Here, eat this.” Sesshoumaru said holding his hand out towards her with a slab of meat in it.

 

“Umm Okay.” She replied and took the food from his hand. She examined it first and then decided it was okay to eat. `If it tastes as good as it smells.' She told herself and took a bite. “Hey this is pretty good.” She said and took another bite. It seemed to have a different flavor to it.

 

“It has one of my own herb ingredients added to it.” He replied and turned to see her gulping it down at a good pace. `She must've been really hungry.' He thought and ate his own.

 

Kagome finished her piece and felt quite full. Sesshoumaru had already eaten a few pieces but still went for another one. `He doesn't plan on eating all of that does he?' She wondered, looking over at the not even half eaten deer. Kagome figured that while he is in a content state of eating that it might be a good time to talk to him.

 

“Sesshoumaru? Eh Lord Sesshoumaru? Why would we have come back before the war and not two years later?” She asked, curious as to the reason he might think.

 

“You said in order to get through the well you needed to have a connection to this world, in that case the Shikon Jewel right.” He paused. “I'm not sure why we've come back at this time but I'm guessing it has something to do with you and the Shikon Jewel. Perhaps it was not used yet.” He explained and continued to eat.

 

“I can't think of a better reason.” She said and watched him take another bite of thick meat. `How is he eating so much? InuYasha could eat more than a human but Sesshoumaru is eating more than I've seen anyone eat. Maybe it has to do with InuYasha only being half demon and Sesshoumaru being a full youkai.' She thought and noticed Sesshoumaru had stopped eating. `Finally, he hated having to stop and rest but now that we have he is the one that is taking so long.'

 

“Sesshoumaru, where exactly are we going?” She asked.

 

“To find Rin.” He answered emotionlessly.

 

“Oh, but I wanted to find InuYasha and my friends.” She said with disappointment.

Sesshoumaru looked at her. “InuYasha's scent is no longer in his village.” He said.

 

“Do you mean to say that he is not around here at all?” She asked, getting slightly worried.

 

Sesshoumaru just nodded his head and stepped on the small fire.

 

Kagome sat on the ground and stared at the smoke rising in the air as Sesshoumaru put the fire out. Her mind was full of so many thoughts.

 

“Let's go.” Sesshoumaru said and began to walk away from the clearing.

 

“Wait!” Kagome said just as she remembered something.

 

“Eh?” The youkai turned to look at her.

 

“Are you going to just leave all this meat?” She asked, pointing to the half eaten carcass.

 

“The ravens will rid of it.” He answered and went to walk again until she stopped him again.

 

“But you could save this meat for later.” She said.

 

“It would go bad by the next time we stop.” He said, wanting her to just follow him and stop talking.

 

`How long does he plan on going before we stop again?' She wondered hoping he didn't plan on traveling all night until they stopped again. “No it wouldn't. I brought preservatives from my time.” She enthused.

 

“What do you mean by preservatives?” The youkai replied almost pronouncing every letter of the big word.

 

“Don't tell me you lived in my time but didn't know we have preservatives.” She said, finding it hard to believe he didn't know about these things.

 

Sesshoumaru stood there with a confused look on his face.

 

“You never had a fridge?” She asked.

 

“Fridge?” He said more as a question.

 

Kagome felt her cheeks blushing from trying to hold her laugh in. `He lived in my time and never bought a fridge. What did he do, fly to a forest and hunt when he got hungry?' She wondered, still holding in her laugh. “What did you do to eat?” She asked almost giggling.

 

Sesshoumaru could see she was getting some kind of humor out of his reply, but wasn't sure what was so funny. “I hunted or went to this place called the grocery store.” He replied.

 

“But your food would've gone bad without a fridge.” She said.

 

Sesshoumaru suddenly grew serious and wanted to continue walking. “You forget I am a inu-youkai priestess.” He said, almost spitting the word `priestess.' “I can eat more than ten humans could in one meal.” He said and swung back around to walk away from her.

 

`Wow I didn't mean it to make him angry. But I guess that's true. He could by groceries and eat them in one day.' She thought and decided to leave the meat there. `It's funny how ego high he is about being the youkai that he is.' She thought and smiled as she watched his back ahead of her. She ran to catch up to him and walked beside him contently.

 

Sesshoumaru saw her appear by his side and for a moment thought it was Rin. Kagome reminded him of Rin a lot more than he liked. But in another way he seemed to like how she reminded him of Rin. He didn't feel alone.

 

`It's been three days now that I've been with Sesshoumaru. It's really weird when I think about it. While I was here two years ago I would never think of being near Sesshoumaru. He was just InuYasha's sinister half brother who showed up now and then. Now here I am traveling with him. And I never noticed how beautiful he was before.' She thought and hadn't realized that she was staring up at the youkai.

 

Sesshoumaru grunted at seeing her staring at him, hoping she'd here him and look away. She kept staring. `Why is she staring at me like that?' He wondered. “Why are you staring at me?” He asked, irritated.

 

Kagome shook herself out of it. “Umm…no reason.” She said, not knowing what else to say.

 

Sesshoumaru grunted again and picked up his pace a little so she'd have to keep up. To his surprise Kagome kept up just fine.

 

The day went by with still no sign of humans or demons. Kagome was getting tired and Sesshoumaru was growing impatient. He wanted to find Rin, but there was still no sign of her.

 

“Sesshoumaru, can you smell anything near by?” Kagome asked, wishing that they would soon run into someone or something. She was getting tired of walking pointlessly if they weren't going to find anything.

 

“A village is getting close.” He answered as he lifted his head slightly to sniff again.

 

“Really!” She got excited and smiled. “Can you tell what village it is?” She asked, hoping she knew the village.

“It's a familiar village. I believe it's the Slayer's Village.” He replied.

 

“The Slayer's Village! Sango! Oh I hope Sango is there. If she is then she can help us out and I'll get to see my friend again.” She said and began walking ahead of Sesshoumaru.

 

Sesshoumaru watched her walk ahead and marveled at how excited she was to see her friend.

 

After another twenty minutes or so they arrived at the village. There weren't many people around and Kagome grew worried that Sango wasn't even there. Some of the huts still had there lights on and they glowed in the dark that was slowly coming. The sun was setting and the air got cooler as they walked down the empty road.

 

“Kagome?”

 

Kagome knew that voice! “Sango?” She said and turned around to find her friend peering out one of the hut doors.

 

“Kagome!” Sango said with excited happiness. She ran towards her with tear drops sliding down her cheeks, her eyes sparkling with joy.

 

“Sango!” Kagome said and ran towards her long missed friend.

 

“I missed you so much!” Sango said as they embraced each other and smiled.

 

“I missed you too!” Kagome replied. She was slightly surprised to see tears on her face.

 

Sango looked up from Kagome's shoulder and noticed who was standing not too far behind her. Her happy expression when to a serious, glaring look.

 

Kagome noticed that Sango had stopped talking and still held her. “Sango?”

 

“Kagome what is he doing here?” Sango asked. She seemed ready to take the youkai on at any given moment. “And what happened to his hair?”

 

“Ah….It's a long story Sango. How about I tell you a little later okay?” Kagome said, waving her hands to try and reassure her that it was nothing.

 

Sesshoumaru just stood back and watched them both talk and smile at each other. He had never experienced a friend before. Unless you counted Jaken as his friend and Rin was more of a daughter to him.

 

“Sango since we're here do you think we could stay in your hut for the night?” Kagome asked feeling like she was inviting herself in but didn't want to sleep on the ground if she didn't have to.

 

“Hai, that would be great Kagome. We have a lot to talk about.” Sango said and glared at the youkai behind her again. “So by `we' you must mean him.” She said not liking that a youkai would be in her hut.

 

“Ah yeah.” Kagome replied and held her head down. “Sango I'm sorry. We can stay out here for the night.” She said feeling bad now that she asked her friend who was a demon slayer to let a demon sleep in her hut.

 

“I'll sleep outside tonight.” Sesshoumaru said and turned around to go back into the woods.

 

Sango felt slightly bad now. “No Kagome don't feel sorry. You can come in tonight, both of you.” She replied and forced a smile to look at Sesshoumaru.

 

Sesshoumaru didn't see her smile but he heard what she said and kept walking.

 

“Sesshoumaru you can come in the hut with us.” Kagome hollered out to him but got no reply back. `I guess he wants to sleep outside tonight. I feel kind of bad.' She said watching him disappear into the forest.

 

“Well we have a lot to talk about Kagome. Let's go inside.” Sango said and walked towards her hut.

 

Once they got settled down with some warm rice and a drink they were ready to have a long chat. Sango had one main question to ask Kagome about and Kagome had one main question to ask Sango about.

 

“Kagome why is Sesshoumaru with you?” She asked. She worried for her friend and was very confused as to why Sesshoumaru was with her. Sesshoumaru was the arrogant hanyou's half brother that did try to kill him from time to time, of course Sango would wonder.

 

“Well like I said it's a long story. You know when I went through the well after the battle with Naraku?” She said.

“Yeah I thought you were never going to come back.” Sango said. “That was only six months ago.”

 

`So that's what time I came back in. Only six months after I left through the well. Why would I come back in that time?' She asked herself, with no answer. “Sango it's actually been two years since I came back through the well. I lived for two years in my era and became a widely known business person.”

 

“That can't be. If it was two years then why are you here now when it's only been six months?” Sango asked. She was very confused.

 

“That's just it, I don't know why I came back only six months after I left. But there is something else that happened that was really weird. Sesshoumaru was living in my time as well, and just four days ago I found that out because I thought I seen him by the road. I was right, it was him and that's why he is here with me now.” Kagome explained.

“But how could that be? Did he get through the well somehow?” Sango asked looking at her seriously.

 

“No he said he's lived all this time for 500 years. He worked at a bank down the street from where I worked.”

Kagome said, knowing this was hard for Sango to believe.

“I guess that explains the short hair huh?” Sango said.

 

“Yeah men have short hair in my time.” Kagome replied.

 

“I'm finding this really hard to believe Kagome. I'm not saying that I don't believe you but it's just all so weird.” Sango said and took another mouthful of rice.

 

“Believe me I am too. I couldn't believe that he was in my time.” She said. “But for three days now we've been together and just last night we came through the well.”

 

“What? How did you get through? InuYasha has the Shikon no Tama doesn't he?” She asked, very curious as to how they got through.

 

“Sesshoumaru came up with this idea that the Tetsusaiga could get us through.” Kagome replied.

“What do you mean? How did he have the Tetsusaiga?” She said, getting confused again.

 

“Oh yeah I forgot to tell you! The Tetsusaiga was put in a little Sword Shop in Tokyo and that's where he got it from.” Kagome explained.

 

For a whole hour Kagome finished explaining what all happened and told Sango all about the war that was to come. Sango was devastated when she heard about the war.

 

“Kagome what should we do? We can't let this happen.” Sango said with sadness in her voice.

 

“Sango!”

 

Kagome and Sango both looked towards the door.

 

“Sango, I'm home!”

 

Sango put a hand on her face in embarrassment. “Yes we hear you Miroku.” She hollered back.

 

“Miroku? You mean…you and Miroku live together?” Kagome said astonished.

 

“We, what do you mean by `we'?” Miroku asked as he just opened the door. “Kagome?” He said, surprised yet happy to see her there.

 

“Miroku! Hi!” Kagome said happily.

 

“Kagome I thought you were never coming back. It's so nice to see you.” He said and gave Kagome a hug.

“Yes I'm back.” Kagome replied and looked down at Sango.

 

“We have a lot to tell you Miroku.” Sango said and let Kagome take over.

 

Kagome did all the explaining again about Sesshoumaru, her time, and the Tetsusaiga. Then she told him about the war. Once again she saw a devastated look on her friend's face. After a few minutes she tried to change the topic.

“Sango, you never told me that you and Miroku lived together.” Kagome said, surprised yet not to see them together.

 

“Oh I'm sorry Kagome, I was so interested in everything you were saying. But yes, me and Miroku live together now. After the Shikon Jewel was completed and Naraku killed our lifelong goal was complete and we got revenge for our families we could settle down and focus on life and each other. So of course we got together.” She said. Miroku had walked over to her and put his hand on her shoulder.

 

“Wow I guess that's right. You guys got your revenge and now can focus on your lives.” She said happily and smiled at them.

 

“Yes but now there is this war you speak of and if it's true then we have to stop it somehow.” Miroku said.

“Hai.” Sango agreed.

 

“So where is Sesshoumaru now then?” Miroku asked, looking briefly around his hut.

 

“He is in the woods. He said he wanted to sleep outside.” She replied. “Speaking of Sesshoumaru I think I'm going to go out and sleep outside with him tonight.” Kagome said looking out one of the windows.

 

“Are you sure that's a good idea.” Sango said, worried about her friend being alone with him.

 

“Yes Kagome it may not be wise.” Miroku suggested.

 

“I've been with him for a night so far and he hasn't harmed me. He actually seems to want me to travel with him.” She replied.

 

“That's out of his character.” Sango said emotionlessly.

 

“Well, he didn't really ask me to stay with him, it just happened.” Kagome said. “So he hasn't really changed any.”

 

“You just be on your guard when you're with him.” Miroku said.

 

“I will. But I'm going to leave you two alone now and go try to find Sesshoumaru.” She said and put the wooden dish on the table. “Sango, thank you for the rice.”

 

“No problem Kagome.” Sango replied with a friendly smile.

 

“Goodnight.” Kagome said and went out the door.

 

“Stay safe Kagome.” Sango said, even though Kagome couldn't hear her.

 

“I hope she'll be alright.” Sango said and looked at Miroku.

 

“If Sesshoumaru is protecting her like he does that little Rin girl then she'll be fine.” He reassured. “But I won't be fine if we don't go to bed.” He said with a sadistic smirk on his face.

 

“Oh well then let's go to bed.” She said and smiled back.

* * *

Kagome found it very hard for her while she was walking through the woods. She was tripping over roots and twigs and bumping into things. She wanted to find Sesshoumaru though. She felt bad for him and didn't want to leave him sleeping alone. For some reason she wanted to be with him. He hadn't harmed her and gave her a nice serving of meat earlier. She felt safe with him.

 

“Ow!” She complained as her foot twisted in a root. “Where are you Sesshoumaru?” She said, not too loud so she wouldn't wake up whatever else could be in the woods. For a few minutes she continued walking and tripping over things.

 

“What are you doing out here?” Came a voice from behind her.

 

Kagome turned around and found Sesshoumaru standing right behind her. “Uh? I was coming out to find you.” She said and looked up at him.

 

“Do you know what could be lurking around in a forest?” He said more as a statement than a question.

 

`What? Does he actually care for me?' She wondered. Sesshoumaru was staring down at her making her feel bad.

“Come on.” He said and walked in front of her.

 

Kagome wasn't sure what to say. “I hope I didn't wake you.” She said trying to find something to say.

 

“You would've woke up anything with the amount of twigs you were snapping.” Sesshoumaru replied.

 

“Was I really that loud?” She asked.

 

Sesshoumaru didn't answer.

 

“Well of course I was loud. I couldn't see a thing.” She said, getting her normal attitude back again.

“Humans.” Sesshoumaru scoffed.

 

“What's wrong with humans?” She asked, raising her voice.

 

“They are weak creatures.” Sesshoumaru replied.

 

“I happen to know that human can be very strong and br”—She said and Sesshoumaru cut her off by putting his hand over her mouth.

 

“Silence.” He said. “Unless you want angry youkai coming after you, be quiet.” Sesshoumaru said and brought his hand off her face.

 

Kagome quieted and continued following.

 

After walking in silence for a few minutes they came to a little clearing big enough for them to sleep in.

 

Sesshoumaru took a spot against a tree and looked at Kagome.

 

“Is there something wrong?” She asked, noticing how he was looking at her.

 

“Nothing. I'd get some rest if I were you.” He said and watched her as she got out her sleeping bag and cuddled into it.

 

`That girl, I thought she was Rin hollering.' He thought. When he heard her call he had gone to find her thinking Rin was hollering for him. `Where could she be?' He wondered and looked up through the trees.

 

`Sesshoumaru? Does he care for me, enough that he protects me?' She wondered. `He seemed to have a slight worry to his face when I turned around to see him.' She thought and turned in her sleeping bag to face in his direction.

Sesshoumaru looked down at her. “Why did you come out here?” He asked, his face emotionless.

 

 

“I felt bad. I didn't want you to have to be out here all alone.” She answered truthfully.

 

`This girl is so different from the woman in this time. No one would care if I had been out here, but she came out to be with me.' He thought and stared at her.

 

“Oh no! I forgot to ask if she has seen Inuyasha or even if she had seen Rin!” She suddenly remembered.

“Who cares about that hanyou.” He replied bitterly.

 

“I found out that we came back six months after Naraku was killed.” She said changing the topic fast.

 

Sesshoumaru just looked at her. `Why would we come back six months after?' He asked himself.

 

`Oh well I'll find out from Sango in the morning if she knows where InuYasha is.' She thought and closed her eyes. Her long day of traveling made her very tired. “Good night Sesshoumaru.” She said and slowly drifted to sleep.

 

Sesshoumaru looked at her and could tell she was close to sleep already. Her eyes closed and her breathing slowing. He stared up into the stars and soon drifted into a light sleep himself.

 

AN: For those who don't like long chapters…sumimasen.