InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ For The Last Time ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )

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

You know what? Something special happened in a review from the last chapter, so just for that I'm doing something special for ya'll. An author muse before the story!

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FL: sits on couch rubbing in aloe vera Oooh...that burns. Ouch, ouch, ouch. blows on arms.

Sess: raises one eyebrow What are you doing?

FL: in between breaths Talk...to...Kags...or...Dreamish...they'll...tell...you...

Sess: turns to the two women who are sitting on the other couch playing Halo 2 Well?

Kags: in a distracted tone FL got a flame.

Dreamish: also distracted Two to be exact.

Sess: curiously Who?

Dreamish: No one from FFnet.

Kags: They're from inuyasha-fiction

Sess: Again, who?

Dreamish/Kags: together Kilalalover 24

Sess: sighs Of course, a cat lover. That's not surprising.

Dreamish: cries triumphantly as she beats Kags Yes!!

Kags: sticks her tongue out at Dreamish

Sess: What did she say?

Kags: And I quote "YOU IDIOT, KAGOME IS INU'S MATE, AND KIKYO GOES TO HELL BY HERSELF! INU'S NOT A JERK EITHER! SESSHY IS RIN'S MATE WHEN SHE GETS OLD ENOUGH! GAWD, YOU GOT IT ALL SCREWED UP!"

Sess: shocked Me and Rin mating? That is sick. She is eight freakin' years old! She is myward nothing more! Kagome has the choice of where she wants to go and Inuyasha has the choice of the live miko or the dead one. If I chose to mate Kagome and she accepts me then that is how it will go. mumbles about not being a petephile

Dreamish: That's pretty much what FL said in her reply. Now, we need to get to the story. FL?

FL: Right, I only own the plot line, Allyson, Stacey, and what I'm going to do to Houjo. Rumiko Takahashi owns everything else.

Previously in For The Last Time...

“Inu-no-!” she heard her younger brother start as he rounded the corner. He stopped short, though, at the sight before him, his sister holding up a strange man. Both were barely dressed and the man was covered in bandages.

"What in the world is going on here?" Souta asked, looking from Kagome to Sesshomaru. "Who is he? And why are you dressed so skimpy? Are you two dating?" he pestered with narrow eyes.

Kagome's cheeks flushed a deep red at her brother's words.

"You are! It's written all over your face!" the boy crowed.

At this statement, Sesshomaru turned to look at Kagome, inspecting her face for any form of writing. I don't see anything there, he thought.

Well, duh, it's an expression idiot, his inner youkai taunted.

"Look, Souta, this is Sesshomaru, he's--" Kagome began but was quickly cut off by her little brother.

"Sesshomaru?! That cold hearted iceberg of a bastard Inuyasha always ranted about?"

"Souta!" Kagome chastised, holding back a furious Taiyoukai, "Don't say things like that! You shouldn't repeat everything Inuyasha says. Kami knows how many times that got you in trouble at school or at home with Mama and Jii-chan..." she trailed off softly.

The thirteen year old boy looked properly ashamed. His face was brick red and he stared at his feet as if they had something very interesting on them. "Sorry," he muttered.

"Now listen, Sesshomaru is in need of medical attention. I want you to call Stacey at the local clinic and see if she has room for an emergency house call. Ask for Stacey specifically. Alright?"

"Onee, what happened?" Souta asked as Kagome set a weakened Sesshomaru down in a kitchen chair and began to rewrap his bandages.

"Inuyasha went nuts and attacked me. Sesshomaru protected me from the blows. You remember Tessaiga?" Souta nodded. "He attacked me with the Kaze no Kizu and Sesshomaru blocked it. That's what the gashes are. Now go make the phone call!" Crap, he's weakening from blood loss, Kagome thought as the Taiyoukai's eyelids fluttered. "Sesshomaru!" she called frantically. "Sesshomaru! Don't go to sleep! Stay with me here. Listen to my voice. How many fingers am I holding up?" she asked, holding up three fingers.

"Three," Sesshomaru said a little breathlessly.

"Good," the miko nodded as her little brother came running back into the room.

"A lady said that she's got room and is on her way right now. I think they said she was bringing her partner with her."

"No!" Kagome whined. "I don't want anybody except her. I know she's a youkai so she'd understand about Sesshomaru but I don't know about her partner. I never met her! Oh, good grief. What am I going to do?" She plopped onto the table by Sesshomaru.

"Sorry, sis," Souta whispered, looking down at his feet again.

Kagome sighed. "It's alright. Come here," she told him, her arms opened wide. She wrapped her embrace around her little brother and laid her head on top of his. "I know, I didn't tell you that I only wanted her. It's not your fault." They pulled apart to look at each other. "It's been about a month since I left, how are things going here?"

"Good," the boy replied. "I go to school everyday and no one suspects a thing. If I'm gone for a few days to open the shrine, I just tell people that I caught one of your illnesses or I was helping you through one."

The older girl laughed at this. "You are one smart cookie, you know that? I had so many 'illnesses' when I was in high school that anybody would believe anything about our family. That's a good one." She smiled softly and hugged her little brother around the shoulders again.

The room remained quiet for a few minutes until Sesshomaru's and Kagome's hearing picked up the sound of loud music approaching. Kagome turned to look at Sesshomaru. "Do you think that could be them?" she asked.

He shrugged. "Perhaps, I do not know these people."

Souta looked from one to the other, confusion evident in his face. "What are you guys talking about? I don't hear anything."

Kagome looked down at her brother, her cheeks flushing. "Uh...you know that Sesshomaru is an Inu Taiyoukai right?"

"Ya," Souta quipped, "but I still don't hear anything."

"Well," his sister sighed, "somehow or another, when I wished on the sacred jewel it turned me into an inuyoukai as well. I didn't find out until a few weeks ago. That means that my hearing, vision, and sense of smell have all been heightened. Sesshomaru and I both can hear someone with some very loud music approaching."

The boy just stared at his sister, awe struck. Soon, he too was able to hear the music. "Dang," he whistled, "even I don't play my music that loud!"

Kagome smiled, hopped off the table and slid her body beneath Sesshomaru's to help him stand while Souta ran to the door to open it. The three made their way outside. Sitting on one of the benches in front of the house, the group waited and listened as the music became even louder. Eventually it came to a stop at the base of the stairs and shut off.

A minute later, two young women appeared at the top of the stairs, barely winded. They were talking to each other, laughing and chatting, singing lyrics to the song. "I can't keep my cowboy boots from stomping. I'm talking 'bout white noise, coming from the white boys..." Both were tall, leggy blondes. One a dirty blond, the other a lighter shade.

The dirty blond wore long blue jeans with black boots underneath, a pink belt with rhinestones and a belt buckle, a black tank with a lacy pink tank underneath and a rhinestone horseshoe necklace. A small tattoo of horseshoes circled her upper left arm. Green eyes sparkled out from her face.

The other wore clothes that were a little less fitting of a vet. She had on flowing khaki pants, black heels and a low cut red halter top that showed off her smooth white stomache. A black choker with a blood red heart hung down from her throat. Her long, light blonde hair fell to just past her hips. Her blue eyes sparkled with mirth and mischief in their depths.

The dirty blonde turned to the other and said, "What do you think your high on himself cousin would say if he heard you listening to this kind of music?"

The other girl puckered her face. "I'm not real sure, but I know what his face would say!"

"What?"

"Nothing!" This got a large laugh out of both women.

Sesshomaru thought that there was something familiar about these two, he lifted his head and took a discreet sniff. Indeed, their scents were familiar. But I just can't place them... He mulled it over in his brain, trying to figure out where in all the years of his life he had met these two.

When the two women finally got their minds off the song and looked at the small group, they stopped and gaped. They looked to each other then back at the group, stuttering unitelligebly. Both women's faces turned a deep red.

"Um...Dr. Stacey?" Kagome asked, taking a tentative step forward. "This is a friend of mine. He is in serious need of medical attention." She gestured to the Taiyoukai behind her.

The light blonde, Stacey, looked at Kagome a little suspiciously. "What makes you think that I can do anything to help him? I'm an animal doctor, not a...I only work on animals."

Kagome placed her hands on her hips, determined to get Sesshomaru the help he desperately needed. "I know that you're a youkai. I'm not sure what type, but I know you are one."

The other woman stepped forward. "What makes you think that?" she asked, green eyes glinting.

In response to their questions, Kagome allowed her own aura to flare up.

Both women jumped at the spike of miko energy. "What the hell?!" they screamed. "I didn't think that there were any more of your kind around!"

The priestess shook her head. "I don't know how many are left but I know that there is at least me. Now, can you help him?"

It finally clicked in Sesshomaru's head just where he had met these young women before. "Obsydian," he called. The light blonde snapped her head towards him, shock in her eyes. He looked to the other. "Kyra." The dirty blonde forced herself to meet the Lord of the West's eyes.

The doctors gulped simultaneously. "Uh...hi, Sesshomaru," Stacey said nervously. She frowned when the wind shifted in her direction. "What's wrong with you? I can tell that you're weaker then the last time I met you. I smell blood all over you, not that that's anything new," she muttered under her breath. "It's your blood, though." Quickly striding towards him, she knelt down on one knee and began to unwrap the bandages. She gasped at the sight before her. "Allyson, come here," she called over her shoulder.

"Sesshomaru, what the hell?! What happened to you? You look like you got hit by Uncle's wind scar! But that's impossible. Uncle's been dead for hundreds of years now! How did this happen?" Allyson exclaimed worriedly, inspecting his wounds.

Kagome was thoroughly confused. As far as she knew, Sesshomaru had never been to the future so how did these women know him? "Um...how do you two know Sesshomaru?" she asked.

Green, gold and blue turned to her. They had completely forgotten that she was there. Allyson and Stacey looked to each other, shrugged and turned back to her. "He's my cousin," Stacey said nonchalantly.

"And I'm her best friend," Allyson shrugged. "It's been that way since she was a pup and I was a foal."

At her words, Kagome began to notice an aura around her. "You're a youkai too? How many are there nowadays?"

Stacey looked thoughtful. "Not many, mostly the Taiyoukais and the Daiyoukais, not very many lower beasts. I only know of a few left from my family and a handful from Allyson's."

Allyson looked Kagome over. "You don't seem like an ordinary miko, either. You seem...well, I hate to say it, but you seem like a hanyou. Or at least your aura puts off a mixture." She gave a nervous sidelong glance at Sesshomaru. Phew, no beheadings for me today.

The young miko looked a little offended at Allyson's statement. "I'll have you know that until recently my best friend was a hanyou! I am no hanyou. Ever hear of the Shikon no Tama?" The doctors nodded. "Well, apparently I was the protector of it without even knowing it. On my 15th birthday I was dragged through the well over there into Feudal Japan where I met Inuyasha--"

"Wait, Inuyasha? That name sounds familiar..." Stacey mulled it over.

"Well, it should. If your Sesshomaru's cousin then--" Kagome was cut off by Sesshomaru.

"Quiet, woman. There is no need for you to tell of matters that do not affect you," he said in a harsh tone.

"Burn!! No wait...Freeze!!" the older women said before receiving a death glare from the Taiyoukai and quickly shutting their mouths.

"But Sesshomaru..." the raven haired priestess began.

"No," he said roughly. Turning to his cousin he asked her. "Are you able to heal This Sesshomaru?"

Stacey made a face and mimicked him. "This Obsydian is perfectly capable of healing you. All you have to do is transform. I need to be able to see the wounds properly. You need to get out of those clothes and into some clean ones. You know," she said, standing back and looking at him thoughtfully. "You don't look any different from the last time I saw you six hundred years ago. What happened to 'I'm going to rule the West and be the greatest...blah blah blah'?"

Sesshomaru sent a frosty glare towards her. "She happened," he said, indicating Kagome. "Roughly five hundred years ago I met her. The first time I tried to kill her because she was trying to stop me from obtaining Father's sword. After that, we had a common enemy. Eventually, she came to me for training. Someone was able to wield father's sword and stole it from me before trying to use it on her. As her sensei, I was charged with protecting her. She had friends that were able to re-acquire the sword and returned it to me. She is from this time and is able to pass through time because of the well. The miko brought me here because she believed you would be able to heal me."

Kagome was utterly amazed at all the holes in his story. What about Inuyasha?

Duh, ever hear of 'you have dirty blood flowing in your veins'? or how about 'you are not worthy of Father's name'? Obviously he meant every word he said, her inner youkai quipped.

Apparently so.

"Oh yeah? What made you think I could heal him?" she asked, turning to Kagome.

"When I took Buyou to the vet, you were the doctor that saw him. I felt your aura from the moment I stepped into your office. I didn't, however, notice your friend's here. She is much better at hiding it then you are," the priestess said wryly.

Allyson laughed as Stacey scowled. "Oh yeah? Well we'll just see who's better at what," she growled, advancing on Kagome.

A word from Sesshomaru stopped her, though. "Obsydian, stop it. Do not shame our family by attacking her. She would barely put up a fight. The girl doesn't even know how to transform yet."

The demoness looked contrite. Turning on her heel, she stomped down the steps to the truck below, returning momentarily with a large black bag and red metal kit. Sesshomaru looked at her apprehensively when she set the stuff down and pulled a needle out of the kit. Trays layered upon trays 'floated' upon each other. Some contained needles, some contained vials with liquids and others with powders. Everything was neatly organized and in place.

The light blond picked up a vial, uncapped the needle, stuck it into the bottle and drew out the bit of liquid that was inside.

"Now," she said with a smile, "transform and this won't hurt a bit."

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A/N: Ooh, what is Stacey going to do to Sess? Tune in next time to find out! And now, simply because you asked, the continuation of the muse from earlier.

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FL/Kags: together Tell!

Sess: No!

Inuyasha bursts in, breathless and severely ticked off

Inu: What the hell was that?!

FL: blinks and looks to Inuyasha Heel.

Inu: I'll get you for this!! as he's being dragged out of the room again

Kags: Now that was just mean... High five! laughes and high-fives FL

both turn back to Sesshomaru who is trying to slip out the door.

FL: Dig her up, I don't want her in my backyard!

Sess: No.

FL: threateningly Don't make me get the shock collar out.

Sess: blanches Alright, I'll tell who pushed her but I won't dig her up

Kags: Good boy.