InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ For The Love of An Enemy ❯ Hello...Sesshoumaru ( Chapter 3 )

Hello…Sesshoumaru

"Kagome why are you so sad?"

Lost in her thoughts Kagome did not hear the small kitsune cub walk up to her. Looking down into the face of the little fox demon she had adopted as her own.

"Inu Yasha is gone. We are all sad Shippou." She told him, not wanting to reveal the true reason she was so depressed. It was true what she had said. Everyone was sad, Miroku, Sango, Kaede and Shippou. Inu Yasha was a friend and he was sorely missed. That night, after she had made her wish on the shooting star, Kagome had returned to camp and met the distressed glances of her companions. It seemed that as she watched Inu Yasha disappear into the Earth, she had been too distracted and in too much pain to notice that she was not the only one watching the tragic scene. Shippou, wondering where Inu Yasha had disappeared to, had left camp to find him. Find him he did, in time to witness the climax of the scene that plagued Kagome's memory. Shippou had not seen the whole thing, nor had he heard the words spoken, only Kagome knew, and that was why her pain was so much deeper and visible than the others. Her pain was the pain of betrayal.

"I miss him" she heard Shippou whisper, his voice full of emotion as he tried to hold back tears.

Gathering the small kit in her arms and cradling him against her chest she slowly rocked him as his tears flowed out. Feeling the emotion that wracked his small body, Kagome felt her own tears flow down her cheeks. She would never tell them about the truth of that night, her memory of Inu Yasha might be marred, but she wouldn't let the reality of what had happened destroy her friends, as it had destroyed her. As Shippou's cries became quieter, Kagome felt exhaustion take over her body. Standing up, with the kitsune cub dozing in her arms, she laid down in her sleeping bag and went to sleep silently praying that tomorrow would be better than today.

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It had been an emotional morning and a very difficult one as well. Good-byes always were hard. Especially when you saying good bye to a part of your life. With the jewel completed and her job finished, Kagome felt that her time in the Feudal Age was over. There was nothing left here for her, expect the pain of memories and the grief of a lost love. She would miss the friends she had come to love over the two years. Each one of them held a special place in her heart and she knew she would never forget them. And Shippou, the one who had become like a son to her, it broke her heart to leave him, but she had to, it was the only way she could stay sane, the only way she could survive.

Standing in front of the well that would take her back home, 500 years into the future, Kagome felt the tears well up at the thought of never returning. She had come to love this age, she had come to love the pure untamed beauty and the crisp and fresh air. Setting her pack on the ground beside the well, she turned and walked to the God Tree, the place she had first met him, Inu Yasha. Reaching out and touching the place where he had been pinned she close her eyes.

"Good Bye…Inu Yasha" she whispered as one solitary tear rolled down her cheek and hit the ground at her feet. Lowering her head in grief and taking her hand off the tree, she slowly opened her eyes and was stunned at the sight that greeted her. Kneeling down, she ran her hands over the object that had caught her attention.

"Tetsusagia" she whispered. She couldn't believe it. She thought the sword had gone with Inu Yasha, that he had taken it into hell with him. But here it was, lying at the base of the God Tree, sheathed in its scabbard. What was she supposed to do now? She wondered to herself. Acting purely on instinct she picked up the blade, the sword that had saved so many lives, including her own, and pulled it out of its scabbard. As she did she felt a jolt of power course through her and was blinded momentarily by a bright flash of blue light. Using her hands to shield her eyes, she dropped the sword and the light dissipated.

"What the hell was that?" Kagome said out loud wondering why she now felt the presence of the sword, just as she had felt the presence of the shikon shards.

"It seems" she heard a smooth voice say from behind her "that the Tetsusagia has found its new master."

Her eyes widened in fear as the voice spoke. She knew that voice, that emotionless and deceptively calm tone could only belong to one person. Turning around slowly she faced Sesshoumaru, the vicious demon who would stop at nothing to possess the Tetsusagia. Staring into the cold eyes of the demon Lord, Kagome feared for her life because, if what he said was true, she was now the master of the sword, and if the battles between him and Inu Yasha meant anything, he would kill her to get it. Terrified at the thought of what he was going to do, Kagome said the first thing that popped into her head

"Hello…Sesshoumaru"