InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Guardians ❯ Chapter 17 ( Chapter 17 )

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Chapter 17

 

Inuyasha and Kagome returned to camp side by side with an anxious Sango waiting. "It's about time you got back. The letcher is already asleep and I was waiting for you."

 

Kagome grinned as she turned to look at Miroku as she went to her bag and pulled out a pillow. She creeped silently towards Miroku and gently lifted his arm around the pillow and giggled. "I'll wake you before he gets up to watch the shock." She then crawled into her sleeping bag and fell into a light sleep with a confused hanyou looking between the two women.

 

Inuyasha couldn't believe she had allowed him to mark her, but also knew that the mark would fade in time if they did not mate. 'I will win her approval,' he thought as he watched her sleep. He started pondering the feelings he had been bombarded with while they had been linked. The intensity of her feelings alone had nearly caused him to cry out before he saw the memories. Who was that woman and what was she. Now he knew for certain that Kagome could take care of herself if those few glimpses were anything to go by. The training she had received was more intensive than anything he had ever seen and the harnessing of her power was even more grueling. He never thought that she could become that powerful and had a new respect for her. He fell into a light sleep not knowing that what he had seen was only a small glimpse of her true power.

 

The next morning Sango was being shaken awake by a grinning Kagome. "Shhh, come on." Kagome put a spell on the pillow that Miroku was snuggling against and waited for him to wake up. "This will be good," she said as she watched the pillow take form with the spell.

 

Miroku woke up to feel something warm in his arms and snuggled up close to it thinking that maybe his dreams had finally come true and Sango was in his arms. "Oh Sango," he sighed softly making a certain exterminator red with embarrassment and itching towards her hirakotsu. He heard someone giggling and opened his eyes slowly to see an elderly woman wrapped in his naked arms. "AAHHHHHH."

 

Kagome and Sango were laughing so hard that they were holding each other up. "Well Miroku I knew you wanted someone to bear your child, but I think she's a little past child bearing age don't you Sango," smirked Kagome.

 

All color drained from Miroku's face as he saw the nude shoulders of the old woman. "What happened I don't remember anything. Please tell me nothing happened." He closed his eyes and put his hand over his mouth looking like he was going to be sick.

 

Everyone was rolling with laughter now and Kagome looked at Sango. "Should we let him off the hook?" At her approval Kagome waved her hand and the old woman turned back into a pillow and Miroku was dressed once again. Kagome walked to him grinning and kneeled in front of him, "maybe now you'll be a little more careful where you put your hands at night."

 

Miroku was still shaking, "I can't believe you did that you have the same mean streak that Jade does. To even think that that was remotely possible was enough to scare me."

 

"It was the only way to teach you a lesson about groping Sango every morning. If your not sure who your groping maybe you'll think twice before you do and I enjoy a good prank. Jade taught them to me."

 

"Well, I can't help it if my hand has a mind of its own and can't resist Sango's beautiful body. I would show you the same appreciation if I knew Inuyasha wasn't so protective." Miroku stopped short when he heard a very threatening growl from Inuyasha.

 

Inuyasha leapt from his branch coming behind Kagome to wrap an arm possessively around her waist. "If you try anything with my mate to be monk you'll regret it."he growled.

 

Both Sango and Miroku stood gaping at his admission. "What do you mean mate to be,"yelled Shippo.

 

Inuyasha just looked at him and kneeled to look directly at him. "Come on Shippo lets have a man to man talk." He led the kit a short distance away and sat down. He watched as the kit sat down waiting for his explanation. "I've finally made my decision Shippo and I asked Kagome to be my mate last night. She agreed to let me mark her as mine, but will not become my mate until she is sure that I won't run to Kikyo."

 

"Kagome has always loved you and still you ran to Kikyo. Why should she trust you now?"

 

"I've made alot of mistakes Shippo, but with Jade's help I've finally realized what's important. I love Kagome and I intend to win her trust back and become mates. My future is with her and if you'll let me with you as well. She is already your mother and I'd like us to be a family."

 

Shippo was amazed at his words, but still wasn't completely convinced. "I may not be old enough or strong enough Inuyasha, but if you hurt my mother again you will regret it. You nearly killed her spirit going back and forth between her and Kikyo before and I won't let you do it again. If you end up hurting her no matter how long it takes I will kill you."

 

It wasn't until then that he realized how much Shippo had matured. "I swear Shippo I won't intentionally hurt her. I would give anything to have her by my side as my mate."

 

"I'll give you a chance Inuyasha, but you better not screw it up this time. You know as well as I do you won't get another chance. You were lucky to get this one after everything you've done."

 

"I do know Shippo. That's why I can't give up." They returned to camp to find Miroku tied up and hanging from a nearby tree with the girls grinning from ear to ear. The grins are what really scared them because it was the same look Jade gets when she's about to get even. Inuyasha looked at Shippo and they both took a step back trying to stay out of the way. "I think they've been around Jade to long," he whispered. Shippo just nodded his head in agreement as they watched Miroku hang from the tree while the girls threatened him.

 

Jade was working in her study again when she felt Hitomi's aura coming close to the door. She continued with her paperwork as she walked into the room with tea and some breakfast.

 

"Good morning milady and how are you this morning?"

 

Jade just smiled as she took her tea. "I'm fine Hitomi. I hadn't realized how much needed to be caught up on. I'll have to get back to the others tomorrow, but I'll be back a few nights this week to get caught up."

 

"Will you bring the others with you?"

 

"No, it wouldn't be wise right now. Kagome and I don't want them to know who we really are yet. Besides most think that realm guardians are nothing but legends."

 

Hitomi just smiled, "if they knew your true form and power milady I don't think Lord Sesshomaru would leave you alone at all. Not to mention he'd be trying like mad to make you his mate."

 

"I want someone to love me for who I am Hitomi not for power or as a trophy on their arm. To many have tried to make me their mate for their own gain and all I want is love. I may have evolved into a guardian, but I was still born a human. Even if it has been a couple of hundred years my feelings have not changed."

 

"That milady is why you were chosen to be the Lady of all Guardians. You understand more than any of us the human spirits and now you protect all souls both living and dead. That reminds me what are your plans for the miko Kikyo?"

 

"I leave that decision to Kagome for now. She has no desire to hurt Inuyasha with her death and neither do I, but if a decision is not made after Naraku's defeat I will make the decision myself. She can't be allowed to keep stealing the souls of others." Jade sighed as she stood to look out of the window into the garden. "I can only hope that Inuyasha will have made his choice by then." She turned to find Hitomi grinning at her. "What's going on Hitomi? You have that look again."

 

She just smiled innocently. "You worry to much milady everything will work out fine." She picked up the trays and left Jade to another long day of paperwork. 'You'll be happy with what has happened in your abscence milady,' she thought.

 

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