InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Past, Her Present, Their Future ❯ Revelation ( Chapter 4 )

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Disclaimer: No own. Hmm…the progress on finding the “Sesshy Be Real” scroll isn’t going so well…damn! Listening to Black Mages songs, but nothing is fitting for this chapter, after all, its still early in the story. ;) I hope you all (all…HAH…) bear with me through the plot bunnies, and know that this IS going to be more original later. XD


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His Past, Her Present, Their Future
Chapter 4 - Revelation

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Her heart skipped a beat as she turned her incredulous gaze on her companion, “Nani?”

His eyes glittered with mirth through his emotionless mask, “Hai. I will assist you in your collection of the Shikon no Kakera.”

“Why would you do that?” she said suspiciously, eyeing him critically.

“Because, if not for you I would be dead. I owe you as much.”

“No no no. We went through this when I saved Rin from that oni outside the palace. I don’t want you to be in my debt.”

“Hai, but my honor is at stake. When you refused be to repay you for Rin, I simply found little ways to make up for it, but this is a much bigger thing. You restored my life, and for that, I will repay you.”

She huffed and stomped her foot childishly, “Sesshou! I don’t want anyone to be in my debt for anything! I did what was right, because you are my friend. And you wanting to help because of some damnable debt is hurting my honor.”

“Then…” he paused, flicking his eyes over her face with the smallest of frowns on his face, “Let me help you as your friend.”

Her anger evaporated immediately, her gaze softening on him, “You really want to help?”

“Hai, I do. If you’re being forced out of this time, at least I can make sure you go safely.”

She smiled brightly, it finally engulfing her face and eyes as it hadn’t in months, “I would like that very much. Perhaps you can retrieve Rin, since Shippou will likely be traveling with me, so they will have one another to entertain themselves?”

He nodded slightly, “When do you wish to depart?”

She seemed to think this over, her head tilting to one side, “How about in two weeks? My friends’ wedding is coming up.”

“Weeks?”

“Hai, remember? A week is seven days.”

“Hn,” he responded, nodding. She had taken it upon herself to slowly teach him ways of the future, and though he thirsted for knowledge, it still made him feel strange to be taught by a ningen woman, even if that woman was Kagome.

“Then you will come back for me then?”

“Hai.”

“Then I will let you depart, my lord; I don’t wish to hold you here.”

His eyebrow quirked at her address of him, and he sniffed, “What if this Sesshoumaru wishes to stay longer?”

One corner of her mouth pulled up in amusement, “Then this Kagome will not complain.”

He shook his head slowly in amusement, his silken hair swaying, “Well, when we last spoke, you were explaining these ‘cars’ to me.”

“Oh hai! They are a form of transportation…”

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Four days had passed since Sesshoumaru’s impromptu visit, and Kagome was trying to decide what she would need to take along. Performing her miko duties had graced her with small items of payment, but her huge yellow backpack could not hold everything. She took a fine number of arrows, several quivers full, in order to ensure her helpfulness. Sure, she could fight with a sword now, but that was a last resort…she was far from good enough to try and join in battle as a useful member. No, her arrows and other miko abilities would have to do.

She also packed as many outfits as she had, including a beautiful fine kimono Sesshoumaru had given her during her stay with him. Who knew what would come up on the journey? She shrugged and folded them nicely before pushing them into her bag. What else? Her bathing supplies, surely…she had taken to using unscented ones, because InuYasha had always complained of the overpowering smell of flowers after her baths.

Her brush and hair accessories were a must…though she usually left her hair flowing freely, summer was coming up fast and she knew she would regret not having a scrunchi to pull her hair up with. She also grabbed most of the dwindling amount of Ramen and Pocky she had brought on her last trip from the future. She left a bit of both for Miroku and Sango, knowing that they enjoyed it as well.

She tilted her head as she looked over all her remaining items. Most weren’t necessities…hair pieces and the cake-like makeup of the time. She passed these over with a small look of disgust on her face. No, she did not need that. But what else? Her eyes fell on a small doll that a little girl had once forced her to take…she was a sweet child. She snatched this up and decided to take to give to Rin, knowing that Sesshoumaru wasn’t the kind of man to get a doll for a little girl, ‘his‘ or not. She chuckled at the thought.
A bright light filled the room as the doormat was moved aside, and she turned to smile at Shippou, who bounded immediately to her shoulder, “Hey, Kagome! What are you doing?”

“I’m packing up for when Sesshoumaru comes to get me at the end of next week.”

A shiver ran through the kit’s body at this, “I don’t know how you befriended him, Kagome, but he gives me the creeps still.”

“Hey! He’s a good guy in there somewhere,” she said with a chuckle, “He would never harm me, or you since he knows I love you,” she poked him in the belly softly, smiling.

“I still feel like I’m going to turn to stone when he looks at me. I mean, he’s just so SCARY!”

She grinned, “You’ll get used to him. That is…if you wanted to come with me?” she said hopefully, meeting her little friends eyes.

“Nani?! You mean you want me to?!”

“Of course I do! How could I ever imagine leaving you behind? Besides, Rin with be there, and someone has to be able to look after her. We all know smell old Jaken can‘t do the job alone,” she replied with a grin, nuzzling his hair affectionately.

“Hai, I want to come!” she said, puffing his chest in pride, “I won’t let you down!”

“Of course you won’t.”

She continued packing up things for an hour before her bag was filled the brim. The various herbs, medicines, and bandages, both modern and from the Sengoku Jidai, filled the last of the space. Smiling with satisfaction she stood, waking up Shippou’s napping form as she went to find Sango. Perhaps she would be up for a nice dip in the hot spring?

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“Sango, do you think everything happens for a reason?” she asked her friend, tilting her head to the side a little sadly.

The taijiya’s chocolate eyes met hers and smiled tightly, “Hai, actually I do. I think that no matter how terrible something might seem, no matter what grieves us, that eventually things will work out. That is, if we are strong enough to endure the trials.”

“How can you be so sure though?” Kagome said softly, a tear falling unnoticed down her face.

“Because we are the proof, if there ever was any in this world. Look at us our group, Kagome. A brash and reckless hanyou, a hentai houshi, a battle-scarred taijiya, a girl from the future, and an orphaned kitsune. We all had desperate and overwhelming odds thrown at us, but we persevered. If these terrible, life-changing things had never happened to us, we would never have fallen together as we did. I cannot change my past, and I miss my family very much, but look at all I’ve gained! I’ve found true love, the first real friends of my life, and I appreciate every day like it is my last. I came too close to death not to. Can you honestly say you wish this all had never happened?” she asked, dipping her head underwater to wet her dark brown hair.

Kagome’s tears fell unchecked as she looked at her sister, seeing her with even more respect than ever, “Never. I cannot imagine my life without having come here. I can’t imagine being like my silly annoying friends of my time, with nothing more to think of than boys and gossip. If not for being here, I never would have fallen in love with InuYasha, never would have known what it was like to look evil in the eye and know that I would overcome it. I never would have known what true friendship was, and I wouldn’t have my adorable son’s face to look upon. But no matter what else happened, and how much I wouldn’t change, WHY InuYasha? Why did he have to go? He didn’t deserve a life so short.”

Sango cocked her eyebrow as she used Kagome‘s shampoo on her hair, “Short? You call two hundred some-odd years short?”

“Fifty was stuck to a tree you know,” Kagome said, sticking out her tongue at her friend as she took the bottle to give her own hair the same treatment, “And yes, for him it was short. Had he been able to live out his life, who knows how much longer he might have gone? How many more things he might have experienced? Most of his life was so empty, without his parents or friends or…anyone!”

“But you act as if he was struck down. He wanted this, Kagome. Misguided or not, his honor bound him to Kikyou. And as for his life…you’re right. But you turned that all around for him. You gave him the peace of knowing a true friendship, of trust and family. With what you gave him, his life was complete. Grieve for your loss, Kagome, but don’t grieve for him.”

Dark blue eyes widened and her mouth snapped shut. She was right, of course. InuYasha did not want to be grieved for. It was only her grieving for what she no longer had. Her eyes blinked rapidly as realization sunk in and she leapt at her friend, mindful not to hit a soapy head against her face, and hugged her tightly, “Oh Sango, thank you so much. I never…I never thought of it like that.”

Sango pushed her away with a laugh, “I know you hadn’t, but I’m glad you see what you mean. No, lets rinse off and get out of this water, I don’t believe that all this contact with the water isn’t terrible for our skin.”

Kagome laughed at her friend, shaking her head. She refused to believe that frequent bathing would not cause wrinkles or other terrible effects to her. Such was the time, and such was the reason that demons like Sesshoumaru couldn’t stand being near humans. Inuyoukai’s noses were famous for their awareness, though it only proved annoying in certain situations. Being near any number of stinking un-bathed people was one of them.

They dried and dressed slowly; there was no reason to rush today. All they had planned was to make sure preparations for the wedding were in order and to perhaps play with hairstyles for the bride. They giggled together as they walked back towards Edo, and Kagome’s shoulders finally felt light enough to allow her to walk with her head held high.


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A/N: Aaaaannnnnnddddd there’s another chapter. *weep* I hate it when people discover I am ‘borrowing’ their wireless internet and lock me out! *weep* That means I have no more stories to read! WAHH. Oh well. So, I decided to write. ^_^ And revise all pervious chapters in hopes of making the formatting not look like crap. XD Thank you to my newest reviewer on MediaMiner, as well as my solitary one on Single Spark, I love knowing someone’s actually reading this. *gleeee*