InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Past, Her Present, Their Future ❯ Matchmaker ( Chapter 13 )

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His Past, Her Present, Their Future
Chapter 13 - Matchmaker

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Sunlight made her eyes water as she blinked the sleep from her overslept face, trying to come to terms with the knowledge that it was, in fact, late in the morning. With a moan Kagome rolled over, just to see the pristine Taiyoukai looking back at her, flawless amber eyes watching her unblinking. She smiled her good morning and sat up, stretching out her arms and listening to her joints pop in relief.

“Why’d ya let me sleep so late?” she said with another yawn, trying to make her body catch up with her.

“You appeared tired.”

She smiled, “I thank you, but now I think I overslept. My back is killing me!” she moaned as she stood, trying to massage out the kinks in her lower back. Before she could even open her eyes she found herself back on the ground, this time on her stomach, with a single strong hand pushing deep up the length of her back. She moaned loudly and arched into his touch, not knowing the turmoil she was putting the demon behind her in.

‘This…was a bad idea…’

‘Naw, really? You’re a smart bastard, aren’t you?’ his conscience replied.

‘Hush, BakaYasha.’

‘No, I don’t think I will. She’s going through that stupid well in another couple of weeks, if not sooner, and all you can think of is what you would like to drive…’

‘Silence.’

‘Keh. 217;

He quickly ran his strong, elegant hand across the length of her back a few times, smoothing the kinks and knots. She continued her chorus of gasps and contented moans, and Sesshoumaru had to bite back a grin when he smelt Kagura approaching with curiosity in her aura. He skillfully ran his hand up to her neck and ran his fingers across the base of her skull, making her head go limp with another punctuating whimper from her before Kagura walked into the clearing with an amused look on her face.

“You know, miko, with all the noise you were making I thought I was going to walk in on a very different scene.”

Kagome shot to her feet immediately, her face almost purple as she stormed to a stream nearby to wash up. As she walked and her embarrassment lessened, she reveled in how wonderful her back felt. Sesshoumaru had many hidden talents.

“I wonder how much better that would be if he had both hands…” she wondered aloud.

“Hmm, my thought is what else he could do with those hands,” a voice responded, and Kagome practically spun into Kagura, who was watching her once again blushing face in amusement, “Come on, you know you’ve thought of it.”

“I promise, I haven’t!” Kagome replied indignantly, busying herself in the stream. She splashed her face, trying to cool her flaming cheeks.

“Ah, it’s a pity. I was hoping you’d find out and tell me.”

Kagome looked at the wind witch as if she’d grown a second head, “What?!” she squeaked out.

“I wanted him for my own for years, but I can see where his heart lays. Don’t worry, I’m not competition.”

Kagome paled considerably, considering the shades of red she had invented in the previous few minutes, “Nothing is going on between us. He’s just my friend.”

“Uh huh.”

“I’m serious!”

“Sure you are.”

Kagome huffed, “We are! We CAN’T be anything else, because I’m leaving once the jewel is complete, for good,” her righteous posturing vanished, “Forever…” she whispered.

“Why would you want to do that?”

“I don’t want to.”

“Then why are you?”

“Because…” she sighed, “Because of my wish on the Shikon no Tama. When I brought them all back, I promised Midoriko I would collect the shards then go back to my time, for good.”

“Your…time?” Kagura said in disbelief.

Kagome let out a little laugh, “Hai. It doesn’t matter who knows now, I guess. I am from five hundred years in the future, from a huge city where Edo is now. There are millions of humans who live there; humans, not youkai. Youkai are nothing but myths in my time. I thought they were just a fairytale until I came here.”

Kagura was silent for a long few moments, “Wow. That certainly explains a lot. How do you know youkai don’t exist though? We’re rather clever at hiding, you know.”

“I know, but I’ve never felt jyaki, and InuYasha never smelt a demon, either. As much as I would like to imagine you guys could be alive in my time…I just don’t see how.”

“Well, hold out hope. Who knows? Maybe when you go back, Sesshoumaru and I will be waiting for you,” she grinned mischievously and Kagome tossed a twig at her playfully, but with sad eyes.

“So do you see why I can’t? I can’t just pin my hopes on this. I could fall for him so easily, but there’s so much between us that’s wrong. I’m ningen, he’s youkai. Now, I don’t care personally, but the lifespan difference is harsh. I would age and become ugly, while he stayed pristine and perfect. I think I would resent him, and he would be disgusted by me. Then, there’s the five hundred year gap…a lot can happen in that time, even if he is alive! He could find millions of demoness’ more worthy than some strange onna from the future to want in that time.”

“Youkai are different, Kagome. Once we chose, once we put our souls into things, we don’t just give it up.”

Kagome sighed and laid on the stream’s bank, “There’s more, though. He’s…so perfect, that it feels he has to be a dream. Yeah, he has a few…quirks I could do without, but when I look at him, I see damn near perfection, and that’s a scary thought. Because I am far, far from perfect. I guess I just can’t see what he sees in me.”

Kagura shook her head at the girl. So young. “Silly ningen. Don’t you get it? You’ve fallen farther than you think you have if you look at him that way. Trust me, he’s far from perfect. And he’s already long gone, I can see it when he looks at you.”

Kagome blushed, “Its too much, Kagura.”

“Well, look at it this way, then. What do you want in a man?”

Kagome frowned at the fluffy white clouds overhead, “I want…a hero. Like from a fairytale. I want my prince charming. I want a man who can slay my dragons, and I’m not just talking about the baddies. I mean my emotional ones too. I want to be saved, I want to feel important. I want him to be protective to the point of possessive, but trusting enough to listen when I tell him not to worry. He has to be able to take a joke, and make me laugh, too. He has to know when to be gentle, but have a rough side to him. And he has to, HAS TO have pretty hair. I will allow myself that vanity…after spending so long here in the Sengoku Jidai, with all these pretty haired men…InuYasha, Kouga, Sesshoumaru…heck, even Naraku had pretty hair!”

Kagura laughed and looked at her first and only friend, “He did, didn’t he? Vain bastard…well, what else?”

Kagome sat up slightly, “I want…someone I can lose myself in for hours. I need to be able to have real conversations with him, and I need him to challenge me. And…this sounds silly, but I want someone who will argue with me and not think there’s something horribly wrong in our relationship. And I can’t let the guy be boring. But that’s where the biggest problem is! After living here, where I fight demons and save lives, everything in my age is boring! No one there but my mom, brother, and grandfather know of my time here. So its like I’m on a totally different plane of existence from the guys there.”

“All the more reason for you to look into the existence of youkai. If any of us are alive, then you’ll have people to share it with.”

“Mm. I guess you’re right. I just…I don’t think the guy I want exists,” the miko said, raising herself to her feet.

“Well, I don’t know about the sense of humor bit, but you realize you described your Taiyoukai, don’t you?”

Kagome halted in mid-rise, her eyes widening. She was right. She had. That only crushed her harder. Tears fell softly from her cheeks, “I did, didn’t I?”

“Hai.”

“But I still have to go home. Now it just…hurts more.”

Kagura frowned and put an arm around the little miko’s shoulders, “Hey, I didn’t want that. Cheer up, at least you know he’s out there, ne?”

Kagome smiled just a little, “Mm, you’re right.”

“Come on, let’s get back to camp, I’m sure the Ice Prince is getting impatient.”

Kagome laughed and stood the rest of the way, “I’m sure you’re right.”

Golden eyes which had been observing in the treetops turned and dashed away, settling back into his previous meditative position before the duo arrived back. He smirked, unable to hold it back. Yes, he’d have his miko, he would definitely see to that.

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Rin danced around the garden, singing softly to her flowers. As she grew, she only took more interest in tending the plants, rather than less. She was a whole ten years old now, and she was much more capable of taking care of her beautiful flowers.

Shippou had been silent for a while, so she pranced towards his sullen form, “Shippou-chan, what is wrong?”

The little kitsune looked up at her sadly, “I was just thinking…that I might never see Kagome again.”

“Of course you will, silly! Sesshoumaru-sama will bring her back!”

Shippou shook his head sadly, “Iie, it won’t be his choice. You don’t know where Kagome is from, do you?”

“Umm, Jaken-sama says she’s from a far-off place.”

“Hai. She’s from the future.”

Rin’s eyes went as big as saucers, “Sugoi!”

“Yeah. But once she gets all the pieces of the jewel, she has to go to her time again and leave me here.”

Rin flinched and looked up with tear-filled rich brown eyes, “She won’t stay with Sesshoumaru-sama?”

“She can’t.”

Rin sniffed and shook her head, “You’ll see her again, Shippou-can. Rin knows you will. You are youkai, ne? You live a long time.”

Shippou smiled a little, “Hai! You’re right!”

Rin giggled a little sadly and looked away, plucking a lily with a smile, “If she doesn’t come back, and you get to see her in the future, will you tell her that Rin thought she was a good okaa-san? Because…she was like one. Rin knows she’s your mother, but…Rin would have liked a mother like her, too.”

Shippou snuggled against his playmate, “I’ll tell her, for sure.”


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A/N: Ahh more writing. Will it ever stop? I doubt it. XD Well, nothing much to say, except I forgot how SAD some of the final anime episodes are!

[*Spoilers*] Its been a few months since I watched (I have the series on disks, only leaving Tenko Haudo no Ken on my HD for random moments of Fluffy cravings) so I pulled them out to watch. Even though I’ve watched them about 5 kajillion times apiece, I let out a few tears in the last few minutes of 162-‘Together Forever with Sesshoumaru-sama’, when he tells her she’s stupid and then the cute little moment with her, Jaken, and Sesshou (when I saw this ep was when I first began to fall for him *sigh*)…and then I watched right after 163-‘Sango, Kohaku, and Kirara’s Secret Garden’ and was bawling by the end, where Kohaku is digging his nails into the tree trying to keep himself from running to his ane-ue…I cried for them. Gawd, I forgot how traumatic those episodes are though. *weep* [*/Spoilers*]

I want them to continue the anime, it was such a silly place to leave off. There’s so much story they aren’t going to touch on if they stop now!! And, though it would depress me, I think its time for the manga to end. We need a conclusion, a real ending! Naraku has gone on too long, and I just don’t want the series to get overly repetitive to where you give up on it before its done. That would depress me. There’s already so much that is overdone (aka the Kik/Inu/Kags triangle…that’s the worst. Yes, it’s a staple of the show, but Inu can only be an asshole for so long, people!!!) and just needs to rest and be resolved. I’ve read almost every volume (THANK YOU ear-tweak, and its wonderful mistress Kuro!) and I think its winding down. I hope. My opinion.

Wahh, bedtime. Love you all! The song for this chapter is “I Need a Hero” sung by either FrouFrou or Jennifer Saunders (from Shrek 2). Its, like, my anthem. *sigh*

Where have all the good men gone
And where are all the gods?
Where's the streetwise Hercules
To fight the rising odds?
Isn't there a white knight
Upon a fiery steed?
Late at night I toss and I turn
And I dream of what I need...

I need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero ‘til the end of the night
He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero ‘til the morning light
He's gotta be sure and its gotta be soon
And he's gotta be larger than life

Somewhere after midnight in my wildest fantasy
Somewhere just beyond my reach
There's someone reaching out for me
Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat
Its gonna take a superman to sweep me off my feet!

But where the mountains meet the heavens above
And where the lightning splits the sea
I can swear there is someone, somewhere watching me
Through the wind and the chill and the rain
And the storm and the flood
I can feel his approach like a fire in my blood

I need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero til the morning light
He's gotta be sure and its gotta be soon
And he's gotta be larger than life

He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero!