InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Past, Her Present, Their Future ❯ Superiority ( Chapter 14 )

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His Past, Her Present, Their Future
Chapter 14 - Superiority

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There were no jewel shard leads in the village Kagura had perused, but she had bought herself a new kimono. Bought being a way to say bullied a merchant out of it. She smiled at the black and green material as she flew along behind Sesshoumaru and Kagome. Since that morning, she had seen the looks that the Taiyoukai was giving the miko; Kagura was suspicious that he had been eavesdropping. That would be beneath him, of course, but love can make a person do funny things.

They were currently on their way back to the House of the Moon because Kagome wanted had left behind something and was afraid of not being able to come back later to retrieve it. Sesshoumaru had agreed, so now they were flying back to the west. The duo was chatting about something called ‘college’ up ahead; apparently Kagome was planning to do this…whatever it was. Kagura was unsure.

When they had halted in their forward motion, Kagura became aware of a fast moving jyaki closing in on them. She pulled out her fan defensively, but Kagome shook her head with a dejected look on her face.

“Ano...Sesshoumaru? Lower me please.”

“Why?”

“This jyaki…it is Kouga.”

“What business do you have with the Eastern prince?”

She sighed and tugged his sleeve, “Long story, but he’s my friend. And if I’m going to keep him from starting a fight with Kagura-chan, I have to intercept him. He won‘t even notice her if he‘s distracted by me.”

“Hn,” the Taiyoukai agreed reluctantly. Kagura smiled inwardly that she was once again going out of her way to ‘protect’ her. Sure, she didn’t need it, but it was a nice sentiment. She would somehow find a way to repay her, if it was the last thing she did.

As soon as Kagome’s feet touched the ground, Kouga appeared, scooping her into his arms and twirling in a circle, “My Kagome! Its been months! How are you, my soon-to-be mate?”

Kagome sweat dropped and laughed, “Not bad, Kouga-kun…how have you been? Haven’t you gone to get Ayame yet?”

He snorted, “No way. I could never settle for her when I could have you!”

Kagome tried to pry her hands out of his, but to no avail, “Kouga, we’ve gone over this: we’re friends. Good, good friends, and nothing more.”

“You’ll change your mind! You’re my woman, and I wouldn’t have it any other way!”

A threatening growl ripped both their attentions to Sesshoumaru, whose eyes were narrowed at the ookami in a malicious way. Kouga froze, “Ano…Kagome? Where’s your mutt, and why is the Lord of the Western Lands here?”

Kagome finally was released and she laughed nervously as she went to Sesshoumaru’s side, “Ahh, Sesshoumaru is my friend, Kouga-kun, and InuYasha‘s brother. And as for InuYasha…he passed on.”

Kouga’s ocean blue eyes widened and he grabbed Kagome again, but this time into a hug, “I’m sorry Kagome. I know how much Inu-Koro meant to you.”

“Hai,” she said sadly as Kouga nuzzled her cheek and neck, making another growl come from the silver-haired Taiyoukai, “But Kouga, in all seriousness, you should go to Ayame and start your family. I know you want to, you can’t lie to me. I’ll be gone soon, and I may never see you again. But take care, alright?”

Kouga ignored Sesshoumaru’s threats and put his nose and forehead against hers, smiling into her eyes, “So you are leaving for good, after all? I’ll miss you. You’ll always be my woman, no matter what, ne? If you ever need anything, you are still part of my pack, and there’s always a place for you. Ginta and Hokkaku will miss you, too.”

Kagome smiled and gave her friend a soft kiss on the cheek, “Goodbye Kouga, and don’t forget me, alright? In a few hundred years, who knows, perhaps we’ll meet again.”

He grinned in his usual lopsided way, “By then, will you be my mate?”

Kagome laughed and pushed him playfully, “Go on. Get your woman and make tons of pups for me to see when we meet again.”

With a wink to Kagome and a wary glance at Sesshoumaru, the wolf prince was gone, leaving Kagome sighing in relief. She felt badly making Kouga believe they might see one another again, hence why she had never mentioned the apparent lack of youkai in her era to him. She doubted she’d ever get rid of him if he knew that.

Sesshoumaru was glaring at her heatedly, making her gulp, “Wha-what?!”

“I was under the impression he was your ‘friend’?”

“He is.”

“Why was he touching you in such a manner and claiming you as his if you are just ‘friends’?”

Kagome scowled at his jealousy, “Ahh, coming from the guy who’s kissed me twice in a much more intimate manner than Kouga has ever acted towards me then turned around like nothing happened, I think you have little to say on the matter.”

Without waiting for him to respond Kagome walked away, not meeting Kagura’s amused smirk at that tidbit of information, “Kagura-chan, I’d like to ride with you, please.”

“Sure, Kagome-chan.”

The two women were off in the air before Sesshoumaru could even put his mask back into place, before shooting off in the direction they went - the west.

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“So, you’ve kissed him, ey? I thought you said there was nothing between you guys?”

Kagome blushed, “It was only two kisses, and only one of them anything more than sweet and innocent.”

“Ah, so what about the other?” Kagura asked with a mysterious glint in her eye.

“Hentai!”

Kagura laughed out loud, holding her stomach, “Oh come on, you’re no fun!”

“Hn,” Kagome replied, taking a page out of Sesshoumaru’s book.

“The palace is in the distance.”

“Mm, good. Darn, I’m almost out of arrows and need to go to town…would you come with me?”

“Sure, I’ll take you. Do you want to go before or after going to the castle?”

“After, I want to take the children. I need to spend as much time as possible with them, you know?”

“Hai. Alright then, let’s speed up.”

The two on the feather glided easily down into the gardens, making two every happy children bound out to see them, “KAGOME!” Shippou called out merrily, bouncing into her arms.

“Kagome-chan! You came back!” Rin squealed, latching onto her legs.

“Were you two good for Jaken?”

“Hai!” they called out together.

“Would you guys like to come to the village with Kagura and me?”

“HAI!” they squealed.

“Let’s go then, ne?”

Kagura laughed as the children bounded onto her feather and shook her head, “What village?”

“Doesn’t matter, but it has to be a human one. For some reason, I doubt youkai villages would have consecrated arrows.”

“You can’t bless your own?”

Kagome laughed nervously, “I never learned how…I guess I never needed to…I mean, I can, but their always stronger when blessed by a trained miko.”

Kagura snorted and rolled her eyes, “Well, then let’s just go to a human village. There’s one nearby.”

In fact, it was less that ten minutes of flying before they reached the village, setting down on the outskirts. Kagura stayed back, not wishing to call any unwanted attention to herself as Kagome and the children walked into the town. It wasn’t a busy place, and finding the miko’s hut was easy.

“Miko-sama?” Kagome called from the entrance, bowing in a respective manner as the middle-aged priestess came to the door, “Konnichiwa, I am Kagome, a wandering miko, and I need some new arrows.”

The woman eyed her with an eyebrow raised, “You, child, are much more powerful than I. Why would you need me to make your arrows?”

Kagome blushed at her older counterpart, “Ano…I am rather untrained.”

“Hmph,” the woman intoned, offering her and the children to come inside. After a few minutes she had paid for her arrows and bowed thankfully before exiting.

Rin looked around in awe; it had been a long time since she had been in a human village, and her memories of life before Sesshoumaru-sama were faded. Kagome smiled at her and took her hand as they walked slowly back out of town, to meet Kagura. They had reached the last hut when they cry was heard.

“Youkai!” a woman screamed, running back into the village. Several men appeared from their huts, toting farming tools.

Kagome glanced around, picking up the children and clutching them to her as if they were a precious package. Screams of “YOUKAI” and fearful chatter filled the air as she searched the tree line, finally seeing what they were so afraid of. She sighed and shook her head, calling to the villagers, “Hey, don’t worry! That’s my friend, she won’t harm you.”

The elder miko stepped out of the group, all of their hostile gazes turned towards her now, “Your friend? You are a miko, with a youkai friend?”

Kagome met the woman’s glare with one of her own, “Yes. There are several youkai I am proud to call my friends.”

The grumbling of the crowd got louder, “Oi! She holds a youkai child in her arms!”

Kagome’s glare became deeper, “Hai, I do. This is my son, perhaps not by blood but he is my child all the same.”

“Youkai lover! She’s a dirty youkai lover!” a woman’s voice screeched.

Kagura appeared at Kagome’s side, “Is there a problem, Kagome-chan?”

“No, there is not. Let’s go.”

The four turned to leave the village when the first rock struck Kagome’s back. She winced and whirled around, glaring at the people who were looking at her as if she was filth, “What’s wrong with you people?!”

“You are no miko! You’re a soiled demon supporter!”

“You know nothing about me!” Kagome yelled, her anger beginning to get the better of her. She handed the two young ones to Kagura before whirling back on the mob, “You all bring this on yourselves! No wonder youkai and humans can’t get along! Of course there are some bad demons, but do you hate all your fellow humans because of Night Bandits? Their bad too!”

A few faces looked shocked and seemed to contemplate this, but others grew even angrier as a few more rocks flew out to hit the raven haired woman. She threw up a barrier around Kagura and the children, one of the rocks just barely missing Shippou, “Kagura! Get them out of here!”

“What about you, Momma?” Shippou cried.

“Don’t worry, Shippou-chan, I’ll be right along.”

Kagura was loathe to leave her, but the fire in the woman’s eyes let her know to listen. She pulled out her feather and took flight, racing back to the House of the Moon.

The elder miko stepped forward, “You are a disgrace to miko everywhere! You do not deserve to live with your power!”

Kagome’s temper was out of control now as she snarled at the woman, “Who gives you the right to decide who is and is not worthy? If this is what most humans are like, I’m glad most of my friends are demons! One of my closest friends is the only surviving taijiya and SHE accepts that there is a difference between mindless oni and intelligent youkai, why can’t you?!”

The few villagers who seemed to see what she had been saying slowly walked from the mob, but the majority stayed and the rocks began to come more swiftly, leaving Kagome to have to put out a barrier to protect herself, “I can’t believe this! You wonder why so many youkai hate humans? Sesshoumaru was right, ningen are nothing but conniving, greedy, selfish idiots!”

The elder miko hissed and stepped back, “Sesshoumaru? You speak the name of the most human-hating youkai in these lands with such familiarity, and agree with him? What ARE you?”

Kagome laughed with spite, “He asked me once the same thing. I am a human, and damned proud to be most of the time, but when I look at people like you who have nothing better to do than judge everyone else, I’m ashamed I wasn’t born a demoness!”

Another rock, and then another flew, and her barrier was weakening. Barriers were painful in the first place, and to use it against humans drained the energy twice as quickly. Kagome fell to her knees as she glared up at the townsfolk, “You all make me sick. I can’t believe I am tied to a race of bigoted extremists.”

Her words went unnoticed, and would not have been understood anyway as a few of the men began to pound her barrier with their farming tools, and Kagome’s barrier dissipated. She braced herself for the impending impact, but it never came. Instead, she heard screams and fear radiated off the auras of the gang of humans. She turned to where their gaze was centered, and there in the early evening light stood a white god.

“Sesshou…” she called out sadly, making him pace to her side, all the while keeping a fierce glare on the cowering townspeople.

“Come, Kagome.”

She stood and looked at the people with a shake of the head, “Someday, I hope you all see.”

“Ningen are inherently ignorant, Kagome, and they will never learn.”

Kagome’s barely suppressed temper flared, “YOU!” she said, whirling on her ‘savior’, “You aren’t helping, baka!” she broke down into sobs, and didn’t even notice as she was scooped up against the Taiyoukai and carried away, to the awe of the village people.

When they were sufficiently far away from the town, Sesshoumaru dropped Kagome unceremoniously on the ground and glared at her tear streaked countenance, “You will not treat me in such a disrespectful manner, wench!”

Kagome’s aura snapped so fiercely that a lesser youkai would have flinched, “WHAT?! You are telling me to respect you when you dare to treat me that way? You dare to come, undo everything I said to those people, then be angry at me?!”

She was slammed hard into a tree without further waiting, an angered Sesshoumaru scowling at her, his eyes bleeding red at the corners, “You are in my lands, and those filthy ningen were attacking you! Who knows what they might have done if I had not come! They are disgusting boorish scum, and I will not be disrespected by a human wench in front of them!”

Kagome kicked out with her feet, her sneakers striking the demon lord in his sides and legs, “Let me go, Sesshoumaru! This is exactly why I said they made me sick! You automatically are discounting an entire SPECIES of people because of a few people like that! Sure, the majority may be just like them, but that doesn’t lessen your idiocy! You only fuel the hatred that way!”

“The hatred will always exist, Ka-go-me, because youkai ARE better than ningen. We are stronger, we are smarter, and we are eternal where you are momentary. We are the superior race!”

Kagome’s glare hardened to stone; if looks could kill, Sesshoumaru would have died a million deaths, “Then why, pray-tell, do HUMANS rule my world? Even if youkai still exist they are in hiding! In five hundred years, youkai will be nothing but a fairytale, like Cinderella! We filthy ningen created the most stunning technological advances there have ever been! Furthermore, if you’re so superior, so much better, so damn perfect, then why the hell are you after one of those disgusting humans, huh?!”

Sesshoumaru’s eyes, which were almost fully pinked at that point, faded immediately to their normal gold, and for once, the great cold Taiyoukai looked stricken. He stared at the crying furious girl he held by the neck, his claws drawing tiny droplets of blood from the tender skin there. She struggled against his grip, and he released her, leaving her to collapse at the foot of the tree in a sobbing heap.

He shook his head in disbelief, looking down at her as she wailed. He leaned down and gathered her to his armorless chest; he had removed it only moments before Kagura had alerted him to Kagome’s distress. She clung to the soft material of his haori, her hot tears soaking through to the skin. He stoked her hair as he tried to decide what to say.

“I lost my temper. I should not have.”

Kagome didn’t acknowledge he had spoken, she just continued to cry.

“If you want your question to be answered…this Sesshoumaru does not think of you the way he thinks of other ningen…because you are right. It would be ignorant of me to assume that all humans are the same. As I told you, you are different.”

Her sobs lessened, but she still remained buried against his chest, unanswering.

“This is not your world, Kagome. Here, the majority of humans are not good. The majority of youkai are not good either. I am not good. I would not falsify myself.”

“How…” she croaked, barely audible, “How do you expect to survive into my world if you can’t try? You’re damned to be killed off, because I know the outcome! Humans will be the victors, and if you hope to be alive in a few hundred years, you have to be willing to step off your damn high horse. I…I want you to be alive then. I want you to survive, can’t you just try?!”

He looked down onto the top of her head. So, she wanted him to survive, did she? His voice was barely a whisper, “Hai. For you, Kagome.”

She pulled back from him, looking up at him with her puffy, wet eyes and tried to smile, “Thank you Sesshou. I would love to be able to find you again.”

“Even if I have to seal myself in a hundred-year seal, this Sesshoumaru will see you again. I give my word to you, as Lord of the Western Lands. As your friend.”

He smiled to himself as she raised up and kissed his cheek, near the corner of his mouth, in a gentle and lingering manner, before settling back against his chest with a sad sigh. After several moments of silence he realize she had fallen asleep, exhausted by their arguing and her power usage at the village. He propped her in his one arm and summoned his cloud, and the two faded away into the darkening night’s sky.


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A/N: Awww. OOCness, yeah, but like I said, Kagome has matured, She isn’t all gumdrops and lollipops anymore. And as for Sesshou…well, he has plenty of excuses. XD

I have been going update crazy lately….I guess I should just hold onto my completed chapters for times when I may not have anything more written…but I am slightly insane, ne?

My tummy hurts. I want nachos. *goes on a nacho hunt*