InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Indecent proposal ❯ Open heart ( Chapter 46 )

Chapter46: Open heart

 

 

A/N: Happy birthday to me! Since I'm finally turning the (supposedly) big 21, I am celebrating with an imaginary flute of champagne in my hand! Cheers to you guys! Enjoy the chapter. Thanks to my reviewers:

 

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Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha, Sesshomarou would have been the one to hold Kagura's heart.

 

“Speaking”

`Thoughts'

 

 

Sesshomarou seemed thoughtful for a second, but remembering that he promised to be honest he decided to answer Kagura's earlier question. He decided to explain his motives.

 

“Once I realized you meant more to me than just… someone to use to get my inheritance … I asked my lawyers to look for a loophole in the will.” The dog demon said averting his gaze from Kagura's deep crimson eyes to the side.

 

The wind sorceress gasped loudly. She felt her heart pound loudly; this was as close to anything Sesshomarou had ever come to directly confessing aloud that he too had strong feelings for her.

 

“Did they find anything?” Kagura asked in a small voice, afraid of the answer.

 

“This letter from which you read an extract was Myouga's answer to my inquiry” Sesshomarou paused to run a hand through his long silver mane. The dog demon felt nervous, which enraged him. He hated feeling nervous, or out of control, but he decided that seeing the hopeful glint in Kagura's eyes made it worthwhile.

 

“Wait!” Kagura suddenly interrupted him. She just realized something and wanted to clear it out before hearing anymore of Sesshomarou's explanation. “Back up a second something doesn't sound right….” She continued trying to explain her sudden disruption. “There's something I don't understand… If the deadline to fulfilling your promise in order to inherit was so close, then why did you agree with me to discard the proposal? I mean when we were in Paris it seemed as if the whole proposal thing didn't matter to you at all or anymore.” She said furrowing her brows in confusion.

 

“And also, when exactly did you say you asked your lawyer to look for a loophole in the will?” Kagura took a deep breath and tilted her head to the side deep in thought

 

“When we came back from Paris.” Sesshomarou answered lightly, wondering about the look of astonishment on Kagura's face. After all he had not even made half of the confession he had intended to make when she so suddenly interrupted him…

 

The wind sorceress took a deep breath, slowly working her mind around Sesshomarou's enigmatic behavior. “You just said you only asked your lawyer to look into the will, after our return from Pairs, that means it was only after you and I had already given up on the Proposal, and you received your lawyer's answer only after your return from your month long absence. That means…” Kagura did not even dare finish her thought aloud.

 

Her mouth became dry and hung open, her eyes bulging out of her face. She suddenly felt dizzy in happiness. Had she been prone to tears, she would be crying rivers by now.

 

`He was ready to risk his inheritance and his promise to his mother for me. Just for me! Because I told him I didn't want the proposal to stand anymore he agreed to discard it. He chose me over his promise, over his inheritance, over his sense of honor, and I know how much he values these. ' Kagura thought. The realization made her heart beat wildly, and tears prickle her eyes.

 

`I've been so stupid and so wrong about Sesshomarou, ever since the beginning. Gods I've been so unfair to him and despite all he still cares about me?!' Kagura wondered stunned.

 

“My mother was a very rational and smart person. She had made provisions in her will just in case that I would not be willing to settle down at 30 years old. As long as my father still lives I do not have to fulfill her wishes, and since father is in excellent health the problem of my producing an heir, would not have risen for a long time. Anyway it seems as if this will not be a problem after all” Sesshomarou said his amber gaze looked down lovingly at Kagura's distended abdomen where his child was growing before rising his head to stare right into the wind sorceress's eyes.

 

“Even though I do not approve of you reading my mail, if you had read Myouga's letter in its entirety, you would have seen that your name was not mentioned in direct relation to the issue of the conception of my heir. My lawyer merely wanted to make you sign a confidentiality agreement. Do not take it personally; it has been a necessary precaution with any women I have been involved with in the past. Believe it or not but one of my exes threatened to write a tell tale book about me after I dumped her…” The dog demon explained smiling slightly.

 

The wind sorceress was barely listening to Sesshomarou anymore. She had yet to come down from the pleasurable high her realization about Sesshomarou being ready to risk his inheritance for her had thrust her in. Her mind could not help but to wander to what the dog demon had told her the day he had found out about her pregnancy.

 

 

*Flashback*

 

“Ever since our first meting you have been playing with me. I have treated you better than I have any woman before, and even begged for your forgiveness and I did it all because I wanted to be with you.

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I am not Naraku and would never deliberately hurt you. It is unfair to have your bad experience with a worthless bastard such as Naraku ruin the trust you have in men.

 

*End of Flashback*

 

`Was Sessh right? Am I afraid because of Naraku? This is ridiculous. Kanna managed to get over that bastard of a hanyou scum, and so can I. I deserve happiness too! And my happiness will be with Sesshomarou…if he still wants me' Kagura thought.

 

`So you are going back to him?' her inner demon asked.

 

`I don't think I ever left him. He was always in my heart. We could at least try.' Kagura thought laying a hand on her stomach.

 

After taking a deep breath Kagura finally spoke “You were ready to risk everything you have for me… you were not going to go through with a promise you made to your mother on her death bed because of me… And I abandoned you. I lied to you. Instead of trusting you I ran away from you…I just…I am so sorry. It may seem like it's not good enough, but all I can say is that I hope you'll forgive me, because I truly am sorry.” Kagura said as she stepped closer to the dog demon. She wrapped her arms around him and rested her head against Sesshomarou's chest.

 

“Kagura?” Sesshomarou said slightly surprised.

 

If the dog demon wished to be completely honest, he would have pointed out to Kagura that when he had agreed to discard their agreement, he at the time, had been fairly sure his mother had purposely made provisions in her will for him not having to start a family simply because her will commanded it. The dog demoness would, he was sure, rather her precious son not produce a child with just any woman simply because he had reached the `due date' of his promise. But the decision to look for a woman to bear his heir had not only been based on the issue of his inheritance and financial security being at stake, no to Sesshomarou staying faithful to his word especially to a promise he had made to his mother was more valuable. To Sesshomarou Tashio money could be lost and regained, but he was not completely sure the same could be said about trust and honor…

 

“Just hold me… I like it when you hold me.” Kagura said with a sigh doing her best to hold her tears in. Sesshomarou did listen to her words and held her as tightly as he could.

 

“Despite everything I did, you still want me? How can you still want to be with me?” Kagura asked pressing her face deeper into Sesshomarou's torso, taking as much of his scent as possible. “I seriously never thought I'd say that to a man one day, but I don't deserve you.”

 

“Isn't it my decision to make? Besides Kagura you are not the only to blame. I have my wrongs too. As you said before I was not completely honest with you either. Had I told you earlier about my mother's will all this misunderstandings would not have occurred. In truth I was unsure of the way you would react, and decided to stay silent” Sesshomarou said before pressing a kiss to the top of Kagura's head.

 

“That day, when I saw you were pregnant, I pushed you away. At the time you were afraid and I could tell you needed me, but I pushed you away. I was angry especially at you, and I wanted to distance myself, foolishly thinking it would make all my feelings towards you go away, but I now know better. It was not the right way to react to the situation, and for that I am sorry.” The dog demon said squeezing the demoness in his arms.

 

“And Kagura, do not ever dare devaluate you worth. I would be the first to recognize that you can be troublesome, but I think that you're worth the effort. Now it is true you have deceived me on many occasions…”

 

“Hey not that many!” Kagura protested glaring up at the pair of golden orbs fixed on her.

 

“Do not interrupt me.” He ordered her before giving Kagura's nose a small tweak. The wind sorceress was too stunned by the sudden gesture to even react or issue a verbal retort.

 

“As I said before being rudely interrupted, you have had a history of lack of trust and deception, but I am willing to push these matters aside and start anew. But Kagura, you should be warned I do not give second chances.” Sesshomarou added on a stern tone, hiding the surge of happiness inside him.

 

Kagura craned her neck and tried to look at Sesshomarou's eyes. She chuckled gently before saying with a small closed lip smile “Fine by me, I don't either. But you don't have to worry I won't give you any more reasons to.”

 

The two demons stayed in a comfortable silent embrace for a long time, merely basking in the feeling of being together.

 

“You know” Kagura started as she pushed herself away to stare right into Sesshomarou's eyes “I think we could stand here and both apologize until tomorrow, but I doubt it would change much so I have a proposal of my own: why don't we just skip that part.”

 

After stating this, the wind sorceress took a deep breath, the hardest part of her confession had yet to come.

 

“It was stupid… when I think back about it I realize how truly foolish I was, but the truth is that I let my anger and stupid bad temper get the best of me, and cloud my vision of who you are.” The wind sorceress interrupted herself to run her tongue over her suddenly dry lips.

 

“Sessh you can be an insufferable control freak and an annoying jerk, but what matters is that you're also the man who sends stern messages with beautiful roses, the man who can go grab a burger with me or fly me to Paris, the man who can take me for a midnight drive then kiss me silly. And you're the man I fell in love with. I love you Sessh and I want to be with you. If you still want me. We'll just have to take things slowly.”

 

The dog demon was surprised by Kagura's sudden confession. He thought that he would have to find a way to show the woman that they could make things work, somehow convince her to have faith in them, but to his shock all it had taken was simply telling her the truth.

 

`As usual the witch managed to completely unsettle me by not reacting as I thought she would.' Sesshomarou thought with a small smile.

 

Taking a deep breath, Kagura then raised a surprised eyebrow. “Damn that sounded so corny, must be the pregnancy hormones…or maybe I'm running a fever or something…..” She grumbled pressing a hand to her forehead. “Then again I think it's your fault, you have this crazy ability to take me by surprise… and then I start saying stupid stuff that I regret later on” Kagura said with a sigh, then noticing one of Sesshomarou's eyebrow shot up in surprise, she quickly added “Not that I regret what I just said. It was all true, I meant it! All of it… well most of it, the last part was kind of... well you get what I mean…”

 

“You are babbling” Sesshomarou pointed out, interrupting her with eyes shining in amusement. Never would Sesshomarou have thought to see Kagura worked up and flustered enough to start babbling.

 

“I am not!” The wind sorceress protested with red dusted cheeks. “All I said was that if you're still willing I'd like to give us another shot, and that this time I'd be totally fair and unbiased towards you. I'll also try my best to stop comparing you to past… bad… experiences. And finally the last thing I meant to say, and that matters the most is that I love you, and that now I'm willing to really try to make things work between us because I want to be with you.” She exhaled deeply feeling light as if a weight had been taken off her shoulders.

 

“Kagura…” Sesshomarou started to be interrupted by her feeble fingers on his lips.

 

“You don't have to say anything. It's okay. It's good enough that I know how we feel about each other, I don't have to hear it.” She said smiling lightly looking up in his deep amber eyes.

 

“On the contrary” Sesshomarou started pushing her fingers away gently. “Too much has been left unsaid between us, which is what destroyed our relationship in the past. Discard the nonsense I told you a few days before about the two of us not being able to have a relationship. The truth is that I will not let indecision cloud my judgment anymore, I know what I want, which is you. I love you Kagura” Sesshomarou said. To his surprise letting the words out had not been as hard as he had anticipated it would be.

 

“Wow and I always thought that words weren't your forte.” She teased him a smirk on her red lips and twinkles in her crimson eyes.

 

“Wind witch do you think you are in any position to mock this Sesshomarou?” He asked her on a teasing tone.

 

“Mocking you? Why I would never dare my Lord” She joked with a grin, feigning a surprised and innocent voice.

 

“Witch!” He scolded her halfheartedly

 

“If you've got a problem with what I'm saying, why don't you put my lips to better use?” She asked him raising her lips towards his.

 

Not needing to be told twice, Sesshomarou cradled her head in his hands before pressing his lips to hers.

 

The two of them shared a long and deep kiss, drunk on the passion of knowing how they truly felt for each other. Even if he knew that they needed to breathe at some point, Sesshomarou was not yet willing to let go of Kagura's lips.

 

“Sessh” Kagura said out of breath when they broke their passionate lip lock.

 

“Uhn?” He replied raising an eyebrow. He ran his tongue over his lips savoring the lingering sweet taste of Kagura on him.

 

“Not to ruin the moment or anything, but making out in a graveyard is really not a turn on for me…” She said letting her crimson eyes sweep over the tombstones around them.

 

“Come I'll drive you home” He said with a chuckle taking her hand in his and walking towards her car.

 

 

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“You can come up, you know. Kagome is spending the night at your brother's place, so I'll be alone eating take out Chinese food for dinner. You're welcome to join me... but then again your probably don't want to leave Rin alone. God knows she must be starving for your presence if the only she has for company is that dreadful toad” Kagura said rolling her eyes as she and Sesshomarou stepped out of her car.

 

“I told you before Jaken is an imp. Besides Rin is at one of her classmate's slumber party and I would be glad to join you for dinner” Sesshomarou said following Kagura as she walked up the stairs leading to her apartment.

 

 

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“Come on you can say it. You can even laugh. I won't even get mad” Kagura said commenting on her high school graduation picture Sesshomarou was silently staring at.

 

“Your hair cut was ridiculous” he acknowledged.

 

“I was just going through a rebel phase and cutting my hair short like that fit in the character. It just didn't quite turn out the way I expected. Yura almost had a heart attack when she saw me. Ever since then even if I cut an inch off of my hair she freaks out. Threatening to cut my hair has always been a good way to get under her skin” Kagura chuckled before picking up the last egg roll and making quick work of devouring it.

 

“I wonder how you looked like when you were younger.” The wind sorceress said eyes sparkling in mischief.

 

“Not different only shorter, but you will see pictures of me when we will go to the Western mansion” He said not even raising his eyes from the high school yearbook he was flipping through to look at the woman sitting at the kitchen table, right across from him.

 

“The Western mansion?” She echoed curious.

 

“My family's ancestral home, it's a few miles away from here. It is nestled in a mountain. The area is always quiet and the air is pure due to the high altitude. There also are many hot springs. I am sure you will enjoy it” Sesshomarou said.

 

Kagura blushed slightly at seeing how Sesshomarou was trying to open up to her. She would have bet anything that the number of people Sesshomarou brought to his family's home and heirloom could be counted on the fingers of one hand. A happy blush on her face, the wind sorceress stood up and picked up the empty food containers before unceremoniously throwing them in the trashcan.

 

“The thing I love about take out is the absence of dirty dishes.” She joked before opening her freezer. After cursing mildly Kagura said “Sorry I would have offered you desert, but I just remembered I finished the ice cream yesterday”

 

The words were barely out of her mouth that Kagura felt Sesshomarou's hands on either of her hips. She could feel his warm body pressed against her back.

 

“What are you doing?” She asked closing the freezer. Her answer did not take long to come, as the dog demon turned her around to crash his lips against hers. As he kissed her hard, the inu youkai started to run his hands along Kagura's sides, making clear what kind of “desert” he wanted her to offer him.

 

It took a few seconds for Kagura to answer Sesshomarou's kiss. She knew what he wanted but was not sure if she should give in. After a few seconds of hesitation, the wind witch decided to give into her desires, and kissed Sesshomarou with all the passion she had. Feeling her lips work against his, he groaned in appreciation.

 

“I think we would be more comfortable in your room” He whispered in her ear.

 

Kagura stiffened slightly but conceded “I think you're right”. Taking her love's hand, she led Sesshomarou to her bedroom. As the twosome entered Kagura's private place, Sesshomarou flicked the lights on.

 

“Don't! Turn them off” Kagura pleaded.

 

“Why? You have never been shy before” Sesshomarou remarked furrowing his brow.

 

“I wasn't fat like a whale before” Kagura remarked dryly crossing her arms over her bulging belly.

 

Sesshomarou scoffed lightly at her words and left the lights on as he walked up to Kagura. “Let me show you how beautiful you are my love” He said as he effortlessly picked her up bridal style in his arms…

 

 

To be continued…

 

 

A/N: Isn't a love declaration a nice birthday gift I gave myself, yes I agree too. Hope you liked that long chapter. I just wasn't sure where to cut it … Ha ha and since I love torturing my dear readers I figured stopping here would be so much fun, no? Just kidding.

 

Hentai lovers rejoice because I won't torture you again: lemon in the next chapter!!! The next chapter will be named Just like a dream