InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome: Goddess of Japan ❯ Inu-yasha ( Chapter 5 )

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Kagome: goddess of Japan

Chapter 4: inu-yasha.



Kagome nods. "Thank you, my daughter." A pause, "Shall we leave?"
She waves to the door.

She thinks, ‘I'll give Miroku a note, to suggest that he and
Kiyoko find some free time today and talk. They do need to
resolve their relationship today as well.'

Kiyoko nods. "Oh, wait, I've got to get dressed."

"No need." Kagome snaps her fingers. Kiyoko's clothes, which are
piled up next to one wall, shake, and fly to Kiyoko. In a flash,
Kiyoko is fully clothed.

"You are in a hurry." Kiyoko remarks, drily, as she knows that
Kagome normally doesn't use her powers for mundane uses like
that.

Kagome nods. She thinks, ‘I've been planning for this day for
almost two centuries. And I've been worried about that promise to
Sango for almost three and half centuries. And now, I just want
to get it over with.'

They leave the room.

Kagome's eyes flick to the camera in the hallway, and she turns it off. She thinks, ‘he will be
arguing about that suicide team, and I don't want that to be known, just yet. If it becomes
publically known, then, some of the people gathered today could react in a negative way.' She
conceals a shudder as she considers the possibility of a panic or public lynching. ‘I don't think
that they would, but, once a secret is out, you can't make it a secret again.'

Kagome and Kiyoko walk down the corridors. Hoshi, Sanura, Fujiwara, and Naghaiye follow
them.

The servants and officials in the hallway, and they are more numerous than just few minutes
ago, all stop and bow to Kagome.

‘The rumors are already spreading.' Kagome thinks.

Kagome turns a corner to the left. Kiyoko, almost turns right, than stops and catches up with
Kagome. "The way to your breakfast room is." She starts to say.

"Inu-yasha is coming down this corridor." Kagome replies, interrupting her.


A minute or so, later, Inu-yasha appears in the distance in the corridor.


The centuries have treated him well, from a distance he appears to be unchanged. Even up close
there are not many changes. His white hair is still long, not as long as Kagome's, but still long. It
is tied behind him by a ribbon.


He still wears his traditional fire rat clothes. Once, centuries ago, Kagome and others tried to
explain to him that changing into a different uniform might be better. After he ignored their
arguments for a couple of decades, they stopped mentioning it to him.


Around his neck is a necklace, unlike Kagome's bejeweled one, though, his is plain thick gold.
(Like Kagome's necklace, it is a multi functional communication device, as well. Although,
since he can't stand to put earpieces in his ears, using it isn't quite as easy as Kagome uses hers.)
Tetsusaiga is at his side. His other hip also sports a pistol sidearm.


He stands up straighter than he used to. (As head of the military, there are a lot of parades, etc.,
in which he's got to stand up straight. It's paid off and improved his posture over the centuries.)
And around his eyes, are thin lines, and his eyes themselves have changed. They are still yellow,
but where Kagome's eyes throws your soul back at you, his eyes have seen more pain and
suffering than anyone creature should ever have to.

Much of that pain and suffering has been done at his orders.


"Where do you get off interfering with my security orders?!" Inu-yasha yells as soon as he spots
Kagome.

He jumps over a couple of servants, to get to Kagome as fast as possible. Behind him, a group of
aides, similar but larger, to the group following Kagome, exclaims in surprise and try to catch up
with him. Miroku is in that group.

"Because additional protection isn't needed." Kagome calmly replies, as Inu-yasha comes to a
stop before her.

"I, fucking, decide security." Inu-yasha growls. "Especially when there is a real threat."

As Kagome and Inu-yasha begin to argue, Inu-yasha's aides and Kiyoko, Hoshi and the others
spread out, trying to give them room to argue, and with their bodies, try to hide the argument
from the other servants. Miroku does slide over next to Kiyoko. Which are gathering, silently,
stealthy, in the corridor.


"It's a team of less than ten people, Inu-yasha." Kagome calmly replies. "And, they have nothing
that can truly harm me."

"Really." Inu-yasha stares at Kagome's eyes. "My knowledge says that they are using
radioactive ammo. And you know what that does to demons and other magical creatures."

See Author's note: radioactive info below.

Some of the people around Kagome and Inu-yasha gasp at that.

Fujiwara can see that Sanura doesn't understand and he quickly whispers to her. "When x-ray's
and other radioactive medical treatments were first discovered, it quickly became clear that those
things hurt demons and other magical creatures very easily. Demonic and magical DNA is very
fragile and mutant easily. There is even a rumor that inu-yasha almost died due to an x-ray."

"Radiation is a form of natural chaos magic." Kagome says, in a dismissive tone. "I don't have
to worry about it, Inu-yasha."

"Goddamn it, Kagome!" Inu-yasha yells, "you know what it can do!"

"And, think, Inu-yasha." Kagome growls at him, "Who put you back together again! I did! If I
couldn't deal with radiation then, you'd be dead and so would I!"

Inu-yasha opens his mouth and closes it. His eyes flick side to side, glancing at the onlookers.

Kagome's mouth twitches upward.

His mouth twitches upward.

The share the same thought, ‘we're on stage, again.' Crossing both of their minds.

"Prove it." Inu-yasha snarls.

Kagome sighs and holds up her hand. It changes, twisting into several clawed, animal paws,
even into a tree branch, before shifting back to normal. "I control my body down to the atomic
level, Inu-yasha. I've spent a lot of time with the biological scientists, remember. Radioactive
material is used. I've studied human DNA, animal and plant DNA and my own." She pauses. "I
will say that, if I'm hit with a radioactive bullet it will hurt, but, nothing that I can't fix."

The aides and people around Kagome sigh, as their concerns about her safety are lessened.

Kagome and Inu-yasha share a knowing glance, ‘There is no need to make them worry.' Is the
thought that they share.

Kagome nods. "All that this means is the European and ottoman leadership does believe the
rumors that I'm afraid of radiation and it can hurt me."

Inu-yasha growls, pauses, "that's immaterial, I'm still going to increase your bodyguard unit.
And Kiyoko's."

"No" Kagome says in firm voice. "You are not going to move people and waste their time."

"Guarding you and Kiyoko is not a waste of time!" Inu-yasha growls back, breathing heavily
from anger.

"It is." Kagome growls back. "There are better things that they can be doing."

"No, there it isn't!"

"Inu-yasha." Kagome pauses, closing her eyes, controlling herself, "listen to me. I can protect
myself against anything that they have. Adding more guards around me will not help." She
opens her eyes, "if anything they will hurt."

Inu-yasha sneers, "no fucking way."

"Yes, they will. IF that team sees the extra security, they may attack another target. So, by
adding guards to me, you will be causing other innocents to be hurt."

Inu-yasha opens his mouth, than pauses, licking his mouth.

"I want the guards to be spread out, looking for that team. I want them to find them before they
can strike. IF they can find them before they strike, then that saves lives." Kagome's mouth
twitches, "In fact, Inu-yasha, I'd rather have to reduce my guard force."

"Reduce!"


"Yes! Reduce." Kagome glares at him, "I want that team to attack me. I can control what
happens then. I do not want that team, to say, decide to grab a group of school children and kill
them, or worse hold them as hostages. Can you image the problems, Inu-yasha? How many
thousands of children were transported into the city for this week? All so they could have a
chance to see and maybe greet, Me."

He grimaces, and nods.

"Especially, today, Anniversary day and the parade that comes with it. The day in which millions
of extra people are in the city, and that the entire world is watching. If something is going to
happen, I want it to happen to me."

"That's how they fucking got in." Inu-yasha growls under his breath. "All those extra people."

Kagome shrugs. "Of course, we knew the possibilities years ago, Inu-yasha, but I refused then,
and I refuse now to alter the plans. The people expect and deserve this celebration and things
will go on as scheduled."

His eyes flick to Kiyoko, "Miroku mentioned a change of plans for our daughter."

Kagome's eyes flick to her, as well, "yes. And I fully approve."

"Mom! Father!" Kiyoko cries.

Inu-yasha looks over. His eyes flick up and down her body. "You were injured during morning
exercise today. Hmmm."

"That won't work," Kiyoko growls. "Everyone knows that Mother can heal me, and even if she
was too busy, there are other healers in the household."

Inu-yasha shrugs. "That doesn't matter. It's an excuse. People will talk, but they also know that
you and your mother." He glares at Kagome. Kagome stares back, without expression. "Don't
get along. They'll nod, and accept it. They'll assume that you two had a fight and you're not
around today because of it."

Kiyoko looks at Miroku, a slight plea for help in her eyes.

Miroku licks his lips and shakes his head, no, slightly.

Kiyoko grinds her jaws together and steps back away from Kagome and Inu-yasha. She doesn't
leave the area. She just puts a couple of people between her and them.

Inu-yasha and Kagome stare at each other.

‘Are you sure?' he telepathically asks her.

‘Yes. Very.' She replies.

Inu-yasha nods. He snarls wordlessly and spins away from Kagome to face his aides. "Ok. You
heard her. I know that there are alternate plans. I want to hear them, now. Including the ones
that have me with her along the parade route."

Kagome moves behind him. She places her hand on his shoulder. "Thank you, Inu-yasha." She
says.

"You know that they'll attack during the parade." He says. "You have no real protection along
that route."

"And, I know that I was supposed to be alone." Kagome says in a quiet, almost a whispering,
voice. "Will you join me?"

He spins to face her. "I am going to, whither you like it or not."

"I do like it, Inu-yasha." She says. "You and I spend far too much time apart."

"Yeah." He whispers. His ears flick on the top of his head, as the people around them lean in to
hear them speak.

Her mouth twitches up in a smile. She bends over and kisses him on the mouth.

He grabs her, squeezing her and kisses her back.

‘do you still love me?' she telepathically asks.

'yes, I just wish.'

'I know.'

They break their kiss.

Whispers sweep the people observing them.

"Go on to breakfast, Kagome." Inu-yasha orders, "I'll be along as soon as I've made some new
orders."

Kagome nods, smiling.

She, Kiyoko, Hoshi and the others follow her as she heads for her breakfast."

A few minutes later.

The door in front of Kagome slides up automatically. She enters the room.

Sesshomaru, the Lord of the Western Lands, turns, and bows to Kagome.

Rin, the Lady of the Western lands, bows to her best friend.

The end of the chapter 4

Chapter 5 Sesshomaru & Rin.

(And I will in that chapter, explain what happened to them and how/why things have changed.)


author note:

Radioactive science. Kagome has that under tight control. Some of that knowledge is essential
for medical reasons. There is a special city that she ordered built in the middle of the Australian
desert. ALL radioactive material, in the Japanese empire, is made there, and then shipped to
hospitals for use, then shipped back for long term storage/recycle.

Non-medical uses? The city includes a small nuclear power plant, and other labs, but Kagome
heavily limits research.

Currently, since the colony on the Moon is up and stable, Kagome is transferring as much of the
labs/scientists up to the moon as possible.

The bomb? That will be revealed in the story. But, I will say this, she did bring back with her
pictures of Hiroshima. And She does not want that to happen again.

Author's note: Inu-yasha a biography. (Nonmilitary)

Born unknown? Still living. Age 565+

His most commonly used title: Shogun or Shogun of the Outer lands. (His complete list of titles,
honors, etc. is pages long . . . and he hates them . . . ) Generally, he prefers to be called, Inu-
yasha.

He does recognize that people do think that it is disrespectful to address him by his name, so, he
does accept Shogun or Shogun of the Outer Lands. (You start going on about all of his titles, and
suddenly, he'll decide that you just volunteered for some dull job . . . )

He is, also, the Husband of Kagome. He is, officially, her heir if something would happen to her.
(The rest of the chain of command is Sesshomaru, Shippo, Rin, then the current Emperor of
Japan.)

His relationship with her? Due to their responsibilities, neither has a lot of free/down time. They
try to schedule time together, but there have been years between times that they are together on
occasion. They do talk, regularly, (Kagome, also, has a telepathic link with Inu-yasha, and they
talk via that method.), But, the actual amount of time that they are physically together is very
limited. Maybe a month's time per year, maybe less. (And most of this time is spent on Official
business, not in the bedroom, or even in a less semi-private setting.)

Do they still care about each other? Yes. When they are together, and all the official business is
done, they are very close. (If for no other reason than, with the exception of Shippo, Sesshomaru,
and Rin. They are Alone. They have no other peers. Just children and people that work/obey and
worship them.)

Does Inu-yasha have sex with other women? Yes.

With Kagome's knowledge and encouragement, by the way.

Why? Two reasons.

Reason 1

For modern readers, what follows is WRONG, but in the culture of the time, and the modified
culture that I'm using, what follows is CORRECT.

Marriages, in historical japan (and Europe, and throughout the world. It even happens today,)
ARE political events. Marriages were the peace treaties, commerce treaties, cultural treaties of
the time. A marriage between the two parties sealed the deal. (Ie Spain was united when the
Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon where combined due to a marriage.)

Even before 1575, Inu-yasha, to seal military assistant treaties, married the daughters of various
Samurai families. And, since the children of these treaties, in many cases, are considered part of
the treaties, he did have sex and children by these women. (Kagome, by the way, has done
similar things. She hasn't officially married any other man, but, she has had children by men
other that Inu-yasha or Sesshomaru. And she has adopted even more children, similar to a living
peace treaty.)

In addition to formal marriages, some of these treaties have Inu-yasha acquiring concubines.
(Not a formal marriage, but there is still a family marriage-like connection.)

The sex with these political wives, does tend to be limited both in frequency and pleasure. (The
wives, of course, are allowed to have male lovers.)

Over the centuries, Inu-yasha has had up to 20 different wives at one time. (Currently he has 4,
in addition to Kagome.) And even more concubines. (Currently between 10 to 12, the number
tends to change every year.)

It should be noted, that as Kagome's population control laws were put in place, Inu-yasha has
limited the number of children he has. And of the current 4 wives, 1 of them, he's never had sex
with, another he's only been with a couple of times.


How many children does Inu-yasha have? Through the centuries . . .


Several hundred, most have grown old and died. Currently, in addition to Kiyoko he has one
other child/teenager (a 5-year-old boy by his current mistress.) All of his living children are
adults.


Reason 2

Inu-yasha, due to his military duties, spends most of his time AWAY from Kagome, and after
1600, away from Japan. There have been decades that he hasn't stepped foot on the Japanese
home islands. (Kagome does travel, heavily, as well. Which complicates the problems of
scheduling . . . )

Inu-yasha, at first, did attempt not to have sex with other women. (Even though, his duties and
Kagome's duties prevented Kagome and him from being together.)

Kagome, though, believes that a good, healthy life includes companionship and sex. And her
duties and responsibilities prevent her from giving inu-yasha all the companionship that Inu-
yasha deserves/requires. So, Inu-yasha's refusal to have a full and complete life, in her opinion,
caused her to force him into having sex/companionship with other women.

She, even, hired some of the best geisha's in japan to seduce him . . . it didn't really work. He
did it, resentfully, under duress. (This was around 1580) the next day. He saved the geisha's
(and their servants) from being killed/raped by a group of bandits. That night, one of the young
apprentice geisha's sneaked into his tent and thanked him, not with sex, but simply by wanting
him to hold her. The next morning, the sex between them began.

Since then, inu-yasha has had a mistress. (The person that he normally has sex/sleeps with.) She
travels with him, at times, even under direct enemy fire. She normally stays outside Japan. (Inu-
yasha's maintains a household in northern Australia, primarily for his current mistress.) Inu-
yasha gets very nervous when Kagome meets his mistress . . . (not that it's ever been a problem.
Kagome has never said a bad thing about them, and whenever they are brought to her ‘official'
notice, she's praised them.)

As time has pasted, Inu-yasha has developed a pattern of having a mistress from one of the
newer provinces. (His current mistress is from one of the tribes south of Kabul.) His mistress,
since she is with him, basically all the time, helps him understand what is going on in the new
provinces. (Where most of the problems occur.)

Since Inu-yasha, as the Empires's military commander, controls even the civilian government in
those new provinces, this helps him make good choices. In many cases, his mistress tends to
become his major advisor on civilian affairs. Which helps, a lot, since many of his other advisors
tend NOT to be from those provinces, and without that personal touch/knowledge, they tend to
get things wrong.

(Not to mention that this pattern is publically known, and Inu-yasha's mistress, tends to get a lot
of letters/complaints from her home province, highlighting any problems. Which allows Inu-
yasha to growl at his other advisors. "What the fuck is going on? My mistress has gotten a letter
complaining about, etc. You told me that there won't be this type of a problem. Go there, in
person, and fix it. You're not leaving there until its fucking solved. And If I have to do fix it,
you're going to counting the sands of the Sahara!")

How does he feel about his mistresses?

He loves them, perhaps not with the intensity of his feelings for Kagome, but the love and caring
are there. As they grow old and retire he makes sure that they are well cared for. Many of them,
or their families, become very powerful. (The current Regional governor of South America is
related to former mistresses of Inu-yasha.)

does he have sex with other women, even with a mistress, still? Yes. Sometimes.


Since Kagome's and Inu-yasha lives are basically on-screen all the time. Does there lifestyle
affect others? Yes, but, to a degree. Everyone also knows that kagome and Inu-yasha's
duties/responsibilities are basically unique, and, as such, they are allowed special behaviors.


Thank you for reading
jeff shelton