InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome's Return (sequel to Kagome! Where are you!? ❯ Inu-yasha & Sesshomaru part 2 ( Chapter 16 )

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Kagome's return chapter 16 Inu-yasha and Sesshomaru part 2.



The group walks over to the well. Kagome extends her hands and a
few minutes later. They jump down the well.

Inu-yasha and Sesshomaru stand side by side, watching them.

Inu-yasha, as soon as Kagome vanishes, lashes out at Sesshomaru.

The force of the blow causes Sesshomaru to step back a few steps.
Inu-yasha's open palm and clawed fingers leave bloody streaks
across Sesshomaru's check.

Sesshomaru, his eyes pulsing red, raises his hand to his bloody
check. "Have you gotten your anger out of your system, yet?" he
asks.

"NO!" Inu-yasha snarls, as he crouches in an attack position. He
begins to circle Sesshomaru. "Did you fucking rape her!? What did
you do to her?!" he screams.

"Did I rape her? No." Sesshomaru's lips twist into a smile. "And
what did I to her? I made her happy."

His eyebrows raise, as he smirks, "can you say that?"

Inu-yasha purples. "I'm going to kill you!" He screams.

Sesshomaru stretches his neck, making it an easy target, the
arteries in his neck pulse, "Go ahead, Inu-yasha. I win, if you
kill me, though." He smiles.

Sesshomaru thinks, ‘Kagome has Tenseiga. She can raise me from
the dead. And, if he kills me, especially, if I don't resist, she
will find it very hard to forgive him.'

Inu-yasha wordlessly screams in rage . . .

Kirara looks on, watching, whatever happens, Kirara will know and
will be able to tell Kagome the truth.

Inu-yasha draws Tetsusaiga and threatens Sesshomaru with it.

‘What is he doing?' Inu-yasha thinks, as all Sesshomaru is doing
is watching him, with no defensive actions, no offensive actions.
‘He wants to die?'

"Do you want to die?" Inu-yasha growls, "Is that how you think
that Kagome will forgive you?"

Sesshomaru raises an eyebrow as he asks, "And what actions have I
done, that requires her forgiveness?" A small pause, "Please, my
brother, tell me, what have I done wrong? I want her forgiveness
and mercy."

"You fucked her!" Inu-yasha screams.

"I did seduce her." Sesshomaru replies, still in his calm voice.
"But, I give her many opportunities to say no."

"That's fucking meaningless! No woman can say no too you!"

"Really? Kagome can, and she did delay things. And, although, I
don't know her well enough to be sure, but the demon exterminator
would probably decline, as well."

Sesshomaru pauses, "besides why should I ask her forgiveness for
making love to her and making her feel good?"

Inu-yasha grinds his teeth and raises Tetsusaiga above his head.
‘He's still just standing there, doing nothing?' Inu-yasha
thinks. ‘My instincts are screaming at me to kill him. But . . .
I don't trust him. He obviously wants me to kill him. So, killing
him helps him . . . how? Why?'

Sesshomaru allows a small smile to appear on his lips, as he
watches metaphysical smoke rise from Inu-yasha's ears, as Inu-
yasha thinks. ‘I've confused him.' Sesshomaru thinks. ‘Not that
doing that is difficult, of course. I'll let him sweat for a few
minutes, then, I'll begin my arguments.'

‘He's fucking smiling!' Inu-yasha growls. He swings Tetsusaiga,
just missing Sesshomaru, as the sword cleaves a huge trench in
the ground.

Sesshomaru's smile grows.

A pause as Inu-yasha and Sesshomaru glare into each other's eyes.

"Why do you want me to kill you?" Inu-yasha asks.

Sesshomaru nods. "An intelligent question. This Sesshomaru is
shocked. I didn't think that you could ask an intelligent
question."

Inu-yasha growls, "Shut the fuck up! And answer my god-damned
question!" he screams.

‘How can I shut up and answer his question at the same time?'
Sesshomaru asks himself. ‘Once this is over, I must teach him
something about logic.'


"Kagome loves you, Inu-yasha." Sesshomaru begins to say in a low,
tight voice. "She cares about you, intensely. I've heard her cry,
smelled her tears, and I've watched her as she has shown me the
intensity of her caring and love for you."

"She fucked you." Inu-yasha breaks in harshly. "She can't love me
if she's fucked you."

"Sex, or fucking, if you prefer," Sesshomaru replies, "is not
love, Inu-yasha." He says in an intense voice. "I should know
that. Like you indicted earlier, my brother, I can have sex, or
fuck, with any woman that I wish. And when I was your age, I
did."

Sesshomaru glares at Inu-yasha, "You may not remember it, but, I
did fuck a lot of the servants and concubines. I'm quite sure
that your mother would have mentioned it."

Inu-yasha licks his lips, Tetsusaiga drops from its attack
position as Inu-yasha dredges his memory. After a few seconds, he
nods, acknowledging Sesshomaru's statement.

"I was told by more women than I care to remember, that she loved
me, with all of her heart. I heard many, many love poems, songs
and romances." Sesshomaru continues in a low sad voice. "But, all
of them were lying." He finishes in a hard tone.

"The only woman that I've meant that hasn't lied to me about love
is Kagome." Sesshomaru glares at Inu-yasha.

Inu-yasha's eyes open wide.

"Like yourself, my senses can tell when someone is lying or
concealing something." He continues. "She hasn't concealed her
feelings about you, Inu-yasha. Kagome loves and cares for you,
greatly."

"Then she's got a fucking weird way of showing it." Inu-yasha
spits out.

"Really?" Sesshomaru raises an eyebrow. "Why do you say that?"

"IF she's fucking you, she loves you, and so she doesn't love
me." Inu-yasha replies.


"Is love only between a man and woman?" Sesshomaru asks.

"Of course." Inu-yasha replies.

"So, Kagome doesn't love and care for Shippo. She doesn't love or
care for her mother and brother. She doesn't love or care for
Sango or Miroku?"

"God-damn it, Sesshomaru! That's not what I meant!" Inu-yasha
screams.

"Really?" Sesshomaru raises an eyebrow. "Did you mean love
between a man and man or a woman and woman? I know that my senses
tell me that such love affairs exist, doesn't yours?"

"You can only love one person at a time!" inu-yasha screams.

"Like your feelings for Kikyo and Kagome? You only loved one of
them?"

A timeless pause . . .

Birds sing in the trees. The wind rustles the leaves.

‘Now it gets interesting.' Kirara thinks.

Inu-yasha lets Tetsusaiga's point fall to the ground.


"Kagome loves you, Inu-yasha." Sesshomaru says again. "She also,
has fallen in love with me."

Sesshomaru chuckles, "And I, Sesshomaru, lord of the western
lands, a demon with a heart that would freeze a volcano, have
fallen in love with her."

Another silent pause.

"To answer your question about why I want you to kill me?"
Sesshomaru says into the silence. "If you kill me, especially
since I'm not going to resist, Kagome will not like that. She
will, since she has Tenseiga and can use it, raise me from the
dead and she will blame you, Inu-yasha."

"And that helps you . . . " Inu-yasha whispers.

"It helps me, because, she will still feel good things about me.
But, you, on the other hand, you go into her doghouse."
Sesshomaru smirks.

Inu-yasha growls at that term. "She'll forgive me." He says, "She
always has in the past."

"She may have cared for, even liked, the other men in her past,
Inu-yasha, but did she love them?"

Inu-yasha glares at Sesshomaru.

"In my perfect world, Inu-yasha. Kagome and I live happily ever
after. As a couple." Sesshomaru's mouth twitches, "And, no doubt,
with Shippo, Rin and a few others."

"But not me." Inu-yasha states through clenched teeth.

Sesshomaru nods.

"In Kagome's perfect world." Sesshomaru continues, "you, I, and
her, live happily ever after."

"That's stupid!"

"It allows her to love both of us. If she chooses only one of us,
the other will be hurt. Do you think that Kagome likes to hurt
you?"

A pause. "No" Inu-yasha whispers. "She hates it. She hates
hurting anyone."

"And, If she chooses, say, you, inu-yasha, what would I do?"
Sesshomaru says in a tight voice. "If she rejects me." His fists
form, and blood begins to drip from them.

"What would you do?" inu-yasha asks in a surprised tone.

A pause . . .

"My blood is screaming at me to kill you and her. Slowly,
painfully." Sesshomaru whispers. He takes a deep breath. "No. I
won't." His voice is rough and full of emotion.

Inu-yasha's eyes open wide. ‘I never would have thought that he
was this emotional.' He thinks.

Sesshomaru continues, but his voice is still rough with emotion.
"But, I would have nothing else to live for. Dying in combat,
then." He nods. "Fighting a god. Yes. Hachiman, the god of war,
perhaps. Dying in combat against him would be a good death."

Sesshomaru blinks. ‘Gods . . . there is something, about that
statement that I need to consider.'

"Rin?" inu-yasha whispers.

Sesshomaru takes a deep breath. "Yes, there is her. But, that
would only delay things by a few years."


Sesshomaru sighs, "right now, I am the center of her life. But,
in a decade?" He shrugs. "She will, in all likelihood, find a
young human male and marry him. I will be her father, but that's
it."

Inu-yasha stares at Sesshomaru, his eyes wide, as he hears
Sesshomaru whispers, "without Kagome's love, is my life worth
living? Is a life full of death and war worth living, especially,
after being in love?"

Sesshomaru shakes himself, obviously, trying to stop thinking
about that. He looks at Inu-yasha, "What would you do, if Kagome
rejects you?"

Inu-yasha blinks in confusion.

"Go to hell and be with Kikyo?" Sesshomaru asks.

Inu-yasha nods, once.

Sesshomaru sighs, heavily. "I love Kagome, enough, that I'm
willing to forgo my perfect world and try to live in hers. Do you
love her enough to do the same?"

"With you." Inu-yasha snarls.

Sesshomaru nods. "The three of us." He pauses, "No, actually, it
would be more. Shippo, Rin, Sango and Miroku would be part of the
family."

"No." Inu-yasha growls as he shakes his head. "Kagome is mine,
alone."

Sesshomaru glares at him, anger in his eyes. "Kagome is Kagome's,
not yours. And even with me out of the way, Shippo, Sango and
Miroku will still be with her. You can't have her and only her. I
can't have her and only her."

Inu-yasha glares at the ground, unmoving.

"Do you really think that you'll be able to control who she will
be with?" Sesshomaru asks. "Are you that jealous of Shippo? Of
myself?"

Inu-yasha picks Tetsusaiga's point off the ground and places it
into an attack position.

"You are." Sesshomaru spits out. "My little brother, you are an
idiot."

They glare at each other.

"Think. Use your brains for once, Inu-yasha, not your muscles."
Sesshomaru growls out angrily. "What would happen if you did
drive Shippo away? Would Kagome praise you?"

Inu-yasha takes a couple of deep breathes.

"Or would that drive her away?"

More deep breathes from Inu-yasha.

"I'll tell you what will happen, Inu-yasha." Sesshomaru glares at
him. "You might be able to force her to stay with you. I don't
think you could, but, I'll forgo that argument. But, if you do
force her to stay, she'll never love you like she does."

"She'll forgive me." Inu-yasha finally says. "She'll forgive just
about anything."

A pause.

"You may be correct about that Inu-yasha. She might forgive you
for driving me off and breaking her bond with me. She might
forgive you for driving Shippo off and breaking her bond with
him. She might forgive you for driving off her family and
breaking her bond with them." Sesshomaru nods. "She's that type
of a person. But. Will she love you like she does now? Or will
that love change? Perhaps for the worse."

A pause.

"And, Inu-yasha, here is the most important question. Can you
take that chance?" Sesshomaru asks.

Another pause, as Inu-yasha hyperventilates.

"Especially, since, she still loves you and if you try to make
her perfect world come true, she'll love you even more."

"You're trying to trick me like you've tricked her." Inu-yasha
growls.

Sesshomaru rolls his eyes at inu-yasha's denseness.

"I am not tricking you, little brother."

"Then why?" Inu-yasha screams! "Nothing I know about you says
that'll you'll share!" He waves Tetsusaiga. "This and Tenseiga!
We were supposed to share them, but!"

"I was wrong about that, Inu-yasha." Sesshomaru breaks into his
rant. "Tetsusaiga is yours. That I freely admit."

He licks his lips. ‘If I mean that, I've got to go through with
it.' He thinks.

Sesshomaru bows, about halfway to inu-yasha. And from the bowed
position, says, "I do apologize for the unprovoked attacks that I
did against you."

Tetsusaiga's point hits the ground, with a thump. "You apologized
. . . " Inu-yasha whispers.

Sesshomaru rises up from the bowed position. "Of course. I made a
mistake. And you, if you are polite, apologize for them."


"You apologized." Inu-yasha repeats as he looks at Sesshomaru.
He blinks. Several times. "What did she do you?" He asks in a
very confused tone.

‘He never apologizes. Sesshomaru never makes a mistake.' Inu-
yasha thinks . . .

"Finally." Sesshomaru spits out. "Finally," He repeats himself,
"I've gotten through that thick skull of yours."

Inu-yasha growls at him.

A pause.

"Kagome is my chance to live a life with love." Sesshomaru begins
to talk in a low voice. "Before her, all my life was full of war
and rumors of wars. Love. Love was a trap, a fake, something
that my enemies would dangle in front of me, trying to kill me."

Sesshomaru glares at Inu-yasha. "She loves me." He pounds his
chest. "And I love her."

Inu-yasha glares at Sesshomaru.

"But, she also loves you, as well." Sesshomaru pauses. "And, she
doesn't want to hurt you. She doesn't want to hurt me."

"And?" Inu-yasha says after a pause full of tension.

"I, Sesshomaru, Lord of the western lands, will, due to my love
for Kagome, place her desires before my own." He growls out. "IT
is her desire, that we three live together."

"Her alone?" Inu-yasha whispers.

A pause . . .

"I did think about it first and give her the idea." Sesshomaru
replies.

"WHY!?" Inu-yasha screams.

"Because she wouldn't stop loving you!" Sesshomaru screams! He
moves, fast . . . and a blink of an eye, Tetsusaiga is flying
through the air and Sesshomaru has Inu-yasha by the throat.

Inu-yasha's eyes widen in shock. They focus on Sesshomaru's free
hand, it is glowing green and acid is dripping from it.
Sesshomaru's other hand is around Inu-yasha's throat and is
lifting him off the ground.

"Damn you, Inu-yasha." Sesshomaru growls through clenched teeth.
"Will you think!? Will you hurt her!? Or will you help her!?"

"You can't kill me." Inu-yasha whispers through his constricted
throat.

Sesshomaru takes deep breath and shoves Inu-yasha to the ground.
"You're right, damn you. Killing you would hurt Kagome and I
can't do that."

"And killing you would hurt her." Inu-yasha says in a hoarse
voice as he rubs his throat. He is sitting up from the push
Sesshomaru gave him.

Sesshomaru nods. "And leaving Kagome would hurt her. Not that I
can leave her."

Inu-yasha nods.

A pause.

"I will put Kagome's desires above mine own, Inu-yasha."
Sesshomaru begins to say, "Will you do the same?"

Inu-yasha glares at his brother. He opens his mouth to speak . .
.

End of chapter 16.

An evil cliffhanger . . . Grin. . .






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