InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome's Return (sequel to Kagome! Where are you!? ❯ chapter 21 ( Chapter 21 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Kagome's return ch 21


"Kohaku is awake!" Sango cries from Kagome's room.

Kagome, Miroku and the rest rush up the stairs. ‘We'll have to
finish that conversation later.' Kagome thinks. ‘Shippo's not
going to like the idea of inu-yasha and I leaving for a month,
but, I've got to tell him.'

‘I'm going to hate this.' Shippo thinks. ‘Kagome will be spending
time with Inu-yasha and Sesshomaru, not with me. I'm going to
have to change that.'

He frowns. ‘But, if I start to interfere between Kagome, Inu-
yasha and Sesshomaru, she'll dislike that. Does that matter? Of
course it does. I don't want her mad at me. But, if I don't . .
. she won't pay attention to me.'

He pauses his internal debate. ‘I'm going to have to think about
this. I can't stand the thought of Kagome not paying attention to
me. But, if I interfere, she'll hate me.'

Kagome enters her room. "Is everything ok?" she asks.

(Evil author strikes . . . )

outside, at the park, hidden in a clump of trees is a small
clearing in the center of that clearing . . .

Inu-yasha and Sesshomaru are staring at each other.

"Exactly," Inu-yasha begins, "How are we going to share her?" He
grinds his teeth, as he finishes, obviously angry.

"A very good question, Inu-yasha." Sesshomaru smiles, but that
smile, only touches his lips, not his hard eyes, as he prepares
for battle.

Inu-yasha fingers the hilt of his sword. "Let's talk, then."

"Talk?" Sesshomaru says, as he looks at the hilt. "Shall we talk,
or have a conversation, like we had with the god tree?"

Inu-yasha kicks the ground, throwing up a huge divot of dirt.
"Talk. As much as I would love to rip your face off, we've got to
talk."

"Inu-yasha." Sesshomaru says, as he looks up and down Inu-yasha's
body. "I am surprised and shocked."


Inu-yasha narrows his eyes.

"You actually are thinking, not fighting." Sesshomaru sighs, "I
suppose I can do the same."

"Well?" Inu-yasha growls out.

Sesshomaru reaches down and picks up a fallen tree branch, he, as
he talks, rips the branch into little pieces. (Something to
occupy his hands, instead of fighting . . . )

"First." Sesshomaru growls, staring at Inu-yasha. "I have no
intention of sharing a futon with you."

Inu-yasha nods. "The same. I told Kagome that."

"And?"

"And she said the same thing that she's not going to try to put
all three of us into the same futon."

Sesshomaru nods. "She is wise."

"Wise? She should have listened to me, not you." Inu-yasha
growls.

Sesshomaru closes his eyes and counts to ten. "Little brother, if
we are to work together, those types of statements do not help."

A pause . . .

"They make me feel better." Inu-yasha says defiantly.

Sighs . . . "could you, at least, not say them in my presence?"


"Are you going to stop insulting me, as well?"

"This will require both of us to change."

"That's the first thing that you've said that I agree with." Inu-
yasha spits out.

"Good." Sesshomaru nods. "At least we agree on that. We will
have to change."

A pause . . .

"You do know that she told me that she and I will leave,
together, the two of us, for a month or more." Inu-yasha says in
a sly tone of voice.

"No." Sesshomaru grinds his teeth. "I did not. But. I understand
why she wants to do that."


A pause.

Inu-yasha's eyebrows rise in surprise as he says, "And you're not
going to object?"

Sesshomaru shakes his head, no. "She's right. She needs to spend
some time, alone, with you."

"Aren't you afraid?" Inu-yasha smiles, his fangs showing,
"between Kikyo and the jewel, I never really tried to court her
and she fell in love with me, anyhow. Now, I'll have a month,
alone, to do that."

Sesshomaru, without a pause, replies, "Am I afraid? No. You'll
succeed in making her feelings for you to become even more
personal." He pauses. "But, the bond between she and I will
survive."

Inu-yasha's eyes narrow as he thinks, ‘He's not afraid? Is he
trying to bluff?'

‘If I show anything, but absolute confidence in Kagome, he'll
know and use it.' Sesshomaru thinks.


‘Shit. I'll try something else, then.' Inu-yasha thinks.

"She also mentioned something about your mother?"

Sesshomaru, slowly, nods. "Did she say much?"

"No." Inu-yasha barks out. "She said that you would."

"Excellent." A pause, as Sesshomaru orders his thoughts. "My
mother and I have never gotten along."

"You could have fooled me."

"Consider your memories, Inu-yasha, all of them are from when you
were a child. How many of them can you really trust? In public,
the two of us, had to be polite. For the family. In private."
Sesshomaru pauses.

He lifts his hand and stares at it. Acid oozes from his
fingertips. "I shall enjoy killing her." The tone in his voice
causes, even a hardened warrior like Inu-yasha, to shudder. "The
taste of her blood on my fangs . . . " he hisses.

"What are you planning?" inu-yasha asks.

"I will kill her and become the head of my family." Sesshomaru
declares. HE looks at Inu-yasha. "It would be helpful, and I
desire that assistance, if I had your help and Kagome's help in
doing that."

"She mentioned that she already promised you."

Sesshomaru nods. "She has. I, also, wish your assistance. With
it, the battle will go smoother, with a lessor chance that my
mother will escape."

"And I should help you, because?"

Sesshomaru pauses . . .

"Several reasons." He looks at Inu-yasha. "The most important is
that I am asking, my brother to help me."

Inu-yasha growls, deep in his chest, "You've never helped me."

"My mother wanted you dead. I saved you, at the cost of throwing
my life away."

"You're joking!" Inu-yasha spits out. "You're the lord of the
western lands!"

"A title, without the power. My mother makes all the decisions.
All I do is apply my seal to them." Sesshomaru holds up his
hand, "and before you answer, think of an example that
contradicts that statement."

Inu-yasha opens and closes his mouth as he thinks.

Sesshomaru thinks, ‘I'm not going to detail what happened to his
mother, not now. Kagome needs to be here, to help calm him down.
And, having inu-yasha and Kagome spend a month or longer together
should help that. Right now, even if she was here, I'd still not
tell him much.'

He looks around, frowning slightly. ‘Inu-yasha is still too upset
about everything else to really listen. After a month with
Kagome, he'll be calm enough to listen and understand what
happened. I'll have to talk to Kagome and request that she not
tell him about his mother, until we can get together.'

Inu-yasha slumps, "I suppose that you're right. I can't think of
anything." He frowns and looks around. "So, until, Kagome and I
return from our time together, we're finished talking?" he asks
Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru, pauses, then nods. "I suppose so."

A pause.

"You and Kagome did use your powers earlier, right?"

"Correct. In something that she called an airport. Horrible
place. I had to fly us out of there."

"Kagome hates killing. You know that right?" Inu-yasha asks.

"Of course, she has made that very plain." Sesshomaru sighs. "So,
I suppose we can only hurt the humans that are trying to sneak up
on us, correct?"

"How badly can we hurt them?" Inu-yasha asks.

"You are asking me?"

"You've been around her more, lately, and she has changed during
your trip."

"hmmmm" Sesshomaru pauses. "I suppose some warning is in order.
So, simple fractures, cuts, bruises, nothing life threatening,
but I think those spies should spend a few months on their
backs." He pauses. "Or perhaps their stomachs. I think I'll whip
the buttocks off one of them."

Inu-yasha smiles, his fangs showing as he cracks his knuckles.
"Good. I need to work off some anger."


Back at the house . . .

Chika closes Kagome's door behind her. Everyone, Kagome, Mrs. H,
Miroku and the rest are still in the hallway. "She and Kohaku are
talking. And I don't want everyone to barge in. That might upset
him."

"Ok." Kagome says, and everyone agrees.

Mrs. H walks up to the door and calls through it, "We'll be
downstairs when you need us, Sango and Kohaku."

"Thank you." Sango calls through the door.

Everyone slowly walks down the stairs and settles back into
place.

"Shall we pick up where we left off?" Mrs. h says after a short
pause.

Kagome shakes her head. "I do have announcement that I do need to
make."

"What, my dear?" her mother replies. Everyone looks at Kagome.

Kagome holds her arms out, pointing at Shippo, obviously an
invitation for him to jump into her arms. He does so.

"You're not going to like this, Shippo, but, I need to do it."
Kagome says in a stage whisper to him.

"What!?" Shippo exclaims. "There's something more than just you,
Inu-yasha and Sesshomaru being together?"

Kagome nods. She looks around the room. "Shippo, I order for that
to work, I've got to treat both of them fairly, right?"

Shippo purses his lips, but nods, yes.

"So, if I spend some time, alone, with one of them, I need to
spend a similar period of time alone with the other."

"Maybe. But what about me?"

"I'll be spending time, with you, too, Shippo. But, if I spend
time alone without you, with one, I need to do the same with the
other, right?"

"Maybe."

Kagome sighs, "I just spent a lot of time, alone with Sesshomaru,
so. I need to spend time alone with Inu-yasha."

A pause.

"You're going to leave me, again!" Shippo shouts.

"Only for a little while, Shippo, then, I'll be back, and I don't
plan on leaving you alone after that." Kagome says in a soothing
tone.

"Perhaps, Shippo can stay here." Mrs. h says, as she tries to
calm things down. "You are my grandson and there is a lot of new
things on this side of the well."

Shippo thinks, ‘there are a lot of new things here, that might be
fun. But is it worth giving inu-yasha a month alone with Kagome?
No.'

"No" he says, "Kagome can stay and show me around. And show
Miroku, Sango and even Rin around."

"I don't know about that." Kagome says. "There is something else
that I need to say, as well."

"What?" Miroku asks, before anyone else.

"When I was with the god tree, he told me that his strength is
fading, so, I have no idea how long the well will continue to
work."

Silence, as everyone considers that announcement.

"So?" Kagome's mother asks. "You've had time to think about it,
Kagome. What do you think will happen?"

Kagome licks her lips. "I don't know. I hope, that, the well will
still work after Inu-yasha and I get back, but, once we get back,
we'll probably be using the well often, and that drains him
faster."

She pauses, "So, I'd expect that soon after Inu-yasha and I
return, the well will stop functioning."

Another silence . . .

"So, Shippo." Kagome says. She nods her head to Miroku, "If you,
Miroku, Sango, Rin or even Sesshomaru want to do any sightseeing,
you need to do it, now, while Inu-yasha and I are gone. Who knows
if you'll get the chance afterward."

"That's not fair!" Shippo cries. "I wanted to look around with
you!" Mrs. H steps close to them, in case she has to intervene.

Kagome hugs him, tightly and whispers into his ears. "And, I
wanted to do the same, Shippo. I wanted to be there when you saw
a chocolate store. I wanted to there when you saw a toy store. I
wanted to be there whenever you see a plane, or something else
that excites you."


Tears begin to flow down her checks and vanish into his fur.
"But, I can't do both at the same time. I can't be with Inu-yasha
and with you."

"Kagome." Shippo whispers, tears forming in his eyes, as he hugs
her.

"I hate this, Shippo, but I don't see where I've got a choice. If
I don't go with inu-yasha, then, everything with him falls apart.
I think that you and I can live through a month's separation.
Don't you?"

"Yeah. But I hate it." Shippo whispers back.

"So do I, but sometimes you do what you must."

"Yeah."

Mrs. H taps both of them on their shoulders and draws them into a
hug. "I'll take great care of him, Kagome. And, I'll take plenty
of photos and videos, so you will see his reaction."

"You heard?" Kagome stiffens.

"I didn't need to." Mrs. H whispers. "It was obvious what you
were talking about."

Kagome sighs as she kisses her mother's cheek. "Thank you,
mother."


"It'll be fun." Her mother replies. "And I'm sure that Sota will
help." She turns and looks at Sota. "You'll help me as I take
Shippo sightseeing, right?"

Sota's eyes lite up. "Yeah! It'll be great!" he says excitedly.

"Good. That's settled then." Mrs. h replies.

Shippo grumbles a little, but nods along with everyone else.

"How soon will you and inu-yasha leave?" Kagome's mother asks.

"I'm not sure, mother." Kagome replies. "I want to make sure that
Kohaku is all right. And, Sesshomaru and I did make a mess at the
airport, so, I want to be here in case something happens about
that."

"So, you'll probably be here a couple of days?" Yuka asks.

Kagome looks at her friends and nods. "I think so, maybe a three
or four. But, I'm going to be really busy, Yuka, so I don't know
if I can do anything with you." She grimaces. "And, I just
realized I've got to call. No. Make a date with Hojo, so I can
talk to him, as well."

"Hojo?" Miroku asks. "The same person that Inu-yasha is always
yelling about?"

"Yes." Kagome nods. "Now that I've made my decision, I've got to
tell him. I owe him that much."


"Do you want me to call him?" Ayumi asks.

Kagome shakes her head, no. "No. that is my responsibility."

Miroku's head snaps up. Chika and Sango are slowly walking down
the stairs.

The expression on Sango's face, causes Kagome's three girlfriends
to cringe and look away. Sota, Rin and Shippo do the same. Mrs. h
takes a step back as she looks at Sango.

Even Kagome catches her breath at Sango's face.

Miroku quickly steps close to her. He opens his arms in a silent
invitation.

Sango looks at him. She looks at his arms.

They look into each other's eyes.

Sango steps close to Miroku and buries her face in his chest. He
hugs her tightly.

"Chika?" Mrs. H asks in a very quiet voice.

"Physically, he's fine." Chika replies in a quiet voice.

"Mentally?"

"I don't know, but, he's been through a very traumatic
experience. I gave him a sedative. But." Chika shakes her head.

"I tried to give him the hilt of my sword." Sango whispers, but
the room is quiet enough that everyone can hear her. "And he
throws it across the room in fear."

Chika nods. "I think, that whatever magic was used to cure him,
changed his views on fighting. Massively."

A pause, as everyone considers Chika's words.

But, before anyone can say anything . . .

Inu-yasha and Sesshomaru open the front door and enter the house.
Both of them have small smiles on their faces. Inu-yasha is
cleaning his fingernails. Sesshomaru is adjusting his tail.

"What happened?" inu-yasha asks.

End chapter 21.

Authors' note: it looks like there will be a couple/three more
chapters, so. I'm wondering what you, the readers, think about my
story, as I wrap it up. And if there is anything I need to cover.



Thank you for reading
jeff shelton