InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome's Revelations ❯ Blood Rights and Promises ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter 3~ Blood Rights and Promises

'She called me Sess-chan, no one has ever called me Sess-chan, and does it mean that she trusts me?' He looks at Kagome and can actually see that she does, the complete and child-like trust radiating from her eyes is enough to gain his own trust, and what's more, his respect. "Here, take this knife, you will need it." He hands her a beautiful blade with a black onyx hilt and the inscription 'Enemies fall before me, allies rise behind.' "You will need to slice open my left palm after I slice your left."

She takes the knife and holds out her left hand, using a claw, he pierced her skin then held out his hand saying, "Now you must use your left hand to slash my left hand, okay?"

She nodded and did as he said. Sesshoumaru took her left hand in his hand, entwining their fingers and pressing their palms tightly together. As their blood began to mix Kagome felt their energies and powers combining.

*Flash* Kagome saw Sesshoumaru when he was much younger, he was watching as his mother died. She could feel his pain and sorrow.

*Flash* Sesshoumaru watched as his father replaced his mother the very next day with a ningen who was already pregnant with his child. His sense of betrayal that his father would do this to his mother's memory was unlike anything she had felt before.

*Flash* Sesshoumaru watched as the baby Inuyasha was brought out of the birthing room. Sesshoumaru took one look at him, and Kagome heard him say, "I will protect you, I will make sure that no one harms you." Kagome felt what she had felt only once before, the possessiveness she had for her brother, he shared also.

*Flash* Kagome watched as Sesshoumaru killed the attacking youkai who had killed Inuyasha's mother. Then watched as Inuyasha entered the room to see his oniisan covered in blood with his mother on the floor dead. "How could you, Oniisan, I hate you, I HATE YOU!!" He ran out of the door.

*Flash* She saw Sesshoumaru flying towards his castle, he was thinking, 'my arm is a small price to pay for my inability to protect you from that bitch who sealed you to a tree. My heart rejoices that you are free once again.'

*Flash* She watched as he revived Rin, and her own words echo back through her in Sesshoumaru's voice, "No one touches what is mine."

Meanwhile, Sesshoumaru too was watching Kagome's past.

*Flash* He saw Kagome weep as she watched her father leave her and her family. He saw as she walked over to the crib with her younger brother in it and heard her whisper, "I'll take care of you Souta, I won't let anyone hurt you. I'll do what dad should have, I'll teach you to take care of yourself and those you love."

*Flash* He watched as Kagome spied on her Mom and Grandpa, He heard her mother ask, "When are we going to tell her, we can't keep it from her, she deserves to know." Her grandpa replied, "We will tell her when she's older, do you know what she will do if she finds out she's adopted?"

*Flash* "I don't care if we're related or not I will protect you Souta, until you can protect yourself." He saw nothing, just heard the unvoiced promise.

*Flash* He watched as she hit the boy who tormented her brother so, and saw her eyes flash red. Then he heard a very demonic growl, "Don't touch what is mine." As she was about to rush at the boy again, her younger brother hugged her tightly crying, "Arigato Oneesan, I was so scared." Her eyes immediately returned to their natural shade of blue-gray. "Don't worry Souta, lets go home."

*Flash* He watched as she was first taken down the well, and how she released his brother. He watched as she fell in and then out of love with him, he saw her save him from being dragged into hell by his former lover, and watched how Kikyo tried to kill them both on numerous occasions.

*Flash* They both came back to the present, both having experienced each other's entire life.

Sesshoumaru broke the silence first, "You're from the future?"

Kagome smiled and gave a tired smile, "Yeah, you brought Rin back to life?" With that she passed out from exhaustion. Sesshoumaru separated their hands, and stared at their palms, on Kagome's was a midnight blue crescent moon, and on his, was a pink sphere, just like the Shikon no tama. Sesshoumaru sat there with the miko in his arms and realized that he was holding her in two arms. 'She gave me back my arm, not only that, but I can feel her emotions. She must be having a pleasant dream, she feels happy.

Kagome woke up a few minutes later and heard Sesshoumaru say, "She's awake."

"Yes, I'm awake." Kagome grumbled and felt him start, "What's wrong?"

"I didn't say that out loud, I thought it." Kagome could feel his surprise. 'What's going on here? How come I can feel what he feels?'

"I suppose it's a side effect of the blood oath. I can feel you as well."

"Wait, you can read my thoughts?!?!"

"Well, you read mine first." Sesshoumaru said a little disgruntled.

Kagome laughed, 'You sound like my brother Souta.'

'I know, I saw your past, did you see mine as well?' (If you had passed by, all you would have seen were two people staring at each other.)

'Hai, you love your brother very much, just like I love mine.'

'Even though he is not really your brother?'

At this Kagome became a little sad, but said, 'Hai, even though we are not related, I love him very much, just like Shippo.'

'I see. Kagome, since we can talk like this now, and quite literally know everything about one another, I know that you will stay with my brother until you must leave, but please talk to me once in a while, okay?

'Definitely, I should go; Kikyo might try to hurt Inuyasha again. Say goodbye to Rin for me?'

'Hai, Jaa ne Kagome.' Sesshoumaru said this as he flew off to find Rin and Jaken.

'Jaa, Fluffy.' Kagome turned towards the direction Inuyasha had run off in. 'I can't believe he just left me there with his half brother, sure Sess and I get along and are now allies, but when Inu left we were enemies.'

'You know I can hear you right?'

'I was hoping you could, I wanted to see if distance weakened the bond.'

'Apparently it doesn't, but I'm worried about time.'

'I hope it doesn't, Fluffy, but we'll find out next time I go home.' With that they stopped talking and Kagome found Inuyasha and Kikyo.

"Please Kikyo, I want you to travel with us, I want to be with you always."

"What about my incarnation, Inuyasha?"

"She means nothing to me." Inuyasha stated with vehemence. "She is nothing but a shard detector!"

'Ohh, Inuyasha, I had thought we were at least friends.' Sesshoumaru heard this and felt her sorrow.

'What has my baka of a brother done now?' With that asked, he could see and hear what Kagome did.

"Than I will come with you." She pulled Inuyasha into a passionate embrace, and kissed him deeply (Ewwww, he's kissing a corpse, that's got to be like eating raw, rotten meat covered in dirt)."

Kagome, using a trick she had picked up from Sesshoumaru to hide her scent and aura, went back to where she had been left. 'Looks like I'll be joining you soon, I'm going to stay with them so I can get Shippo and see the rest of the gang again. I will probably stop by home before I leave though.'

'See ya soon then.' Sesshoumaru said, using one of the phrases he had learned from Kagome. She started to laugh.

'You, saying that is just hilarious.' This is when Inuyasha and Kikyo decided to join her.

"Oi, wench, what's so funny?" Kagome stopped laughing.

"My name is Kagome. Let's just go back to the village, I want to go home for a while." She just ignored Kikyo and started to walk back to the village.

"Hey, you are not going home," Inuyasha called out, then, just remembering, "Where's Sesshoumaru?"

Kagome stopped dead in her tracks; her anger was rolling off her in waves. "You left me here with him, your dangerous half brother, and now you have the audacity to not only speak to me, but to try to keep me from going home? And to top it all off you bring that bitch!! OSWARI!"

"Don't do that again." Kikyo had an arrow knocked, and was standing over Inuyasha in a falsely protective looking manner.

Kagome just glared at her and started walking again. 'Soon,' Kikyo thought, 'soon I will kill her and take back my soul. Then I will take Inuyasha to hell with me. But first I will make him hate her, then she will watch as Inuyasha helps me to kill her."

There was no more conversation as they made their way back to the village. Inuyasha stared at Kikyo as if not believing she was truly there, and Kikyo kept as silent as the corpse she was.

Kagome on the other hand was talking with Sesshoumaru about what to get Rin for her up coming birthday. She would be eight tomorrow. It made Kagome remember that her eighteenth birthday was about two months away. Then a thought struck her, 'I wonder when Shippo's birthday is, I will have to ask.'

'Kagome, how long will you be at your house?' Sesshoumaru asked.

'Only about an hour, I'm going to tell my mom that I'll be staying here until the tama is completed, I don't want to leave Shippo alone with Kikyo to long. After that I promise Shippo and I will meet you by the well after everyone's asleep.'

'Hai, I will see you then.'

"Oi wench, what are you doing?" Inuyasha had been trying to get her attention for about three minutes now.

"I'm trying to figure out what to get Rin for her birthday." Kagome said, a bit peeved about the interruption of her thoughts/conversation. What Kagome didn't realize is that she said it with a very Sesshoumaru like mask on and a deathly calm voice.

Inuyasha recoiled a little and said nothing further.