InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Lady Kagome ❯ Chapter 53 ( Chapter 53 )

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

Shippou and Rin arrive before the time Kagome had told them, more out of being excited.

Inu Yasha scowled at them as they stood in the stood.

“What the fuck! Dammit, you smell! Why the hell did you have to rut with her before coming here,” he growled. “That’s it! My appetite is officially ruined!”

Both Shippou and Rin blushed with embarrassment. Although Kagome had also smelled their recent activities, she was just as flush, but more in anger over Inu Yasha’s lude comments.

“Grow up!” she growled back, her growl quite a deadly sound that even Inu Yasha was a bit frightened. “I can’t believe I was going to agree to mate with you. I swear your mouth needs to be washed out with soap!”

It took a few minutes until Inu Yasha gained his bearing as well as both Rin and Shippou laughing at him and he retorted, “Geez! Why do you have to be a bitch?”

Kagome eyed him, one elegant eyebrow raised and said haughtily, “As you can see, Inu Yasha, unless you forgot or have gotten blind in your advanced age, I am a bitch.”

“Holy St. Christropher! She got you, dog man!” Myra said, her Irish accent truly coming out in her mirth.

Inu Yasha was for once stumped on what to say back and then growled angrily before stuffing his hands in his hoody and sitting down at the dinner table.

Myra and Yukari brought out the meal, this time a mix of Greek food and Italian. Inu Yasha huffed and asked, “Where’s the ramen?”

Kagome reached over and bopped him upside the head, “You will eat this, baka! I can’t believe you’re acting like this.”

Inu Yasha dug in, grumbling that he would have preferred eating ramen as everyone settled into eating their meal. It was fairly quiet and bothered Kagome considering back in Sengoku Jidai, when they ate, everyone was always talking happily. She could almost smell the anxiety rolling off Rin, Shippou, and Inu Yasha.

‘Something is up,’ she thought, picking up some pita bread, nibbled on it and then set it down, finding her curiosity overriding her hunger.

“I hate to be a nuisance, but this silence is not what I expected. Something is up, so you might as well share it. I’m a big girl,” she announced, looking at each person at her table.

Shippou scratched his head and timidly began, “Well, it’s not the best thing to say considering we just got back together in your life this very day.”

Rin put her hand on his arm as he continued, “As you can see, Inu Yasha is advanced in age due to his human blood. His blood is unpredictable and we are unable to know when he may die. It’s something I don’t relish as Inu Yasha has been a father figure and even helped me into the position I inherited as Lord of the Southern Lands. When you left, Sesshoumaru had asked Inu Yasha to look after the Western Lands so he could make his rounds to the foreign lands he and their father had gained. Inu Yasha was branded with the mark of the Moon, but in red as he was hanyou and as second heir, his rightful colour. In the case that Sesshoumaru would pass on, Inu Yasha’s crescent would eventually flicker blue for a few days and fade. If Inu Yasha had been a full youkai, he would have kept the mark.”

“But it is still red, so where is Sesshoumaru?” Kagome asked worriedly, mulling over the different possibilities of his whereabouts.

“The runt is saying that the ice bastard is missing. He’s been missing for centuries. I’ve seen scouts and still have some looking for him,” Inu Yasha replied.

“If Sesshoumaru- sama does not return, his lands go to you as his mate- to- be and official ally as the Western and Eastern lands are closely tied since they are the only two ruling lands in control of inu clans. It had been decided a long time ago before Sesshoumaru-sama, between the great Sugimi-sama and Ayu- sama that if one ruling party had dwindled to nothing, the other would take over. Since the announcement of your betrothal into the Shiro Inu Clan, Ayu –sama adjusted the agreement that you would take over. He claimed it was the least he could do because of taking your memories away,” Rin explained.

“We think that since Inu Yasha is aging rapidly, now the same as a human, that people are looking for you, and not in a good sense. We are not sure if they are against the Western lands or looking for you for another reason. I was approached, by surprise by Ayu- sama, he informed me of that. It was the first time in a couple centuries that even as the Southern Taiyoukai, I had seen him. He has been mourning your mother’s death and I feel that he is merely walking around aimlessly until he dies. He loved your mother, and she was killed during an intense meeting with a group of youkai exterminating priests, ones as fearsome as that one priest we met in the past that tried attacking Sesshoumaru,” Shippou finished.

Kagome took in their words, more than shocked that Sesshoumaru had mysteriously disappeared. Everyone waited for her to respond, but she sat their dumbly, unable to accept that he disappeared.

‘Did he mate someone and just decide never to come back? Where is he? I am about to be alone again, even my own biological father is falling to pieces and about to fade away. Inu Yasha is going to eventually die soon.’
Inu Yasha put a hand on her shoulder, recognizing that she was in shock, then pulled her up into an embrace.

‘She thinks she will be alone.’

“Dammit, if I weren’t a half-breed, I would have waited for you. I regret the day I chose to mate with Kagura, but I cannot break the bond with her until my own death. The three-quarter youkai sons that she and I produced were taken from me the day she decided to leave and even they did not have the crescent on their head, meaning, I fuckin’ failed at giving the Western lands an heir. Please, Kagome, Sesshoumaru was only doing what he was suppose to, so don’t blame yourself. You always blame yourself, my selfish bitch,” he choked out, hugging her to him.

Kagome was still in shock, but crying, her silent sobs only audible to the youkai in the room.