InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love in strange places ❯ Children Will ask ( Chapter 26 )

Chapter 27

Kagome gritted her teeth as she paced back and forth between her door and the railing of the ivory balcony. Her golden sapphire anklets tinkered from her movements and it was followed by a swoosh of her tail. She gnawed on her ruby bottom lips as she let her eyes wonder to the garden. Silver birds flew to her and rested on the railing, as they landed they ruffled their beautiful and long feathers to settle themselves then rubbing against her hand.

Her eyes were a pair of stormy seas full of curiosity, anger, sorrow, and though for a unknown reason…. Betrayl. * I know it's not him betraying me…. It's just some stupid youkai rules that makes it so that both of us has to put up with Lakasu for a while. But….." Kagome plopped herself down in front of the elegant railing as she gently pressed her forehead against it. * …. The look that he had upon his face the minute he saw her.........* she frowned and her face was a reflection of despair. A sudden purr and something soft landed in her lap. There was good old Mashik(the small fox that came to comfort her before, and she turned it into a demon.)* he didn't even voice a rejection to her………..* The small animal raised it's silvery red head and purred as she stared into it's soft firey eyes.

" Oh what am I going to do Mashik?" she whispered softly to him not expecting him to answer.

She played with his soft shiny fur as she went deep into her thoughts once again. * the look………. He had a look of surprise and………* She lowered her eyes remembering seeing that look before and now she knew. * Inuyasha…………..* The look Sesshomaru had was the same look Inuyasha gave Kikyo when ever she showed up. *NO! I refuse to believe it!* She stuck her chin out with confidence * Sesshomaru loves me and I will not doubt him for he does not doubt me*

But she couldn't help but feel a tug in the back of her mind. She ran her claws through the tiny fox's demon's fur feeling alittle bit comforted by the small furry animal. Her delicate elfish ears twitched as a creak of a door was heard down the hall from her, tiny little thumps that showed the approach of a child reached her ears.

Manei opened his mother's doors very slowly incase that she was still asleep, he had no need to wake her up. He scurried along the end of his mother's bed that glisend in a yellowish hue as the moon light shined upon it. But when he arrived in front of the bed there was no one there, there was no sign of it being slept in. He started to panic.

He whimpered and sniffed for his mother. Fear gripped his heart at the thought of her leaving him behind. Too many experiences has made him paranoid, the experiences constantly haunted his dreams. He lost his mother once… he wasn't going to lose his mother once again.

He sniffed as a breeze whipped past him, he sniffed the air and found the scent of lavender and melons. Manei turned his attention to the balcony doors which was open as light silver curtains fluttered in from the night's breeze.

"Mother?" his blue eyes searched for any indication of her as he approached the balcony with calculated steps.

"Here, my son." A gentle whisper graced his ears as he followed it out onto the balcony.

He slowly made his way towards his mother and patted a pale cheek to capture her attention. "Momma are you alright?" he was worried about his mother, her life was so complicated. From carrying the unannounced children of Sesshomaru to dealing with Inuyasha and the jewel.

"I'm fine Manei, why do you ask." She turned her head in a brisk movement her white tresses billowed around her face as she wrapped a comforting arm around Manei. He shifted his gaze on her and started to fidget with his armor.

" I know you will not like me asking this but…..why do you doubt father so much?" he shifted his gaze back to his mother, he stared straight into her eyes as if trying to read her distraughted emotions. Pain, guilt, anger, sorrow, love, and regret filtered across her ocean depths. Kagome lowered her head and sighed, her hair covered her eyes while silent tears trickled down her cheek.

" I guess I should not try to deny it to you any longer." She whispered. She knew she could not keep this bottled up inside much longer, the story that she lived was trying to leap out to be shouted out to the world to know. Kagome raised her hand and soothed the fur of Manei's tail. " My son…. It is not that I doubt your father………… it is that I doubt myself and others." Manei's eyebrows formed a v as he tried to understand what his mother just told him. Sensing his confusion she continued on.

" You see it all started two years ago on my fifteen's birthday where I lived happily in the future five hundred years from now. On my fifteen's birthday I could not find my cat while I searched for Buyo in the well house I was attacked by Mistress Centipede. I was dragged into the past and the jewel was torn out of me." She paused to take a breathe as Manei opened his mouth to argue that he already knew all that was told. She lifted a delicate hand to silence him and went on. " But I could not defeat her alone. For GOD"S SAKE I didn't' even KNOW of demons! So I saw a silver haired dog-eared boy that was pinned to a tree near where I fell. Unknown to me I broke the sleeping spell that was placed on him. I then removed his arrow in hopes of him ridding the demon. He then came after me for the Jewel of the Four souls. He was Inuyasha….."

"My….Uncle?" He couldn't believe it But something about his mother's tone told him the ending wouldn't be pleasant. His real uncle Inuyasha…. He seemed rude and ……….

"Yes your Uncle." She took a deep breathe " I then traveled with him after I shattered the jewel along the way I met up with your Uncle Miroku, Kirara, Shippo your baby brother and Aunty Sango. We were quite a group. Tw…Three demons, a hanyou and two humans. You see before I met your father… I fell in love with Inuyasha." His eyes widened at his mother's confession….* In…love….with….Inuyasha.* processed through his mind.

"I loved him…or atleast I thought I loved him. But then there was Kikyo." She chuckled bitterly at the mention of the dead Miko in her story " She was the supposed incarnate of me…. But the only reason I looked so much like her was that she selfishly took the jewel with her soul and refuse to let the jewel go so the jewel came to me along with her soul. So I had two souls. Then the witch Uransua took her remains and reanimated her with parts of my soul." Her eyes became unfocused as she replayed Inuyasha whispering Kikyo's name bringing her to life… and damning Kagome. " If he was to choose it was always Kikyo…….. never me first. It hurt me so much to see him to say her name while I was injured at the side. But I slowly fell out of love though I did not realize it, and that was my story."

"But momma what does that have to do with …………." Manei looked extremely confused as Kagome once again cut him off.

" it has everything to do with it……. You see I was maybe not harmed physically by Inuyasha's actions and choices I was emotionally. Though the pain of loving him is gone…. The pain of knowing that I mean nothing to him remains and grows. He blames me for Kikyo's incompletion." She lowered her eyes as more teals threatened to spill.

"Then I met your father…. He loved me for who I was but……. There was another scar upon me….. My father. He was a noble youkai kami. A powerful Kami of war and power, he loved my mother but soon his family demanded him that he either choose another mate or they will strip him of his belongings and power. He knew my mother was with me at that time. Though that did not change his choices. He deserted us and mated infront of my mother when she brought me to see him. HE SENT YOUKAIS TO SHED OUR BLOOD!" Kagome was weeping now. He felt so helpless so powerless as to comfort his mother and sooth her pains.

She raised her eyes. " So you see….. what Suki said was true. . . Soon Lady Narama will find some way or some rule that will force him to choose and he too will go for honor…… no matter how hard I try… no matter how much I may love him…. Nothing matters." Her eyes dulled as she sobbed holding onto her son like he was her life line.

" does he…know about my brothers and sisters?" Manei searched her eyes as he hugged her stomach though it did not feel bulging he knew they were there for she was using an illusion spell.

"no…."

" but when will you tell him momma you can't hide this forever!" Manei whined knowing that he was right for she was gnawing on her lips. Down below were some young couples who were wandering into the forest for a romantic stroll.

"Hai…… I will tell him… at the end of this mating ball and when….Lakasu leaves." She tried to smile as best as she could when she said the bear youkai's name. She had to be strong for her children and her self.

A shriek could be heard through out the castle as Kagome quickly pulled Manei into her tail and bolted down the corridor near the guest areas. There stood Lakasu and Lady Narama both cover from head to toe in lake alge and mud. They shot glares at Sora, Rin and shippo who stood leaning near their mother with the most angelic faces.

"Yo..Youu Youu BRATS!." Lakasu pointed a shaky finger at the children as she tried to get as most as she could off of her head. " YOU DID THIS YOU CONIVING…."

"hmm hmm." A cold and detached voice cleared their throat. There stood Sesshomaru with an eye brow raised questioning the cause of the commotion. " I expect an immediate answer as to why I was called down her for an EMERGENCY?" he mentally smirked as Lakasu paled at the sight of him with lust folding over her eyes * Pathetic creature*.

" Your disgusting children and that ningen child of your did this." Lady Narama pointed at her hair and clothes as Sesshomaru tried to contain his glee.

" I don't see any difference" Kagome muttered under her breathe as Sesshomaru chuckled and wrapped an arm around her. She sighed as he took in his male scent of pine and wilderness.

" I suggest all of you to return to your quarters….. also." He said turning to the two ugly demonesses (NARAMA AND LAKASU) "I suggest you to scream in real threats not at the inferior of your makeup unable to hide your true selves" Kagome snickered as she caught her self in Sesshomaur's arms heading back to their rooms.

Blood was boiling in Lakasu's body as her eyes bled at the sight of that whore in Sesshomaru's arms. * She does not deserve him…. I do… .he cannot resist me* She thought smugly * Soon….Sooon I shall have you Sesshomaru at what ever cost*

"At what ever cost my…….love*

……………….FAR AWAY…………….

Some one else was thinking the same thing as the scent of death filled his nose.

" You will be mine… mark my word…Kagome.."

Two red eyes blinked and disappeared as the moon rose to it's highest point.