InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Never Gonna Let You Go ❯ History Repeats Itself ( Chapter 20 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Ten years passed in the tiny village. Life went on, villagers grew old and died and new ones were born. In the hut of the monk and the tajiya, five more children had been born, bringing their family count to 8, not including the parents and the young fox kit. War was beginning to decrease as Nobunaga worked on restoring Japan to its original self, so the village, while still poor, was peaceful.

The old miko was beginning to show her age and walked very slowly around the village. Even though Lady Juri had taken over most of her work, alot of the villagers still preferred the elderly lady. The friends of Inuyasha and Kagome, while still sad at their disappearance, had moved on with their lives and attempted to put their friends' loss behind them.

"I miss Kagome and Inuyasha.", bemoaned Shippou.

"We all do Shippou.", said Miroku, stoking the fire.

"Yes, I wish we knew what had happened to them.", said an equally sad Sango.

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Sesshoumaru had grown kinder to Kagome, even beginning to call her Lady Kagome. Their relationship had become less of slave/master and more of a lovers relationship over the years. In spite all that he had done to her in the beginning, Kagome had begun to see a soft side to Sesshoumaru and her heart went out to him. She had even begun to look forward to his nightly visits and their lovemaking.

She overheard, one night recently, an argument between Kagura and Sesshoumaru and she realized it was about her,

"That girl needs to be sent back to where she came from. She doesn't belong here, Sesshoumaru."

"She takes care of Rin and the pups. She's valuable to us.", responded Sesshoumaru.

"Apparantly, she takes care of you, too. You rarely join me in bed anymore.", hissed Kagura.

"If you were more entertaining in the bedroom maybe I wouldn't need her. You don't seem to appreciate the needs of a dog-demon, Kagura."

"I am still your mate."

"That may be, but that doesn't mean I have to fulfill my needs with you."

"Then perhaps I shall leave.", said Kagura.

"You cannot. You are marked. You belong to me. You know perfectly well that having a concubine is well within what is allowed in our relationship!", said Sesshoumaru.

"Then she will suffer at my hands whenever I want.", said Kagura.

"You will no longer bring the castle guards into this. You will stop having her beaten every evening. She doesn't deserve it."

"Then you want me to simply stand by and take it, I suppose?", asked Kagura."You should be glad she is her. Because she cares for the pups, you are free to do what you wish. You can barely take care of your own children, Kagura!"

"I didn't ask to have them. That was also part of this relationship that I had to endure.", said Kagura as she walked out of the room, passing by the startled Kagome without even a sideways glance.

Kagome turned around to leave when she heard Sesshoumaru,

"Kagome."

"Yes, Sesshoumaru?"

"I know you heard that conversation."

"I'm sorry to have listened in, My Lord."

"No problem. I do have a desire of you, however."

"What is that?", queried Kagome.

"I would like you to bear me a child."

Kagome stared at Sesshoumaru, had she heard right?, "What?", she asked.

"You heard me."

"Why do you want me to bear a child? I am not full demon like Kagura."

"That doesn't matter to me anymore. I think you know how I feel and I want you to give me another child."

"I will, My Lord.", said Kagome, with a smile.
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Inuyasha tended to the fields in the village. This was their 5th village they had been in with the past ten years. The villagers accept Inuyasha and Kikyou, even welcomed them. But, eventually a local Shinto priest or Buddhist monk would journey in and Kikyou's secret would be discovered as the religious men would try to send her back to Hell where they said she belonged. It always ended the same, with Inuyasha attacking and the two of them fleeing.

This village they were in now was a peaceful one, far off the beaten path and away from the traveling roads. No visitors showed up here and the couple lived in peace. Inuyasha's mind still wandered to Kagome and Takeshi and he wondered, if Kagome was alive, if she thought about him too. He wondered where she was, was she mated again, in love with someone else, assuming in her own mind that he was already dead.

In the ten years hence, he had fallen into another comfortable, if rather mundane, life. Every morning he hunted, mostly for the village, and when he brought back the kills, the villagers would prepare the food for everybody. While they did that, he tended the fields and made sure that the fields were free of vermin. His Tessaiga sat on his hip, unused, since not even demons appeared around here.

One day, while out hunting, he came across a traveling road. He quietly watched from the side as some travellers walked by heading north. He really didn't pay attention to them, until he picked up a bit of what they were talking about,

"That lovely miko in that small village made fabulous dumplings, didn't she?"

"Yes, and she was quite a sight. Especially compared to that older miko, what was her name?"

"Kaede?"

"Yea, that was it."

Inuyasha's ears perked up? Kaede? Young miko? Great dumplings? Pretty? It must be Kagome! He had to find out! He needed to know or he'll never be able to rest again. If it was Kagome ... would she accept him back? That didn't matter ...as long as she was safe! He hurried back to Kikyou to explain,

"Kikyou. I must leave for a bit."

"Why? What's the problem?", asked Kikyou.

"I was out by the roads hunting and I overheard some men talking about a young priestess in Kaede's village. I have to see if it's Kagome.", he said.

"Inuyasha! You are supposed to stay with me. That was your promise when I said I would not take you to Hell with me. If you break that promise I will take you to Hell!", said an angry Kikyou.

"Kikyou, I have to see. I must or I can never go on.", pleaded Inuyasha.

Inuyasha turned and left and ran through the forest, heading down to Kaede's village. He didn't realize that Kikyou had gotten on a horse and was following him. Racing through the trees, he finally saw the small village on the horizon. He realized then that he heard a horse behind him and Kikyou's voice yelling,

"INUYASHA!"

Inuyasha ran down the hill and though the forest, exiting out the otherside by the village. As he exited, he saw his old friends working near the forest,

"MIROKU! SANGO! SHIPPOU!", he called out.

His friends turned around and shock covered their faces which quickly changed to joy. Their friend was back! As they headed over to him, they heard the voice of the still inexperienced young miko, Juri, shout,

"DEMON!", as she prepared her bow.

Kaede turned and saw Juri ready to fire and could sense the miko power she was calling upon was one to destroy a demon. She started to cry out for her to stop, when she saw Kikyou emerge from the trees on horseback and come around in front of Inuyasha.

Confused, Inuyasha started to run to escape the two mikos that had their bows aimed at him. Juri fired off her arrow as Kikyou yelled out,

"INUYASHA!". as she fired off her bow simultaneously. Kikyou's arrown struck him first, pinning him to the sacred tree of ages as Juri's arrow flew by.

Inuyasha looked down at his chest in shock and then at Kikyou,

"Why? Kikyou?", he got out as his body slumped and he fell into his enchanted sleep.

Kikyou got off her horse and and stared at Inuyasha,

"Because you betrayed me, Inuyasha. For real this time."

"Kikyou!", she heard a female voice say. Turning around, she saw her sister Kaede with her bow at the ready, aimed at her heart,

"Why Kikyou?"

"Stay out of this Kaede.", said Kikyou, "It is none of your concern."

"Ye do not belong here in the land of the living and ye had no reason to seal Inuyasha again. If ye want to go to Hell, I will gladly send you there. I'm sorry, sister Kikyou.", Kaede said, as her arrow flew and found it's mark deep in Kikyou's chest. Kikyou screamed as her body disintegrated into hundreds of little lights that flew up into the skies.

"The souls of all the maidens she harbored to keep her body moving", surmised Miroku.

Shippou ran over to Inuyasha's limp body, "Poor Inuyasha. What do we do now?"

"There's nothing we can do. Only young Kagome was able to free Inuyasha from the spell...", started Kaede.

"And we have no idea if she's even alive.", said Sango.

"I wonder why Inuyasha was returning here after all these years?", mused Miroku.