InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Promises of Forever ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

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Shockingly, I actually have most of this story written but there are patches that are lacking and I am having trouble with. And then the story will speed away and take you with surprise of things you haven't read yet… hopefully. But I think I found a hole in the anime which will lead this story in a different direction.

 

I have been having to make 4 costumes for a cosplay convention so that is why I haven't updated in the last weeks. And before that I got taken away with the Kag/Hiei storyline and started many different stories… But I am back and this will be finished before the year is out. I know excuses, excuses, excuses…

 

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Promises of Forever Ch 4

 

 

 

 

“Inuyasha, are you sorry that you came to me?” Kikyo hated having to be dependant on others. It made her feel weak, a feeling that Kikyo was glad that she very rarely felt, but still if it were to be her final moments she needed to see him for just one last minute.

 

“Don't be stupid!” Inuyasha sat with his arms folded against the wall next to Kikyo's futon.

 

“You should return to the girl,” Kikyo maintained.

 

“And leave you here for Naraku to kill again. I will keep you safe this time.”

 

“What about the girl? Naraku will come for her, too.”

 

“That bastard of a bother of mine is watching her until I get back.”

 

“Do you trust him?”

 

“NO!” he huffed. “But he gave his word to keep her safe, and I can trust that.” Inuyasha didn't like having to rely on his brother, but for the moment he had no other choice. It had been Sesshoumaru's idea to stay with Kagome and the others after the taiyoukai had tracked him down with Kikyo the previous day.

 

“You love her, don't you?” Kikyo's eyes firmly held Inuyasha's while she had asked.

 

Inuyasha swallowed hard trying to think of a way to answer the question. He looked into her face to read her expression before answering but instead he felt dumbfounded. “She reminds me of you.” Hearing his own words made him swallow again. He hadn't meant to be so honest and she blushed slightly. “And then sometimes she is a totally different.”

 

“I understand. She is very kind and compassionate. I do envy her sometimes, but it was never our destiny to be together. Fate saw to that.” Kikyo's eyes faded from his. She had always been a very proud woman, but it still made her sad to think that she could never have the ordinary life that she had longed for.

 

“Kikyo, I'm sorry for failing you so many times.” Inuyasha stood and looked down at Kikyo. She kept her eyes tightly closed trying to will sleep to come.

 

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Kagome jumped up from her sleep. She knew it had been the dream again, but for the life of her, she couldn't remember. All she could feel was a sense of panic that something was terribly wrong. She racked her brain trying to focus on what had been so vivid only a few moments ago.

 

`Oh well, I guess I can't force it, I wonder how long I slept this time?' Kagome opened her eyes to focus on the time when she heard a faint whimper. She looked across the campsite to see the great Lord holding a sleeping young girl. He was gently rocking the girl back and forth trying to comfort her. It was far from the sight that she was used to.

 

As she watched the girl, she was startled to find that she could sense Rin's emotions just as she had the taiyoukai's earlier. Rin was dreaming and very frightened. Something was chasing her, and she felt trapped. She could feel the child's terror. The little girl's whimpers grew louder and she heard the great lord humming to her. `Humming? Sesshoumaru?' She couldn't believe her ears. But the scene before her was truly touching. `The taiyoukai of the west gently rocking and humming a fragile human child?' He looked almost fatherly. He did have emotions. Who would have thought?

 

Suddenly a warm feeling over took her body at the thought. But it wasn't her own. It was his. She could sense him once again. It wasn't pain, bitterness, or anger, it was love. He truly loved this little girl.

 

She waited and watched as Rin calmed finally. She had seen Sesshoumaru noticing her as he tended to the child, but he hadn't said anything.

 

It was no use Kagome's mind was working way too fast to try to sleep any further. She wasn't sure how long she gotten to sleep earlier, but she knew the sun was no where near approaching the night sky.

 

Kagome reached for her watch in her yellow bag, careful not to wake the sleeping kitsune. It was only 2:30. She sighed heavily as she returned it to her bag thinking how futile sleep seemed to be while Inuyasha was with her. And the fear that her returning nightmare was only a nod away fueled her anxiety.

 

A walk would do her good, she thought. Not far just to the stream.

 

 

The light of the crescent moon shone brightly on the forest, and its reflection shimmered over the water making it appear brighter than it was.

 

She sat on a flat boulder overlooking the little stream as it flowed over the rocks. The gurgling of the stream had lulled her into a very relaxed state. She wished that she had brought her sleeping bag to fall asleep right there next to the water. But since she hadn't she pulled her knees tight into her stomach and rested her head on them, still watching the water flow downstream.

 

With all the beauty around her, her thoughts were still dancing between the two brothers. One, her mate, and the other, her enemy. Enemy? Yes, still enemy. `What a shame!' she thought. If they would just stop being so stubborn they could work together.

 

“What are you doing here, alone?” Sesshoumaru asked as he crept slowly behind her.

 

The coldness of his voice made her chill as she jumped. And the fact that she hadn't sensed his presence unnerved her a little. “You scared me half to death. Was that what you were trying to do?”

 

“Ah, if it were only that easy,” he mocked.

 

“I couldn't sleep so I came over here where I wouldn't bother anyone.”

 

The great lord sat down next to her on the rock.

 

“You know, you and Inuyasha should work out your problems.”

 

“Miko, you would do well not to worry yourself with the matters between Inuyasha and myself.”

 

“I only thought…”

 

“Miko, it will not happen,” he hastily interrupted.

 

Kagome decided to drop the subject, but she was still grateful for the company. It was keeping her mind distracted. “Ok, do you mind if we just talk. I mean…uh.. I know so little about you.”

 

“You can talk, if you wish.”

 

“There is a game that we play sometimes on long trips. It's called 20 questions. I ask you a question, you answer and then you ask me a question, and so on…”

 

“This Sesshoumaru does not play childish games,” he assured her arching his brow. “If you have a questions, ask them and be done with it.”

 

She cringed at his harshness, but it was either this or sit in total silence. “Ok then. What was your father like?”

 

Sesshoumaru cocked his head surprised by the question being about his father, after he was sure that she had still been trying to sort through his thoughts. He decided to indulge her if only to find out where this was going. “He was a great lord and very powerful, but very foolish.”

 

“Do you mean because he gave up his life to save Inuyasha's mother, a human woman?”

 

`How boring,' he thought. He scoffed lightly, “yes, miko. He could have been the most powerful ruler over the lands, but he decided to throw it all away.”

 

“Like how you choose to protect Rin?” She gloated as if she had scored a winning home run.

 

“And why do you choose to take a mate here in the past when your time is in the future?”

 

Kagome face twisted in sudden confusion. She had never really talked to him until now so how would he know of her home. Had he been able to see in her mind like she had his? “What do you mean?”

 

“Didn't you say the game was played by taking turns asking questions? You have asked four now and answered none.” Sesshoumaru watched the trees swaying back and forth.

 

“You said you weren't playing,” Kagome reminded.

 

“Answer.” He hadn't wanted to play her silly game, but he realized by not playing he was letting her be in control. That was far worse.

 

Carefully thinking how not to let her guard down, she answered the only thing she could think. “I want to be wherever Inuyasha is.”

 

“He's not here. Have you noticed?” Sesshoumaru mocked, noticing her scent spike again. His only goal was to stop her asking questions, but he was still pleased with the side effect.

 

“Of course, I've noticed! Why do you have to be so mean?” She countered almost losing her temper.

 

“No, no, no, little miko. I still have one more question. What did you do to me earlier?”

 

Kagome sank back. She had been anticipating another attack, but this left her feeling very deflated. “I don't know. I felt your energy and it met my anger and it felt like an explosion sending me deep within you, somehow. I just don't know.” She sat studying her hands nervously awaiting his reply.

 

“I see,” Sesshoumaru answered. He could smell her sudden fear. He studied her wondering why she thought that she deserved his punishment.

 

“I haven't been trained as a miko, and sometimes, my emotions take over my abilities.” Her voice still trembled unsure of when he would strike.

 

“I am not going to harm you. You are much like Rin. Like a small child, you cannot help what you do not know.” He tried to console her, but he noticed he was again feeling her feeling. Not like a youkai, to sense her emotions through her scent, but he could actually feel them like an empath. “Remarkable.”

 

“What?” She asked lifting her face to look at him.

 

“I can feel your thoughts. That isn't one of my abilities.”

 

“But it seems to be one of mine, since earlier today. I have been able to sense everyone that I've come into contact with. Not all the time, but pieces here and there. Could it be from Rin?”

 

“No, Rin is a very gifted child but she cannot give her abilities to others.” He looked down on the young priestess sympathetically. “Perhaps I could put Jaken on it and find out what is going on, there maybe other mikos with similar abilities.”

 

Kagome looked appreciative in the golden orbs. Her stomach dropped suddenly as if she had been pulled deep within his eyes.

 

“Why haven't you ever taken a mate? You are quite handsome, and I've seen at least 2 females taken with you.” As she heard the words flow from her mouth, she couldn't believe that they had vocalized. Her eyes turned back to the water as her cheeks blushed red with embarrassment.

 

Her words surprised him. He didn`t realized that the young girl had ever thought of him like that. Handsome? “I have many responsibilities. I just haven't concerned myself with those sorts of things”

 

“I would just think that you would want an heir to groom in your footsteps.” Kagome couldn't bring herself to look at him as she tried to justify her comments.

 

Somehow she had lulled him into an openness that he wasn't sure he was comfortable with. He wasn't sure how she had done it, but he found himself needing to explain. “I never have taken the time to think about it, but I suppose one day I will.”

 

“Wow, the sun is starting to come up. I guess we've been out here longer than I thought.”

 

“Indeed.”

 

“Now that didn't hurt so bad did it?”

 

Sesshoumaru quirked an eyebrow questioning the girl.

 

Kagome smiled up at her new friend. “Talking.”

 

“Let's not make a habit of it.”

 

“I don't know, I think I could get to like it. And who knows, next we might just be all sharing a holiday dinner.”

 

Sesshoumaru furrowed his brow in utter disgrace.

 

Kagome began to stand when she accidentally slipped falling forward on the regal Lord. Kagome clutched his robes tightly saving herself from falling into the cold mountain stream.

 

Sesshoumaru grabbed her arms, steadying her as his attention was briefly distracted by a lingering scent. `Hmmm…Something…familiar…'

 

“Sesshoumaru… Gomen. I don't know how that happened.” Her color once again flushed as she realized that her clumsiness had caused him to have to save her from a nasty fall and to top it all off she had muddied his white kimono.

 

A gentle laugh seemed to mix within the rustle of the leaves.

 

Kagome looked back to the Lord's face watching him search the trees for something she didn't seem to sense. “Lord Sesshoumaru? What is it? Do you sense something?”

 

The silence was enough to give her an answer. Kagome scanned the area again trying to detect anything that she could. Silently she watched, listened and felt… nothing.