InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Rewinding time ❯ Case of the missing letter ( Chapter 11 )

 

Part XI: Case of the missing letter

 

 

 

A/N: Here is part 11, which is the last part. After this there will only be an epilogue, so enjoy.

 

 

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“It was just a nightmare, Kagura there is no need to worry. Go back to sleep” I answered as I lay back down and pulled her down with me. She smiled and kissed me on the lips before closing her eyes and laying her head on my chest.

 

I held her close muttering to myself that I now had my wind witch where she belonged in my arms, and tried my best to stay calm but so many thoughts were raging through my head mainly `Did my father really mail THE letter?'

 

That night I had to try my best to get back to sleep. But I could not chase the dream like memory; I kept asking myself if my father was the one responsible for me being apart from my wind witch for eight long years.

 

And to think that afterwards he pressured me to marry his friend's daughter! Maybe the letter was just lost, maybe father had nothing to do with it? But the memory I just remembered along with the fact that my father hated Kagura lead me to believe that this was more than a mere coincidence.

 

I felt my wind witch stir in her sleep, I sighed deeply and gently stroked her hair. I then closed my eyes and did my best to fall asleep.

 

 

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“I was thinking of hiring professional movers. What do you think?” Kagura asked me before biting into her buttered toast.

 

“It would make the move faster and easier” I answered.

 

As soon as I woke up this morning I asked Kagura to give up her apartment and officially move in with me. Of course she agreed but at the condition that she could remodel my place, as it was `too manly and sad'. Seriously I could care less, as long as I had both my wife to be and my daughter living under my roof. If she had asked me we could have moved to another apartment or even bought a new house.

 

“You know if we move around the couch, it would make the living room so much spacious” I heard Kagura say, I nodded, not really paying attention to what she was saying. I just could not forget what I dreamed about.

 

“Sesshomarou Kichiro Inutaishio!” I snapped out of my daze when I heard Kagura call my full name.

 

“What is it?” I asked her. I did not know what was wrong but the fact that she had her arms crossed over her chest coupled with the fact that she was stomping her right foot, told me I messed up, but I had absolutely no idea when and where.

 

“You tell me! You're not listening to me!”

 

“I am, you were talking about remodeling the living room by moving the couch” I answered with a smug smile.

 

“Yeah, five minutes ago. If you must know, you just agreed to put vivid orange carpet and bright pink curtains in the entire place. You even agreed to turn the small room at the end of the corridor you call `your weapon show room' into a play room for Rin”

 

Okay she got me. During her whole speech, I was just nodding absentmindedly most of the time, so I had no idea what exactly I was agreeing to. But I would never relinquish my weapon show room, which was my pride and joy. Even my father and brother did not have such an extensive collection. I changed the second guest room into a show room just for my collection.

 

“Preposterous! This Sesshomarou will never relinquish his show room” I said glaring at her.

 

Kagura exploded in a fit of laughter, she then went around the table and stood in front of me. My mate then cupped my left cheek with her right hand and brushed over my lower stripe with her thumb.

 

“Don't get mad I was only kidding. But seriously what were you thinking about? And don't lie to me!”

 

Did she not know that when she was staring straight in my eyes while caressing my cheek, I could not lie to her. For a split second I entertained the idea of trying to hide the truth but none the less I told her what was on my mind. I told her all about my dream, that now I was sure was a forgotten memory.

 

At the time I possibly did not pay enough attention to details, to me it was just a minor encounter with my father. But now that I thought more about it, the genuine smile father had when he took the letter from my hands, should have told me something was wrong. Even at the time I knew he did not like Kagura but I never thought he would go to this extent to get me away from her.

 

After I told her about my `dream' Kagura stayed strangely silent. She then breathed deeply before speaking:

 

“It was all his fault! The sneaky bastard! Eight years, for eight years I hated you. I blamed you. And I raised Rin alone all because of the conniving bastard!” She then started to laugh nervously, but I could tell she was really on the verge of tears so I took her in my arms and held her close.

 

I could understand her mood swings, I was feeling the same. To think that it was not fate that dealt us a cruel blow, but my own father who had purposely separated us. And now that I thought about it, I was sure that the reason he moved me from Sengoku to Shikon city was not my mother's illness but rather that he wanted to keep me away from Kagura.

 

My mate broke from our embrace and after sniffling a little asked me “so what are you going to do?”

 

I though about that for a while before answering “confront my father”, this was the only option I had.

 

“A part of me wants you to, but another one just wants to let it all go. What I mean is that it's all in the past, it doesn't matter anymore. After all we thwarted his plan, we're here now together with Rin”.

 

I looked in the direction of my daughter's bedroom, where she was having a thrilling tea party with `Sesshy' and `Jaken'. And this only reinforced my resolve, after all my father took eight years from not only my life but Kagura's and even worse Rin's.

 

I looked down at Kagura. I knew she just did not want me to fight with my father, but this time he went too far. I could not help but remember how he had pulled the strings of my entire life. From the moment I was born, I was prepared and raised to be the heir.

 

I had been my father's puppet, the nice son. Unlike Inuyasha, I was the son who always did what was expected of him, the one who did what he was told, to the extent of even marrying a woman I did not love. Yes all my life I followed my father's orders, of course except when Kagura was concerned. But these days were over, from now on I would only do as I pleased.

 

“On the contrary wind witch, I have to” I said before kissing her quickly on the forehead. I then went to Rin's room and without interrupting her tea party I gently placed my hand on her head. My daughter giggled but resumed her little game as I went out of her bedroom.

 

Kagura gave me my car keys and tenderly kissed me. I went out knowing that whatever would happen next, would change my life drastically.

 

 

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“Oh, Sesshomarou. I really did not expect to see you this soon. Especially after our `little discussion' of last time”.

 

My father said as a greeting as I sat down across from him in his study. For a long time I just looked at him trying to understand why on earth this man would not want his own son to be happy.

 

“I wonder, do you still have it?” I finally asked him, not bothering to use any introduction or greeting.

 

“I fail to see what you are talking about son” my father said as he drank some tea. “Do you want some? I can have Kaede bring in another cup”. I ignored his question.

 

“The letter you never mailed father, do you still have it? Or maybe you destroyed it, just to make sure.” I asked once more. By the look on his face, I could tell that my father knew exactly what I was talking about.

 

“What letter? I really do not know what you are talking about Sessho…” he started but I cut him.

 

“The letter I asked you to mail for me eight years ago. The letter addressed to Kagura. Let me guess, you tampered with it and read it. And once you realized that making me move from Sengoku to Shikon city and getting me far from Kagura would not be enough to break us apart, you decided to create confusion between the two of us. Or is this Sesshomarou wrong?”

 

Still my father said nothing, this was seriously getting on my nerves. He was just sitting there looking at me, as if he was judging me, as if I was the one who did something wrong.

 

“At least have the decency to try to explain yourself!” I finally said.

 

“What do you want me to say? That I had, and still have your best interest at heart? That I did what any loving parent in their right mind would have done! For God's sake you were asking the girl to marry you. You were just a pup, only seventeen years old!”

 

“ `Loving parent? My best interest at heart?' All you did was keep me away from my mate and child for eight years. Eight long years! Tell me just out of curiosity, would you have kept me away from her if you had known she was having my child?”

 

After I asked my question, my father had the most peculiar look in his eyes, and then I remembered this look, it was as if he was hiding something. And it hit me: he knew about Rin!

 

“You knew! You knew about Rin and you did not tell me!” I was enraged, never in my life had I felt this kind of rage. I breathed deeply, trying to calm myself, I still had many more questions to ask him, and now was not the time to lose control to my inner demon.

 

“How? How did you find out?” I managed to choke out.

 

“Her father called me when she first found out she was pregnant. I got him a new job in another city and sent him a nice check in exchange he promised me she would get rid of the child. As expected, her family could not be trusted”.

 

“I do not believe this.” I really could not figure out what to say to my father right now. So I took the simplest course of action. I stood up and glaring at my father I said “this was the last time you will ever play around with my life!”

 

“Sesshomarou, calm down. Try to understand…”

 

“There is nothing to understand! From now on, I sever all ties with you. I do not want you near my family”. After stating this I meant to walk out but I heard my father.

 

“Are you going to leave the law firm? How are you going to support your family? You are used to a certain lifestyle, which requires quite an amount of money. So do not be ridiculous and do not make any rash decisions.”

 

I turned around and faced my father one last time “You can not tell this Sesshomarou what to do anymore.”

 

I then let out a humorless chuckle “And it appears mother knew of your true nature, if you must know she left me a large inheritance. Now I see why she asked me not to tell you about it.” I then marched out of the house without looking back once.

 

 

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As I stepped behind the wheel of my car, everything sank in. I just lost my father, my job and I could bet access to the family bank account. Not that I care, after all I had both my mother's money and my savings. Also with my degree I was sure I could find a new job very soon.

 

As I drove home I breathed deeply, I had just freed myself from my father. No more judging, no more following his will I was free to do as I pleased.

 

A part of me did wish to be able to just go back in time, to rewind the tape of my life: if I could just go back to that precise instant when I was about to hand over the letter to my father. I was sure that if I could just change that my life would have been so different...

 

But there was no need to dwell on the past, my present was not that bad, and the best of it all? I was driving home to my beautiful fiancé and my daughter, what more could I ask for?

 

 

 

 

 

 

A/N: Yeah I know you're all thinking that his father was a horrible bastard, and yep he was. Anyway it's almost the end of the story. Check back tomorrow for the epilogue it will be named Now and Forever.