InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Secret Desires & Unbridled Fury ❯ The Tapestry ( Chapter 5 )

Secret Desires & Unbridled Fury by Silver_Dog_Demon 1. Pissed 2. Detour 3. Licked 4. Lullaby 5. The Tapestry 6. Seeing Many Shades Of Red 7. Meeting Kagome's Family 8. Thanks For Keeping Your Promise 9. Run Away 10. To Me, You Are The World 11. Invitation 12. Unexpected Gifts 13. The Plot 14. Kouga's Father 15. It's My Youkai Blood 16. Ambushed 17. Tensaiga 18. General Assembly 19. Lemon Ahead 20. Good Morning Sesshomaru 21. The Dance 22. Kagome's Family Handed Over 23. Surprise 24. The Message 25. Sesshomaru Finds Out 26. Death & Pre-Battle 27. Dome Of Light 28. To Find Kagome 29. Saying Good-Bye 30. Congratulations 31. The Last Chapter

~ Sesshomaru's Study ~
  
  Kagome was looking at a tapestry hanging on the wall above the fireplace. The tapestry showed a picture of a young youkai with long, silver hair. He had jagged purple stripes on both cheeks along with a white kimono and a matching red sash with purple tips around his wais. His armor had a big red jewel in the middle of the chest plate. His arms had shield plates that went all the way down his arms, and had open palm gauntlets on.
 
   "Sesshomaru-sama!
Who's this portrait of? He looks so much like you but with some exceptions. Being as he has no crescent moon, and he has one purple stripe on both cheeks instead of two magenta strips!" Kagome was awestruck. "I mean he's gorgeous," she said without taking her eyes off the tapestry while thinking, "I've only seen one other inuyoukai that's extremely handsome that would compare to this portrait, that being Sesshomaru. I've always thought so from the first time I saw him, when he came in ridding that beast looking for the tomb of his and Inuyasha's father." Unbeknownst to her, she was saying this out loud.
    
 
  Sesshomaru was shocked at what he was hearing. "This young one thinks of me as being extremely handsome and has for two years and still thinks of me that way even after all the times I've tried to KILL HER!"
Sesshomaru stood there puzzled at the new information he just heard.
    
  "Please, Sesshomaru. Who's this portrait of? You need not tell me if you don't want to. I'm just curious," Kagome said with her kind hearted tone.
    
  "The portrait is of my great father, InuTaisho. Yes, he was a great youkai ruler and great sire. He was a great warrior who protected his family and what was his!" Sesshomaru said with great sorrow in his voice.
   
   Kagome, hearing the sorrow, turned and faced Sesshomaru. "Gomen for bringing up the past hurts, Sesshomaru-sama!" bowing low to him to show him honor and great respect. To change the mood Kagome asked, "So you had some questions that you wanted to ask me?" being sympathetic towards his feelings.
 
    Sesshomaru took in Kagome's movements of showing him great honor. "Hai, please come and take a seat!" pointing to the mat that sat in front of his desk. "My first question is where are you from?"
   
  "I'm from the village by Inuyasha's Forest." Thinking, "I can't tell him I'm from the future, about 500 years to be exact." She sat twiddling her thumbs.
    
  Since she was hiding something, he asked again. "Let's try this again, since I know you are hiding something. WHERE ARE YOU FROM?"
    
  "Okay, I'll tell you, but you're not going to believe me unless I show you! You'll think I'm deluded and very deranged," she said. "My home is on the grounds of the shrine by Inuyasha's Forest but 500 years into your future from this point. My family is caretaker of the shrine, since we are the descendants of mikos and priests. That's why I wear clothes that are so different from this era. But like I said, other than my word and the strange clothing, the only other way to tell you where I'm from is to show you. But I don't think that will work because so far the only other person that's gone through the well, other than me, is Inuyasha.
   
  "Tomorrow we'll travel to this well and era of yours. You'll show this Sesshomaru! My second question is why do you look for those small fragments that you call the Shikon shards with the half-breed and your companions of humans and the kitsune pup?"
 
  "The fragments were once a whole jewel that came from inside of my body. It's the same jewel that holds the souls of a priestess named Midoriku and a demon. This jewel, and even the shards, is very powerful. If a demon has a shard of the jewel, its strength will double. You should remember that from when you used one with that human arm to hold Tetsusaiga. If a demon possesses the whole jewel he'll be very hard to beat. It was passed down through mikos. The last one before it came to me was the miko known as Kikyo, the human woman Inuyasha fell in love and is still in love with, the same woman who pinned him to the tree. She lost her life after pinning him to the tree. They burned the jewel with her body as she wished in hope to protect it.     
 
  On my 15th birthday, arms came out of the well and pulled me into it.  I ended up in this era. Climbing out of the well, I saw the sacred tree and walked toward it. That's when I saw this boy pinned to the tree by an arrow. But what caught my eye were his ears! They reminded me of a dogs ears and I just had to touch them. {She went on from there telling him what happened}. But it is my duty to right the wrong that I've done. But as Inuyasha says, "It's MY Fault that it shattered." So I'm stuck with an ungrateful mongrel untill we find the shards and destroy Naraku. Though at times I want to kill Inuyasha for the way he treats me. {She then went through how everyone came to be in the group.}
    
  "Shippo was orphaned by the Thunder brothers, and I think of him as my son, even though I'm only 17 years old."
 
  "But the kit is youkai and not human!" Sesshomaru said.     
 
  "So, what of it? My mother raised me not to judge the outside of a person; be it a youkai or human, in order to show respect." Kagome said proudly. "But many times it's hard to respect, like with Inuyasha." She looked down at her lap.
 
  Seeing and smelling tears he said, "Speaking of my half-brother, with him being so protecting towards you, why was he not with you, leaving you unprotected letting me save your life by
killing a snake youkai and bringing you back here to heal? Where was that half-breed then?" he questioned with his indifferent mask on.
 
  "{She told the story of the day at the well}, then Inuyasha walked up and got in my face and doubled up his fists and said that I was only saying that because I loved Kouga. I told him yes I loved him but like family and friends and nothing more. Then he raised his fists and was going to strike me when I said 'SIT, boy.' " She looked at Sesshomaru while her eyes were covered with her hair so he'd would not see tears. What she saw frightened her. Sesshomaru's eyes were blood red with no pupils and his right hand was glowing green. Kagome was terrified and scooted into the corner on the right side of the room, drawing up her knees and buried her face in them. The other time she seen him like this was in his father's tomb.
    
  Sesshomaru watched Kagome scoot to the right corner of the room and try to hide. He could smell she was very terrified. He stood there a moment trying to cool his youkai blood which was boiling and wanted to kill something. Sighing he walked towards her trembling form. Kneeling down, he heard her saying, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you mad."
Leaning forward and placing a hand on her shoulder, he felt her cringe and recoil away from him. "I'm sorry I'm so weak," she said in a hushed tone.
 
  He put his right palm on her cheek, slowly sliding his palm to her chin while saying, "Shhhhhh. This Sesshomaru is not going to bring harm upon you." He lifted her chin gently until her eye met his. He saw tears. He did and said something very uncharacteristic. He wiped her tears away and drew her to his chest saying, "Please forgive this Sesshomaru for making you tremble with fear! I don't think you are weak. You've shown me many times that you're very brave when fighting your adversaries and not backing down. You've won this Sesshomaru's respect and I hold you in honor." He tilted her head back and kissed her forehead then leaned her into his chest and she fell asleep. He smiled to himself because he was able to comfort her when she fell asleep in his arm. He lifted her and took her to her chambers. He then called Faye and told her to dress
Kagome, lay out a kimono for her in the morning, and to fix her hair for the journey that they were going to make tomorrow.

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