InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Special delivery ❯ So much for the welcome... ( Chapter 69 )
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By: saphira404 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama / Comedy | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 12.07.2010 | Pages: 3 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 272 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama / Comedy | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 12.07.2010 | Pages: 3 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 272 | Status: Work In Progress
Chapter 69: So much for the welcome…
A/N: Hello, yes it is indeed me. I am once again so sorry for not updating sooner. Although I made this chapter extra long, it cannot excuse by sporadic posting.
Thanks to all of you guys for reading!
Anime-rocks-1010 (Glad to see you’re so protective of Kagura and Sesshy… and Naraku being the mysterious man? We’ll see about that.)
Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha, Sesshy and Kagura would be happily mated and working on silver haired baby number three by now…
“Talking”
‘Thoughts& #8217;
“Miroku. Out with it now lest this Sesshoumaru loses his patience.” The dog demon glared at his friend.
“Fine… Just remember not to shoot the messenger... Ever since my dear Sango and I got here, we’ve been hearing rumors…” A clearly uncomfortable Miroku suddenly paused, as if looking for the best way to make his announcement.
“Rumors? What kind of rumors?” Kagura asked even as a sense of dread spread through her.
“Miroku…” Sesshoumaru warned one of his oldest collaborators one last time.
“Rumors saying that your new girlfriend is a whore. Is it true? Could my son have fallen so low?” A mocking feminine voice came from a few feet away. Kagura quickly turned around, and was met by a sharp pair of amber eyes belonging to a beautiful older dog demoness with long silver white hair.
“Mother?!” Sesshoumaru breathed out in total incredulity. Then after getting over the shock of seeing his most unexpected mother, he regained his aloof composure, and placed back his impassive mask on his face. It would not be becoming if she was to see how affected he truly was by her sudden appearance.
“You were not invited.” Sesshoumaru said, his commanding voice resonating through the large room as everyone else had fallen quiet. He could care less that people were now avidly staring at him and his family. He knew his mother all too well, and did not want to leave her a chance to hurt Kagura.
“Hum I like to believe that my invitation was lost in the mail, which would not really be surprising considering that I have been moving around a lot as of late. All these fashion shows to see…” She then let out a small cold smile as her eyes finally moved from Kagura to her son. “Luckily your little demon was at the door, and he was able to welcome me as I should have been. That little green toad is at least someone useful you have decided to surround yourself with.”
“Jaken.” The dog demon beckoned his employee, ignoring his mother’s last jab at Kagura.
“Please forgive me Master Sesshoumaru… she forced me and would not take no for an answer… I did not know what to do!” The ever faithful imp demon said bowing in front of his employer of many long years.
“In any case how I came to be here is very incidental.” The older demoness said as she batted her hand before sending Jaken a look that caused him to scamper away, to Sesshoumaru’s great annoyance.
“Instead of blaming him for my presence you should be answering my question. So is it true? Is that woman, who has clearly gotten you to lose your mind, a whore?” She then fixed her chilling glare on Kagura.
Throughout the previous covertly venomous exchange between Sesshoumaru and his mother, Kagura had decided to remain silent. She after all was still trying to gather her wits after the shock created by the appearance of her future mother in-law. Ever since she had agreed to Touran’s plan and accepted to let her go public with her past in order to get rid of Sesshoumaru, she had known that some people would find out about her past. However the last person she had thought would confront her about was her Sesshoumaru’s mother.
‘She is the most horrible mother. She doesn’t even care about Sesshoumaru; all she wants is his wallet, so how dare she judge me?!’ The fuming wind sorceress asked herself. She started seeing red, and it had nothing to do with the color of her eyes.
“First of all, that woman has a name. It is Kagura Onigumo, but soon to be Takahashi.” Kagura spoke up as she laced her arm with her fiancé’s. At that moment she really regretted not taking Sesshoumaru up on his offer, and accepting a big, bold and expensive engagement ring to proudly display on her finger; she really would have loved flaunting it in his mother’s face right now.
Noticing how the other woman quickly turned pale, Kagura then realized that his mother had not known that they had gotten engaged, and by the collective gasp, and ensuing quick whispers resonating around the room, she gathered that many of the other guests at the memorial had not known either.
“Don’t worry, I will personally make sure you will receive an invitation to our wedding. I really wouldn’t want you to have to bully Jaken to get in the building next time.” Even though Kagura knew that she was being mean; she did not care as she did want to hurt the other woman. After all she could not help but resent the woman standing across from her. Not because of her great beauty, or expensive designer clothes, but because she was the reason Sesshoumaru had such a hard time trusting and loving people.
‘Knowing what he had to deal with, who could ever blame him for being cold? I may have had a crappy upbringing with Naraku, but Sesshoumaru also had it tough with her…’ The wind sorceress thought to herself. ‘Does the woman even know how to smile?’ She wondered to herself, her heart once again aching for the man she loved.
“Married?! You would marry her? Do you have no pride in your family name? The Takahashi name is too respectful for the likes of her.” The sudden red flush appearing on the face of Sesshoumaru’s mother was the only indication that the woman was really mad.
“Mother” He cut her, speaking on a threatening tone. He knew exactly where this conversation was going, and was not liking it one bit.
“I will not have any of this. Obviously you have indeed lost your mind, and are in need to have someone remind you of your responsibilities and duties!”
“When will you ever learn, Asuka?” None other than Izayoi asked as she wedged though the crowd of curious to get to her step-son. She knew exactly how hurtful her late husband’s first wife could be, and she deemed it necessary for her to come to Kagura’s rescue.
‘It seems that she has had a lot of pain in her life, I will not stand by while the poor child is hurt even more by that evil witch.’ The older human thought to herself.
“My my Izayoi why am I not surprised to see you would come to her rescue. You whores do have to stick together…” Sesshoumaru’s mother snorted.
“Listen lady! I don’t care if you are Sesshy’s mother, but I won’t let you talk to my mom that way.” Inuyasha growled. He had wanted to get involved sooner and support Kagura and his brother, but he knew that both were able to defend themselves. However the second Asuka had decided to attack his mother, he had to step in. He knew that the older dog demoness had tried making his mother’s life miserable when she had married his father, but he had been too young at the time to do anything, but things were now quite different.
“Thank you honey, but I can take it from here.” Izayoi smiled affectionately at her son before gently rustling his white bangs. Even if he blushed slightly and protested being treated like a kid again, he did do as asked, and walked away. Even as he stepped back and rejoined his anxious fiancée where they blended with the crowd, he kept his amber eyes trained on his brother, mother, Kagura and Asuka in case something would happen. If it were the case, he would be ready to intervene.
“ What exactly do you, a pitiful human think you can do to me? Will you band with this sorry excuse of a youkai in order to take me down? Please do not underestimate me. There is a reason why I was his first mate.” Asuka scoffed.
Even if Izayoi wanted to point out that her son’s father had left Asuka for her, she refrained herself as she did not want to lower herself to the level of the older demoness.
“I may be a sorry excuse of a youkai, but it sure beats being a leech living off her own son.” Kagura did not have Izayoi’s scruples and she was not one to let herself be insulted and not say anything in return.
“Why you!” Asuka growled. She was so angry at being insulted by someone she felt was so beneath her, that she let her emotionless mask shatter.
Having noticed the green hue suddenly tainting his mother’s claws, and knowing all too well it was a prelude for a poison claw attack, Sesshoumaru decided to intervene. Just as he was about to move away from the wind sorceress’s side in order to calm down his mother, he was taken by surprise by Kagura’s reaction.
She was no longer the weak, scared and battered demoness who needed to be saved. She was indeed quite different from the woman he had rescued from her father’s blows so many months ago; therefore, he had not expected her to step back and let his mother say as she wished, but one thing the dog demon had not anticipated was for his fiancée to suddenly decide to start fighting with his mother in the middle of his father’s anniversary memorial service.
Sesshoumaru felt a certain pull in the air surrounding them, and knew immediately that Kagura was about to call forth her wind powers. He quickly placed a comforting hand on his intended’s shoulder, silently telling her to call back her attack. The last thing he wanted was to have to physically come in between his mother and fiancée.
“Mother. As this Sesshoumaru has stated before, you were not invited. Now if you do not remove yourself, I will cut you off. Do not doubt that I will stop supporting you if you do not leave my fiancée alone.” Sesshoumaru’s deep voice suddenly cut through. In order not to give the crowd even more to talk about, he had kept his voice as even and void of anger as he could, even if inside he was fuming.
The prospect of being left without a source of income scared Asuka into silence. She had never seen her son as angry as he was now, and did not like that his reaction had been brought upon by a mere wind demoness.
“Fine.” Asuka finally said. “I shall leave for now, but do not think this is over. I will make sure that you do not drag my son down with you!” After making this one last statement, she turned around and walked away from the demon couple.
“Ugh well maybe you should take a number, I can assure you that you’re not the only person trying to ruin my life right now.” Kagura scoffed back, her crimson eyes following the older demoness as she walked away, holding her head high and ignoring the whispers all around the room.
“Well that was the most eventful memorial ceremony ever… Anyways the food is ready, so please proceed to the dining room.” Miroku said enthusiastically as he pointed towards the adjacent room. Sesshoumaru sent him a small nod in thanks as seeing how he had quickly created a nice diversion.
The dog demon waited until only he and Kagura were present to address her. “Had I known she was coming, I never would have come.”
“Don’t worry about it… After all I did say I wanted to meet your family.” Kagura sighed before placing her arms around his neck and placing a tender kiss on his lips. She knew how much his mother was a sensitive topic for him, and the last thing she wanted was for him to feel hurt or uncomfortable; relying on humor was therefore a technique she decided to use.
‘At least if I pretend not to be pissed off, and laugh things off Sesshoumaru will not feel too bad about what just happened. He needs all my support; especially today of all days. It is the anniversary of his father’s death after all…’ She thought sadly.
“I am sure you have gotten much more than you bargained for when you formulated your request.” He retorted dryly. It was then that she noticed that he was not only angry at the situation, but maybe also a little anxious.
‘He may still be afraid that I will leave him… but who could blame him? I did leave him instead of trying to work things out the last time we got in a big argument.’ She then thought shamefully.
“That may be, but I still win when it comes to dysfunctional families. I mean to balance the craziness of your mother you do have a gruff but likeable brother, and a pretty cool step mom.” She joked as she walked towards the other room, where everyone was now waiting for them to start having lunch.
“We do not have to go.” He took stopped her by taking her hand in his. “We could collect the girls and go home.”
“And miss all the impolite stares, and speculative whispering that is sure to go on during dinner? No way.” Even though she faked a smile for his benefit, she was not doing so well.
‘I may not want to go in there, but I have to. I need to show all these people that whatever that old hag might have said does not affect me in anyway. I love Sesshoumaru, he loves me too, and I will show all these people!’ She thought as she raised her head proudly and walked towards the dining area.
Sesshoumaru silently followed after her. As much as he admired her strength, he could not help but worry about what his mother had said. It somehow added to his ever constant worry about him and Kagura being separated by something or someone. No matter how irrational he kept telling himself his fear was, it was still not going away.
The arrival in town of his mother had not been something he had anticipated but he was sure it would strain his relationship with the wind sorceress, but he was also sure he would do everything to prevent whatever his mother was planning to come to fruition. He reached over to gently massage his temple as he could feel a migraine coming.
‘Perfect. This is exactly what I need right now.’ He thought sarcastically, knowing they would have to leave earlier than expected so that they could drink a cup of his tea. ‘As if my mother was not enough of a pain…’
After all he knew his mother well, and was aware that she never made idle threats. If she claimed she would do something to break them apart, he knew she would.
‘Well we will just have to wait and see what she has in store for us…’
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Not too far away from the Imperial’s reception room, a bitter demon was reading over the newspaper, his eyes unable to move away from a certain article. The man growled before finishing his glass of cheap whiskey. Had his wife been there she would have given him a tongue lashing for drinking so early in the day, but now he really did not care.
‘The old shrew isn’t here anyways…’ He thought filling his glass again before downing its content, ignoring the burning feeling of the alcohol. Another burning was simmering through him, which was his great anger.
“These bastards! They are enjoying themselves while my life is ruined!” The angered demon threw away the newspaper in front of him, barely resisting the urge to cut into tiny pieces the page with the article reporting on a recent successful ad campaign.
“They will pay!” He thought, his yellow eyes shining as he looked at the weapon placed next to him on his desk.
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“How are you feeling?” Kagura asked softly as she pushed open the door of the bedroom she shared with Sesshoumaru, her hand carrying a cup of a brownish liquid.
After her previous altercation with her fiancé’s mother, they had suffered through a long, boring dinner with the other guests. The only break in the monotony of the meal was offered by a few speeches given by former associates of Sesshoumaru’s father, praising the late dog demon. Kagura was surprised to see her fiancé’s usually unemotional face show some signs of clear irritation while some people were giving speeches. She was therefore not surprised when as soon as the meal was wrapped up Sesshoumaru had instructed her to gather Kanna and Rin, and the foursome was quickly on their way out of the hotel.
Soon after they had dropped off Rin at the orphanage and went back home, Sesshoumaru’s slight headache had developed in a full blown migraine. Now that she had helped him through many of his migraines, she had developed a real routine, which always started with her reducing the lights as his pain made him very sensitive to light. Then hoping to help him as much as she could, the wind sorceress tucked him into bed, and brought him several cups of his medicinal tea, hoping to ease his pain.
“Better.” He said truly grateful to have her taking care of him so diligently. As much as he hated appearing weak in her eyes, he still loved having Kagura take care of him.
“Good. But you should still drink that cup I made… just in case.” She said as she crawled into bed next to him, offering to his lips the steaming cup. He wasted no time taking it from her hands, and drinking down the foul tasting liquid.
While her crimson eyes looked at him putting the now empty cup away on his nightstand, she lied down next to her lover.
“I’m glad you’re feeling better.” She said gently as he looped his arms around her, and placed her head on his chest. “I always get worried when you have your migraines…”
“You have no reason to worry. I have had this affliction for a long time. Besides there is no pain too great for this Sesshoumaru to handle.” He responded, hoping to make her worries go away. Hearing her snort, he knew she was doubting him.
“You do not believe in this Sesshoumaru?” He asked on a slightly teasing tone.
“I didn’t say that. You really kicked ass today when you told your mother to shut up, but I still think you’re still a person, which makes you just as likely as everyone to feel pain.”
He then knew that she was not completely reassured by his earlier words. Having Kagura worry so much about him really made him feel weak; the worse feeling for someone as proud and independent as him. He wanted her to not be concerned about him.
‘She will get used to the migraines as I have, in the meantime, I just need to distract her…’ He snickered to himself.
Then knowing a clear way for him to distract her, he reached down, and pressed a tender kiss to her red lips. She thought he had intended to give her a small peck, but he had more in mind. Before she knew it, he had placed her over his hard long body, and was thoroughly kissing her. At first she had tried protesting, but was quickly finding himself kissing him back, letting their lips press together, and their tongues entwine.
“Sessh… you’re not feeling well.” She managed to let out in between kisses; even if she did nothing to stop their make out session.
“Do not think.” He commanded her, gently running his hand over her much loved curves. Just when Sesshoumaru was about to flip their positions over in order to allow him to start undressing his loved one, the couple was interrupted.
“Mommy!” A shrill cry came from the other bedroom, making both Kagura and Sesshoumaru jump. The wind sorceress wasted no time breaking their kiss, and bolting out of bed before heading towards the guest bedroom, where her daughter was calling for her.
Kagura let out a gasp of shock at the sight of her sobbing daughter looking up at her from her crib.
“Kanna-chan, honey, what’s wrong?” The confused young mother asked as she took her child in her arms, and cradled her, at the same time running her hands all over her, checking for any sign of injury.
“Mommy, I don’t want him to come…” Kanna said before crying even harder, and burying her face against her mother.
It was then that the dog demon entered the bed room, his golden eyes taking in the situation, and trying to explain what was happening.
“Sesshoumaru, please do something!” Kagura looked over at her boyfriend, crimson eyes opened wide in terror.
For the first time in his life, he was at a loss when it came to what to do. The only woman he had ever loved was begging him for help, his daughter was in pain, but he had no idea what to do.
To be continued…
A/N: Hum this was a long chapter with lots of stuff in it. Wonder what is going to happen next… We will see next time in Through the mirror. Hipefully I’ll have more time on my hand, and will be able to update sooner :)
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A/N: Hello, yes it is indeed me. I am once again so sorry for not updating sooner. Although I made this chapter extra long, it cannot excuse by sporadic posting.
Thanks to all of you guys for reading!
Anime-rocks-1010 (Glad to see you’re so protective of Kagura and Sesshy… and Naraku being the mysterious man? We’ll see about that.)
Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha, Sesshy and Kagura would be happily mated and working on silver haired baby number three by now…
“Talking”
‘Thoughts& #8217;
“Miroku. Out with it now lest this Sesshoumaru loses his patience.” The dog demon glared at his friend.
“Fine… Just remember not to shoot the messenger... Ever since my dear Sango and I got here, we’ve been hearing rumors…” A clearly uncomfortable Miroku suddenly paused, as if looking for the best way to make his announcement.
“Rumors? What kind of rumors?” Kagura asked even as a sense of dread spread through her.
“Miroku…” Sesshoumaru warned one of his oldest collaborators one last time.
“Rumors saying that your new girlfriend is a whore. Is it true? Could my son have fallen so low?” A mocking feminine voice came from a few feet away. Kagura quickly turned around, and was met by a sharp pair of amber eyes belonging to a beautiful older dog demoness with long silver white hair.
“Mother?!” Sesshoumaru breathed out in total incredulity. Then after getting over the shock of seeing his most unexpected mother, he regained his aloof composure, and placed back his impassive mask on his face. It would not be becoming if she was to see how affected he truly was by her sudden appearance.
“You were not invited.” Sesshoumaru said, his commanding voice resonating through the large room as everyone else had fallen quiet. He could care less that people were now avidly staring at him and his family. He knew his mother all too well, and did not want to leave her a chance to hurt Kagura.
“Hum I like to believe that my invitation was lost in the mail, which would not really be surprising considering that I have been moving around a lot as of late. All these fashion shows to see…” She then let out a small cold smile as her eyes finally moved from Kagura to her son. “Luckily your little demon was at the door, and he was able to welcome me as I should have been. That little green toad is at least someone useful you have decided to surround yourself with.”
“Jaken.” The dog demon beckoned his employee, ignoring his mother’s last jab at Kagura.
“Please forgive me Master Sesshoumaru… she forced me and would not take no for an answer… I did not know what to do!” The ever faithful imp demon said bowing in front of his employer of many long years.
“In any case how I came to be here is very incidental.” The older demoness said as she batted her hand before sending Jaken a look that caused him to scamper away, to Sesshoumaru’s great annoyance.
“Instead of blaming him for my presence you should be answering my question. So is it true? Is that woman, who has clearly gotten you to lose your mind, a whore?” She then fixed her chilling glare on Kagura.
Throughout the previous covertly venomous exchange between Sesshoumaru and his mother, Kagura had decided to remain silent. She after all was still trying to gather her wits after the shock created by the appearance of her future mother in-law. Ever since she had agreed to Touran’s plan and accepted to let her go public with her past in order to get rid of Sesshoumaru, she had known that some people would find out about her past. However the last person she had thought would confront her about was her Sesshoumaru’s mother.
‘She is the most horrible mother. She doesn’t even care about Sesshoumaru; all she wants is his wallet, so how dare she judge me?!’ The fuming wind sorceress asked herself. She started seeing red, and it had nothing to do with the color of her eyes.
“First of all, that woman has a name. It is Kagura Onigumo, but soon to be Takahashi.” Kagura spoke up as she laced her arm with her fiancé’s. At that moment she really regretted not taking Sesshoumaru up on his offer, and accepting a big, bold and expensive engagement ring to proudly display on her finger; she really would have loved flaunting it in his mother’s face right now.
Noticing how the other woman quickly turned pale, Kagura then realized that his mother had not known that they had gotten engaged, and by the collective gasp, and ensuing quick whispers resonating around the room, she gathered that many of the other guests at the memorial had not known either.
“Don’t worry, I will personally make sure you will receive an invitation to our wedding. I really wouldn’t want you to have to bully Jaken to get in the building next time.” Even though Kagura knew that she was being mean; she did not care as she did want to hurt the other woman. After all she could not help but resent the woman standing across from her. Not because of her great beauty, or expensive designer clothes, but because she was the reason Sesshoumaru had such a hard time trusting and loving people.
‘Knowing what he had to deal with, who could ever blame him for being cold? I may have had a crappy upbringing with Naraku, but Sesshoumaru also had it tough with her…’ The wind sorceress thought to herself. ‘Does the woman even know how to smile?’ She wondered to herself, her heart once again aching for the man she loved.
“Married?! You would marry her? Do you have no pride in your family name? The Takahashi name is too respectful for the likes of her.” The sudden red flush appearing on the face of Sesshoumaru’s mother was the only indication that the woman was really mad.
“Mother” He cut her, speaking on a threatening tone. He knew exactly where this conversation was going, and was not liking it one bit.
“I will not have any of this. Obviously you have indeed lost your mind, and are in need to have someone remind you of your responsibilities and duties!”
“When will you ever learn, Asuka?” None other than Izayoi asked as she wedged though the crowd of curious to get to her step-son. She knew exactly how hurtful her late husband’s first wife could be, and she deemed it necessary for her to come to Kagura’s rescue.
‘It seems that she has had a lot of pain in her life, I will not stand by while the poor child is hurt even more by that evil witch.’ The older human thought to herself.
“My my Izayoi why am I not surprised to see you would come to her rescue. You whores do have to stick together…” Sesshoumaru’s mother snorted.
“Listen lady! I don’t care if you are Sesshy’s mother, but I won’t let you talk to my mom that way.” Inuyasha growled. He had wanted to get involved sooner and support Kagura and his brother, but he knew that both were able to defend themselves. However the second Asuka had decided to attack his mother, he had to step in. He knew that the older dog demoness had tried making his mother’s life miserable when she had married his father, but he had been too young at the time to do anything, but things were now quite different.
“Thank you honey, but I can take it from here.” Izayoi smiled affectionately at her son before gently rustling his white bangs. Even if he blushed slightly and protested being treated like a kid again, he did do as asked, and walked away. Even as he stepped back and rejoined his anxious fiancée where they blended with the crowd, he kept his amber eyes trained on his brother, mother, Kagura and Asuka in case something would happen. If it were the case, he would be ready to intervene.
“ What exactly do you, a pitiful human think you can do to me? Will you band with this sorry excuse of a youkai in order to take me down? Please do not underestimate me. There is a reason why I was his first mate.” Asuka scoffed.
Even if Izayoi wanted to point out that her son’s father had left Asuka for her, she refrained herself as she did not want to lower herself to the level of the older demoness.
“I may be a sorry excuse of a youkai, but it sure beats being a leech living off her own son.” Kagura did not have Izayoi’s scruples and she was not one to let herself be insulted and not say anything in return.
“Why you!” Asuka growled. She was so angry at being insulted by someone she felt was so beneath her, that she let her emotionless mask shatter.
Having noticed the green hue suddenly tainting his mother’s claws, and knowing all too well it was a prelude for a poison claw attack, Sesshoumaru decided to intervene. Just as he was about to move away from the wind sorceress’s side in order to calm down his mother, he was taken by surprise by Kagura’s reaction.
She was no longer the weak, scared and battered demoness who needed to be saved. She was indeed quite different from the woman he had rescued from her father’s blows so many months ago; therefore, he had not expected her to step back and let his mother say as she wished, but one thing the dog demon had not anticipated was for his fiancée to suddenly decide to start fighting with his mother in the middle of his father’s anniversary memorial service.
Sesshoumaru felt a certain pull in the air surrounding them, and knew immediately that Kagura was about to call forth her wind powers. He quickly placed a comforting hand on his intended’s shoulder, silently telling her to call back her attack. The last thing he wanted was to have to physically come in between his mother and fiancée.
“Mother. As this Sesshoumaru has stated before, you were not invited. Now if you do not remove yourself, I will cut you off. Do not doubt that I will stop supporting you if you do not leave my fiancée alone.” Sesshoumaru’s deep voice suddenly cut through. In order not to give the crowd even more to talk about, he had kept his voice as even and void of anger as he could, even if inside he was fuming.
The prospect of being left without a source of income scared Asuka into silence. She had never seen her son as angry as he was now, and did not like that his reaction had been brought upon by a mere wind demoness.
“Fine.” Asuka finally said. “I shall leave for now, but do not think this is over. I will make sure that you do not drag my son down with you!” After making this one last statement, she turned around and walked away from the demon couple.
“Ugh well maybe you should take a number, I can assure you that you’re not the only person trying to ruin my life right now.” Kagura scoffed back, her crimson eyes following the older demoness as she walked away, holding her head high and ignoring the whispers all around the room.
“Well that was the most eventful memorial ceremony ever… Anyways the food is ready, so please proceed to the dining room.” Miroku said enthusiastically as he pointed towards the adjacent room. Sesshoumaru sent him a small nod in thanks as seeing how he had quickly created a nice diversion.
The dog demon waited until only he and Kagura were present to address her. “Had I known she was coming, I never would have come.”
“Don’t worry about it… After all I did say I wanted to meet your family.” Kagura sighed before placing her arms around his neck and placing a tender kiss on his lips. She knew how much his mother was a sensitive topic for him, and the last thing she wanted was for him to feel hurt or uncomfortable; relying on humor was therefore a technique she decided to use.
‘At least if I pretend not to be pissed off, and laugh things off Sesshoumaru will not feel too bad about what just happened. He needs all my support; especially today of all days. It is the anniversary of his father’s death after all…’ She thought sadly.
“I am sure you have gotten much more than you bargained for when you formulated your request.” He retorted dryly. It was then that she noticed that he was not only angry at the situation, but maybe also a little anxious.
‘He may still be afraid that I will leave him… but who could blame him? I did leave him instead of trying to work things out the last time we got in a big argument.’ She then thought shamefully.
“That may be, but I still win when it comes to dysfunctional families. I mean to balance the craziness of your mother you do have a gruff but likeable brother, and a pretty cool step mom.” She joked as she walked towards the other room, where everyone was now waiting for them to start having lunch.
“We do not have to go.” He took stopped her by taking her hand in his. “We could collect the girls and go home.”
“And miss all the impolite stares, and speculative whispering that is sure to go on during dinner? No way.” Even though she faked a smile for his benefit, she was not doing so well.
‘I may not want to go in there, but I have to. I need to show all these people that whatever that old hag might have said does not affect me in anyway. I love Sesshoumaru, he loves me too, and I will show all these people!’ She thought as she raised her head proudly and walked towards the dining area.
Sesshoumaru silently followed after her. As much as he admired her strength, he could not help but worry about what his mother had said. It somehow added to his ever constant worry about him and Kagura being separated by something or someone. No matter how irrational he kept telling himself his fear was, it was still not going away.
The arrival in town of his mother had not been something he had anticipated but he was sure it would strain his relationship with the wind sorceress, but he was also sure he would do everything to prevent whatever his mother was planning to come to fruition. He reached over to gently massage his temple as he could feel a migraine coming.
‘Perfect. This is exactly what I need right now.’ He thought sarcastically, knowing they would have to leave earlier than expected so that they could drink a cup of his tea. ‘As if my mother was not enough of a pain…’
After all he knew his mother well, and was aware that she never made idle threats. If she claimed she would do something to break them apart, he knew she would.
‘Well we will just have to wait and see what she has in store for us…’
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Not too far away from the Imperial’s reception room, a bitter demon was reading over the newspaper, his eyes unable to move away from a certain article. The man growled before finishing his glass of cheap whiskey. Had his wife been there she would have given him a tongue lashing for drinking so early in the day, but now he really did not care.
‘The old shrew isn’t here anyways…’ He thought filling his glass again before downing its content, ignoring the burning feeling of the alcohol. Another burning was simmering through him, which was his great anger.
“These bastards! They are enjoying themselves while my life is ruined!” The angered demon threw away the newspaper in front of him, barely resisting the urge to cut into tiny pieces the page with the article reporting on a recent successful ad campaign.
“They will pay!” He thought, his yellow eyes shining as he looked at the weapon placed next to him on his desk.
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“How are you feeling?” Kagura asked softly as she pushed open the door of the bedroom she shared with Sesshoumaru, her hand carrying a cup of a brownish liquid.
After her previous altercation with her fiancé’s mother, they had suffered through a long, boring dinner with the other guests. The only break in the monotony of the meal was offered by a few speeches given by former associates of Sesshoumaru’s father, praising the late dog demon. Kagura was surprised to see her fiancé’s usually unemotional face show some signs of clear irritation while some people were giving speeches. She was therefore not surprised when as soon as the meal was wrapped up Sesshoumaru had instructed her to gather Kanna and Rin, and the foursome was quickly on their way out of the hotel.
Soon after they had dropped off Rin at the orphanage and went back home, Sesshoumaru’s slight headache had developed in a full blown migraine. Now that she had helped him through many of his migraines, she had developed a real routine, which always started with her reducing the lights as his pain made him very sensitive to light. Then hoping to help him as much as she could, the wind sorceress tucked him into bed, and brought him several cups of his medicinal tea, hoping to ease his pain.
“Better.” He said truly grateful to have her taking care of him so diligently. As much as he hated appearing weak in her eyes, he still loved having Kagura take care of him.
“Good. But you should still drink that cup I made… just in case.” She said as she crawled into bed next to him, offering to his lips the steaming cup. He wasted no time taking it from her hands, and drinking down the foul tasting liquid.
While her crimson eyes looked at him putting the now empty cup away on his nightstand, she lied down next to her lover.
“I’m glad you’re feeling better.” She said gently as he looped his arms around her, and placed her head on his chest. “I always get worried when you have your migraines…”
“You have no reason to worry. I have had this affliction for a long time. Besides there is no pain too great for this Sesshoumaru to handle.” He responded, hoping to make her worries go away. Hearing her snort, he knew she was doubting him.
“You do not believe in this Sesshoumaru?” He asked on a slightly teasing tone.
“I didn’t say that. You really kicked ass today when you told your mother to shut up, but I still think you’re still a person, which makes you just as likely as everyone to feel pain.”
He then knew that she was not completely reassured by his earlier words. Having Kagura worry so much about him really made him feel weak; the worse feeling for someone as proud and independent as him. He wanted her to not be concerned about him.
‘She will get used to the migraines as I have, in the meantime, I just need to distract her…’ He snickered to himself.
Then knowing a clear way for him to distract her, he reached down, and pressed a tender kiss to her red lips. She thought he had intended to give her a small peck, but he had more in mind. Before she knew it, he had placed her over his hard long body, and was thoroughly kissing her. At first she had tried protesting, but was quickly finding himself kissing him back, letting their lips press together, and their tongues entwine.
“Sessh… you’re not feeling well.” She managed to let out in between kisses; even if she did nothing to stop their make out session.
“Do not think.” He commanded her, gently running his hand over her much loved curves. Just when Sesshoumaru was about to flip their positions over in order to allow him to start undressing his loved one, the couple was interrupted.
“Mommy!” A shrill cry came from the other bedroom, making both Kagura and Sesshoumaru jump. The wind sorceress wasted no time breaking their kiss, and bolting out of bed before heading towards the guest bedroom, where her daughter was calling for her.
Kagura let out a gasp of shock at the sight of her sobbing daughter looking up at her from her crib.
“Kanna-chan, honey, what’s wrong?” The confused young mother asked as she took her child in her arms, and cradled her, at the same time running her hands all over her, checking for any sign of injury.
“Mommy, I don’t want him to come…” Kanna said before crying even harder, and burying her face against her mother.
It was then that the dog demon entered the bed room, his golden eyes taking in the situation, and trying to explain what was happening.
“Sesshoumaru, please do something!” Kagura looked over at her boyfriend, crimson eyes opened wide in terror.
For the first time in his life, he was at a loss when it came to what to do. The only woman he had ever loved was begging him for help, his daughter was in pain, but he had no idea what to do.
To be continued…
A/N: Hum this was a long chapter with lots of stuff in it. Wonder what is going to happen next… We will see next time in Through the mirror. Hipefully I’ll have more time on my hand, and will be able to update sooner :)
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