InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Lost Lady of the West ❯ Return ( Chapter 3 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
Chapter 3:
Return
In a private clearing the
Lady of the West was sitting against a shady tree to rest from the
sweltering heat of the mid-summer of Japan. She had been sitting
here a while contemplating on what had occurred over the last
couple of weeks. She had returned to her proper time frame, but she
could not settle. Her hackles where still raised from Mishuki's
boldness she could not get over the bitches brass neck.
Now Kagome wasn't the type to hold onto grudges it just wasn't her way. However when Mishuki had declared Sesshoumaru as son, well everything changed. She knew that technically in human terms Sesshoumaru was still Mishuki's son, however she wasn't human anymore, she was an Inu youkai and as such thought like an Inu Youkai demoness. She had seen Mishuki as an opposing female, coming to take her son from her and she had just seen red...literally, her beast had presented itself strongly through the instinct to protect her pup and kill anybody who stood in the way that anybody having been Mishuki.
Kagome understood that Mishuki had indeed been Toga's first mate and as such had borne him Sesshoumaru but no love had been held on Mishuki's part for either her mate or her pup, she had left them when Sesshoumaru had been very young leaving the young male without a mother.
What she couldn't get was why Mishuki couldn't understand that too much water had passed under the bridge bursting the banks of Toga's and Sesshoumaru's tolerance of the female. Sesshoumaru couldn't stand the female and hated her with a passion that Kagome had deemed unhealthy, but really she couldn't blame her son. And of course Toga had despised the bitch from the get go.
Here she paused in her trail of thought as it veered off into another direction...the direction of her memories of her time with her mate. Because memories...memories where all she had of him now, yes she had her sons of course, and both looked strikingly similar to their father, but there was similarities and then there was the person that those similarities came from Toga...her mate...her husband...her best friend. And he was the one person she wanted to see most...she wanted him with her again. She was slowly slipping into insanity without him. The only thing that kept her sane was her sons because both still needed her. However once they took mates of their own and started raising families, their need for her would diminish. What was she to do then?
She wouldn't take another mate, Toga had been her one and only and it would forever stay that way, nothing or no one would change that. The only thing that would is if by some miracle Toga returned...but she knew it was wishful thinking he would never be coming back. She would never see him coming home from patrolling their lands to make sure all was safe for his mate and son to wander which they had done frequently. She would never feel him kissing her lips sweetly again. She would never feel him wrap his strong arms around her body as he settled in their bed to sleep. She would never have his touches or caresses again.
And it broke her heart...shattered it to pieces...destroyed it beyond repair. She fell forward onto her hands and knees, she had never cursed the Gods so much as she did when her tears burst forth from her eyes, rupturing like a dam, as her memories assaulted her in flash images. She cried harder than she ever had done, she shed the tears, that until now, she hadn't been able to shed. She had no clue what she was going to do from here onwards, she just didn't know.
"You remember I hate your tears don't you my love?" A voice she knew all too well broke through her sorrow.
But no...it couldn't be...could it? Dare she hope? Dare she look up and see if what she was hearing was true? She couldn't she was too scared in case it had just been her mind and ears playing tricks. No she'd keep her eyes downcast. She wouldn't look up.
"And I do find, the fact of your not looking upon me...dis-tasteful little mate." That voice spoke again, although the words scolding, was still as loving and gentle as always...that special tone being used that was reserved for her solely.
She gasped aloud and forced her head up, and there standing in all his glory was her mate the great Inu-No-Taisho, as alive as the day she was forced to leave him.
"To...Toga? Is it really you? Please don't tell me I'm dreaming." Kagome stuttered out getting to her feet shakily.
"No my Kagome, this is very real...you're not dreaming...I've been restored." He responded with a small smile.
Kagome's eyes started to fill again...but not in sorrow this time but with utter joy and happiness. Her mate had been given back to her, Toga had been returned to her side. She let the tears stream as she ran forward so fast to embrace him that she knocked them both to the ground. Neither cared as they were just too happy to see one another, and to be in one another’s arms once more.
"I thought I'd lost you forever Toga. I thought I'd lost you forever!" Kagome cried into his chest repeating her sentence a second time to emphasize her relief.
"As had I thought I'd lost you for good as well my darling." Toga answered hugging her so tightly, that had she been human, he would have cut of her circulation.
"I love you so much my demon, I never got the chance to tell you before I got forced back here." Kagome whispered.
"You didn't need to tell me Kagome...I already knew. I love you also with all of me and more." Toga responded lifting her head up and kissing her soundly and with a passion that only she could invoke, all his emotion got poured into the kiss so that she would have no doubt of his feelings for her.
Kagome responded with an identical kiss of her own. She couldn't believe he was back, she really couldn't but his kiss...was slowly bringing her around to the fact that he was indeed living and breathing. As was something else that she could feel rising...even back from the dead her mate was still as horny as ever. This time though she wouldn't complain not even in her usual joking way...because it was just another thing that proved just how alive he was, and that she wasn't dreaming.
Toga smiled inwardly he couldn't help his hormones he had been without his mate for long enough, so now he was ready to make up for lost time and quite a lot of time had passed to, so they had a lot of work to do. He came away from his thoughts as he felt his mate squirm and moan lightly. Enough thinking for now, he had a mate to attend to he smirked at this last thought and then got to work on carrying it out.
…...
A few miles away from the 're-acquainting' couple Sesshoumaru was having to deal with his own problems...one being the wind demoness currently standing in front of him. She had taken up so much of his attention that he had missed the energy swell that had happened a touch earlier. Maybe if he had of felt it, it would have saved him yet another surprise later on in the evening.
But back to the matter at hand...or more over the confession at hand. Kagura...LOVED him? Actually L-O-V-E-D him. Ok granted they had been meeting up on and off over the course of the last couple of years, usually to find relief from mating season as neither had been ready for a mate, but had needed relief from the intense lust that gets felt by demons during that time of year. But that’s all he had thought it had been...lust not LOVE she had never let on before! So Kagura had curve balled him and he hadn't seen it coming...fantastic.
He sighed deeply as a slight pain shot through his temple...was that...was that a bloody headache beginning to happen? He hoped not NO ONE gave him headaches...that is unless you counted...well...his mother, father and little brother...but still! No one gave him headaches, so Kagura had not only succeeded in blind siding him but she had also succeeded in giving him a bitchy headache, he sighed once more...wonderful.
"Kagura...I'm sorry...but run that by me one more damn time!" Sesshoumaru asked of her rubbing his temples...yep definitely a headache...brilliant.
"What more is there to run by you? I love you nothing less nothing more Sesshoumaru." Kagura responded she really couldn't see what was so hard to understand about the fact that she loved him.
"Oh bloody hell woman I know that! I meant why?" Sesshoumaru growled lightly then sighed...again...he rarely sighed unless family made him and they did frequently. So she'd succeeded in yet another area of things-people-outside-family-rarely-make-him-do...perfect.
"I don't know I just do Sesshoumaru, I can't tell you any more than that I'm sorry." Kagura answered looking at him directly. She wasn't feared of him.
Something Sesshoumaru could never understand. Where his family knew he was truly a big fluffy puppy he did not, under any circumstances act as such in public! Unless you count...when he's in Edo...then they see his...softer...side...great and he couldn't burn the village down to the ground to silence the witnesses either his mother would kill him...and an angry Kagome was a Kagome he ran from...as fast as he bloody well could... she scared him.
He sighed AGAIN! When he took in Kaguras response..that really didn't help him. He felt another sigh come on, no he would not! He'd done that enough! He -would-not-sigh...he sighed...dammit bloody woman's going to be the death of me one of these days Sesshoumaru thought as he looked at the demoness.
She had broken away from Naraku having managed to escape him...with her heart in her hands..somehow. Amazingly she had managed to get her hands on her own heart before Naraku did. And it was with heart in hand she had rejected Naraku and left. She had been wondering alone ever since, until mating season of course then she was with Sesshoumaru...but he wasn't going to get into their sex life...it was good yeah but no one needed to know so eh. It was with this in mind he came to a decision.
"Fair enough Kagura follow me back to Edo...where I may not love you, I do care for you strongly, and it will probably eventually grow to love...but until then we court...in the traditional way." Sesshoumaru said to the young demoness as he took her and pulling her to his chest and kissing her soundly, whilst simultaneously summoning his youki cloud and began the small trip back to the little village. He just knew that the surprises weren’t over and that his head ache wouldn't have a chance to go away anytime soon, he had a funny feeling that by the time this evening was over he would want to crawl into a corner and not come out for a while...great.
…...
"AHHH! GHOSTS DO FREAKING EXIST!" was the yell that everyone in the village of Edo heard coming from one of their favourite in house Inu's. Yep Inuyasha had just seen his mother...WITH his FATHER who was to the best of his knowledge DEAD! Leading him to the conclusion that Ghosts did in fact exist.
"Little brother what is this inane ranting of ghosts about?" Sesshoumaru asked having just landed with Kagura. Inuyasha said nothing but just pointed. Sesshoumaru followed his brothers’ finger only to have his eyes rest on the figure of his mother AND father! Both brothers took one look at each other and...well passed out from shock. Of course this reaction just had Toga on the ground in hysterics at his two pups. Ah yes...it was always fun to freak out his pups, they were so good for it sometimes, oh and he's missed them to...of course.
Now Kagome wasn't the type to hold onto grudges it just wasn't her way. However when Mishuki had declared Sesshoumaru as son, well everything changed. She knew that technically in human terms Sesshoumaru was still Mishuki's son, however she wasn't human anymore, she was an Inu youkai and as such thought like an Inu Youkai demoness. She had seen Mishuki as an opposing female, coming to take her son from her and she had just seen red...literally, her beast had presented itself strongly through the instinct to protect her pup and kill anybody who stood in the way that anybody having been Mishuki.
Kagome understood that Mishuki had indeed been Toga's first mate and as such had borne him Sesshoumaru but no love had been held on Mishuki's part for either her mate or her pup, she had left them when Sesshoumaru had been very young leaving the young male without a mother.
What she couldn't get was why Mishuki couldn't understand that too much water had passed under the bridge bursting the banks of Toga's and Sesshoumaru's tolerance of the female. Sesshoumaru couldn't stand the female and hated her with a passion that Kagome had deemed unhealthy, but really she couldn't blame her son. And of course Toga had despised the bitch from the get go.
Here she paused in her trail of thought as it veered off into another direction...the direction of her memories of her time with her mate. Because memories...memories where all she had of him now, yes she had her sons of course, and both looked strikingly similar to their father, but there was similarities and then there was the person that those similarities came from Toga...her mate...her husband...her best friend. And he was the one person she wanted to see most...she wanted him with her again. She was slowly slipping into insanity without him. The only thing that kept her sane was her sons because both still needed her. However once they took mates of their own and started raising families, their need for her would diminish. What was she to do then?
She wouldn't take another mate, Toga had been her one and only and it would forever stay that way, nothing or no one would change that. The only thing that would is if by some miracle Toga returned...but she knew it was wishful thinking he would never be coming back. She would never see him coming home from patrolling their lands to make sure all was safe for his mate and son to wander which they had done frequently. She would never feel him kissing her lips sweetly again. She would never feel him wrap his strong arms around her body as he settled in their bed to sleep. She would never have his touches or caresses again.
And it broke her heart...shattered it to pieces...destroyed it beyond repair. She fell forward onto her hands and knees, she had never cursed the Gods so much as she did when her tears burst forth from her eyes, rupturing like a dam, as her memories assaulted her in flash images. She cried harder than she ever had done, she shed the tears, that until now, she hadn't been able to shed. She had no clue what she was going to do from here onwards, she just didn't know.
"You remember I hate your tears don't you my love?" A voice she knew all too well broke through her sorrow.
But no...it couldn't be...could it? Dare she hope? Dare she look up and see if what she was hearing was true? She couldn't she was too scared in case it had just been her mind and ears playing tricks. No she'd keep her eyes downcast. She wouldn't look up.
"And I do find, the fact of your not looking upon me...dis-tasteful little mate." That voice spoke again, although the words scolding, was still as loving and gentle as always...that special tone being used that was reserved for her solely.
She gasped aloud and forced her head up, and there standing in all his glory was her mate the great Inu-No-Taisho, as alive as the day she was forced to leave him.
"To...Toga? Is it really you? Please don't tell me I'm dreaming." Kagome stuttered out getting to her feet shakily.
"No my Kagome, this is very real...you're not dreaming...I've been restored." He responded with a small smile.
Kagome's eyes started to fill again...but not in sorrow this time but with utter joy and happiness. Her mate had been given back to her, Toga had been returned to her side. She let the tears stream as she ran forward so fast to embrace him that she knocked them both to the ground. Neither cared as they were just too happy to see one another, and to be in one another’s arms once more.
"I thought I'd lost you forever Toga. I thought I'd lost you forever!" Kagome cried into his chest repeating her sentence a second time to emphasize her relief.
"As had I thought I'd lost you for good as well my darling." Toga answered hugging her so tightly, that had she been human, he would have cut of her circulation.
"I love you so much my demon, I never got the chance to tell you before I got forced back here." Kagome whispered.
"You didn't need to tell me Kagome...I already knew. I love you also with all of me and more." Toga responded lifting her head up and kissing her soundly and with a passion that only she could invoke, all his emotion got poured into the kiss so that she would have no doubt of his feelings for her.
Kagome responded with an identical kiss of her own. She couldn't believe he was back, she really couldn't but his kiss...was slowly bringing her around to the fact that he was indeed living and breathing. As was something else that she could feel rising...even back from the dead her mate was still as horny as ever. This time though she wouldn't complain not even in her usual joking way...because it was just another thing that proved just how alive he was, and that she wasn't dreaming.
Toga smiled inwardly he couldn't help his hormones he had been without his mate for long enough, so now he was ready to make up for lost time and quite a lot of time had passed to, so they had a lot of work to do. He came away from his thoughts as he felt his mate squirm and moan lightly. Enough thinking for now, he had a mate to attend to he smirked at this last thought and then got to work on carrying it out.
…...
A few miles away from the 're-acquainting' couple Sesshoumaru was having to deal with his own problems...one being the wind demoness currently standing in front of him. She had taken up so much of his attention that he had missed the energy swell that had happened a touch earlier. Maybe if he had of felt it, it would have saved him yet another surprise later on in the evening.
But back to the matter at hand...or more over the confession at hand. Kagura...LOVED him? Actually L-O-V-E-D him. Ok granted they had been meeting up on and off over the course of the last couple of years, usually to find relief from mating season as neither had been ready for a mate, but had needed relief from the intense lust that gets felt by demons during that time of year. But that’s all he had thought it had been...lust not LOVE she had never let on before! So Kagura had curve balled him and he hadn't seen it coming...fantastic.
He sighed deeply as a slight pain shot through his temple...was that...was that a bloody headache beginning to happen? He hoped not NO ONE gave him headaches...that is unless you counted...well...his mother, father and little brother...but still! No one gave him headaches, so Kagura had not only succeeded in blind siding him but she had also succeeded in giving him a bitchy headache, he sighed once more...wonderful.
"Kagura...I'm sorry...but run that by me one more damn time!" Sesshoumaru asked of her rubbing his temples...yep definitely a headache...brilliant.
"What more is there to run by you? I love you nothing less nothing more Sesshoumaru." Kagura responded she really couldn't see what was so hard to understand about the fact that she loved him.
"Oh bloody hell woman I know that! I meant why?" Sesshoumaru growled lightly then sighed...again...he rarely sighed unless family made him and they did frequently. So she'd succeeded in yet another area of things-people-outside-family-rarely-make-him-do...perfect.
"I don't know I just do Sesshoumaru, I can't tell you any more than that I'm sorry." Kagura answered looking at him directly. She wasn't feared of him.
Something Sesshoumaru could never understand. Where his family knew he was truly a big fluffy puppy he did not, under any circumstances act as such in public! Unless you count...when he's in Edo...then they see his...softer...side...great and he couldn't burn the village down to the ground to silence the witnesses either his mother would kill him...and an angry Kagome was a Kagome he ran from...as fast as he bloody well could... she scared him.
He sighed AGAIN! When he took in Kaguras response..that really didn't help him. He felt another sigh come on, no he would not! He'd done that enough! He -would-not-sigh...he sighed...dammit bloody woman's going to be the death of me one of these days Sesshoumaru thought as he looked at the demoness.
She had broken away from Naraku having managed to escape him...with her heart in her hands..somehow. Amazingly she had managed to get her hands on her own heart before Naraku did. And it was with heart in hand she had rejected Naraku and left. She had been wondering alone ever since, until mating season of course then she was with Sesshoumaru...but he wasn't going to get into their sex life...it was good yeah but no one needed to know so eh. It was with this in mind he came to a decision.
"Fair enough Kagura follow me back to Edo...where I may not love you, I do care for you strongly, and it will probably eventually grow to love...but until then we court...in the traditional way." Sesshoumaru said to the young demoness as he took her and pulling her to his chest and kissing her soundly, whilst simultaneously summoning his youki cloud and began the small trip back to the little village. He just knew that the surprises weren’t over and that his head ache wouldn't have a chance to go away anytime soon, he had a funny feeling that by the time this evening was over he would want to crawl into a corner and not come out for a while...great.
…...
"AHHH! GHOSTS DO FREAKING EXIST!" was the yell that everyone in the village of Edo heard coming from one of their favourite in house Inu's. Yep Inuyasha had just seen his mother...WITH his FATHER who was to the best of his knowledge DEAD! Leading him to the conclusion that Ghosts did in fact exist.
"Little brother what is this inane ranting of ghosts about?" Sesshoumaru asked having just landed with Kagura. Inuyasha said nothing but just pointed. Sesshoumaru followed his brothers’ finger only to have his eyes rest on the figure of his mother AND father! Both brothers took one look at each other and...well passed out from shock. Of course this reaction just had Toga on the ground in hysterics at his two pups. Ah yes...it was always fun to freak out his pups, they were so good for it sometimes, oh and he's missed them to...of course.