InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Space Time Continuum ❯ Showdown ( Chapter 19 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: Anubis_Himura 
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Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): / Sci-fi / Romance / Hentai | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.02.2004 | Pages: 6 | Words: 6.1K | Visits: 406 | Status: Completed
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Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): / Sci-fi / Romance / Hentai | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.02.2004 | Pages: 6 | Words: 6.1K | Visits: 406 | Status: Completed
*(authors note within the story)*
"~ some one on the other line of a phone ~"
19: Showdown
"Shippo! You are leaving on Saturday!" Sesshomaru called through the house, looking for the Kitsune as he placed the groceries on the counters (wherever there was space).
"What? Where am I going?" Shippo came walking out of his room, looking thoroughly bored.
"I have a date and I'm bringing her here for dinner so you are going to go to her house and get to know her son." he stated plainly.
"WHAT? You want me to hang out with some kid I don't even know all afternoon?" Shippo whined loudly.
"Hai, pretty much." Sesshomaru stated.
"No way Sess. Nu uh. Ain't gonna happen."
"Help me put away these groceries and we'll discuss it." Sesshomaru began putting away boxes and cans.
"That is code for, 'help me do chores and I'll still tell you what to do'." Shippo continued to whine even though he did help put away groceries.
"You sound more like Inuyasha every second." Sesshomaru shook his head and Shippo sighed his defeat.
"What's his name?"
"Kumanosuke" Sesshomaru answered shortly.
"Sounds like a dork."
"Finish the groceries. I have better things to do."
§¤~*~
"This is where my plan became tricky. I talked to the devil." this caused Kikyou to receive odd glances from both parties. "I told him my predicament and that I wanted to be with you, but I needed help. So, he helped me. He told me that I had until August twenty fifth two thousand and six to get Inuyasha to fall in love with me and forget about Kagome. I thought I had a fair chance, since he did love me once. I came back to earth, as a human now, since I did have part of my soul. The devil of course provided for the rest of it. Anyway, so I went to Inuyasha in the year eighteen hundred and sixty four and I tricked him into . . . sleeping with me. Only, I lied. I didn't really have him sleep with me. It was a spell. I covered him in a sleeping powder that I made from some herbs I gathered, and then I put a spell on him to have a dream that I slept with him. Naturally I had help conjuring the potions but that is beside the point. The point of this was to get him to realize how much better I was and fall in love with me again and forget you. It didn't work though, he completely ignored me again, as always, and continued waiting for you. Then, when he told you last night, you were suppose to break up with him. But NO, you had to go and be all understanding! Stupid hussy!"
"Excuse me? You will not call me a 'hussy', thank you very much." Kagome stood up angrily and glared at Kikyou threateningly.
"Back off . . . Hussy." Kikyou glared threateningly as well and the two girls prepared for a verbal fight. Or, with the way Kagome felt toward Kikyou, a physical fight.
"You are such a bitch."
"Want to do something about it? Hussy!"
Inuyasha watched the two girls, he would have stepped in between them, but it was almost fun to watch them shoot daggers at each other. Kagome lunged on Kikyou, preparing to gauge her eyes out, rip out her stringy hair, anything she could do to cause bodily harm. Kikyou wasn't as slow as she looked though, she was quick to counter. A jab to Kagome's jaw caused her lip to bleed and Kikyou laughed evilly. Kagome took a few seconds to recover from the jab before she landed one of her own on the side of Kikyou's face, no doubt earning her a black eye. Kagome seemed happy with that and was going to back off when Kikyou took her entire body and tackled Kagome to the ground. Kagome fought to get the Priestess off her but her grip held good. Kagome kneed her in the stomach and Kikyou rolled over in pain. Getting a chance to get up she stood up and kicked Kikyou in the ribs. Kikyou, getting steadily more pissed off, rolled away from Kagome and stood up before kicking her to the ground. Now Inuyasha was really pissed, he stood in the way and stopped Kikyou from hurting Kagome any more. When Kikyou pushed him away (even though he had amazing reflexes and balance he wasn't expecting her to push him and he stumbled over a bit) she began to kick Kagome in the ribs and then bent over her, punching her in the face. Inuyasha yanked her up, away from Kagome and almost threw her out the door. He then knelt down and kindly helped up Kagome who pretended she was fine. Both girls were panting, and very well beaten.
"See if you get answers from me now. Hussy!" Kikyou yelled as she walked out the door. Kagome was tempted to chase after her but Inuyasha held her back.
"Are you okay?" he asked, looking at the bruises already forming on her face.
"Let me at her!" she tried to jump to the door but Inuyasha held on to her. He then picked her up and put her on the counter.
"Are you okay?" he repeated as he touched her lip and she flinched, it was bleeding really badly and would no doubt swell.
"I'm fine. It doesn't hurt." she lied.
"Well, it will later, once your adrenaline goes down." Inuyasha warned.
"I hate that wench!"
§¤*~
It was time for second shift to take over and Kagome was thankful. Her lip was killing her and so was her eye, so much so that she was barely able to keep it open. Inuyasha had stayed with her most of the day, except when he went to get her ice for her lip and eye.
"Bye Kahori." Kagome tried to say cheerfully.
"Bye Kag. Take care of that eye, it looks swollen."
"Thanks." Kagome was led out the door by Inuyasha. "I actually couldn't be happier right now, despite the fact that I have an excruciating pain, taking up most of my face."
"Why is that love? Sorry Ma'am." Inuyasha said as he narrowly avoided knocking an elderly man off the sidewalk.
"I think that was a guy." Kagome whispered.
Inuyasha looked back to see in fact it was a male. "Oops." he opened the door to her car for her and she got in thanking him. He then got into the passengers seat and Kagome began driving home.
"Getting back to your question, I am psyched because even though I have a broken lip and a black eye I think Kikyou is just as bad off. Also, that whole thing, with you sleeping with her, that was a trick. You didn't cheat on me. Ever! Yay!" Kagome seemed to be very happy and bobbed her head as she turned on the radio in her car.
Inuyasha changed the station and Kagome glared at him. He didn't like that look, quickly he found the station she was listening to before. She smiled and continued bobbing her head to an American pop song. He shook his head, and laughed to himself.
"What?" she asked, attempting to smile.
"Nothing." he shook his head again and smiled.
§¤*~ Saturday
"SHIPPO!!!!!!!! I TOLD YOU TO CLEAN UP YOUR ROOM!" Sesshomaru yelled from the kitsune's room. Shippo, standing not two feet away from him, quickly covered his ears and shut his eyes.
"She isn't going to be inspecting the house Sess!" Shippo retaliated.
"CLEAN YOUR ROOM!" Sesshomaru growled. He walked away, emotionless mask back on, with his calm composure.
"Stupid, mean, bipolar, son of-" Shippo mumbled
"I can hear you fox." Sesshomaru said over his shoulder. "Why did I get stuck with the fox?"
Inuyasha chose this time to come home. Him and Kagome hadn't moved into their new house yet and, even though he spent most of his time with Kagome, her friends had 'kidnapped' her so they could go shopping.
"Hey Sess." he threw his keys on the coffee table and sat down on the couch, placing his feet carelessly on the same coffee table.
"Inuyasha?" Sesshomaru asked urgently.
"Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha mocked his urgency.
"What are you doing here?"
"I live here baka. I haven't moved out yet."
"Well, I know that, but why are you here . . . today? Didn't I explain to you I had a date today?"
"Hai? So?" Inuyasha didn't seem to get his point.
"The date is coming here!"
"Oh. I didn't know that. Oops." Inuyasha didn't budge from his spot.
"Go! Go play with the Miko."
"Kagome's off shopping with her friends." he said as Sesshomaru kicked his legs, forcing him to stand, and began shoving him out the door. "I don't even have my keys." Sesshomaru fixed that, he dashed back to the coffee table, coming back seconds later with Inuyasha's keys.
"Hey, thanks." Inuyasha said sarcastically.
"Okay, go." Inuyasha mumbled under his breath as the elevator door opened and he walked in.
Sesshomaru exhaled deeply as he walked back to Shippo's room, which was slightly cleaner than before. "Okay, lets go."
A half hour later Sesshomaru and Shippo came upon a small apartment building. Shippo exited the car, followed closely by Sesshomaru. Sess walked into the apartment building and across the hall to apartment 1A. "Be good." he whispered to Shippo, who rolled his eyes.
A soft knock on the door was followed by an angelic voice saying "Just a sec." and the soft pitter-patter of a cute demon's feet shuffling across the room on the other side of the door.
The door was gently pulled open to reveal Nyoko, standing in the frame smiling sweetly. Her concealing spell was no longer on and Sesshomaru saw her true form. She was even more gorgeous than before. Her hair was a deep red that stopped promptly at her shoulders, but strands seemed to cup under her chin to frame her cheeks. Her eyes were bright orange with slight flecks of black. Her ears were pointy, sticking out threw her hair, and slightly twitching due to her racked nerves. Sesshomaru couldn't stop himself from staring over her. She was wearing a black tank-top with a jean jacket over it. Her pants were loose, black dress pants, decorated casually with a silver chain as a belt. She beckoned the two boys in and closed the door behind them.
"Kumanosuke! Our guests are here." a very, very tall demon walked into the room. His aura was very strong and Sesshomaru could sense his protectiveness over his mother.
"Hello Kumanosuke, I am Sess, its a pleasure to meet you." Sesshomaru extended his hand and Kumanosuke accepted it hesitantly.
"Hello Sess-Sama." he bowed his head slightly in a show of respect.
"My name is Shippo." Shippo repeated Sesshomaru's actions and Kumanosuke accepted his hand as well.
"Shall we go Sess?" Nyoko asked kindly. He nodded curtly in response.
"It was nice meeting you Kumanosuke." he said. Now it was Kumanosuke's turn to nod curtly.
"Have a great day sweetie." Nyoko tried to kiss the top of her sons head but she was far to short and ended up standing on her tip-toes to kiss his cheek.
"Have fun Shippo." Sesshomaru followed Nyoko's lead out the door, leaving Shippo and Kumanosuke to 'bond'.
Kumanosuke watched his mother walk out the door when his half-hearted smile became a look of malice.
"Listen here ya little runt!" he shouted at Shippo, "I don't like that no good excuse for a demon, and I definitely don't like you. So you are going to sit outside the apartment and not talk to me, this whole day! You got that!" Kumanosuke pushed Shippo toward the door and Shippo angrily planted his feet into the ground. When that didn't work, a quick transformation to distract Kumanosuke and Shippo was behind him, smiling devilishly.
"Why don't you listen elf boy. Sess seems to like your mother, for whatever reason, I don't know, don't really care, but you are not going to make me hang around outside while you hang out in here. Because you know if I go anywhere you are going to play innocent and blame me then Sess will fry me! No, I don't think so thanks. So you and I are going to get to know each other, and we are going to bond. DEAL WITH IT!" Shippo, for the first time in his life, looked angry. Kumanosuke, who didn't know if being angry was a natural thing for Shippo, or if this was indeed a first time, didn't really care. He just knew that Shippo Tenkai was not one to mess with.
"Gomen." he replied. Shippo backed off and smiled sweetly.
"Now, what did you want to do today?"
§¤*~
Inuyasha wandered aimlessly, and very bored, around the mall. He had checked the book stores, and the CD shops, he'd been to Hot Topic, he even checked Linens and Things (thinking she might be looking for house decorations). Where else would Kagome be? Then, he spotted it . . . Victoria's Secret. He shook his head as he, only partially reluctantly, walked into the feminine store.
A friendly lady greeted him at the front, she seemed to come out of one of their catalogs she was so perfect. But, he didn't dally on that, instead he walked between the tables of various undergarments, and racks of skimpy nightgowns, looking for one person. He considered taking off his concealing spell and just sniffing for her. That would be funny! To watch all the people in the mall give him odd glances as he sniffed for Kagome. Finally, he saw her, talking to her friends about Kami knows what. He walked up to them and something interesting caught his ear. Was that his name?
"Nu uh." Kahori said.
"Yes. I intend too." Kagome reassured.
"Does he know?" Ayume asked.
"No. But, I'm hoping with a little persuasion ," Kagome emphasized the word, "he'll agree."
"Sweetie trust me. If you wear that, he will agree." Ayume laughed, which caused the other two to laugh as well.
"Well, it's not just that, I mean, this is a cute night gown." Kagome defended.
"Hai, sure." Ayume rolled her eyes.
"Shut up." Kagome scoffed.
"Ooh, honey moon in St. Lucia, that sounds so great." Kahori fawned.
"I just hope Inuyasha likes the idea."
Inuyasha smiled to himself. Now he knew exactly where to take her, and he could pretend he thought of it on his own. Ha! But she'd see through that. He decided he needed to leave the store before her and her friends saw him. He did want to catch a glimpse of that nightgown though. He walked out to the benches and waited till the right moment to nonchalantly walk passed Kagome.
"Hey Inuyasha?" Kagome said as he walked by.
He turned around and with an actors smile said, "Oh hey Kag." the pair hugged while Kagome's friends rolled their eyes, and 'awed' just the same.
"I thought you were going to hang out with Shippo today." Kagome said as the four continued walking.
"I was but Sess was going to bring his date to the apartment so I was kicked out, and Shippo was going to hang out with the chicks son." Inuyasha explained. "So, I came here on the off chance I'd see the love of my life."
Kagome smiled coyly before replying, "Oh, did you find him yet?"
"Nah, he keeps slipping right passed me I reckon." Inuyasha joked back, "So what did you buy?"
"Not much, some herbal hair care products, a CD, a fairy T-Shirt from Hot Topic, that's about it." Kagome had put the Victoria's Secret bag into the Hot Topic one, so Inuyasha didn't have any reason to ask what she bought there.
"Cool. I think I am going to go though, I have some trucks to load." he smiled mischievously. "Bye" he kissed Kagome and her friends pretended to gag.
"Bye Yash." she said as they slowly pulled apart.
"Bye Yash." her friends mocked when Inuyasha was well out of hearing range.
"Shut up"
§¤*~
It was nearing two in the morning when Sesshomaru and Nyoko finally decided Nyoko should be taken home and Shippo should be picked up. Sesshomaru reluctantly drove Nyoko home, the pair had had a great night. They talked about everything from music to deep secrets.
"Do you mind if I tell my brother about your mate? He would appreciate that knowledge." Sesshomaru asked as they walked to Nyoko's apartment door.
"That is fine. I don't believe in keeping secrets, especially secrets of such magnitude." Nyoko unlocked her door and walked in. The house was quiet . . . much too quiet.
"Come on in won't you?" Nyoko asked, placing her keys on a rack that hung by the door.
"Mom? Is that you?"
"Yes dear. Where are you kids?" Kumanosuke walked out from his room, which was barely visible from where the older pair was standing.
"Hey Mom. Did you have fun?"
"Yes, we did. Thank you for asking. Where is Shippo?"
"Oh, he is still watching the movie. Its almost over. We had a great time. I really like Shippo." Even though he can be scary.
"That is good to hear son. I'm glad. Which movie are you watching?"
"The dumb one that I got for my birthday from my ex-girlfriend. The one about the half-demon who falls in love with a chick but she is from another time. Its called like, the Love that Surpasses Time or something." he shrugged. *(Haha haha, the first Inuyasha movie! I make myself laugh!)*
"Oh, I like that movie." Nyoko defended. Shippo walked out from the room, yawning widely.
"Hey Sess." he said.
"Hello Shippo. Ready to go?"
Shippo just nodded. "Bye Kuman. Nice meeting you Nyoko."
Sesshomaru wasn't as quick about his good-byes. He said good-bye to Kuman but when it came time to say good-bye to Nyoko he procrastinated.
"Good Bye Nyoko." he kissed her hand softly.
"Good bye Sesshomaru." she repeated.
"Bye." he said again.
"Bye." this time they kissed each others lips. A soft 'ahem' from Kuman made the couple break away quicker than they wanted to. "Go," Nyoko said in a sweet tone.
"I'll call you."
"Please do."
§¤*~
"Inuyasha." Sesshomaru was speaking to his half-brother on the phone, "I have something to tell you, that could be important. I would like to speak with you as soon as possible. Bring Kagome if you could."
"~Sess, look, Kagome and I are kind of, practicing for our honeymoon. We could be busy for a few days.~" Inuyasha said.
Sesshomaru rolled his eyes before replying with, "Then, dear brother, why are you on the phone now?"
"~Well, she's sleeping.~"
"Then wake her up. Unless you don't want information regarding the Kikyou, Space Time Continuum ploy."
"~Fine, I'll wake her. We'll be over in a few hours.~" Inuyasha hung up the phone without saying good bye.
"Bye to you too." Sesshomaru said sarcastically as he hung up the phone.
§¤*~
"Kagome," Inuyasha gently shook the girl, laying angelically on the bed.
"Mmm?" she yawned slightly as her eyes fluttered open.
"Hey, Sess says he has information that might help us. I can go by myself if you want to sleep."
"Oh, no I'm awake." she yawned again, "right now?" Inuyasha nodded. Kagome sat up and busied herself with getting dressed. Inuyasha followed her actions, since he was simply dressed in sleek black boxers.
Kagome sat on the bed, skillfully braiding her long ebony hair. Twisting the elastic around the end and working on the other braid. Inuyasha watched her in silence, she wasn't aware that her fiance's eyes were transfixed on her, until her hair was completed and she looked up to his amber eyes piercing through her.
"What?" she asked, slightly confused.
"Nothing." he smiled at her "Lets go."he stood up and Kagome followed him out the door. She didn't know if she liked this mysterious thing he was doing lately, but she didn't mind it either.
§¤*~
Kagome and Inuyasha sat down on the couch, Sesshomaru sat in his usual chair and Bach was playing ceaselessly in the background. Inuyasha waited for the information that Sesshomaru would be sharing. Sesshomaru exhaled a few times and opened his mouth to say something, but thought better of it and closed his mouth again. After the fifth or so time he did this Inuyasha got a little angry.
"Will ya just tell us already?!"
"Fine." Sesshomaru sat on the edge of his chair, as though this were story time, and began talking, "Nyoko, my date from last night, is a demon. She has been around for many, many years. My thoughts were wrong, she is only fifty years younger than I, and still as gorgeous as the sunrise in spring time."
"Does this story have a point?" Inuyasha interrupted.
Sesshomaru scoffed, "Nyoko once had a mate. A powerful hanyou. This hanyou used her. He formed an alliance with, an enemy, and used Nyoko to help this . . . enemy."
"Look, would you just use names and tell us what the fuck your talking about?"
"Fine Inuyasha, I was trying to be easy on you, but I can see you'll have none of that. Nyoko was mated to, Naraku." the pair sitting opposite Sesshomaru became pale and waited for him to continue, "Naraku used her as a part in Kikyou's 'master plan'. Nyoko didn't know it was you two that she was plotting against, she didn't know anything. Naraku asked her to help Kikyou build an illusionary time dimension. Inuyasha, remember when you thought that your mother came back, but it was really an illusion?" Inuyasha nodded, "Well, it was the same thing when Kikyou allegedly brought you back to before the jewel, before her death and you-" he stopped talking, not sure of what Kagome knew.
"Right, but we knew that was fake. Kikyou told us. What we don't know is A, Naraku had a mate? When did this happen? B, why can Inuyasha have 'encounters' with people and I can't even go on a date without getting a Migraine? C, Inuyasha tried to prove to me who I was, when I had no memories, but we couldn't get through the well, so why could we one time later? D, oh I had another question. I'll think of it later." Kagome looked to either demon to give her answers, because she knew only they could.
"I can explain the headaches. You see, a long time ago, mating was very popular, anyway, you know how men were stereotypically more dominant and the wife was more like 'yes sir','oh yes darling what can I do for you'? Well, demons tended to have the same philosophy. Though, we do mate for life and we stick with them for life we, as in demons, tended to let the men have a little more fun than the women." Inuyasha explained, he was trying to be delicate because he knew Kagome would get ticked off.
"Well what if we broke up?! So you would be able to do whatever you wanted and I'd have to be an old bat who can't date anyone?!"
"Kind of." Inuyasha chuckled nervously. "But we aren't going to break up." he put his arm around Kagome and she calmed down slightly.
"I just don't think it's fair." she complained.
"Allow me to interject, if I may." Sesshomaru said, Inuyasha was now nuzzling Kagome's neck trying to get her to smile, he looked over to his brother and stopped his actions, "I can answer your other questions Kagome."
"Please do." Kagome uncrossed her arms and listened intently.
"Yes Naraku had a mate. It apparently happened sometime during your travels with Inuyasha because Nyoko was mated to him, helping him plot against you two. The issue regarding the well, the reason Inuyasha could go back and you couldn't one time but could the other, well, as you know Kikyou put a spell on the well so that you could never come back to destroy her life again. Nyoko began realizing what exactly she was doing and got very angry, she unblocked the well. Then Kikyou found out and blocked it again, so the two kept blocking and unblocking the well, it just so happens that one of the times you tried Nyoko hadn't unblocked it yet. Also, you didn't ask this but, when you originally went back to your own time but left behind the Shikon no Tama, the reason you were able to get through the well was because you had a piece inside you." Kagome looked very confused at this and looked down at herself to see what he was talking about. "Look at the jewel." Inuyasha pulled the jewel up from its resting place around his neck and looked at it. It looked just as it had for five hundred years, whole and . . .
"It isn't whole." he marveled. "Look there, an almost microscopic piece is missing." Kagome looked over and noticed that in fact there was the tiniest chip gone.
"My word."
"You will always have a piece within you because that is where the jewel feels it belongs." Sesshomaru noted.
"But why don't I sense it?" Kagome asked.
"Probably because its been there for so long. You never sensed the jewel in you before you came to the past did you?" Kagome shook her head, "There you have it." Sesshomaru sat back, for the first time since his brother and Kagome had arrived that day.
"Oh! I thought of my other question. How is Nyoko dating you without experiencing the headaches?"
"Well, when your mate dies the bond is broken." Sesshomaru explained easily.
"Oh, so if I wanted to be with someone else I could just kill Inuyasha?"
"Hai basically."
"Cool."
"Great, plotting my demise all ready." Inuyasha rolled his eyes. Kagome laughed and put her arms around him, he held her back closely. Sesshomaru took his turn at rolling his eyes now as the pair became more affectionate.
"Is that all?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Hmm?" Kagome didn't seem to realize he was still there.
"I'll be in my office if you need me." he stood up and looked at the couple, still trapped in their own world, "my guess is, you won't."
§¤*~
"Inuyasha?" Kagome whispered, if he wasn't awake she didn't want to wake him for such a dumb reason.
"Hmm?" he was just about to fall asleep when a soft voice whispered in his ear.
"How do you suppose we get rid of Kikyou? Again?"
"I don't" he yawned loudly, almost sounding like a howl, "know." he finished.
"Before she left on her own. But she wasn't really gone. Now, she's back, but I don't think she'll be as easy to leave. What did she mean when she that she would be gone in August? Should we just wait? Is she really going to marry Souta? How can he marry her?" Kagome seemed to be thinking out loud and not really talking to Inuyasha so he had started going back to sleep. "What do you think Inuyasha?"
"Hmm? What?" he opened his eyes again and looked at Kagome. She didn't look as happy as she did a few hours ago, she looked downright depressed.
"Never mind. Sorry, go back to sleep." Kagome pulled the blankets back and got out of bed. She wasn't mad at him, he would have sensed it, she was just confused and sad.
Kagome hadn't spent the night at Inuyasha's apartment in a while, he always slept at hers, so when she went to go into the kitchen and accidentally walked into Sesshomaru's room, there were problems. She tried to turn around and fix her mistake but he had seen her.
"Don't you knock?" he asked.
"Don't you close your door?" she retaliated.
"Touche." he wasn't laying in bed, he was sitting on his bed, but it was dark and Kagome had no idea what he was doing. "So what are you doing up this late?"
"I was just thinking. I didn't want to wake up Inuyasha, he seemed to be content with sleeping. I just can't stop thinking about Kikyou. She said her time was running out, then there's the fact that she is going to marry my brother. What is that about? I know she was just trying to get close to the family but if she knows that she is going to die or something why wouldn't she just be friends with him? It would make more sense. Plus, Inuyasha doesn't seem to care about any of this, he seems to think everything is fine now that we know Kikyou's just a sadistic psycho bitch. And Nyoko, why would she want to help a random girl from another time? Why didn't she go to Inuyasha and help him get me back or something? Did she just forget over the years? I don't even know how you guys remembered me. I can't even remember what I ate for lunch yesterday, never mind trying to remember things from five hundred years ago. And where did you get a second arm?" Kagome seemed to be rambling and Sesshomaru allowed her to do so, never moving from his location on the bed.
"Kagome, you need to calm down. I know that everything seems confusing, because it is, but there is nothing to worry yourself about. You have to worry about wedding plans, and moving into your new house to get my brother out of my hair. Nyoko remembers things better than anyone I know. Besides, it is truly difficult to forget such monumental events in ones life, no matter how old you live to. Also, for demons it is easier in the first place because we are so much smarter than humans."
"And twice as arrogant." Kagome interrupted.
"Well there's that." Sesshomaru seemed to be light hearted and Kagome liked the 'new' him. He was much easier to talk to. "Kikyou is going to die soon. I am sure of it. You have nothing to worry about, just don't fall into a last feeble attempt at getting Inuyasha back okay? Watch yourself. My second arm? You just noticed?" Sesshomaru seemed to stiffen up and his voice became shaky, "It was a gift is all. Now, run along to bed."
"Whatever." Kagome reasoned she'd just ask Inuyasha later. "Night Sess."
"Night, good bye." he said hurriedly.
Kagome got back into bed and looked up at the ceiling. She forgot why she had gotten out of bed in the first place but felt much better now that she had talked to someone about all the issues she still had. Kagome looked over at Inuyasha who was snoring ridiculously loudly. She turned on to her side and fluffed her pillow into a comfortable sleeping position. The sudden movement on the bed caused Inuyasha's snoring to cease and he turned over, with his back to Kagome. She gently draped her arm over him and inhaled the scent of his long silver locks. She loved his natural scent. The happiness slowly returned to her and she began to drift asleep.
"All right. I'll help you. What do I have to do?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Just kill the wench."
"Nyoko too?"
"Most definitely."
"Kagome first?"
"Hai."
Sesshomaru looked around for a distraction. "You really want me to do this Kikyou?"
"Of course. Kill Kagome and then Nyoko! The wench that stole my Inuyasha! The bitch who has been working non-stop against me for hundreds of years. They must both die! And if you try to warn Kagome again I will kill you. Now do as I say or I will take back my arm and I will see to it that you come to hell with me."
"Fine. I'll do it."
§¤*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ^_^
Oh I'm sorry end of chapter. *tears* I tried to make it longer because I love you guys and you deserve great long chapters filled with fun and excitement and showdowns! It's still only like 12 pages though, but that is twice as long as my normal 5 so I guess that is good. *shrug* I tried I really did. But I wanted to leave it here cause I'm an evil psycho bitch. Hey, I'm Kikyou! Woo! O_o
Anyway, I was re-reading a one-shot I wrote and I said Luky instead of Lucky haha, I found that amusing. Wow I'm retarded. Also, I finally watched The Blue Collar Comedy Tour. That was some funny stuff right there. I was like the only person in my school who hadn't seen it. Of course my school is a bunch of redneck hicks who kick ass! Hehe! Go rams! I also saw Freaky Friday and Peter Pan. Those two movies kicked butt too. I had never seen the original London production of Peter Pan or the disney version with the cartoons nor had I seen Captain Hook, so watching this movie was cool. Freaky Friday was great too but only because I love Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. Though I would love for my mom to spend a day in my life, haha that would be the best. I don't think anyone even reads these anyway. Also my audition for Les Miserables is today at three *shudder* wish me luck, though even if you do I won't get it till after the audition. *sigh* love you!
AHHHH! Had to go back and add this . . . audtion today, you may recall haha! I think I might get a part in the chorus but I doubt I got Eponine, which was my goal *tear* but I can always sing On My Own (which is the only song that kicks major ass really besides Little Fall of Rain but that is another story all together) to myself as much as I want. So I will!
"~ some one on the other line of a phone ~"
19: Showdown
"Shippo! You are leaving on Saturday!" Sesshomaru called through the house, looking for the Kitsune as he placed the groceries on the counters (wherever there was space).
"What? Where am I going?" Shippo came walking out of his room, looking thoroughly bored.
"I have a date and I'm bringing her here for dinner so you are going to go to her house and get to know her son." he stated plainly.
"WHAT? You want me to hang out with some kid I don't even know all afternoon?" Shippo whined loudly.
"Hai, pretty much." Sesshomaru stated.
"No way Sess. Nu uh. Ain't gonna happen."
"Help me put away these groceries and we'll discuss it." Sesshomaru began putting away boxes and cans.
"That is code for, 'help me do chores and I'll still tell you what to do'." Shippo continued to whine even though he did help put away groceries.
"You sound more like Inuyasha every second." Sesshomaru shook his head and Shippo sighed his defeat.
"What's his name?"
"Kumanosuke" Sesshomaru answered shortly.
"Sounds like a dork."
"Finish the groceries. I have better things to do."
§¤~*~
"This is where my plan became tricky. I talked to the devil." this caused Kikyou to receive odd glances from both parties. "I told him my predicament and that I wanted to be with you, but I needed help. So, he helped me. He told me that I had until August twenty fifth two thousand and six to get Inuyasha to fall in love with me and forget about Kagome. I thought I had a fair chance, since he did love me once. I came back to earth, as a human now, since I did have part of my soul. The devil of course provided for the rest of it. Anyway, so I went to Inuyasha in the year eighteen hundred and sixty four and I tricked him into . . . sleeping with me. Only, I lied. I didn't really have him sleep with me. It was a spell. I covered him in a sleeping powder that I made from some herbs I gathered, and then I put a spell on him to have a dream that I slept with him. Naturally I had help conjuring the potions but that is beside the point. The point of this was to get him to realize how much better I was and fall in love with me again and forget you. It didn't work though, he completely ignored me again, as always, and continued waiting for you. Then, when he told you last night, you were suppose to break up with him. But NO, you had to go and be all understanding! Stupid hussy!"
"Excuse me? You will not call me a 'hussy', thank you very much." Kagome stood up angrily and glared at Kikyou threateningly.
"Back off . . . Hussy." Kikyou glared threateningly as well and the two girls prepared for a verbal fight. Or, with the way Kagome felt toward Kikyou, a physical fight.
"You are such a bitch."
"Want to do something about it? Hussy!"
Inuyasha watched the two girls, he would have stepped in between them, but it was almost fun to watch them shoot daggers at each other. Kagome lunged on Kikyou, preparing to gauge her eyes out, rip out her stringy hair, anything she could do to cause bodily harm. Kikyou wasn't as slow as she looked though, she was quick to counter. A jab to Kagome's jaw caused her lip to bleed and Kikyou laughed evilly. Kagome took a few seconds to recover from the jab before she landed one of her own on the side of Kikyou's face, no doubt earning her a black eye. Kagome seemed happy with that and was going to back off when Kikyou took her entire body and tackled Kagome to the ground. Kagome fought to get the Priestess off her but her grip held good. Kagome kneed her in the stomach and Kikyou rolled over in pain. Getting a chance to get up she stood up and kicked Kikyou in the ribs. Kikyou, getting steadily more pissed off, rolled away from Kagome and stood up before kicking her to the ground. Now Inuyasha was really pissed, he stood in the way and stopped Kikyou from hurting Kagome any more. When Kikyou pushed him away (even though he had amazing reflexes and balance he wasn't expecting her to push him and he stumbled over a bit) she began to kick Kagome in the ribs and then bent over her, punching her in the face. Inuyasha yanked her up, away from Kagome and almost threw her out the door. He then knelt down and kindly helped up Kagome who pretended she was fine. Both girls were panting, and very well beaten.
"See if you get answers from me now. Hussy!" Kikyou yelled as she walked out the door. Kagome was tempted to chase after her but Inuyasha held her back.
"Are you okay?" he asked, looking at the bruises already forming on her face.
"Let me at her!" she tried to jump to the door but Inuyasha held on to her. He then picked her up and put her on the counter.
"Are you okay?" he repeated as he touched her lip and she flinched, it was bleeding really badly and would no doubt swell.
"I'm fine. It doesn't hurt." she lied.
"Well, it will later, once your adrenaline goes down." Inuyasha warned.
"I hate that wench!"
§¤*~
It was time for second shift to take over and Kagome was thankful. Her lip was killing her and so was her eye, so much so that she was barely able to keep it open. Inuyasha had stayed with her most of the day, except when he went to get her ice for her lip and eye.
"Bye Kahori." Kagome tried to say cheerfully.
"Bye Kag. Take care of that eye, it looks swollen."
"Thanks." Kagome was led out the door by Inuyasha. "I actually couldn't be happier right now, despite the fact that I have an excruciating pain, taking up most of my face."
"Why is that love? Sorry Ma'am." Inuyasha said as he narrowly avoided knocking an elderly man off the sidewalk.
"I think that was a guy." Kagome whispered.
Inuyasha looked back to see in fact it was a male. "Oops." he opened the door to her car for her and she got in thanking him. He then got into the passengers seat and Kagome began driving home.
"Getting back to your question, I am psyched because even though I have a broken lip and a black eye I think Kikyou is just as bad off. Also, that whole thing, with you sleeping with her, that was a trick. You didn't cheat on me. Ever! Yay!" Kagome seemed to be very happy and bobbed her head as she turned on the radio in her car.
Inuyasha changed the station and Kagome glared at him. He didn't like that look, quickly he found the station she was listening to before. She smiled and continued bobbing her head to an American pop song. He shook his head, and laughed to himself.
"What?" she asked, attempting to smile.
"Nothing." he shook his head again and smiled.
§¤*~ Saturday
"SHIPPO!!!!!!!! I TOLD YOU TO CLEAN UP YOUR ROOM!" Sesshomaru yelled from the kitsune's room. Shippo, standing not two feet away from him, quickly covered his ears and shut his eyes.
"She isn't going to be inspecting the house Sess!" Shippo retaliated.
"CLEAN YOUR ROOM!" Sesshomaru growled. He walked away, emotionless mask back on, with his calm composure.
"Stupid, mean, bipolar, son of-" Shippo mumbled
"I can hear you fox." Sesshomaru said over his shoulder. "Why did I get stuck with the fox?"
Inuyasha chose this time to come home. Him and Kagome hadn't moved into their new house yet and, even though he spent most of his time with Kagome, her friends had 'kidnapped' her so they could go shopping.
"Hey Sess." he threw his keys on the coffee table and sat down on the couch, placing his feet carelessly on the same coffee table.
"Inuyasha?" Sesshomaru asked urgently.
"Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha mocked his urgency.
"What are you doing here?"
"I live here baka. I haven't moved out yet."
"Well, I know that, but why are you here . . . today? Didn't I explain to you I had a date today?"
"Hai? So?" Inuyasha didn't seem to get his point.
"The date is coming here!"
"Oh. I didn't know that. Oops." Inuyasha didn't budge from his spot.
"Go! Go play with the Miko."
"Kagome's off shopping with her friends." he said as Sesshomaru kicked his legs, forcing him to stand, and began shoving him out the door. "I don't even have my keys." Sesshomaru fixed that, he dashed back to the coffee table, coming back seconds later with Inuyasha's keys.
"Hey, thanks." Inuyasha said sarcastically.
"Okay, go." Inuyasha mumbled under his breath as the elevator door opened and he walked in.
Sesshomaru exhaled deeply as he walked back to Shippo's room, which was slightly cleaner than before. "Okay, lets go."
A half hour later Sesshomaru and Shippo came upon a small apartment building. Shippo exited the car, followed closely by Sesshomaru. Sess walked into the apartment building and across the hall to apartment 1A. "Be good." he whispered to Shippo, who rolled his eyes.
A soft knock on the door was followed by an angelic voice saying "Just a sec." and the soft pitter-patter of a cute demon's feet shuffling across the room on the other side of the door.
The door was gently pulled open to reveal Nyoko, standing in the frame smiling sweetly. Her concealing spell was no longer on and Sesshomaru saw her true form. She was even more gorgeous than before. Her hair was a deep red that stopped promptly at her shoulders, but strands seemed to cup under her chin to frame her cheeks. Her eyes were bright orange with slight flecks of black. Her ears were pointy, sticking out threw her hair, and slightly twitching due to her racked nerves. Sesshomaru couldn't stop himself from staring over her. She was wearing a black tank-top with a jean jacket over it. Her pants were loose, black dress pants, decorated casually with a silver chain as a belt. She beckoned the two boys in and closed the door behind them.
"Kumanosuke! Our guests are here." a very, very tall demon walked into the room. His aura was very strong and Sesshomaru could sense his protectiveness over his mother.
"Hello Kumanosuke, I am Sess, its a pleasure to meet you." Sesshomaru extended his hand and Kumanosuke accepted it hesitantly.
"Hello Sess-Sama." he bowed his head slightly in a show of respect.
"My name is Shippo." Shippo repeated Sesshomaru's actions and Kumanosuke accepted his hand as well.
"Shall we go Sess?" Nyoko asked kindly. He nodded curtly in response.
"It was nice meeting you Kumanosuke." he said. Now it was Kumanosuke's turn to nod curtly.
"Have a great day sweetie." Nyoko tried to kiss the top of her sons head but she was far to short and ended up standing on her tip-toes to kiss his cheek.
"Have fun Shippo." Sesshomaru followed Nyoko's lead out the door, leaving Shippo and Kumanosuke to 'bond'.
Kumanosuke watched his mother walk out the door when his half-hearted smile became a look of malice.
"Listen here ya little runt!" he shouted at Shippo, "I don't like that no good excuse for a demon, and I definitely don't like you. So you are going to sit outside the apartment and not talk to me, this whole day! You got that!" Kumanosuke pushed Shippo toward the door and Shippo angrily planted his feet into the ground. When that didn't work, a quick transformation to distract Kumanosuke and Shippo was behind him, smiling devilishly.
"Why don't you listen elf boy. Sess seems to like your mother, for whatever reason, I don't know, don't really care, but you are not going to make me hang around outside while you hang out in here. Because you know if I go anywhere you are going to play innocent and blame me then Sess will fry me! No, I don't think so thanks. So you and I are going to get to know each other, and we are going to bond. DEAL WITH IT!" Shippo, for the first time in his life, looked angry. Kumanosuke, who didn't know if being angry was a natural thing for Shippo, or if this was indeed a first time, didn't really care. He just knew that Shippo Tenkai was not one to mess with.
"Gomen." he replied. Shippo backed off and smiled sweetly.
"Now, what did you want to do today?"
§¤*~
Inuyasha wandered aimlessly, and very bored, around the mall. He had checked the book stores, and the CD shops, he'd been to Hot Topic, he even checked Linens and Things (thinking she might be looking for house decorations). Where else would Kagome be? Then, he spotted it . . . Victoria's Secret. He shook his head as he, only partially reluctantly, walked into the feminine store.
A friendly lady greeted him at the front, she seemed to come out of one of their catalogs she was so perfect. But, he didn't dally on that, instead he walked between the tables of various undergarments, and racks of skimpy nightgowns, looking for one person. He considered taking off his concealing spell and just sniffing for her. That would be funny! To watch all the people in the mall give him odd glances as he sniffed for Kagome. Finally, he saw her, talking to her friends about Kami knows what. He walked up to them and something interesting caught his ear. Was that his name?
"Nu uh." Kahori said.
"Yes. I intend too." Kagome reassured.
"Does he know?" Ayume asked.
"No. But, I'm hoping with a little persuasion ," Kagome emphasized the word, "he'll agree."
"Sweetie trust me. If you wear that, he will agree." Ayume laughed, which caused the other two to laugh as well.
"Well, it's not just that, I mean, this is a cute night gown." Kagome defended.
"Hai, sure." Ayume rolled her eyes.
"Shut up." Kagome scoffed.
"Ooh, honey moon in St. Lucia, that sounds so great." Kahori fawned.
"I just hope Inuyasha likes the idea."
Inuyasha smiled to himself. Now he knew exactly where to take her, and he could pretend he thought of it on his own. Ha! But she'd see through that. He decided he needed to leave the store before her and her friends saw him. He did want to catch a glimpse of that nightgown though. He walked out to the benches and waited till the right moment to nonchalantly walk passed Kagome.
"Hey Inuyasha?" Kagome said as he walked by.
He turned around and with an actors smile said, "Oh hey Kag." the pair hugged while Kagome's friends rolled their eyes, and 'awed' just the same.
"I thought you were going to hang out with Shippo today." Kagome said as the four continued walking.
"I was but Sess was going to bring his date to the apartment so I was kicked out, and Shippo was going to hang out with the chicks son." Inuyasha explained. "So, I came here on the off chance I'd see the love of my life."
Kagome smiled coyly before replying, "Oh, did you find him yet?"
"Nah, he keeps slipping right passed me I reckon." Inuyasha joked back, "So what did you buy?"
"Not much, some herbal hair care products, a CD, a fairy T-Shirt from Hot Topic, that's about it." Kagome had put the Victoria's Secret bag into the Hot Topic one, so Inuyasha didn't have any reason to ask what she bought there.
"Cool. I think I am going to go though, I have some trucks to load." he smiled mischievously. "Bye" he kissed Kagome and her friends pretended to gag.
"Bye Yash." she said as they slowly pulled apart.
"Bye Yash." her friends mocked when Inuyasha was well out of hearing range.
"Shut up"
§¤*~
It was nearing two in the morning when Sesshomaru and Nyoko finally decided Nyoko should be taken home and Shippo should be picked up. Sesshomaru reluctantly drove Nyoko home, the pair had had a great night. They talked about everything from music to deep secrets.
"Do you mind if I tell my brother about your mate? He would appreciate that knowledge." Sesshomaru asked as they walked to Nyoko's apartment door.
"That is fine. I don't believe in keeping secrets, especially secrets of such magnitude." Nyoko unlocked her door and walked in. The house was quiet . . . much too quiet.
"Come on in won't you?" Nyoko asked, placing her keys on a rack that hung by the door.
"Mom? Is that you?"
"Yes dear. Where are you kids?" Kumanosuke walked out from his room, which was barely visible from where the older pair was standing.
"Hey Mom. Did you have fun?"
"Yes, we did. Thank you for asking. Where is Shippo?"
"Oh, he is still watching the movie. Its almost over. We had a great time. I really like Shippo." Even though he can be scary.
"That is good to hear son. I'm glad. Which movie are you watching?"
"The dumb one that I got for my birthday from my ex-girlfriend. The one about the half-demon who falls in love with a chick but she is from another time. Its called like, the Love that Surpasses Time or something." he shrugged. *(Haha haha, the first Inuyasha movie! I make myself laugh!)*
"Oh, I like that movie." Nyoko defended. Shippo walked out from the room, yawning widely.
"Hey Sess." he said.
"Hello Shippo. Ready to go?"
Shippo just nodded. "Bye Kuman. Nice meeting you Nyoko."
Sesshomaru wasn't as quick about his good-byes. He said good-bye to Kuman but when it came time to say good-bye to Nyoko he procrastinated.
"Good Bye Nyoko." he kissed her hand softly.
"Good bye Sesshomaru." she repeated.
"Bye." he said again.
"Bye." this time they kissed each others lips. A soft 'ahem' from Kuman made the couple break away quicker than they wanted to. "Go," Nyoko said in a sweet tone.
"I'll call you."
"Please do."
§¤*~
"Inuyasha." Sesshomaru was speaking to his half-brother on the phone, "I have something to tell you, that could be important. I would like to speak with you as soon as possible. Bring Kagome if you could."
"~Sess, look, Kagome and I are kind of, practicing for our honeymoon. We could be busy for a few days.~" Inuyasha said.
Sesshomaru rolled his eyes before replying with, "Then, dear brother, why are you on the phone now?"
"~Well, she's sleeping.~"
"Then wake her up. Unless you don't want information regarding the Kikyou, Space Time Continuum ploy."
"~Fine, I'll wake her. We'll be over in a few hours.~" Inuyasha hung up the phone without saying good bye.
"Bye to you too." Sesshomaru said sarcastically as he hung up the phone.
§¤*~
"Kagome," Inuyasha gently shook the girl, laying angelically on the bed.
"Mmm?" she yawned slightly as her eyes fluttered open.
"Hey, Sess says he has information that might help us. I can go by myself if you want to sleep."
"Oh, no I'm awake." she yawned again, "right now?" Inuyasha nodded. Kagome sat up and busied herself with getting dressed. Inuyasha followed her actions, since he was simply dressed in sleek black boxers.
Kagome sat on the bed, skillfully braiding her long ebony hair. Twisting the elastic around the end and working on the other braid. Inuyasha watched her in silence, she wasn't aware that her fiance's eyes were transfixed on her, until her hair was completed and she looked up to his amber eyes piercing through her.
"What?" she asked, slightly confused.
"Nothing." he smiled at her "Lets go."he stood up and Kagome followed him out the door. She didn't know if she liked this mysterious thing he was doing lately, but she didn't mind it either.
§¤*~
Kagome and Inuyasha sat down on the couch, Sesshomaru sat in his usual chair and Bach was playing ceaselessly in the background. Inuyasha waited for the information that Sesshomaru would be sharing. Sesshomaru exhaled a few times and opened his mouth to say something, but thought better of it and closed his mouth again. After the fifth or so time he did this Inuyasha got a little angry.
"Will ya just tell us already?!"
"Fine." Sesshomaru sat on the edge of his chair, as though this were story time, and began talking, "Nyoko, my date from last night, is a demon. She has been around for many, many years. My thoughts were wrong, she is only fifty years younger than I, and still as gorgeous as the sunrise in spring time."
"Does this story have a point?" Inuyasha interrupted.
Sesshomaru scoffed, "Nyoko once had a mate. A powerful hanyou. This hanyou used her. He formed an alliance with, an enemy, and used Nyoko to help this . . . enemy."
"Look, would you just use names and tell us what the fuck your talking about?"
"Fine Inuyasha, I was trying to be easy on you, but I can see you'll have none of that. Nyoko was mated to, Naraku." the pair sitting opposite Sesshomaru became pale and waited for him to continue, "Naraku used her as a part in Kikyou's 'master plan'. Nyoko didn't know it was you two that she was plotting against, she didn't know anything. Naraku asked her to help Kikyou build an illusionary time dimension. Inuyasha, remember when you thought that your mother came back, but it was really an illusion?" Inuyasha nodded, "Well, it was the same thing when Kikyou allegedly brought you back to before the jewel, before her death and you-" he stopped talking, not sure of what Kagome knew.
"Right, but we knew that was fake. Kikyou told us. What we don't know is A, Naraku had a mate? When did this happen? B, why can Inuyasha have 'encounters' with people and I can't even go on a date without getting a Migraine? C, Inuyasha tried to prove to me who I was, when I had no memories, but we couldn't get through the well, so why could we one time later? D, oh I had another question. I'll think of it later." Kagome looked to either demon to give her answers, because she knew only they could.
"I can explain the headaches. You see, a long time ago, mating was very popular, anyway, you know how men were stereotypically more dominant and the wife was more like 'yes sir','oh yes darling what can I do for you'? Well, demons tended to have the same philosophy. Though, we do mate for life and we stick with them for life we, as in demons, tended to let the men have a little more fun than the women." Inuyasha explained, he was trying to be delicate because he knew Kagome would get ticked off.
"Well what if we broke up?! So you would be able to do whatever you wanted and I'd have to be an old bat who can't date anyone?!"
"Kind of." Inuyasha chuckled nervously. "But we aren't going to break up." he put his arm around Kagome and she calmed down slightly.
"I just don't think it's fair." she complained.
"Allow me to interject, if I may." Sesshomaru said, Inuyasha was now nuzzling Kagome's neck trying to get her to smile, he looked over to his brother and stopped his actions, "I can answer your other questions Kagome."
"Please do." Kagome uncrossed her arms and listened intently.
"Yes Naraku had a mate. It apparently happened sometime during your travels with Inuyasha because Nyoko was mated to him, helping him plot against you two. The issue regarding the well, the reason Inuyasha could go back and you couldn't one time but could the other, well, as you know Kikyou put a spell on the well so that you could never come back to destroy her life again. Nyoko began realizing what exactly she was doing and got very angry, she unblocked the well. Then Kikyou found out and blocked it again, so the two kept blocking and unblocking the well, it just so happens that one of the times you tried Nyoko hadn't unblocked it yet. Also, you didn't ask this but, when you originally went back to your own time but left behind the Shikon no Tama, the reason you were able to get through the well was because you had a piece inside you." Kagome looked very confused at this and looked down at herself to see what he was talking about. "Look at the jewel." Inuyasha pulled the jewel up from its resting place around his neck and looked at it. It looked just as it had for five hundred years, whole and . . .
"It isn't whole." he marveled. "Look there, an almost microscopic piece is missing." Kagome looked over and noticed that in fact there was the tiniest chip gone.
"My word."
"You will always have a piece within you because that is where the jewel feels it belongs." Sesshomaru noted.
"But why don't I sense it?" Kagome asked.
"Probably because its been there for so long. You never sensed the jewel in you before you came to the past did you?" Kagome shook her head, "There you have it." Sesshomaru sat back, for the first time since his brother and Kagome had arrived that day.
"Oh! I thought of my other question. How is Nyoko dating you without experiencing the headaches?"
"Well, when your mate dies the bond is broken." Sesshomaru explained easily.
"Oh, so if I wanted to be with someone else I could just kill Inuyasha?"
"Hai basically."
"Cool."
"Great, plotting my demise all ready." Inuyasha rolled his eyes. Kagome laughed and put her arms around him, he held her back closely. Sesshomaru took his turn at rolling his eyes now as the pair became more affectionate.
"Is that all?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Hmm?" Kagome didn't seem to realize he was still there.
"I'll be in my office if you need me." he stood up and looked at the couple, still trapped in their own world, "my guess is, you won't."
§¤*~
"Inuyasha?" Kagome whispered, if he wasn't awake she didn't want to wake him for such a dumb reason.
"Hmm?" he was just about to fall asleep when a soft voice whispered in his ear.
"How do you suppose we get rid of Kikyou? Again?"
"I don't" he yawned loudly, almost sounding like a howl, "know." he finished.
"Before she left on her own. But she wasn't really gone. Now, she's back, but I don't think she'll be as easy to leave. What did she mean when she that she would be gone in August? Should we just wait? Is she really going to marry Souta? How can he marry her?" Kagome seemed to be thinking out loud and not really talking to Inuyasha so he had started going back to sleep. "What do you think Inuyasha?"
"Hmm? What?" he opened his eyes again and looked at Kagome. She didn't look as happy as she did a few hours ago, she looked downright depressed.
"Never mind. Sorry, go back to sleep." Kagome pulled the blankets back and got out of bed. She wasn't mad at him, he would have sensed it, she was just confused and sad.
Kagome hadn't spent the night at Inuyasha's apartment in a while, he always slept at hers, so when she went to go into the kitchen and accidentally walked into Sesshomaru's room, there were problems. She tried to turn around and fix her mistake but he had seen her.
"Don't you knock?" he asked.
"Don't you close your door?" she retaliated.
"Touche." he wasn't laying in bed, he was sitting on his bed, but it was dark and Kagome had no idea what he was doing. "So what are you doing up this late?"
"I was just thinking. I didn't want to wake up Inuyasha, he seemed to be content with sleeping. I just can't stop thinking about Kikyou. She said her time was running out, then there's the fact that she is going to marry my brother. What is that about? I know she was just trying to get close to the family but if she knows that she is going to die or something why wouldn't she just be friends with him? It would make more sense. Plus, Inuyasha doesn't seem to care about any of this, he seems to think everything is fine now that we know Kikyou's just a sadistic psycho bitch. And Nyoko, why would she want to help a random girl from another time? Why didn't she go to Inuyasha and help him get me back or something? Did she just forget over the years? I don't even know how you guys remembered me. I can't even remember what I ate for lunch yesterday, never mind trying to remember things from five hundred years ago. And where did you get a second arm?" Kagome seemed to be rambling and Sesshomaru allowed her to do so, never moving from his location on the bed.
"Kagome, you need to calm down. I know that everything seems confusing, because it is, but there is nothing to worry yourself about. You have to worry about wedding plans, and moving into your new house to get my brother out of my hair. Nyoko remembers things better than anyone I know. Besides, it is truly difficult to forget such monumental events in ones life, no matter how old you live to. Also, for demons it is easier in the first place because we are so much smarter than humans."
"And twice as arrogant." Kagome interrupted.
"Well there's that." Sesshomaru seemed to be light hearted and Kagome liked the 'new' him. He was much easier to talk to. "Kikyou is going to die soon. I am sure of it. You have nothing to worry about, just don't fall into a last feeble attempt at getting Inuyasha back okay? Watch yourself. My second arm? You just noticed?" Sesshomaru seemed to stiffen up and his voice became shaky, "It was a gift is all. Now, run along to bed."
"Whatever." Kagome reasoned she'd just ask Inuyasha later. "Night Sess."
"Night, good bye." he said hurriedly.
Kagome got back into bed and looked up at the ceiling. She forgot why she had gotten out of bed in the first place but felt much better now that she had talked to someone about all the issues she still had. Kagome looked over at Inuyasha who was snoring ridiculously loudly. She turned on to her side and fluffed her pillow into a comfortable sleeping position. The sudden movement on the bed caused Inuyasha's snoring to cease and he turned over, with his back to Kagome. She gently draped her arm over him and inhaled the scent of his long silver locks. She loved his natural scent. The happiness slowly returned to her and she began to drift asleep.
"All right. I'll help you. What do I have to do?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Just kill the wench."
"Nyoko too?"
"Most definitely."
"Kagome first?"
"Hai."
Sesshomaru looked around for a distraction. "You really want me to do this Kikyou?"
"Of course. Kill Kagome and then Nyoko! The wench that stole my Inuyasha! The bitch who has been working non-stop against me for hundreds of years. They must both die! And if you try to warn Kagome again I will kill you. Now do as I say or I will take back my arm and I will see to it that you come to hell with me."
"Fine. I'll do it."
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Oh I'm sorry end of chapter. *tears* I tried to make it longer because I love you guys and you deserve great long chapters filled with fun and excitement and showdowns! It's still only like 12 pages though, but that is twice as long as my normal 5 so I guess that is good. *shrug* I tried I really did. But I wanted to leave it here cause I'm an evil psycho bitch. Hey, I'm Kikyou! Woo! O_o
Anyway, I was re-reading a one-shot I wrote and I said Luky instead of Lucky haha, I found that amusing. Wow I'm retarded. Also, I finally watched The Blue Collar Comedy Tour. That was some funny stuff right there. I was like the only person in my school who hadn't seen it. Of course my school is a bunch of redneck hicks who kick ass! Hehe! Go rams! I also saw Freaky Friday and Peter Pan. Those two movies kicked butt too. I had never seen the original London production of Peter Pan or the disney version with the cartoons nor had I seen Captain Hook, so watching this movie was cool. Freaky Friday was great too but only because I love Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. Though I would love for my mom to spend a day in my life, haha that would be the best. I don't think anyone even reads these anyway. Also my audition for Les Miserables is today at three *shudder* wish me luck, though even if you do I won't get it till after the audition. *sigh* love you!
AHHHH! Had to go back and add this . . . audtion today, you may recall haha! I think I might get a part in the chorus but I doubt I got Eponine, which was my goal *tear* but I can always sing On My Own (which is the only song that kicks major ass really besides Little Fall of Rain but that is another story all together) to myself as much as I want. So I will!