InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Tale of Sesshoumaru ❯ I promise ( Chapter 26 )

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Going through the well was easier than Akanesuji thought. After waiting an hour for Inuyasha and Kagome to go through so they would remain hidden, the two had jumped in at the same time. She made it though but he didn't and she assumed that he was sitting at the bottom of the other well cussing.

 

During the trip she had seen lots of colored lights and had a weird feeling of being stretched. The shards in her forearms and calves burned a bright lavender and the next thing she knew, she was at the bottom of a dry well again. This time though,the sky above was not blue. It was dark and mysterious. The air smelled funny and foreign and unfamiliar noises seemed not too far away.

 

Akanesuji dusted herself off and climbed up to the top where she discovered the well was now inside a small building. A woman with black hair was waiting for her leaning up against the door frame. She was now trapped inside. The only way out was through the dark haired woman. “Kagome?” she asked, unable to tell if it was the teen or not. She was dressed in strange tight pants and a shirt kind of like Kagome's.

 

“Greetings Akane. Please don't be alarmed and please don't touch me.” The woman lifted her face to her, revealing a face just like hers. By the kami! It was her future self. Akanesuji was stunned to see herself, but it wasn't totally unexpected. Once Sesshoumaru had explained his hypothesis about Kagome, the well and her references to the future, they realized anything could be possible on the other side. If Kagome really was visiting the future, then surely their future selves would be there too.

 

“I will make this quick,” Akane said, “for the longer we stay in close proximity to each other the more problems created.” She stepped forward only a few inches and turned, letting the light shine in from the door onto her face, illuminating blue contact lenses. “I can't tell you what the future brings, that would ruin everything that has happened so far and could cause alternate universes.”

 

“Alternate universes?”

 

“It's a Star Trek thing....anyway..you face a really big choice right now. If you go back and give Sesshoumaru a jewel shard so that he can come into the future with you, you risk never getting it back. The Jewel of the Four Souls must someday become whole. You will have to give them up to Kagome eventually. But for right now, think really hard about bringing Sesshoumaru into the future.”

 

“What did you decide?”

 

“I can't tell you.” Akane pulled her hair over an ear and Akanesuji realized that the tips of her ears had been cut off to look more human. Her bangs were still cut the same, low across the eyebrows to cover up her stripes. She looked pretty good with black hair too. Maybe that would be the next hair dye color she would try.

 

“What about our...I mean...my plans...what happens?”

 

“Go back through the well and think this all through Akane. That is all I can tell you.”

 

“What about Sesshoumaru?” she whispered.

 

The future Akane took pity on the older one. “There is someone Sesshou will always love more than you Akane, and it's himself. There is no happy ending, only years of feast and famine.”

 

“He never stays does he?”

 

“You know the answer to that already.” Akane turned and walked away, her time done. She had already said too much.

 

“Wait!” Akanesuji cried, reaching out to touch her but drawing back when she remembered not to do it. Looking out of the door she saw the world had changed rapidly. Stone steps replaced the grass. The forest of trees were gone. Buildings replaced them. Nothing was the same.

 

It was not a place she wanted to explore alone. She needed a guide, or at least, a traveling companion.

 

She turned back to the well and with a sigh jumped back through, crashing into Sesshoumaru who was still sitting at the bottom on the other side. Her wrist few up into his face, accidentally smacking him, her foot landed near his crotch. She fell to one side, twisting her ankle on his hakama pant leg. With a thud her forehead hit the well wall and she saw stars. “Oww...”

 

Sesshoumaru tried to steady her, but with her arms and legs flopping around, it was pretty pointless. He almost laughed out loud when her head hit. Secretly, he had a thing for slapstick comedy. That was why he always hit Jaken over the head. “How did you get through but I didn't?” he asked, sitting her back up.

 

“I don't know. Give me a minute to figure it out.” Akanesuji rubbed her forehead in frustration. Going through the first time was so much easier because there was nothing waiting for her on the other side to run into. She slid up next to him so that they both sat staring at their feet.

 

“What did it look like?” he asked. “Was it dangerous?”

 

“Will you quit asking me so many damned questions? Gods, Sesshou, your as bad as Rin!” she barked, her head hurting and a really good goose egg showing under a red forehead stripe.

 

“Sesshou...You called me...Sesshou?”

 

“Yeah...Sesshou.” Akanesuji didn't want to explain that one yet. There was no way to tell him that Akane of the future called Sesshoumaru of the future Sesshou without divulging that she had run into herself. Did the future Akane also have an Akane that showed up to her the first time she went through the well? Damn. That was confusing!

 

She stood up, dusting herself off yet once again. “Look, I need to go to relieve myself. Why don't we come back and do this later?”

 

“Why don't you go relieve yourself and then come back and we can do this now?”

 

“Why do we have to do this at all?” she asked, getting more frustrated with each passing moment. She was too stunned, too confused and too overwhelmed to think logically and tactically.

 

“Because I want to know what my stupid brother is doing. I thought that was rather obvious.”

 

“Why don't you just confront him? Ask him what he is doing in the future?”

 

“Like the little prick would tell me...”

 

“You could ask Kagome.”

 

“Like she would tell me either. This is some big secret she and Inuyasha share.”

 

Akanesuji just looked down on him and sighed. He was very determined, and when he was determined like this he usually got what ever it was he wanted. She climbed up the well wall and jumped over the edge, making a quick walk to the woods.

 

Squatting down she knew this was her moment to break free. He would not keep a close eye on her for this and she could get a good head start. But if she left him now, he would be pissed at her forever and her own curiosity about the future would not be settled. She debated leaving him now and coming back later, but he would just sit here and wait for her no matter how long it took. His patience could be very great when he wanted it to be.

 

And how would she breach the subject of how she used the shards to get through? Didn't he have a right to go through too? No, she decided. He didn't collect the shards himself. They were hers. But then again, they were married now and she should be nice and share. Akanesuji grumbled, letting all her negative thoughts cloud her mind. Yes, they were married, but they didn't really share anything all. Sesshoumaru shared just enough feeling to keep her hanging on. Akane of the future was probably right about him. Of course she was, she told herself. She had spent what? Half a millennium with him by then? He did love only himself.

 

And then the other thoughts crept in. He loved Rin. And he seemed to love their son. And he did tell her just yesterday that he loved her.

 

Of course, that was during sex too. He would say it then if it got him something.

 

Akanesuji yelled at the sky in frustration, pulling at her hair and scalp. Nothing was easy with Sesshoumaru.

 

“What is it?” his voice called from the grass.

 

“Nothing dear. Just go back to sitting on your ass,” she dismissively replied.

 

The inu raised an eyebrow, wondering what in the hell was her problem. Moody bitch. If pregnancy was going to be like this, he would never get her in this state again.

 

Akanesuji tied her pants back up and walked into the grass. Sesshoumaru stood there patiently waiting for her, a gentle breeze blowing his hair around him. “Feel better now?” he asked her, still wondering what all the yelling had been about.

 

“Oh immensely. The secrets of the universe have been revealed to me and I can see it all clearly now,” she answered in dry sarcasm as she walked past him to the well. Again he raised a single brow, not saying a word. “Come on Sesshoumaru, let's go to the future.”

 

Smart ass bitch.

 

They sat on the ledge of the well, looking down into the dark hole once again and letting their feet dangle. Akanesuji turned to him, scooting her but so that her whole torso faced him. “Sesshoumaru, you must promise me something.”

 

“I don't make promises.”

 

“You're gonna have to make a promise to me if you want down the well.”

 

Sesshoumaru knit his eyebrows together in a hard stare. He was just sure he was not going to like this.

 

“You must promise me that you will give me back the jewel shard I loan you as soon as we go through and once again when we get back.”

 

“Thought this out haven't you?”

 

“No. Not really.”

 

Sesshoumaru thought about it for a moment. He never made promises because he didn't like owing someone. He liked being able to change his mind. Once a promise was made, he would have little choice than honor that promise or look like a liar. Weighing his options, he chose making her the promise. Fighting her over the shards was out of the question. She would run off again and put herself in danger, over...and over...and over again.

 

“Give over the shard. I will give it back to you.”

 

“You didn't say “I promise.”

 

“I promise,” Sesshoumaru said, holding out his hand expectantly.

 

Akanesuji rolled up her left hand sleeve, exposing the large scar that was less than three months old. Pulling out her wakizashi she slit into it quickly. A slow cut would hurt more. Digging in with quick fingers, she pulled out the bloody shard and put it in his palm. Twice now she had dug out a shard from that arm, causing the tiger wound to not heal. “Eat it love. Or insert it in your flesh. You can't just hold it.”

 

Sesshoumaru looked at it for a minute, debating if he would eat it or cut his own flesh. Either way sounded like a dumb proposition. Finally he settled on lifting up his pant leg and cutting a large nick into his thigh, inserting the jewel just under the skin. Quickly the skin started to clot over, a fringe benefit of being youkai.

 

It tingled a little. His leg felt...lighter. Wiggling his toes he wondered what other side effects it would have. Demons everywhere wanted these things for their unexpected powers. Most got some kind of strength while others got amplified magic. Akane supposedly got poison projection, though he had not seen her use it. In fact, he had never seen her use any magical attacks at all. He looked at her, wondering why she never had tried to use them on him. She was licking the blood from her arm and digging her tongue into the cut. She didn't stop until the wound had clotted over and there was no more blood to be had.

 

Her blood lust wasn't for the kill. It was for the taste of blood on her tongue, the warm wet liquid filling her mouth like her poisons did. This liquid she would happily swallow.

 

Sesshoumaru was learning new things about his wife that terribly amused him. She liked her meat raw.