InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ There I Was ❯ The Gathering, Day Three ( Chapter 11 )

There I Was

Chapter Eleven: The Gathering, Day Three

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Authors Note: I'm so sorry Minna-san! Thanks for waiting. Kagome's dress can be found at http://www.goodorient.com/goodorient/customer/product.php?productid=2463 5&cat=504&page=1 . Okay, not much else to say…here are review responses.

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I was warm, I mean, I was really warm. I don't think I've ever been this warm in my life. I snuggled into the warmth and winced as a sharp pain shot through my shoulder and down my arm. I vaguely remember Sessh biting me last night. I didn't think he would bite me so hard, but this really hurt.

I looked up at my sleeping lovers' face and smiled. I reached up and ran my fingers through his silken tresses and marveled at their feel. "So soft…" I whisper to myself as I played with his hair.

"I'm glad you like it." I jumped and looked into his open pools of color.

"Gomen, I didn't mean to wake you."

"You did not wake me."

"Liar." He smiled and nuzzled my shoulder. I felt him lick my wound and I winced. "Did you have to bite me?" He froze and looked into my eyes with fear. Why was he afraid? Did he not mean to and he's just now realizing he bit me? But then why would he be licking the wound?

"You agreed to be my mate, did you not?" There was worry in his voice now. What was wrong with him?

"Yes." He relaxed and nuzzled my shoulder again.

"That bite marked you as my mate and formed an unbreakable bond between us." So that's why he was worried and scared. He thought that maybe I hadn't really agreed to be his mate and he made a horrible error. I smiled and ran my fingers through his long hair again. Then a problem dawned upon me. I'm human. Sessh is youkai…I'm going to die and leave him alone someday. I don't want to! Doesn't that beat all? I finally find my dream man and he's going to stay young while I get older and die.

"Sessh…does that bond work for my life span as well? I'm human and will eventually die. I don't want to leave you alone."

"Yes it does. As long as I live, you will not grow any older." I smiled as he licked my mark again.

"So what time do you think it is?" He lifted his head and looked at the sky.

"I'd say about five." He bent down and kissed me. "Why?"

"I need to bathe and dress."

"No you don't. You smell like me right now, I like it, and we can stay in bed all day. No one will miss us."

"Oh no we can't. I'd end up pregnant before you know it."

"You don't want to carry my pups?" He looked somewhat hurt and I shook my head.

"I do want to carry your children. In fact nothing would make me happier."

"Then what's the problem?"

"I was thinking about Rin's feelings. I know that when my brother was born I was so mad. My parents didn't pay as much attention to me as they use to and I didn't like it one bit. I want to know what Rin thinks before you go and knock me up. Let her think about it for a year at least." He sighed and nodded as I stood and stretched.

Gah! My body hurt! Not just my shoulder, but also my whole lower half. It was so sore…I guess that's to be expected after last night. I felt soft gentle hands trace the scars on my back. That's right, my hair's too short to hide them now and Sessh was too preoccupied with other uh…things last night to notice them. Or if he did he didn't want to ruin the moment and ask about them.

"Who gave you these?" I could hear the anger in his voice as he traced the longest once across my back sending shivers up my spine.

"Those would be from the night Naraku attacked me." I heard him growl and his arms wrapped around my waist and dragged me down into his lap. He rested his chin on my mark and held tightly. I think he's really torn up over the fact that he couldn't save me from such a fate. Though now that I think about it, the fact that my scars look like claw marks make sense now that I know Naraku was a hanyou.

"I'll kill him now, in this time. Then he can't hurt you in our future, your past. You'll be safe from him." I shook my head and leaned against him.

"You can't. If he had never attacked me, I would have finished my training and then I never would have sneezed myself here." His arms tightened and I patted his arm. "Like you said, it's my past. Which is exactly what it is. The past. Now let me up so I can bathe." He stood with me still in his arms and smirked.

"Who said you could bathe?"

"I'm not going to let every youkai and hanyou down there smell what we've been up to."

"They'll know anyway. My sent will always be mixed with yours." Great…I sighed and closed my eyes. The ladies are going to have a field day. "Are you having regrets?" I know he's only saying all this because of the whole Naraku thing. He doesn't want to hurt me the way he did.

"No, I'm just thinking about all the questions I'm going to answer. Maybe staying in bed isn't such a bad idea after all.

"Oh no, you didn't want to when I suggested it, so bath time it is." He picked me up bridal style and took me through a door in his room. He smirked as he flung his arms out and threw me away from him. I screamed until I hit warm water and quickly swam back up for air. Moving my wet bangs away from my eyes I saw a very amused Sessh wading towards me.

"You're insufferable, you know that?"

"You tell me every day." He smiled and encircled me in his arms. He's changed so much since I met him all those months ago. He went to wanting me gone and back to the 21st century as soon as possible, to encircling me in his arms and kissing me. What a truly crazed world we live in.

"So, are you going to let me bathe?"

"No. I told you. I like how you smell like me." I sighed and held my breath. He was going to make me do this the hard way. I dived underwater and swam under his arms. I began to backstroke towards the other side of the pool and picked up a bar of soap. I began running in over my shoulders and turned to face my wonderful mate.

His long hair skimmed the water as he waded towards me with a small smile on his face. He's always smiling at me. I don't understand it. My parents did it too. Whenever they were looking at each other they always had a smile on each other's face.

I asked my mom once why they did that and she said because they couldn't believe they were lucky enough to have each other. She had said that since she was from a wealthy family and her parents never liked my dad, she wasn't sure they would ever marry. My dad too, he came from a poor family and never in his wildest dreams believed he would ever have someone like my mother for a wife. It's kinda like when you get that really expensive toy you wanted but thought you could never have because of the price. Why would Sessh feel that way about me though? I'm nothing special, or at least I don't think I am.

Sessh picked up the other bar of soap and began cleansing himself as well. I turned around with a slight blush staining my cheeks. Sure I'd been intimate with the guy, but that's not bathing with him. My head's not fogged over with hormones at the moment. "What am I going to wear? My dress in my room, and I don't feel like streaking down the hall at the moment." I asked, hoping the blush would leave…nope, I think it got darker…darn.

"You will wear one of my mother's old dresses." I turned around and looked at him with shocked filled eyes. At least my blush was gone.

"I can't wear one of those!"

"Why not?"

"They were your mothers! I could never ruin the precious memories you have of your mother by wearing her dresses."

"You would not, and could not ruin the memories I have of my mother."

"I'd feel so bad though. I mean, I've never even worn my mother's clothing." I lowered my head and frowned. "I'd just feel wrong wearing her clothes."

"You shouldn't." I felt his warm arms wrap around my body. "She would be honored if you would."

"Oh?"

"Yes, besides, you two would have liked each other. She'd have you wearing her clothes anyway." I looked up at him and raised an eyebrow.

"And you know this how?"

"I know my mother and I know you."

"Ah…I see." I sighed and ran the bar of soap down his back. "If you insist, and her ghost won't come and haunt me, then I guess it'll be alright." He chuckled and shook his head.

"My mother haunting you?"

"It's happened before." He looked at me skeptically and I back up. "What, you don't believe me?"

"No, I believe you, you're just silly." Wow…I never thought I'd hear Sessh use the word silly, I must be truly special. I finished bathing as did he in silence. We got out and he led me over to his wardrobe thingie.

"Okay, tell me before I go crazy. Why do you call thins thing?"

"I don't really know its exact name, actually. I don't call it anything." Gah! I'll never know what thins stupid thing is called! "Here." He handed me a white silk dress and took out his own clothes. I held the dress up and looked at it. It was absolutely stunning. It was a white silk Chinese dress with embroidered flowered on the chest.

"Sessh…I've never seen anything so beautiful in my life…I can't wear this."

"We've been through this. Yes you can."

"No, it's too beautiful. I'd ruin it." I heard him growl and the next thing I knew I was laying on the bed staring at an angry Sessh.

"I never want to hear you say that again, do you understand?"

"Say what?"

"That you'd `ruin it' if you wore something." Oh…that…

"Sessh I…"

"Do you understand?" He asked a little more forcefully.

"Y-yes." He got off me and set to dressing without saying another word. I didn't mean to tick him off…it's just that I've never seen anything so pretty. I quickly got dressed and stayed quiet. Why would he get so angry? It's not like I said anything so wrong. I mean I was only saying the dress was nice by itself. It wasn't like I was saying I wasn't pretty or anything---Omigod…that was it.

Sessh said his mother died of a broken heart because his father cheated on her. The things she must have said…`I'm not pretty enough for him.' `There must be something wrong with me.' `Why can't I be pretty like her.' Now I understand why Sessh got so angry. He was probably telling her she was beautiful all the time, but she never listened. He doesn't want me thinking I'm ugly and ending up doing something to hurt myself.

I buttoned the last button and wrapped my arms around him from behind. I could feel the anger in his aura still, but I need to say something. I can't just sit there. "I sorry." I nuzzled his shoulder and breathed in his spicy sent. "I didn't mean to bring up hurtful memories."

"You have no idea what it's like to see your mother slowly die in front of you. To constantly hear her saying she wasn't good enough or pretty enough."

"No I don't. And I didn't mean what I said in that way." I held him tighter and tried to relax him a bit. "I'll never say anything like that again. I didn't mean to hurt you."

"I know you didn't." He placed his hand on my arm. "I over reacted."

"No, I would have done the same thing probably. Now how about we get down there before they have a search party come looking for us." He nodded and we walked to the door.

"We need to pick up Rin first."

"Of course." We walked down the hall, in silence still. He was still a little angered and hurt about my statement and talking wasn't going to help any. We reached a door and Sessh knocked. The door opened immediately and Rin popped out hugging Sessh's leg.

"Good morning Sesshoumaru-sama!"

"Good morning Rin. Are you hungry?"

"Yes!"

"Then lets go to breakfast."

"Yaye!" She turned to me and smiled. "You look beautiful kaasan!"

"Thank you Rin." I smiled and took the girl's hand. She talked all about how she wanted to draw pictures in the library today and such while we walked through the halls. Even when we sat down she started talking about how after lunch she wanted to go outside and pick flowers.

Breakfast came and there was no sign of the ladies. I picked at my food and kept an eye out for them. I could feel Sessh's heated glare on me and ignored it. He would only order me to eat as he does at every breakfast. I swear, I told him eating breakfast makes me feel sick. Sighing, I took a small bite of rice and put my chopsticks down. There, I ate. He can't say I don't eat anything because I just did. I swear, he and Christine are so alike at times. They both think I'm anorexic or something…okay, so I was for a while, but I'm over that now. Also, it's not that I don't eat. I just don't eat much. There is a difference.

"So…" I heard a sly voice behind me. I put my head in my hands as the ladies sat next to me. Or at least Ayame and Aiko did. I haven't seen Saiya since she found out I was considering mating with Sessh. She's probably stuck consoling her poor daughter. "I see you finally did it." I took a sip of water and tried to relax.

"What are you talking about?"

"Mated. Ya finally mated with Sessho. And about time too." Oh God, I can see where this is going already.

"So, what was it like?"

"Compared to what? I've never been with anyone before."

"Well of course'. Sessho wouldn't mate someone who had been."

"So what do you people want from me?" I was getting angry. I don't like these women. I've know them for what, three days and they're asking me how sex went last night? I don't think so.

"We just want to know a few things." Aiko spoke calmly with her hands held before her in defense.

"Well you're not going to know! This is my business and you people have no right to question me in any way, shape, or form." I was fuming. How could these people even think of asking such personal questions to a total stranger? I took a deep breath and counted to ten before I hurt some one. I stood and looked at Rin. She wasn't anywhere near done eating and I wasn't about to pull her away from her mean. "Rin, I'll wait for you in the library. If anyone else follows me they'll suffer the consequences." With that I turned and walked out of the dinning room and down the hall.

Do I care that I'm probably on their hit list now? No. Do I care that I threatened the mates of the most powerful youkai in all of Japan? No. Do I care that I'm most likely going to get yelled at for my rudeness later? No, of course not. All I care about right now is calming down. I'm a miko who's getting angry and surrounded by a bunch of youkai. If I don't calm down I'll purify them all.

I walked into the library and onto the balcony. I leaned on the cold marble and took deep breaths of the cool morning air. It held the promise of snow and ice with a hint of rain. I think my senses have gotten batter since I mated with Sessh. I noticed in the bath that I could smell some things stronger that I could before. When I was in the dinning room too, I was able to hear some people talking a few tables down.

I hope this doesn't change who I am. I don't want to become something I'm not. I just wouldn't feel right. I looked down at the garden below me and smiled a little. Sessh walked out with Rin in hand and sat down on the bench. He must have felt my frustration and wanted to give me some time to cool down. He's so considerate, unlike a group of certain ladies I know.

I'm sorry, but they had no right to ask me those questions. My God, they acted like my mother! I remember when I brought my friend Hojo home after school. He was a foreign exchange student from Japan and wanted to meet my family. My mom immediately though he was my boyfriend and started questioning him, she never stopped and bothered to ask if he even liked me. Poor Hojo, he only liked me as a friend, he was gay after all.

I watched Rin run around the garden and make wreaths of flowers like Senkako had taught her. She placed a few on Sessh and I couldn't help but laugh. He had such a sour expression on his face that just screamed `laugh at me.' So I did. He heard me too. He lifted his head and his eyes met my own. I smiled down at him and he just looked pissy. I'm sorry but his did! I only laughed harder and got Rin's attention.

She looked up at me with one of her large smiles and waved. "I thought you wanted to draw something?" I yelled down to the little girl.

"I changed my mind! Come on down kaasan!" I smiled and sat on the railing.

"Oh I don't know. The ladies might see me and then I'd be in trouble."

"Please…"

"Alright." I smiled and jumped right off the balcony. I saw Sessh's eyes widen in horror and he ran to catch me. I knew he would I had complete faith in him.

"Are you crazy!" He yelled at me once I fell into his strong arms. "You could have killed yourself. What would have happened if I wasn't here to catch you?!"

"I wouldn't have jumped. I knew you would catch me. I have complete and utter faith in you. I know you won't let anything bad happen to me." He sighed and lowered his head into my hair.

"Don't ever do that again." I laughed and patted his shoulder with a smile.

"Okay, I won't." He put me down and put his arm around my waist as he led me to the bench. Rin came over and hopped into my lap with an arm full of flowers.

"Kaasan, can you tell us a story?" I laughed and ran my fingers through her dark hair.

"What kind of story would you like to hear?"

"I want to hear a story about a princess."

"A princess…let me see now…" I thought of all the stories I could tell her and smiled as one came to mind.

"Once upon a time there was a Prince who wished to marry a Princess, but she had to be a real Princess. He traveled up and down the whole world trying to find one. He met plenty of Princess, but he could never quite satisfy himself that any one of them was a real Princess.

"Finally the Prince returned home sad at heart, for he wished very much to marry a real Princess.

"One night a terrific storm came up. Thunder rolled and lightning flashed and the rain poured down in a violent flow. At the height of the storm, there was a knocking at the gate of the castle, and the old King went to open it.

"A maiden stood outside the gate, and what a state she was in! The water ran from her hair to her clothes. It dripped in at the heels of her shoes and dribbled out at the toes, but she said that she was a real Princess.

"`Well, we shall soon find out about that,' thought the old Queen as she went off to prepare the bedroom. Taking all the things off the bed, she laid a small pea upon the board, and upon this she heaped twenty mattresses and twenty eider-down quilts. When all was ready, she called the Princess who was to sleep there that night.

"In the morning the Queen asked the Princess how she had rested.

"`Oh, miserably!' She answered. `Simply horribly! I scarcely closed my eyes the whole night. Heaven knows what might have been in the bed, but I lay upon something hard, so that my whole body is black and blue. It was really dreadful.'"

"Since she had felt the pea through the twenty mattresses and twenty eider-down quilts, it was clear that she was a real Princess, for no one but a real Princess could have had such a fine sense of feeling.

"So the Prince married her, because now he knew that he had found a real princess, and the pea was placed in the royal museum, where it may still be seen if no one has taken it away."

"Why would someone take a pea?"

"I don't know."

"That was a nice story. Why do you know so many stories I've never heard of before?"

"I use to study them. I wanted to be a writer before my family died."

"Why didn't you?"

"My brother dreamed of being a doctor, so I wanted to fulfill his dream in a sense."

"Do you still want to be a writer?"

"Yes. I would love to. I've wanted to write children's books and help expand their imagination."

"You still can. It's never too late to change things." I smiled and rested my head on Sessh's shoulder while I stroked her hair.

"No it's not. Writing isn't my first priority right now though."

"What is?" She turned her head and looked at me with shinning, inquisitive eyes.

"Teaching you." I tapped her nose and she smiled.

"So here you are Maru." The three of us looked up as Kouji walked towards us with a smile on his face. "It's time for our meeting. And Kagome, you may want to hide. The other ladies are quite angry at you."

"Still? Wow…thank you." Sessh stood up and kissed my hand.

"I will be back as soon as I can."

"Bye Sesshoumaru-sama!" Rin cheered and smiled as he left.

"So what do you want to do now?"

"Can we go draw now?"

"Of course." I picked her up and entered the ballroom. I walked right past the three ladies and smirked. They began to follow us and I tried not to laugh. They don't like me now because I'm not like them. Wow, this is high school all over again! I took Rin into the library and turned to face the ladies. "What?"

"We want to call a truce." Aiko stated flatly. "There's no way you'll ever be able to be friends with us on a mutual level. You hold yourself in a higher regard then we can and we admire that about you."

"It's true. When I first came here I couldn't understand why Maru would let you speak to him they way he does, but now I know." Saiya spoke somberly.

"We will leave ya alone if ya wish. We will never pry into your personal life again. We were wrong in doin' so." Ayame hung her head.

"What we're trying to say is that we hope you never loose that spark you have." With that they left. I was stunned. I thought Kouji said they were angry. I thought they would be angry, but they respected me? Since I didn't put up with their crud, I get their respect? What a load of---

"Kaasan! Do you like my picture?" I looked at Rin's picture of her, Sessh, and myself and smiled.

"I love it Rin."

"Come draw with me." I did as she asked and laid down next to my daughter and began drawing little pictures of random thing. We laughed at each other's drawings and told stories for some of them. Ya know, it's true what they say. Time really does fly when you're having fun. Before we knew it a servant had come in and announced lunch. We stood and Rin ran to the door. I stayed behind and began looking for a nice book to read.

"Aren't you coming, kaasan?"

"No Rin. I think I'll stay here for a while. I'm not really feeling well." I lied, I feel…okay so I don't feel too well. I was tired. Mentally. I wanted this whole thing to be over with. It's no wonder Sessh doesn't come to many of these. "I'm just going to read for a while. Don't worry, I'm okay."

"Okay. Feel better." Rin ran off to eat and I continued looking for a book to read. This library is so big…it's hard to choose what I want to read. I want to read them all! I picked up a random book and sat down. By the time I was well into the sixth chapter I heard the door open.

"Hey. How was lunch Rin?" I asked. Did I know it was Rin? No. Was I too wrapped up in my story to care? Yes.

"Fruitless." A deep voice sounded and I looked up from my book. Sessh stood in front of the closed door with narrowed eyes. Why is it that I seem to do nothing but make him angry today? "Why didn't you come to eat?" I shrugged and returned to my book.

"I didn't feel to well."

"Maybe if you would eat more you'd feel better."

"Eah…what ya gonna do?" My book was snatched from my grasp and I looked up at Sessh. "Oi! What was that for!"

"If you're going to read instead of eat I won't let you read."

"I missed one meal. It's not like it's going to kill me. Humans can live up to three weeks without eating."

"I don't care! I'm not going to have you starving yourself."

"I don't starve myself. I eat when I'm hungry." I stood and walked to the balcony. "I don't see why you're so angry at me today. This morning, yeah I can understand that, but now…"

"You're endangering your health and I won't have that."

"I'm a doctor, remember. I know my limits."

"It doesn't matter. You're only human. You still can die so easily." He wrapped his arms around me and rested his chin on my shoulder. "I don't want to loose you, Kagome. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me." I leaned in against him and sighed.

"I don't mean to worry you, I just don't think that someone might actually care what happens to me now."

"Please take better care of yourself."

"I'll try to. I can't promise anything though."

"As long as you'll try. Now come on. People are starting to leave and we have to watch as they leave." He held my arm and led me out the door.

"All of them?!" He nodded and I think I really am starting to feel sick. "Sessh, there's gotta be at least, what 3,000 people here?" He nodded again and I sighed. "Great…" We stood on the high balcony like we did the first day. This was going to take forever…

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I'm going crazy! We've been standing here for three hours straight and there are still people here! Why won't they just leave already! I leaned against Sessh and closed my eyes…maybe if I just think they're not here they'll be gone. I cracked open an eye…nope…still here…I closed my eyes again. Maybe if I try again…

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My eyes snapped open as I felt something shake me. "Huh?" I rubbed my eyes and looked at the crowd…or where is was. "Hey…they're gone."

"Yes."

"I knew that if I believed they would disappear they would."

"Kagome, you fell asleep."

"Oh…well that worked too." I looked at Sessh and smiled. He held a sleeping Rin in his arms and shook his head.

"I swear, you women can't handle standing around for hours without falling asleep."

"What time is it?"

"Time for dinner. I'll put Rin to bed and you meet me in the dining room."

"Okay." I kissed him on the cheek as we went our separate ways. I stretched as I walked down the hall. I can't believe I just feel asleep like that. I must be getting weak or something…no not weak just out of practice. I mean I can stand around for hours during surgery, then again I'm doing something and not just standing there. I sat down in my chair and folded my arms behind my head.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." Sessh smiled as he entered and sat next to me. "So, are you hungry?"

"Not really, but I can suffer enough to eat something." He glared at me and I laughed. "At least I'm eating."

"True." He shook his head and we began to eat dinner. We didn't really say much. We talked about little things like upcoming events, which we had none of. I swear this guy has no social calendar. I suppose he's not suppose to create one though, I guess that's my job. As long as I don't have to plan any more gatherings, I'm happy. I really disliked the past few days, with a few exceptions of course.

"I can see why you don't attend many of the gatherings the other lords hold. They're insufferable."

"It's not the gatherings themselves, it's more the people who attend them that infuriate me."

"I really don't like the ladies of the lands."

"I could tell, from your outburst, everyone could tell." Oh dear…here it comes…"Try to control your temper more. As much as the idea of killing them is wondrous, it will cause wars."

"I'm sorry, I really tried."

"Try harder." Our meal came and it was eaten in silence. Neither of us wanted to say anything. It was a comfortable silence where you can just bask in each other's energy. By the time had I finished and put my hashi down I noticed Sessh looking at me.

"What? Is there something on my face?" He shook his head for a second and sighed.

"Shall we go relax before bed?" He asked and took my hand. I stood and followed him with a smile on my face.

"What kind of relaxing did you have in mind?"

"Just relaxing." We walked into the library and he pulled me into his lap as he sat in one of the chairs. "I talked to Rin this morning."

"Oh about what?" I asked and closed my eyes. I really like when he holds me, I feel so safe.

"Siblings." My eyes snapped open and I looked up at him.

"Don't you think it's a little early to think about children? I mean you said yourself I'll live as long as you will, so we have all the time in the world." Why am I so scared all of a sudden? Haven't I always wanted to be a mom? Now that the chance is presenting itself and I'm trying to postpone it? What's wrong with me?

"Yes, I did say that."

"Then why did you ask Rin?"

"You wanted to know if she wanted to be an older sister or not." I do remember asking something like that.

"What did she say?"

"It seams that she had a younger brother before the bandits killed her family. She doesn't want to share us for the moment."

"I thought as much. I don't know many older siblings that actually wanted that position." I rested my head against his chest and closed my eyes again. "Do we have to go to the next gathering?" I heard a small chuckle with my ear pressed against him, I don't think I would have heard it if I wasn't so close.

"We shall see. If Naraku starts a war, then yes we will."

"Then lets hope he doesn't."

"Aa." I yawned and snuggled closer to my little pillow. "Are you still tired?" I nodded and yawned again. "I'll never understand how ningens can sleep so much."

"Some things are better left a mystery." I mumbled and felt myself slip back into the abyss. "Nigh…"

"Good night, Kagome." With those parting words, I slipped off into dreamland.