InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Unexpected Guest ❯ The Shrine ( Chapter 10 )

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Unexpected Guest

nightshadow04: I don't mind stories with songs in them as long as they have speech in between the lyrics. But I once read something that had a song and there were only a few words at the beginning and then the rest of the chap was songs. So, I understand why you do not like stories with songs in them. The reason for the song was I was getting some writers block and I wanted to make the chapter a little longer before I posted it. But I knew that there was no telling when my writer's block would clear and so I inserted the song that I happened to be listening to. But trust me, most of my stories, except for my one shots, do not have songs in them. And I probably will not be putting another one in this story; it was just a last minute idea on how to get a little more into the chapter.

nomifairy: Thanks for the root beer and the cookies. They are much apprieciated. And yeah, I'm starting to get them together, but they are not going to have an uber-fast relationship if I can help it. XD

Chapter 10: The Shrine

“Hello? Hey, where are you? *pause* Ok, well we're on our way to the shrine to do a little research on summoning demons from another time. *pause* Ok, well I guess we will see you when soon.” Kagome sighed and leaned against Sesshoumaru's shoulder, “that was Ayuri. She says she was sorry that she wasn't there this morning. She had some things to take care of, but she is going to meet us at the shrine for lunch.”

“Very well,”

“I hope this helps us figure out how you got here,” Kagome said as he stopped in front of the shrine and they made they're way up the stairs. “I'm running out of ideas and this seems like the only thing we haven't tried,”

“Kagome,” interrupted Sesshoumaru, “look.”

“Huh?” she said, looking at him questionably before turning to the place he nodded towards. There on the steps before them was… “Kevin,” came the quiet response from Kagome. “What are you doing here?” she asked him harshly, stepping unconsciously closer to Sesshoumaru, who was now quietly growling.

“Why I came to see you of course,” he smirked, walking slowly towards them, “Hojo says hi, by the way.” He stopped a few feet from them and just stared at Kagome, “Do you still live here Kagome? Because I hardly ever see you around anymore.”

“That's probably because you live on the other side of town!”

“Now Kagome, don't be rude. You don't want people to think you can't carry on a polite conversation, do you? You could have said that much nicer.” `It's time to go,' he thought as he watched the man slowly pushed Kagome behind him. “Kagome we should really get together sometime.” He made his way past them brushing Kagome's cheek with his hand as he went, pulling away once Sesshoumaru growled. “See you Kagome.”

They watched him go and once he was out of earshot Kagome sighed in relief. “Why does he insist on tormenting me so?” she said, wrapping her arms around herself.

“Kagome,” Sesshoumaru said, wrapping his arms around her waist, “What is it about him that scares you? What did he do to you?”

She sighed and leaned into him, taking comfort in his seemingly limitless power and strength. “He's a friend of Hojo's. I was hoping I would never have to see him again. He used to stalk me and a bunch of my friends when we were in high school. Then he caught my friend, Eri, one night as she was walking home and brutally raped her in an alley. She couldn't move her arm for months because he'd fractured it so badly. She had a restraining order put on him, but that didn't stop him from stalking the rest of us. He goes to a college near that park we went to.”

“Why was he here?”

“I don't know, but can we please talk about something else?”

“Very well, where are we going?”

“To my Grandfather's study, he has all kinds of books and things on demons.” They walked into the shrine and spent the next hour pouring over her Grandfather's books while they waited for Ayuri. “Look at this!” she said, showing a picture to Sesshoumaru.

“It is a demon.”

“No,” she said, pointing again, “look at the pendant on his necklace. The caption says that whoever possesses the `Crystal Fissure Pendant' can summon any demon or send any demon through time. So, we just need to find this pendant to send you back.”

Sesshoumaru looked at the pendant skeptically, “this Sesshoumaru has never heard of such a thing.”

“Really?” Kagome said, skimming the article again, “because it says here that the pendant was created by an inuyoukai in the early 1400's. I wouldn't doubt that whoever this youkai was, your father probably knew him.”

Sesshoumaru shook his head slowly, “not necessarily. Even if he did know him, he wasn't alive when this was made. My father died in the late 1300's.”

“But you were alive,” Kagome clarified, “could one of your relatives possibly have made or possessed this?”

“Possibly, but this Sesshoumaru could not tell you who it might have been.”

“Still,” she sighed as she closed the book and reached for another one, “it gives us a starting point. We can look through just the inuyoukai files that my Grandfather has and that will save loads of time. Because trust me, he has books on practically every type of demon. They also have some books at the library that are about inuyoukai.”

“Hnnnnn,”

Fifteen minutes later Ayuri and Kai arrived and they decided to take a break for lunch. “So, did you guys find anything?” Ayuri asked as they walked into the kitchen.

“Yes, it seems there is a pendant created by an inuyoukai in the early 1400's that can summon or send demons through time. I figured we'd look though the files here and then go check out the files at the library.”

“Well, if you want. Me and Kai can go look at the library while you two look here. That way, we can work twice as fast.”

“Ok, that'd be nice. So…” she paused as she opened the fridge, “what are we going to eat? We can have sandwiches and junk food or I can whip us up an invention.”

“I vote invention. Neither of the guys has had one before.”

“Anyone object?” When no one answered Kagome smiled, “ok, invention it is!” She got some chicken out of the fridge as well as a sauce in a mason jar. Then she went and got some rice. She cut up the chicken and put it in a skillet with some of the sauce and then put the rice in another pot to cook. Then when they were both done she combined them and added some more of the sauce to it. It took about 30 minutes. “Oh! I almost forgot!” She once again opened the fridge and took out 2 eggs. She quickly scrambled the eggs and then added them to the mixture. “Ok, it's done! Everyone grab a bowl!”

Once everyone had they're food they sat down at the kitchen table to eat. “This is good Kagome,” Kai said from his place next to Ayuri.

“Kagome's inventions are always good.”

“This Sesshoumaru likes it as well.”

“I'm glad you like it. The secret is cooking the chicken in a little of the sauce first and then adding more at the end.”

“What's in this sauce?”

“I'm not telling,” Kagome said smiled at Kai when he pouted slightly. “It's a secret. I was messing around with some sauces and I came up with this. My mom calls it my `goes with everything sauce'. And so whenever I make a batch I always send some over here so my mom can use it too.”

“That's cool.”

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“Kagome, do you mind if I ask you something?” Ayuri said as they sat on the back porch that night.

“Yeah sure, what is it?”

“Well, it's just…I've noticed that the whole time Sesshoumaru has been here you haven't once asked him how your friends in the past are. And I know that they were like family to you. Don't you want to know what happened to them?”

Kagome looked over her shoulder to where Sesshoumaru sat in what they had now deemed `his tree', no doubt listening to their every word. “Um, that's because I already know what happened to them…” Ayuri gave her a look that said `continue' so she sighed and looked down at her hands. “About a year ago me and Souta were going through Grandfather's old stuff and we found records of the shrine dating back to before Inuyasha was pinned to the tree. We found the records of when I was in the past and it was really weird to read about our adventures and battles from the perspective of someone else, I assume Kaede was the one writing it. It didn't go into loads of details, you know just mentions of what we did and where we went. But we did find out that…about 10 years after I left there was a flu outbreak that wiped out practically the entire village. There was even a death list…” she stopped talking and tried to blink away the tears forming on her eyes, from the corner of her eye she thought she saw Sesshoumaru move.

“Oh no,” Ayuri said, realizing where this was going, “oh Kagome I'm so sorry.”

“Both Miroku and Sango died, as well as their daughter, Kagome….” She paused again as she thought about how they had told her before she left for her `short trip home' that Sango was pregnant and that she would be the child's guardian and that they were also planning to name it after her if it was a girl. “Kaede was also there. Demons can't get sick so I thought that maybe, Inuyasha and Shippou would be ok. But the priestess that came to replace Kaede didn't know them. She saw them walking up behind Miroku's son and she….she……purified….them.”

“I'm sorry Kagome; I know how much they meant to you…”

“It's ok. I'm going to go for a walk, I'll be back later.”

“Ok,” Ayuri said, watching as she got up and walked over to the gate on the other side of the yard. She looked over to see Sesshoumaru jump from the tree and turn to follow her. “Not yet,” she called out, sighing when he stopped but didn't turn around. “Give her a few minutes before you follow her, please.” She sighed again as she saw him nod slightly and jump back into the tree.

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Kagome sighed as she walked down the sidewalk. She didn't even try to stop the tears that rolled down her face. She knew Ayuri meant well, but she just couldn't even imagine how hard it was for her to accept what had happened to them. `If they had been here, or even if I had been there, their deaths could have been prevented. And then that priestess would have never come to the village and Inuyasha and Shippou would still be alive. They might have even lived long enough that I could see them again in this time period.' She shook her head to clear those thoughts from her mind. It did no good to think about what could've happened if she had done something else. It only served to make her feel worse about herself.

She stiffened when she heard footsteps behind her. She quickly tried to sense who it was, but she could feel no aura. Frightened now that she knew whoever it was was trying to hide their presence from her she quickened her step. But the footsteps continued, getting louder as whatever it was sped up and closed in on her. When it placed a hand on her shoulder and quickly turned her around she almost screamed, until she saw who it was.

“Sesshoumaru!” she shouted, hitting him in the chest, “what are you doing here?! You almost gave me a heart attack! And why were you masking your presence?”

“It is not safe for you to walk around by yourself, but this Sesshoumaru thought you might like to have some time to yourself.”

“Oh thanks, I just need some time to myself before I go back. I don't want Ayuri to see me like this.”

He watched as she tried to hide her tears from him. She had been through so much, having to spend as much time as she could with both her friends in the past and her family here. How much had she missed out on because of her time travels? Now determined to cheer her up, he placed his hand under her chin and tilted her face up to look at his. “Do you want to go for a ride?” he asked softly as he wiped away her tears. She nodded and he knelt so she could get on his back, but she shook her head and walked in front of him.

“I want to be able to see your face,” she said and he almost smiled, almost. He picked her up bridal style and leapt into the air, summoning his cloud under them. He sat down on the cloud and allowed her to curl into his chest. A comfortable silence swept over them as they flew over the city, but after a while Kagome got sick of the quiet. “I didn't know you could do this,” she said, playing with a stand of his hair.

“Hmmm, there are many things you do not know about me.”

“Well, I wish I did. I feel like I don't know anything about you, and I know my previous description of you is completely wrong.”

“What's that?”

“I used to think that you were just a cold hearted bastard who hated everyone, and that all you were interested in were killing, killing, and more killing. But then I saw you with Rin, and I started to doubt my description. I couldn't figure out why you allowed a human girl to follow you if you hated humans.”

“This Sesshoumaru originally didn't want anything to do with Rin,” he said, looking down at her, watching as she played with his hair, reminding him of how Rin used to love to play with his hair, “but at the time I was severely injured and couldn't move. She came to see this Sesshoumaru everyday, trying to bring me things she thought this Sesshoumaru would need. Then when I was well I left, fully planning to never see the girl again. But then I found her body in the woods and for some reason I revived her. And this time when I left, she followed. It is as simple as that.”

“See, I always think I have you figured out, then you go and do something like that.”

“This Sesshoumaru is sorry he has troubled you.”

Kagome laughed, “Not you're not, but thanks anyway.”