InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ What Fate Has Brought Us ❯ Chapter 15
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By: Twilight dawn 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 07.09.2010 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 303 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 07.09.2010 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.5K | Visits: 303 | Status: Work In Progress
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or its characters. The honor belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.
I stared in bewilderment at the pile of scrolls on the desk set before me. “This is pointless.” I said to my mate sitting next to me behind his desk. “We’re not going to find anything in time.”
“That kind of attitude will get you nowhere, mate.” Sesshoumaru spoke, not bothering to look up from the scroll he was reading. “In this Sesshoumaru’s travels, he has never seen you give up. Not even when you shot an arrow at him, in order to save my half-brother.”
Realizing that my mate was right, I returned to the scroll in my hand and began to read its contents. This one talked of panther demons. I won’t be able to use this. So, I rolled it back up and tossed it aside. I picked up another scroll from my pile and briefly glanced through it, also tossing this one aside. All it talked about was how to please a bed partner. I think I have that area covered.
I felt a slight draft and moved my chair closer over to the fireplace. I rubbed my hands together and then placed them in front of the flames. It’s a good thing Sesshoumaru had one of the servants to light the fireplace. Otherwise, I will be freezing my butt off. The library is huge, so it has two fireplaces to keep the room warm. Good thing they don’t have heating bills in this time. Sesshoumaru will be paying a fortune.
“This is certainly interesting.” Sesshoumaru spoke all of a sudden. I turned around to face him and noticed that he had stopped reading the scroll, to look at me. “It says here in the scroll that the well in Inuyasha’s forest is magical. That would explain some things.”
I got nervous of his inquiry, but I remembered to keep my emotions in check. He will be able to sense my emotions and figure out that something was wrong. “Like what?” I asked him, curious to know what the scroll revealed.
I guess I wasn’t careful enough, because Sesshoumaru lifted one of his eyebrows up at me. “Why don’t you tell this Sesshoumaru what you know of the well? You have lived near it and must know what secrets it processes.”
I shook my head. “I don’t know anything.”
“Don’t lie to this Sesshoumaru, mate. It’s time that you reveal your secrets.”
I focused my gaze back towards the fireplace. I watched as the reddish-orange flames flickered within it. I began to wonder if I should do as my mate’s wishes and tell him the truth of how I found myself living in the feudal era. Would what I had to tell him change the past or the future? I shook my head clear of such thoughts. Inuyasha and the others knew of my time traveling and didn’t change the timeline. Inuyasha even traveled to and from the feudal era to my time.
Sesshoumaru was getting impatient with me and growled slightly to get my attention. I turned my icy blue eyes back on him. It was now or never. I never expected him to learn so soon. “You may not believe me, when I tell you my story.” I explained to him, keeping eye contact with him. “I wouldn’t have believed it myself, if it didn’t happen to me.”
I continued on, knowing that I had my mate’s attention. “You see, this is not my time. I wasn’t born here. Instead, I come from five hundred years into the future.” I watched my mate’s eyebrows arch in surprise. “I know it’s hard to believe, but it’s the truth.”
“What does that information have to do with the well?” He questioned me.
I sighed with frustration. Sesshoumaru reminds me of Inuyasha sometimes, when I am interrupted and have to answer questions that would have been already explained. “The well was the portal that sent me back and forth between the two times.”
“Was?”
I suddenly grew sad, as I revealed the next bit of information. “I sealed the well with my own powers. There is no chance of me ever time traveling again.”
Sesshoumaru rose from his chair and moved behind me, to gently place his hand upon my shoulder. His nearness brought me the comfort I needed. “Continue.” He said, knowing there is more to my story.
“I can’t see my family back home for years yet to come and I don’t even know if I’ll survive that long.” I revealed my darkest secret to my mate. The tears that I tried to hold back, now streamed silently down my cheeks. “I miss them so much and sometimes I wish that I never sealed up that damn well in the first place.”
Sesshoumaru bent down to kiss the top of my head. “This Sesshoumaru promises that he will find a way for you to see your family again.” I smiled at his words and wiped the tears from my cheeks.
Since I have just told him one of my biggest secrets, I figured that it was time that he told me one of his. “Sesshoumaru, may I ask you something? It’s only fair, since I have told you of my own secret.”
“Hn.”
I took that as a yes and asked the question that I have been dying to know, since I first became his mate. “Why did you decide to save me that day in the forest?”
My mate was silent for longer than necessary and I thought he wasn’t going to answer.
“Truthfully, this Sesshoumaru did not save you for your power. That is what he had told you, so you wouldn’t get suspicious of his actions. He saved you, because he wanted you to be the mother to his pups.”
My mouth fell open in shock. “What did you just say? Did I hear you right?”
Sesshoumaru nodded his head. “This Sesshoumaru has read in a scroll that if a demon mates with the protector of the sacred jewel, that she will bare the demon powerful pups. He never expected you to have demon blood or the fact that his blood turned you into a full demon.”
I should have guessed it was something like that. “Wouldn’t it have been Kikyo? She was the protector before me.”
My mate growled with irritation. “Kikyo gave up that title, when she died. She is not pure enough anymore to handle the powers of the sacred jewel.”
Sesshoumaru left my side to return to his previous task. I continued to stare into the flames, thinking over what my mate revealed to me. What he said does make sense.
Kikyo doesn’t have a soul of her own anymore and the only reason she is still among the living, is because she has a part of my soul. Plus, the jewel did fall out of my body, proving that I am indeed its protector.
I am slightly disappointed that there’s nothing else. I wanted him to admit that he had a crush on me and that is why he saved me or that he fell in love with me the first time we met and that he couldn’t continue to live without me by his side. I guess I read too many fairy tales or romance books. That will never happen to me in real life.
Returning to my task, I realized that I have went through the entire pile of scrolls and needed to gather up some more. I scooted my chair back and walked slowly over to the shelves. I scanned each of the shelves and spotted some older looking scrolls. I decided to read those next and used the ladder to climb up to them. Since they are older, they may hold the information that I need.
I stuffed the scrolls into the top of my kimono, since I didn’t have anywhere else to store them. Once I collected enough scrolls, I began my descent. Somehow, I missed a step on the ladder and started to slip. I frantically tried to grab onto one of the shelves to balance myself, but the ladder began to fall backwards.
I let out a scream and closed my eyes, bracing myself for impact. I hit something hard, causing it to fall backwards onto the floor. I groaned when the thing I hit, collided with me. I breathed a sigh of relief that I was alright, but when I dared to open my eyes, I quickly shut them. I had learned that the hard surface I had landed on was my mate’s sculpted chest. There is no hope for me now.
My mate sniffed my scent, to see if I or the pup was hurt during my fall. When he was satisfied that we weren’t harmed, he placed both of his clawed hands on my cheeks and lifted my face to his. “Open your eyes.” He commanded, giving me no chance to disobey him. I did what I was told and opened my eyes.
“What processed you to do such a foolish thing?” He questioned me, staring into my icy blue colored eyes.
“I wanted to get the scrolls at the top.” I answered.
I expected my mate to yell at me, but he never did. “Why didn’t you ask this Sesshoumaru to get them down for you?” He said, nuzzling my cheek with his own. “It would have been much safer and you wouldn’t have worried this Sesshoumaru like you did.”
I leaned into his touch. “I’m sorry for making you worry.” I whispered to him.
Sesshoumaru lifted his head until he was touching his nose to mine. “This Sesshoumaru’s
heart stopped in his chest at the sound of your scream. This Sesshoumaru would be upset if something happened to you.”
He may not know the truth of his words, but I sure do. My mate had just admitted to me that he loved me. I have longed to hear the exact words come from his lips and it seems that I will have to wait a little bit longer, but I am satisfied by the meaning of his words. I lowered my nose into the crooked of his neck, breathing in his pine scent, while he wrapped his arms around my waist, holding me against him.
We stayed like that for what seemed like hours, but in truth were only a few minutes. He was the one who broke off the contact. “Let’s get back to work.” He said, lifting me off of him. Both of us headed back to the desk, once Sesshoumaru was off the floor. For the next few hours, we searched endlessly through scroll after scroll.
I was halfway through one, when something caught my eye. “Sesshoumaru, I think I may have found something.” I told him, barely containing my excitement. I was surprised that I wasn’t bouncing up and down in my seat. “This scroll mentions something about modifying a mark set upon the mate of another.”
Sesshoumaru lowered the scroll he was reading and looked at me with interest. I began to read the scroll out loud. “Whenever a demon places symbol on another’s mate, the mate may use his own powers to counter the spell. However, it will not erase the symbol. It makes the spell less powerful and the demon with the symbol will be able to resist the pull of the spell. The only way for the spell to be completely removed, is by the death of the demon who cast the spell.”
My mate scooted his chair next to mine and leaned in closer. I wondered what he was about to do and didn’t have to wait very long. He grabbed my hand and turned it over, until he saw the spider mark. His summoned his powers into his hand, until it began to glow an eerie green.
“What are you doing?” I managed to ask him, squirming in my chair. I was afraid of what he was about to do. I wish he would have told me first. Then I wouldn’t be panicking, like I am now.
He didn’t even bother to look up. “Seeing if what the scroll said is true.” He simply answered.
I watched with wide eyes, as his green poison dripped onto the spider mark. I had expected it to hurt and burn my skin, but it didn’t. Surprisingly, it was cool once it touched my skin. When Sesshoumaru was satisfied that he had put enough poison on the spider mark, he withdrew the poison. We watched together as his poison formed a blue crescent moon above the spider.
“Do you think it actually worked?” I whispered to my mate, not wanting to jinx what we just did.
Sesshoumaru expected my hand a little bit more, before releasing it. “It might have. This Sesshoumaru is not for sure, but the symbol did absorb his poison and his mark is above the spider.”
I was about to ask him another question, when that stupid green toad barged into the library with important news. “Milord, the wolf is at the castle’s gates, demanding that we let him in. What shall we do?”
I sensed two jewel shards and instantly knew which wolf he was talking about. I knew this wouldn’t go well on either side and decided to handle this situation on my own. “I will talk to the wolf.” I announced to my mate. “I am sure there are more important matters that you must attend to.”
Sesshoumaru nodded his head in agreement. “This Sesshoumaru must see the progress the soldiers have made with their training.” He turned towards the toad. “Go with my mate and see that nothing happens to her. Do not fail me, Jaken.” Jaken bowed as Sesshoumaru gave me a kiss and left the room.
“Go fetch Inuyasha and tell him to meet me at the castle’s gates. It’s time that we meet up with an old friend of ours.” Jaken grumbled as he went to do my bidding.
“How will you react, Kouga?” I spoke to myself quietly. “When you learn that I have been mated to Sesshoumaru.”
To be continued…
I stared in bewilderment at the pile of scrolls on the desk set before me. “This is pointless.” I said to my mate sitting next to me behind his desk. “We’re not going to find anything in time.”
“That kind of attitude will get you nowhere, mate.” Sesshoumaru spoke, not bothering to look up from the scroll he was reading. “In this Sesshoumaru’s travels, he has never seen you give up. Not even when you shot an arrow at him, in order to save my half-brother.”
Realizing that my mate was right, I returned to the scroll in my hand and began to read its contents. This one talked of panther demons. I won’t be able to use this. So, I rolled it back up and tossed it aside. I picked up another scroll from my pile and briefly glanced through it, also tossing this one aside. All it talked about was how to please a bed partner. I think I have that area covered.
I felt a slight draft and moved my chair closer over to the fireplace. I rubbed my hands together and then placed them in front of the flames. It’s a good thing Sesshoumaru had one of the servants to light the fireplace. Otherwise, I will be freezing my butt off. The library is huge, so it has two fireplaces to keep the room warm. Good thing they don’t have heating bills in this time. Sesshoumaru will be paying a fortune.
“This is certainly interesting.” Sesshoumaru spoke all of a sudden. I turned around to face him and noticed that he had stopped reading the scroll, to look at me. “It says here in the scroll that the well in Inuyasha’s forest is magical. That would explain some things.”
I got nervous of his inquiry, but I remembered to keep my emotions in check. He will be able to sense my emotions and figure out that something was wrong. “Like what?” I asked him, curious to know what the scroll revealed.
I guess I wasn’t careful enough, because Sesshoumaru lifted one of his eyebrows up at me. “Why don’t you tell this Sesshoumaru what you know of the well? You have lived near it and must know what secrets it processes.”
I shook my head. “I don’t know anything.”
“Don’t lie to this Sesshoumaru, mate. It’s time that you reveal your secrets.”
I focused my gaze back towards the fireplace. I watched as the reddish-orange flames flickered within it. I began to wonder if I should do as my mate’s wishes and tell him the truth of how I found myself living in the feudal era. Would what I had to tell him change the past or the future? I shook my head clear of such thoughts. Inuyasha and the others knew of my time traveling and didn’t change the timeline. Inuyasha even traveled to and from the feudal era to my time.
Sesshoumaru was getting impatient with me and growled slightly to get my attention. I turned my icy blue eyes back on him. It was now or never. I never expected him to learn so soon. “You may not believe me, when I tell you my story.” I explained to him, keeping eye contact with him. “I wouldn’t have believed it myself, if it didn’t happen to me.”
I continued on, knowing that I had my mate’s attention. “You see, this is not my time. I wasn’t born here. Instead, I come from five hundred years into the future.” I watched my mate’s eyebrows arch in surprise. “I know it’s hard to believe, but it’s the truth.”
“What does that information have to do with the well?” He questioned me.
I sighed with frustration. Sesshoumaru reminds me of Inuyasha sometimes, when I am interrupted and have to answer questions that would have been already explained. “The well was the portal that sent me back and forth between the two times.”
“Was?”
I suddenly grew sad, as I revealed the next bit of information. “I sealed the well with my own powers. There is no chance of me ever time traveling again.”
Sesshoumaru rose from his chair and moved behind me, to gently place his hand upon my shoulder. His nearness brought me the comfort I needed. “Continue.” He said, knowing there is more to my story.
“I can’t see my family back home for years yet to come and I don’t even know if I’ll survive that long.” I revealed my darkest secret to my mate. The tears that I tried to hold back, now streamed silently down my cheeks. “I miss them so much and sometimes I wish that I never sealed up that damn well in the first place.”
Sesshoumaru bent down to kiss the top of my head. “This Sesshoumaru promises that he will find a way for you to see your family again.” I smiled at his words and wiped the tears from my cheeks.
Since I have just told him one of my biggest secrets, I figured that it was time that he told me one of his. “Sesshoumaru, may I ask you something? It’s only fair, since I have told you of my own secret.”
“Hn.”
I took that as a yes and asked the question that I have been dying to know, since I first became his mate. “Why did you decide to save me that day in the forest?”
My mate was silent for longer than necessary and I thought he wasn’t going to answer.
“Truthfully, this Sesshoumaru did not save you for your power. That is what he had told you, so you wouldn’t get suspicious of his actions. He saved you, because he wanted you to be the mother to his pups.”
My mouth fell open in shock. “What did you just say? Did I hear you right?”
Sesshoumaru nodded his head. “This Sesshoumaru has read in a scroll that if a demon mates with the protector of the sacred jewel, that she will bare the demon powerful pups. He never expected you to have demon blood or the fact that his blood turned you into a full demon.”
I should have guessed it was something like that. “Wouldn’t it have been Kikyo? She was the protector before me.”
My mate growled with irritation. “Kikyo gave up that title, when she died. She is not pure enough anymore to handle the powers of the sacred jewel.”
Sesshoumaru left my side to return to his previous task. I continued to stare into the flames, thinking over what my mate revealed to me. What he said does make sense.
Kikyo doesn’t have a soul of her own anymore and the only reason she is still among the living, is because she has a part of my soul. Plus, the jewel did fall out of my body, proving that I am indeed its protector.
I am slightly disappointed that there’s nothing else. I wanted him to admit that he had a crush on me and that is why he saved me or that he fell in love with me the first time we met and that he couldn’t continue to live without me by his side. I guess I read too many fairy tales or romance books. That will never happen to me in real life.
Returning to my task, I realized that I have went through the entire pile of scrolls and needed to gather up some more. I scooted my chair back and walked slowly over to the shelves. I scanned each of the shelves and spotted some older looking scrolls. I decided to read those next and used the ladder to climb up to them. Since they are older, they may hold the information that I need.
I stuffed the scrolls into the top of my kimono, since I didn’t have anywhere else to store them. Once I collected enough scrolls, I began my descent. Somehow, I missed a step on the ladder and started to slip. I frantically tried to grab onto one of the shelves to balance myself, but the ladder began to fall backwards.
I let out a scream and closed my eyes, bracing myself for impact. I hit something hard, causing it to fall backwards onto the floor. I groaned when the thing I hit, collided with me. I breathed a sigh of relief that I was alright, but when I dared to open my eyes, I quickly shut them. I had learned that the hard surface I had landed on was my mate’s sculpted chest. There is no hope for me now.
My mate sniffed my scent, to see if I or the pup was hurt during my fall. When he was satisfied that we weren’t harmed, he placed both of his clawed hands on my cheeks and lifted my face to his. “Open your eyes.” He commanded, giving me no chance to disobey him. I did what I was told and opened my eyes.
“What processed you to do such a foolish thing?” He questioned me, staring into my icy blue colored eyes.
“I wanted to get the scrolls at the top.” I answered.
I expected my mate to yell at me, but he never did. “Why didn’t you ask this Sesshoumaru to get them down for you?” He said, nuzzling my cheek with his own. “It would have been much safer and you wouldn’t have worried this Sesshoumaru like you did.”
I leaned into his touch. “I’m sorry for making you worry.” I whispered to him.
Sesshoumaru lifted his head until he was touching his nose to mine. “This Sesshoumaru’s
heart stopped in his chest at the sound of your scream. This Sesshoumaru would be upset if something happened to you.”
He may not know the truth of his words, but I sure do. My mate had just admitted to me that he loved me. I have longed to hear the exact words come from his lips and it seems that I will have to wait a little bit longer, but I am satisfied by the meaning of his words. I lowered my nose into the crooked of his neck, breathing in his pine scent, while he wrapped his arms around my waist, holding me against him.
We stayed like that for what seemed like hours, but in truth were only a few minutes. He was the one who broke off the contact. “Let’s get back to work.” He said, lifting me off of him. Both of us headed back to the desk, once Sesshoumaru was off the floor. For the next few hours, we searched endlessly through scroll after scroll.
I was halfway through one, when something caught my eye. “Sesshoumaru, I think I may have found something.” I told him, barely containing my excitement. I was surprised that I wasn’t bouncing up and down in my seat. “This scroll mentions something about modifying a mark set upon the mate of another.”
Sesshoumaru lowered the scroll he was reading and looked at me with interest. I began to read the scroll out loud. “Whenever a demon places symbol on another’s mate, the mate may use his own powers to counter the spell. However, it will not erase the symbol. It makes the spell less powerful and the demon with the symbol will be able to resist the pull of the spell. The only way for the spell to be completely removed, is by the death of the demon who cast the spell.”
My mate scooted his chair next to mine and leaned in closer. I wondered what he was about to do and didn’t have to wait very long. He grabbed my hand and turned it over, until he saw the spider mark. His summoned his powers into his hand, until it began to glow an eerie green.
“What are you doing?” I managed to ask him, squirming in my chair. I was afraid of what he was about to do. I wish he would have told me first. Then I wouldn’t be panicking, like I am now.
He didn’t even bother to look up. “Seeing if what the scroll said is true.” He simply answered.
I watched with wide eyes, as his green poison dripped onto the spider mark. I had expected it to hurt and burn my skin, but it didn’t. Surprisingly, it was cool once it touched my skin. When Sesshoumaru was satisfied that he had put enough poison on the spider mark, he withdrew the poison. We watched together as his poison formed a blue crescent moon above the spider.
“Do you think it actually worked?” I whispered to my mate, not wanting to jinx what we just did.
Sesshoumaru expected my hand a little bit more, before releasing it. “It might have. This Sesshoumaru is not for sure, but the symbol did absorb his poison and his mark is above the spider.”
I was about to ask him another question, when that stupid green toad barged into the library with important news. “Milord, the wolf is at the castle’s gates, demanding that we let him in. What shall we do?”
I sensed two jewel shards and instantly knew which wolf he was talking about. I knew this wouldn’t go well on either side and decided to handle this situation on my own. “I will talk to the wolf.” I announced to my mate. “I am sure there are more important matters that you must attend to.”
Sesshoumaru nodded his head in agreement. “This Sesshoumaru must see the progress the soldiers have made with their training.” He turned towards the toad. “Go with my mate and see that nothing happens to her. Do not fail me, Jaken.” Jaken bowed as Sesshoumaru gave me a kiss and left the room.
“Go fetch Inuyasha and tell him to meet me at the castle’s gates. It’s time that we meet up with an old friend of ours.” Jaken grumbled as he went to do my bidding.
“How will you react, Kouga?” I spoke to myself quietly. “When you learn that I have been mated to Sesshoumaru.”
To be continued…