InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ You Should Have Come After Me ❯ Learning from the Past ( Chapter 9 )

You Should Have Came After Me [[009]]

The demon kept dragging me down the hallway as I kept struggling to get away. I kept making vines grow out of the floor and had them wrap around my wrists so that the demon could not pursue his destination, but he kept pulling me out of the vines' grasp.

 

"Would you put me down. I can gladly walk on my own," I protested as I continued trashing my fists into his back.

 

"Oh can you now. Can you walk along side me to the room that I'm taking you to and not try to run back to 'kill' Sesshomaru?" he stopped walking and questioned.

 

"Yes, wolf's honor," I said annoyed. I was hopping that he would put me down so I could make a run for it.

 

"Fine." He placed me down beside him and started walking. I started walking too, until I turned and made a run for it. He must have had a feeling I would pull something like this because he caught me before I could truly go anywhere.

 

"You gave your wolf honor," he hissed as walked in the direction he was originally walking with me slung over his shoulder again.

"And you being a wolf demon should know that no wolf would trust another wolf that they didn't know," I said back harshly. I folded my arms over my chest and gave up trying to escape.

 

"True but I know you and you know me, you just don't remember," he stated, "well here we are at your room princess." He opened the door he was standing in front of and placed me down inside of the room, closing the door behind him.

 

"I'm not staying in this room, I have to be with my son," I informed hostilely.

 

"No you are staying in this room until you calm down and don't have the urge to kill Sesshomaru."

 

"I don't want to kill him, I just want to hurt him a bit that's all."

 

"Same thing."

 

"Fine I'll stay in the room."

 

"Funny, the last time you were told to stay put you practically threw a temper tantrum. Well actually you did throw a temper tantrum," he chuckled.

 

"I don't even know you!" I yelled at him. I sat on the bed in the room and glared at him.

 

"That's because you don't remember. Here let me show you." Wolf boy walked over to me told me to close my eyes as he placed his hands on the side of my head, sending memory streams through my head.

 

*****

 

"Jewellisa come here sweetie," I heard my mothers voice call out to me. In the room out side of my head, I smiled whispering 'Mom' at the happy memory.

 

"Ava she doesn't have to if she doesn't want to," a man unknown to my knowledge laughed.

 

"No Hegira, in order for her to be respectful she needs to meet you and Takuya," my mother insisted.

 

"All right, if you say so," the man Hegira said laughing again. His dark brown hair was long like Sesshomaru's but was kept in a high ponytail.

 

"Kouga, Jewellisa come in here," mom called again.

 

"Come on Jewellisa, mom's calling use," Kouga said

to me, well mini-Kouga said to mini-me. Kouga had to at least be 7 and I only 3. In the vision I saw little Kouga almost dragging me into the room our mother was in.

 

"Ava-sama, you daughter is gorgeous," Hegira admitted.

 

"Jewellisa what do you say?" my mother asked me as she took me out Kouga's grasp and placed me in her lap. Kouga sat down on the carpet and played with the other little boy playing there. He had auburn hair and green eyes. 'That must be Takuya when he was younger,' I thought, as the vision continued.

 

I just sat in my mother's lap and stared straight into Hegira's gray eyes. I knew I should have said something but I didn't feel like it, instead I just growled at him.

 

"Jewellisa stop that," my mother demanded as she lightly hit me on my arm. I pulled it away just after she hit me and turned around in her lap to hold onto her neck. "Apologize to Hegira-sama right now."

 

"Ava it's all right, she's just shy," Hegira tried to cover for me.

 

"No Hegira, it's not all right. Jewellisa knows better," my mother scorned.

 

"Maybe she's just tired."

 

"That's no excuse," she sighed, "but maybe you're right, maybe she should take a nap before she starts her training."

 

"I'll take the boy's outside while you put her down," Hegira agreed. He got up and led Kouga and Takuya out of the room and down the stairs to the yard.

 

As I saw Hegira leave the room with my brother and his son, I tired to climb down from my mother's lap and follow them. "No Jewellisa, you have to take a nap," my mother coxed me. She picked me up and laid me down in the bed.

 

"No I don't want to," I argued and tried to climb out of the bed.

 

"Well you're cranky, so you're going to take a nap and when you wake up then you can come down and play ok," my mother insisted.

 

"No I wanna play now," I wined.

 

"Jewellisa you have to take a nap."

 

"No I wanna play."

 

"Jewellisa-"

 

"No I wanna play now, now, now," I screamed. I had gotten so angry that from deep inside of me a large blast of energy blew everything close to me, away from me. The energy was so large that it blew my mother across the room and against the wall, causing the house to shake.

 

I saw what I had done and quickly got out of the bed and ran to my mother. 'Mommy I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I'm sorry' I kept repeating as I hugged her. I wrapped my arms around her and placed my hands firmly on her back. I closed my eyes as a warm feeling came through my hand and touched my mother wounds.

 

"What happened?" Hegira asked with concern as he came back into the room.

 

"She had a little temper tantrum and released a tremendous amount of energy," my mother explained in Japanese. At that time I couldn't understand it, but soon became fluent in.

 

"What is she doing now?" Hegira asked also in Japanese.

 

"I think she's healing me."

 

"Maybe we should start her training now," Hegira suggested, concern still hinted in his voice.

 

My mother stood up from the floor with me in her arms. I had used up so much power that I didn't even know I had, that I was exhausted. She placed me in the bed and walked over to the door where Hegira stood. "As soon as she wakes up you can begin her training," my mother whispered. They quickly left the room and went out to the yard were Kouga and Takuya still played peacefully.

 

*****

 

"So you're father trained me and you were friends with my brother?" I asked when my vision was of the present.

 

"That's how it looks," he replied, sitting down beside me on the edge of the bed.

"So then what are you doing here with Sesshomaru?"

 

"Well my father was also general of the mountain wolf demon army and we had an alliance with Sesshomaru, well Lord InuTaisho at the time. Whenever he would come over and discuss battle tactics, I would join him and stay in the room along side Sesshomaru. So when our father's died I took over the army and Sesshomaru, as you know, took over the western lands."

 

I looked out the window and saw that time had gone by fast. The afternoon sky filled with pinks, purples, and oranges slowly changed to a dark blue filled with many twinkling stars and a crescent moon. I quietly sat and thought about all that Takuya had told me when a little servant girl came into the room, keeping her gaze to the floor.

 

"Takuya-sama dinner will be served soon," she addressed towards Takuya and gave him a small bow.

 

"Thank you dorei," Takuya responded, standing to leave.

 

She took a few steps so that she was standing in front of me. "Lady Jewellisa, Lord Sesshomaru said that you can take a bath through that door over there," she stated pointing at the door to the left of me, "and when you get out there will be a kimono waiting for you."

 

"What's your name?" I asked the girl. She looked at me from under her blonde bangs shyly but quickly averted her gaze to the floor again. "It's ok, you can tell me." I reached out to her and gently pulled her towards me. I lifted her chin so that her forest green eyes could look into mine.

 

"Kochi my lady," she replied.

 

"Well Kochi thank you for telling me this, I'll be ready soon?" She nodded and bowed before she left the room.

 

"I guess I'll leave you to your bath," Takuya spoke up after Kochi left the room, "but Jewellisa--."

 

"Yes Takuya?" I asked from the door leading to the bathroom. I had a feeling I was going to have to promise him something.

 

"Promise me you won't cause a scene at dinner?"

 

I though about it and then smiled at him. "You have nothing to worry about." With that he left the room closing the door behind him and I walked further into the bathroom closing the door behind me.

 

 

Japanese Translations

dorei-servant