Once Again with Love
Chapter 12
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Sesshoumaru—I have had complaints on the way that Sesshoumaru treats
Kagome.
creature—he’s lord of his land, an aristocrat with major delusion of grandeur,
proud and unyielding in the extreme, deadly with crossed and would not change
in his view without a fight—a fight to the death.
Sesshoumaru
has had Kagome for less than five days…No one is going to change their views on
life in that short a time. No matter
what anyone says—it doesn’t really happen.
Sesshoumaru
is not—know matter how much we may wish he would—going to let Kagome in without
a fight. He desires her and wants her or
at least ownership of her…but if anyone was going to change in this new
relationship, it problem would not be Sesshoumaru—at least not in only five
days. Besides that off those five days four were spent in bed—not a lot of time
for Kagome to work on changing him.
Another
fact, Sesshoumaru is a feudal Lord and is not
going to be all lightness and fluffiness—he has attempted to kill his own
brother simple for breathing the same air that he breathes.
As for
Sesshoumaru calling Kagome a bitch, Hello…he’s an inuyoukai—a dog. Female dogs
are called bitches and Sesshoumaru does not see it as an insult.
as if he called her ‘woman’ or ‘girl’. And although I believe that Kagome is probable
still going to be insult by the term…she is an inuyoukai bitch—a female dog now
and I think Sesshoumaru would use it because he can get away with it.
Plus, if
we are truthful, as a group humans have been known to take a simple non-disparaging
term from one culture and turn it into something derogatory…but to that original
culture it’s not dirty or derogatory.
middle finger.
Kagome—OK, I have also had complaints about her as well, that she
is acting OOC but I don’t think so. My Kagome has had to face heartache, and
she has grown up a lot. She is not going
to react like a 15 year old any more. She much smarter than that now. There’s
an old saying—‘You get more fly with honey than vinegar.’ She is not the little
immature girl that once became enraged because of something as unimportant as a
name.
I going
to say something that will probable make everyone mad—I think that in most fan fiction
Kagome relies on that rosary way to much…it makes her seems cruel and
hateful. In fact, to my knowledge and
hopefully I right or I suppose I will hear about it, in the anime Kagome does
not use it when there are other means at her disposal.
Why
should Inuyasha want to be with or love someone who reaction to a fight is to
hit or hurt them? Yes, I know that she needs to use the rosary to get home…but
really sometime peoplee ite it much too far. There is no different in the
unnecessary use of that rosary then if a man would hit a woman or vice versa—neither
of which I think is right.
The
rosary should only be used to save her life not as a punishment for name
calling. It’s cruel to use it any other
way and does not reflect on her personality in a good light.
Shippo—I LIKE SHIPPO! I LIKE SHIPPO! I REALLY, REALLY LIKE SHIPPO! I
don’t think that Shippo is annoying, he’s a kid and kid’s say very—make that
very, very, and yes, very, stupid things before they think. I also think that
he one of the most endearing characters in the anime.
thing for her. Very few people give that
type of devotion.
Now that my rant in
finished, I want to thank you for taking the time to read what I have written
and to thank for your reviews of my fanfiction…I wouldn’t mind hearing your
ideas for upcoming chapters if you want to leave them in your reviews.
Again thanks for
reviewing,
Cerulean Rose
Ps. there is a lot of cussing in this chapter.
The air became still with menace.
With a look of dead calm on his face and a flick of his
deadly claws Sesshoumaru prepared to attack the group standing in the doorway. Sesshoumaru
glided as he moved towards the others with a deadly grace that easily screamed
out his intentions—a predator stalking his prey.
~ Oh, Kami. Damn
it, this is not something I need right now! ~Almost afraid to take a breath se ise it waste
valuable time, Kagome acted
instinctively placing herself in front of him and between her friends and him, giving
them her somewhat dubious protection when his low threatening growls began to
filling the room.
Shit, shit,
shit, shit. Kagome
sighed why was it never easy? She
thought, as she came to the group's ue, ue, his anger flooded her mind as tugging
at their newly formed bond. Shit, stupid
man, they’re not even doing anything.
Perceiving a threat to his group and the only family
he had left, Shippo began to emit a low guttered growl at Sesshoumaru from the
safety of Kagome arms.
Kagome shushed
and gently shifted Shippo onto her left arm.
“Sesshoumaru—” Fearful for her friends when he refused
to look at her she moved in front of Sesshou and and placed her hand on his
chest, "Sesshoumaru, No!...”
She knew that simple asking him wasn't enough when his
eyebrow slide up into his hair at her audacious in thinking she could stop him
with a simple hand on his chest.
Well, that
didn’t go over to good. I suppose that Mr. High and Might is not use to hearing
the word. Kagome
felt her lips quark at that thought. No,
Lord of all he Surveys wouldn’t like that word.
“Please, don’t. They’re my friends and they are
naturally worried about me."
Sesshoumaru looked down at the pleading face of the
silly creature that believed she could hold him back. "I know exactly why
they are here I heard it from the kit’s lips. They are here to rescue you from
my dastardly hands." Sesshoumaru said in a hard voice filled with sarcasm that
sent frozen chills down Kagome’s spine.
Does she
really think she could stop me? He looked down at her little, delicate hand as it
rested on his chest, did
could stop him from tearing them limb from limb if I desire it? "Do
you really think you can stop me if I decide they need to die?"
“You ass…Don’t you dare.” Kagome felt her temper go as
she hissed out the words in a low voice then growled before she thought.
Sesshoumaru lips twisted slightly in amusement as he
began to crowd her personal space. “Stop me if you think you can, little bitch.”
“Don’t you dare.” Kagome forced herself not to step
away from him.
“Give over to me and I can be merciful.”
ma
matter. I will not be my father! Sesshoumaru thought, his hand reached out
and trailed it lovingly down her face.
He caught her eyes with his hard ones and would not
release her gaze. I will rule. He sniffed,
Abigeru was in the hallway.
“Abigeru. Come. Take Kagome… and the boy to my chambers. ”
Sesshoumaru leaned down and spoke softly to her
although the words were hard, "You will go with Abigeru to our room, now,
or you will face the consequence of your refusal. I will take that rodent from
you and cast him out.”
Kagome’s eyes widened in shock at the threat—
“Your try it, you bastard. He’s mine…mine! And he’s
not a RODENT!” She started out at a whisper and ended with a yell while Shippo
gave a sound between a whimper and hiss at being threatened and called such an
insulting name.
Hey, I’m a kitsune, not a roden…” Shippo started at
the same time as Kagome, before Kagome smacked his nose again.
“I’m talking.” Kagome said angrily. “Now hush, and
you, you bastard, he is not a rodent.”
“Well I not.” Shippo muttered crossly to himself,
crossed his arms over his chest and pouted as Sesshoumaru ignored him and
Kagome gave him a threatening look.
Jerk. Back to
the important matter, before blood is spilled.
to Sesshoumaru, “Sesshoumaru, you don’t have to do this.
anything to be punished for.”
Sesshoumaru decided to allow her to turn the
conversation or at least for now. “They dare to come here without permission,
for that alone I could kill them…that they have the audacity to come for what
is mine makes their offence worse still.
I have every right to defend my house, my mate.”
“They were just worried about me, that all. They
didn’t do anything how many times do I have to say that.
“They did do something, little one they have challenge
me in my very home. I have every right to kill them, however, I can be merciful
acknowledge me and I will spare them.
12.0pt;line-height:200%'>“…” Kagome didn’t know what to say to him,
“Then have it
your way, my dear Kagome. Have it your way.” He began to move around her before
stopping when Kagome grabbed his sleeve. Ask,
my dear, ask and I will stop.
~I have to
stop this, he’ll kill them. I…I can’t be afraid any more. ~
his sleeve tightly in her grasp. Stop
this…please.
blanked as he felt the first blossoming of their bond as her thoughts flooded
his mind. Stop this…please.
“I will give them a change to leave, my dear.” Pulling
away from her, Sesshoumarus’ face hardened into granite and he began to walk once
more towards the group standing in the doorway, “But they will not take what I
have made mine."
~ Oh, Kami, they’ll
never leave without me. They’ll fight and… He’s going to kill them and they
won’t have a change against him at all. I have to stop him, but how--~
Frightened, Shippo was shivering from the words flying
over his head.
"Shippo. You must do as I say, exactly as I say."
Kagome desperately whispered to him before she set him down and pushed him behind
her.
“Stay out of the way. Over in the corner.” She said
with a hard look that said he had better obey her or else.
He use to right before a figh—
remembered that tone from his father then he nodded in agreement before
scampering into a corner of the room to get out of the way in case there was a
fight.
Kagome attempted to summon her miko powers—
to focus them on Sesshoumaru.
couldn’t really help me with them. How sta start?
Kagome focused on her youkai reaching deep into that
new part of herself as she attempted to coax it to life. There something…just out of reach. She took a deep breath and sent
her mind deeper.
She felt the youkai slowly ascend, stirring slightly
as if it was the tinder whereas her will was the fire added to it, before it
meet a torrent of rain and began to fizzle out as the necklace seemed to reach
into her and cancel her effort. Shit.
Kagome growled and reached up attempting to pull the
necklace from her neck when a shock ran though her hand, stinging it. She
easeeased the necklace as the pain began it intensify.
Now what?
I can’t defeat
him wearing this cursed necklace, I can’t call any of
my powers miko or youkai against him. This is giving me a headache.
she had to act quickly she shirted around in front of Sesshoumaru once more as
she saw Sango and Miroku preparing for an attack. I won’t be afraid anymore and if he wants me he has to take all of me.
That includes my family.
I have to stop
this. How?
Shit, She stuttered,
impossible to live with.
“My Lord,” Kagome nervously licked her lips, took a
deep breathe and stood on tip toes to leaned up to his ear and whispered,
"Husband, if you do this, if you do not stop, you'll have to kill me with
them."
Sesshoumaru rubbed his check against hers as he slowly
slide his hand into her hair enjoying the silkily soft strands, the blackness
again the white skin of his hand and held her in place against him while the
other trailed down her ribcage to her hip. "I will say again, they will
not take what I have made mine. Remember your rodent. Don’t rebel against me in
this matter."
In a soft, intimate voice pitched for just her,
Sesshoumaru warm lips touched her ear. "Acknowledge me be my mate as it
was meant to be. Acknowledge me as master of this house, as your alpha male and
I will not kill them, I will even be generous to them. I will even go so far, as
a boon to you, to our new mating as to offer them my protection."
~ Shit, generous
my ass—Bastard. He’s going to make me beg. ~ Kagome eyes hardened she could hear it in his voice,
he would not allow this to go unchallenged,
Kagome knew, he would do whatever he had to in order
to maintain his peoples respect, and
their respect means he has to control me…and he do it, he go so far as to… he will
even kill Miroku and Sango if she and they didn't acknowledge him as their alpha
male.
this. I have to acknowledge him…Shit. Kagome slowly sank down on her heels as her hair
pulled through his fingers, what she was about to do would change here
fe
forever.
Bastard,
thought taking a deep breath before finally unable to put it off any longer she
looked over at her friends, I have to do
this. This time I’m all they have, there’s no Inuyasha leaping in to save us.
one syllable at a time forcing them from behind her teeth.
She formally addressed him as she bowed to him.
terms would meet with the bastard’s approval.
“My Lord—husband,” She gritted her teeth each word
seemed to be yanked from her, “please allow me to introduce you to my pack, Sango,
beta female and Miroku, beta male and my adopted son, Shippo, now your son."
She gestured to each of them as she introduced them and waited as he gave each
a small nod of acknowledgment.
Sesshoumaru want to laugh but he controlled himself
when he heard her grer ter teeth and the rolling indignation in her mind as he calmly
waited.
What was that?
wide in shock, disbelieving, what she just heard, Sango almost fell down as she
moved out of her crouch her at Kagomes’ words. Did she really say…
What was that?
with his staff ready Miroku could only feel distressed and bewilderment as he also
straightened and turned too look at Sango. Did
she really say…
Husband!?
In for a penny
in for a pound, Kagome bitterly thought of the old English saying, she looked at Sango
and Miroku, "Sango, Miroku, this is my mate and lord, Sesshoumaru, Lord of
the Western Lands."
What? How?
When? WHY! Sango
looked at Miroku, her eyes wide and astonished as shook coursed though her,
it. Eeck…yuck.
Wide eyed, Miroku and Sango looked back at Kagome who
stood fretfully in front of the threatening inu youkai lord.
a pleading that changed into a silent order that passed from sister to sister.
Acknowledge
him,
Kagomes’ eyes conveyed so much emotion—begged, demanded of them all at once,
Sango once again looked at Miroku who’s eyes where as wild as she knew her had
to be.
Something silent passed between them as they came to
an agreement. Answering Kagomes’ plea, they once more looked at Sesshoumaru and
bowed.
~ Poor little
love. Sesshoumaru didn’t have to threaten him. Calling him a
rodent. Jerk. ~ Kagome leaned back quietly in her back rest, as she set on
the floor cushion, her attention focused on the boy wrapped around her middle.
He’s going to
make me go… He is. Shippo sobbed against her as he sat on her lap his arms
wrapped around her middle and showed no sign of letting go any time soon.
hates me.
when he had refused to release her and he had taken the others to his study leaving
her with orders that she was to follow when she calmed Shippo down.
jerk, Shippo wouldn’t need calmed down if he hadn’t scared him half to death. ~
Kagome rocked him, gently muttering to him.
~Poor little
dear. Mom—Mommy? ~ She smiled, ~
Yes, Mommy ~ “I got you. Shushhhhh, it’s ok now, Mommy got you.”
Shippo stopped sobbing mid cry as his eyes lightened
up although the tears still fell, “Mo—Mommy, I can call you Mommy…really?
You’ll be my Mom now? Forever?”
“Yes, you can call me mom or mommy, whichever you want.
It’s ok, now. Shhh, Sweetheart. It’s ok and yes,
forever. It’s going to be alright, Shippo, I love you and missed you so much.”
She gently patted his long hair and tail in smoothing
motions as tears once more filled his eyes as she read worry there. “We’re
together now. Everything Ok now...Shhhh.”
“Itt—ttt—
him to her as Shippo stuttered heartbreakingly, his words broken by his sobs,
before he tried again. “H—ee's not go—
be all alone again. I don't want to be alone again, Moooommy,
I need you.”
“Nothing will
separate us now, Shippo. I promise you.” Kagome held his innocent little face
in her hands and looked him over with gentle love filled eyes as she tenderly
tilted his small face up and then wiped his tears away.
She kissed him on the forehead and hugging him tight.
“I promise, Shippo, no matter what I have to do…I'll do it. I love you.
"It won't." He’ll take you away, you’ll have other children
and won’t want me anymore.
“Shh, it’s ok, I promise,
I’m here to stay this time. No matter what.
She muttered the words again and again, hoping that he would believe her.
“Love you,
mommy. Don’t leave me.”
“I won’t, I promise.” There was a wealth of promise in
those words. Kagome forced herself not to cry when she heard his muttered
words, it was so very painful to see him so unsure and fearful but instead she sat
there and comforted him.
She tenderly settled Shippo against her shoulder and
began to rock her little man as she rubbed his back until his sobs finally
began to lessen and he fell asleep against her.
“I love you too, Shippo. I’m not leaving.”
Sesshoumaru scented the air, not with just his nose
but with his other senses as well. He could taste the magic, feel it as it
touched his skin, and touch it with his mind as it swished around the room
bleeding in powerful waves from the woman sitting in front of him.
As he sat with his normal fastidious appearance behind
his desk, his second guarding his back, Sesshoumaru very comportment demanding
attention and respect from those around him, he focused his attention on the
woman seated before him.
Yes, great
magic. He
almost sighed, as if this was what he
needed now, a deity meddling around
in his affairs.
“Why have you come here?” Sesshoumaru paused, his body
tensed with annoyance at having to address a being that believe itself to be higher
than himself, before adding in grudging respect when the woman’s didn’t answer,
“Kami-sama.”
“Because of Naraku.” The lady’s voice was hard…with
the screams of multitudes woven within it who called for justice. “He has
returned.”
the last word.
her eyes in exasperation at the thought, he
could have been a little gentler with the boy, he’s after all only a child.
As she stood outside the breakfast room and listened
to the conversation that was taking place on the other side of the door,
Abigeru wandered what he’d been thinking.
Sesshoumaru in his normal high handed manner had
ordered her to await Kagome and, after she calmed the kit down, to escort her
to his study for the meeting taking place.
margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%'>Abigeru paced the hall until she finally heard and
sensed the boy as he began to fall asleep she quietly opened the door and
stepped inside.
“Kagom—” Abigeru started before she was interrupted.
Kagome looked up from Shippo, who was resting limply
against her, when she heard Abigeru voice and covered her lips with her index
finger and whispered, “Shushhh. Don’t wake him. He’s been so worried about me…he's
exhausted himself and needs the rest.”
“Sesshoumaru
and your guests are waiting. He wants you there as soon ossiossible.” Abigeru
gently whispered back, being careful not to wake the kit.
She walked over to Kagome and started to take Shippo
from her, “Here let me take him and I put him to bed.”
“No. He's ok. Help me up, I’ll take him and follow
you.” Kagome whispered back as she moved Shippo away from her. She gently
rubbed Shippos’ back. Mine, besides I
like to hold him.
I supposes
there’s no reason to be anger with her anymore, is there.
margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:200%'>"As you wish," Abigeru nodded taking Kagome’s
arm as she slide her hand around the other woman’s back, before gently lifting
while Kagome leaned forward and pushed up with her feet.
Thud-thump, thud-thump
Kagome paused, a pulse in the air….Rage…
A tingle slide up her spine, what? Was that?
Kagome opened herself up and her senses where flooded
with information as they came alive and she was flooded with a myriad of
vibrations.
"Wait, Aberigu, do you feel that?" She asked
the other woman as she stood in the center of the room and it seemed to spin
around her.
Danger—anger—pain—rage—trapped
An aura, Kagome shivered, it was an aura.
that was what she was sensing
"Feel what?" Aberigu asked as she looked
around before she began to move towards the window.
It approaching
the castle and it was searching for somethi—no someone.
It has a human
signature—but faded and torn.
"Wait. Come back here for a minute." Kagome stopped
her by gripped sleesleeve of Aberigu kimono and pulled her close. The tingle
became a tremble and then it became a shutter as it race up and down Kagome
back.
Danger—pain—fury…demand—help
us!
Kagome tightened her grip on Aberigu kimono and pulled
her closer.
She turned loo looked around the room, before looking
of to the east.
There. Something
bad is coming this way. It’s strongest towards the east and it's almost here.
"Can't you feel it, Aberigu?
Feel what?
shook her head.
“How can you not feel that?” Again Kagome looked into
the distance.
“It’s coming, it's almost h Sta Stay close to
me…they're coming." Kagome stretched out with her mind as Midoriko had
taught her, phantoms—ghosts… Searching
for something… no, not something but someone. They have a signature they…looking
for? Who?
understand, I don’t sense anyth…”
screamed as dark shades began to enter the room, screaming with fury, she threw
up a shield instinctually seeking to protect her child.
Feed us!
woman before him, Inuyasha may have been
incompetent in many areas but not in this…and Naraku
had been a great threat to Kagome. He would not have allowed him to live.
“Naraku is dead. Inuyasha
and these killed him” Sesshoumaru calmly stated the fact as if speaking to a
nitwit.
“He is returning.” She repeated with one eyebrow
rising in disbelieve that he would talk to her in that tone.
“The only way the dead return is when an item of
power, such as, the Tensaiga, is used and those items
are very rare, very rare indeed.”
He paused to think, “I know of only three and of those
two are lost to the world. I certainly didn’t raise Naraku...”
Sesshoumaru simple stated that fact, only to see the worried look that passed
from between the monk and the exterminator,
“Only a fool would raise him” Sesshoumaru narrowed his
eyes at them.
Sango and Miroku avoid his eyes.
at them and ordered, “Speak.”
“Umm,” Sango looked to
Miroku for help. He’s not going to like
this.
“I say again, humans, speak.”
Sesshoumaru ordered again, growling at them, this time barely able to control
his irritation at the human’s dawdling he he needed information.
Miroku reacted to the
threat that was awash within that one word and rushed out. “He’s trapped but still
alive, Kagome and Inuyasha cut him off from his power and sealed him away.”
Sesshoumaru stood and leaned
forward menacingly over his desk, he wanted answers and he wanted them now. “Explain.”
Sango and Miroku exchanged
looks…
“It all started at the well
and it ended there as well. Naraku was finally ready,
he had cast off his human heart as if it was garbage, and he had gathered most of
the shikon no tama when he came. He attacked us for the last time…” Sango began
the story.
“And that’s what
happened.” Miroku concluded as a scream echoed in the air.
Kagome’s
scream.
‘Aniketo, look there,
look very carefully at the mountain to your left, there in the darkness shaped
like a crow, do you see?’ Naraku directed her, focusing though her eyes as he looked
for his castle in the eerie light absorbing darkness. ‘There, child, do you see. My
castle is there.’
darkness searching for the hidden castle. ~
Oh, there, a gleam. ~
tip of the beak is a glimmer of reflected light.’
‘Yessss…very good child.
There, go there.’ Naraku’s pleasure could be felt in the air surrounding his
casket, and Hana’s little soul shivered in fear as she floated before it as his
dark, dangerous thoughts flooded her mind. ~
Soon I will be free, the shiken no tama will be mine
and that biwillwill pay. Before I’m done with her I will own her very soul. ~
'Father, what am I looking for?'
the large half-broken down door open, it let out a screech that sound as if the
hounds of hell had be let lose upon the countryside.
'My chambers,’ His voice boomed in as it echo
though her mind and a picture began to form, ‘find my chambers.
and red dragons intertwined on them… Look along the walls in the courtyard for
the shoji screens.'
In her mind, a picture formed of the screens she was
looking for, and then another picture took it’s place of the room she was to
enter… a large futon dressed in black silk that sit in the middle of the room
with blood-red sheer silks hangings that cascading around it as they hung from
the ceiling.
Along one wall was a large
black chest set between two shoji screens and against yet another and beyond
the large futon was a shoji screen door that led into a dark room.
'And then?' She entered the dim inner court yard of the old
castle and immediately headed for one of the shoji screens that lined the
walls. Bones littered the ground around her.
'You will see, now go.'
Black and red dragons marked the one of the screens
that circled the courtyard. ~ Yes, these
are the ones. ~
She pushed the tall door aside on it track and stood
looking in.
~ Yes, this is
it, just as father showed me from his memories. ~
important the vision had focused on the doorway along the left wall.
pe
preformed his magic. ~ There she would find a low table surrounded by black
and red pillows. On the table she would find…
Yes, she needed to go in there. Father answer waited
in that room.
'Now will you tell me, father,'
to life as she entered the room.
She walked thorough the large room and into the small
dressing room attached to it. Her mind flooded with information.
She walked into the room it just as father had
pictured it, she smiled her first real smile, there she found what she had been
sent to discover.