Kagome's Sorrow
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InuYasha › General
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
7
Views:
5,080
Reviews:
36
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
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I do not own InuYasha, nor make money from this story.
Daddy
Kagome’s head rose from its place on Shippo’s chest. It would have been so nice to keep it there, but if 12 more years of living had taught her anything, it was she could not afford to indulge herself all the time, as she used to. She wished she could, because being in contact with her newly found Shippo, made her feel…well, safe.
“Shippo…”, she withdrew enough to catch glimpse of Shippo’s saddened face. She wanted so badly to relieve his pain, and this time, it was something more than a motherly feeling. Something like the protectiveness of a friend. Kagome realized that she no longer harbored any feelings of matronly duty. Only the extreme urge to wipe all sadness from his glassy eyes.
“I know, Kagome. And in time, both of our sadness’ will be taken from us”, he began, and he opened his mouth to say something else, and stopped, shutting his mouth with a ghost of a smile.
‘No, this would not be fair to Kagome. I will wait. Even if I die in the process’, Shippo thought, inwardly battling a demon…he knew he couldn’t win. For that demon was Time itself, and his days were numbered.
“Kagome, come with me, there is much that needs explaining, and many things you need to know”, Shippo said, taking the adult miko by the hand, and with a silent question, glistening in his eyes, Kagome followed him.
Kagome was fast becoming exhausted, but that wouldn’t stop her from getting the answers she desperately needed. What had happened to Sango, Miroku, Koga…Inuyasha? Inuyasha…that wasn’t a name she had thought of in quite some time. She had tried to suppress the memories of the hanyou, her bestfriend…when she was younger, she even wanted to be more to him. And now? Now, she didn’t know. She was in the dark about this whole affair.
‘I am no longer the same person. I don’t know how our relationship will be now…’, Kagome thought to herself.
“Kagome, my home is in the trees”, Shippo announced suddenly, the oddball comment threw her off.
Her train of thought was now de-railed.
He turned to her, “Allow me to pick you up”, he said, and it was more of a statement than a question, but nevertheless, Kagome nodded. Shippo put one hand, under her backside, purposely, holding tight to the soft roundness, and the other, on her back.
“Aren’t I a little heavy for you?”, Kagome asked hesitantly, Kagome knew she was about thirty pounds heavier than her nice 110 pounds at the age of sixteen. Shippo looked down at her, how small she was in his arms, and snorted at her.
“Kagome, you are feather-light. Besides, I can lift 1,000 pound trees. Come I will show you proof!”, Shippo said, with a laugh at her ridiculousness. He would show her his home, something he made with his own two hands, for her, and him, and…
‘No, I can’t think those thoughts, not when Kagome, is suffering’, Shippo looked down at the passive woman, ‘She is conflicting, on the inside…about Inuyasha. Does she still love him, and want to continue a relationship with him? Gods, I hope not…for her sake’
The tall kitsune leapt from bough to bough, tree to tree, with the grace of a jaguar. He was fast, so very fast, and yet as she sat there in his arms, Kagome could just sense, that he could go even faster, except he was holding back for the sake of her stomach. ‘Thank you Shippo’, she thought to herself. She was exhausted, and she could only surmise it was because of the emotional spiral she was spinning in.
The trees past them by like brilliant green blurs. “Shippo, what happened to your fox fire?”, Kagome asked sleepily. Shippo grunted, and frowned down at her, deep in thought.
“That wasn’t fox fire Kagome, that was my Death-Glow. You see, when the whole forest was glowing like that, it froze. If I had been so inclined, I could easily have lit the entirety of the forest aflame. Thankfully to many villages however, I didn’t. Death-Glow is merely a passive aggressive attack- with the potential of being fatal, and highly disastrous”, Shippo explained to the woman in his arms, who was gazing up at him with a new understanding and a new appreciation for his immense power.
‘That’s a nice change. Some respect. It usually isn’t until after I kill a human do they respect me…killing humans, I’ve got to keep that under wraps until she understand the situation fully…’ Shippo observed, mentally.
He dared an inquisitive look at the miko, and absent-mindedly wondered if she had matured enough to look at a situation logically; absent of the usual melodrama, Shippo remembered she bought into at times.
“Hold on tight Kagome, one more jump…and we’re there”, Shippo murmured and the woman in his secure embrace didn’t bother securing a grip on the fox- he wouldn’t let her fall. There was no need to be silly and afraid- or squeal. But there was a time, when she would have done all of those needless motions.
The powerful arches of his animalistic hind legs, poised themselves on the bough of a huge oak, and with one upward thrust, they were launched higher in the air then she ever remembered being. She wasn’t going to say it felt like flying, but it did feel like she was riding an amusement park ride. It was exhilarating, why the last time she did this was…
‘Best not to remember those things’, Kagome thought. She would keep them close to her still, but no longer where they shackles of pain, only memos; weights of obligation hung about her neck, only to be removed by one, single, hanyou.
She needed closure. If it meant true closure, it meant an end to a chapter in her life…but then, closure could also mean only an end to a chapter, and a beginning to a new one.
Kagome wasn’t sure which was best, only that she needed closure of some sort.
As the silhouette of the fox, with a miko, began a descending, a tree could be seen, rising above the white cloud-mist of the atmosphere.
The tree was huge, enormous even. A mammoth, sequoia look-a-like, with giant outreaching arms, that resembled trees themselves. In truth, it was the largest tree Kagome had ever seen. As they got closer and closer to it, she began to see warm lighting, and an outline of a house! In the very tree itself!
Shippo landed with a powerful ‘thump!’ his hind legs absorbing the impact. Kagome looked anxiously at him, making sure he wasn’t injured from the blow- he wasn’t. Good.
Kagome was eased out of Shippo’s reluctant arms, as she came to stand on her own two feet.
Before her was a house! This house was three times bigger than her home in the present. She was standing on long, stained wood planks that stretched out at least a couple yards from the built-in house, on all sides.
The house was beautifully made, and huge, two-stories. There were large windows showcasing the brilliantly made spiral staircase, visible from the outside. There was another outer-house staircase, wrapping around the front of the building and the back, leading up into the brambles of the tree- disappearing into a sea of green.
It looked exactly, like the house in a foreign film she once watched, Swiss Family Robinson! It was marvelous!
Shippo was not one to miss the delighted smile of the miko as she observed the home he had made. And she hadn’t even seen the hand carved doorways, or furniture, yet.
‘Yes My Miko, all of this…and all of this for you. For us. I live for the day that you, I, and In-‘
“Shippo! Your house is beautiful!”, Kagome said with wonderment, looking up at the tall fox, she wondered how long this took him…and another question had been begged an answer, for quite some time.
“Shippo, why where you by the well, when I returned…are the others here?”, Kagome asked, finally. Though these numerous thoughts had danced in her mind like wildfire, she had no yet wanted an answer; she wasn’t sure she was ready.
“Kagome…I have been waiting near the well since you left all those years ago. Just awaiting the day I knew you would return to us…to me. I built this house to live in…and wait for you…all my life if I had to” Shippo trailed off, and something that was akin to resentment crossed his features, along with the pain that can only come of complete loyalty…disappointed.
Kagome put a warm hand on Shippo’s arm. Something like an electrical current passed through his body, and his eyes lowered in eased pleasure, looking at the woman with low-lidded eyes of azure blue, fringed with shadow-black eyelashes. She would have fallen into that look…if she had been 12 years younger, but now she was not.
“I’m sorry I kept you waiting…” she said, choking back something resembling desire in her voice. Making it a harsh whisper.
Shippo’s voice was also harsh, gruff, a deep treble that made the hair on her neck stand on end, and goosebumps trail her arms, in aroused, excited bumps.
“I told you once, and I will tell you again- then no more…do not apologize Kagome”, he fairly purred, like the fox he was. She was still standing so close to him…all she had to do was raise her face, and she knew he could be counted on to-
“DADDY!”
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Um, here is another chapter, I hope you all like it! I know quite a few very nice people reviewed this, and so as not to disappoint! TADA! here is another chapter...and I would also like to say that no one helps me with my stories, and I don't go back and edit them, or revise them at all. What I type, is what you get- sorry if there are mistakes, but now you know. And, well, I would also like to say I like Inuyasha (disclaimer>>disclaimer>>)HOWEVER...well I'm not going to answer that! Review and you just might see ^_* Thankx!
“Shippo…”, she withdrew enough to catch glimpse of Shippo’s saddened face. She wanted so badly to relieve his pain, and this time, it was something more than a motherly feeling. Something like the protectiveness of a friend. Kagome realized that she no longer harbored any feelings of matronly duty. Only the extreme urge to wipe all sadness from his glassy eyes.
“I know, Kagome. And in time, both of our sadness’ will be taken from us”, he began, and he opened his mouth to say something else, and stopped, shutting his mouth with a ghost of a smile.
‘No, this would not be fair to Kagome. I will wait. Even if I die in the process’, Shippo thought, inwardly battling a demon…he knew he couldn’t win. For that demon was Time itself, and his days were numbered.
“Kagome, come with me, there is much that needs explaining, and many things you need to know”, Shippo said, taking the adult miko by the hand, and with a silent question, glistening in his eyes, Kagome followed him.
Kagome was fast becoming exhausted, but that wouldn’t stop her from getting the answers she desperately needed. What had happened to Sango, Miroku, Koga…Inuyasha? Inuyasha…that wasn’t a name she had thought of in quite some time. She had tried to suppress the memories of the hanyou, her bestfriend…when she was younger, she even wanted to be more to him. And now? Now, she didn’t know. She was in the dark about this whole affair.
‘I am no longer the same person. I don’t know how our relationship will be now…’, Kagome thought to herself.
“Kagome, my home is in the trees”, Shippo announced suddenly, the oddball comment threw her off.
Her train of thought was now de-railed.
He turned to her, “Allow me to pick you up”, he said, and it was more of a statement than a question, but nevertheless, Kagome nodded. Shippo put one hand, under her backside, purposely, holding tight to the soft roundness, and the other, on her back.
“Aren’t I a little heavy for you?”, Kagome asked hesitantly, Kagome knew she was about thirty pounds heavier than her nice 110 pounds at the age of sixteen. Shippo looked down at her, how small she was in his arms, and snorted at her.
“Kagome, you are feather-light. Besides, I can lift 1,000 pound trees. Come I will show you proof!”, Shippo said, with a laugh at her ridiculousness. He would show her his home, something he made with his own two hands, for her, and him, and…
‘No, I can’t think those thoughts, not when Kagome, is suffering’, Shippo looked down at the passive woman, ‘She is conflicting, on the inside…about Inuyasha. Does she still love him, and want to continue a relationship with him? Gods, I hope not…for her sake’
The tall kitsune leapt from bough to bough, tree to tree, with the grace of a jaguar. He was fast, so very fast, and yet as she sat there in his arms, Kagome could just sense, that he could go even faster, except he was holding back for the sake of her stomach. ‘Thank you Shippo’, she thought to herself. She was exhausted, and she could only surmise it was because of the emotional spiral she was spinning in.
The trees past them by like brilliant green blurs. “Shippo, what happened to your fox fire?”, Kagome asked sleepily. Shippo grunted, and frowned down at her, deep in thought.
“That wasn’t fox fire Kagome, that was my Death-Glow. You see, when the whole forest was glowing like that, it froze. If I had been so inclined, I could easily have lit the entirety of the forest aflame. Thankfully to many villages however, I didn’t. Death-Glow is merely a passive aggressive attack- with the potential of being fatal, and highly disastrous”, Shippo explained to the woman in his arms, who was gazing up at him with a new understanding and a new appreciation for his immense power.
‘That’s a nice change. Some respect. It usually isn’t until after I kill a human do they respect me…killing humans, I’ve got to keep that under wraps until she understand the situation fully…’ Shippo observed, mentally.
He dared an inquisitive look at the miko, and absent-mindedly wondered if she had matured enough to look at a situation logically; absent of the usual melodrama, Shippo remembered she bought into at times.
“Hold on tight Kagome, one more jump…and we’re there”, Shippo murmured and the woman in his secure embrace didn’t bother securing a grip on the fox- he wouldn’t let her fall. There was no need to be silly and afraid- or squeal. But there was a time, when she would have done all of those needless motions.
The powerful arches of his animalistic hind legs, poised themselves on the bough of a huge oak, and with one upward thrust, they were launched higher in the air then she ever remembered being. She wasn’t going to say it felt like flying, but it did feel like she was riding an amusement park ride. It was exhilarating, why the last time she did this was…
‘Best not to remember those things’, Kagome thought. She would keep them close to her still, but no longer where they shackles of pain, only memos; weights of obligation hung about her neck, only to be removed by one, single, hanyou.
She needed closure. If it meant true closure, it meant an end to a chapter in her life…but then, closure could also mean only an end to a chapter, and a beginning to a new one.
Kagome wasn’t sure which was best, only that she needed closure of some sort.
As the silhouette of the fox, with a miko, began a descending, a tree could be seen, rising above the white cloud-mist of the atmosphere.
The tree was huge, enormous even. A mammoth, sequoia look-a-like, with giant outreaching arms, that resembled trees themselves. In truth, it was the largest tree Kagome had ever seen. As they got closer and closer to it, she began to see warm lighting, and an outline of a house! In the very tree itself!
Shippo landed with a powerful ‘thump!’ his hind legs absorbing the impact. Kagome looked anxiously at him, making sure he wasn’t injured from the blow- he wasn’t. Good.
Kagome was eased out of Shippo’s reluctant arms, as she came to stand on her own two feet.
Before her was a house! This house was three times bigger than her home in the present. She was standing on long, stained wood planks that stretched out at least a couple yards from the built-in house, on all sides.
The house was beautifully made, and huge, two-stories. There were large windows showcasing the brilliantly made spiral staircase, visible from the outside. There was another outer-house staircase, wrapping around the front of the building and the back, leading up into the brambles of the tree- disappearing into a sea of green.
It looked exactly, like the house in a foreign film she once watched, Swiss Family Robinson! It was marvelous!
Shippo was not one to miss the delighted smile of the miko as she observed the home he had made. And she hadn’t even seen the hand carved doorways, or furniture, yet.
‘Yes My Miko, all of this…and all of this for you. For us. I live for the day that you, I, and In-‘
“Shippo! Your house is beautiful!”, Kagome said with wonderment, looking up at the tall fox, she wondered how long this took him…and another question had been begged an answer, for quite some time.
“Shippo, why where you by the well, when I returned…are the others here?”, Kagome asked, finally. Though these numerous thoughts had danced in her mind like wildfire, she had no yet wanted an answer; she wasn’t sure she was ready.
“Kagome…I have been waiting near the well since you left all those years ago. Just awaiting the day I knew you would return to us…to me. I built this house to live in…and wait for you…all my life if I had to” Shippo trailed off, and something that was akin to resentment crossed his features, along with the pain that can only come of complete loyalty…disappointed.
Kagome put a warm hand on Shippo’s arm. Something like an electrical current passed through his body, and his eyes lowered in eased pleasure, looking at the woman with low-lidded eyes of azure blue, fringed with shadow-black eyelashes. She would have fallen into that look…if she had been 12 years younger, but now she was not.
“I’m sorry I kept you waiting…” she said, choking back something resembling desire in her voice. Making it a harsh whisper.
Shippo’s voice was also harsh, gruff, a deep treble that made the hair on her neck stand on end, and goosebumps trail her arms, in aroused, excited bumps.
“I told you once, and I will tell you again- then no more…do not apologize Kagome”, he fairly purred, like the fox he was. She was still standing so close to him…all she had to do was raise her face, and she knew he could be counted on to-
“DADDY!”
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Um, here is another chapter, I hope you all like it! I know quite a few very nice people reviewed this, and so as not to disappoint! TADA! here is another chapter...and I would also like to say that no one helps me with my stories, and I don't go back and edit them, or revise them at all. What I type, is what you get- sorry if there are mistakes, but now you know. And, well, I would also like to say I like Inuyasha (disclaimer>>disclaimer>>)HOWEVER...well I'm not going to answer that! Review and you just might see ^_* Thankx!