Something Missing

Kagome inhaled a calming breath as she walked down the path that lead to Sesshoumaru’s castle. She gently rubbed her seven and a half month along belly as she walked towards the door where three intimidating examples of exquisite manhood awaited her. She checked her aura again for any tell tale signs of demon jaki and any holy reiki that was above a normal shrine maiden’s. A small amount of reiki was expected in her as the descendant of a long line of miko’s and shinto priest’s and as a child raised on shrine grounds. But she was so much more powerful than any other priestess in her line. She did have Midoriko’s powers in addition to her own. So she was careful to disguise her true powers. She did not want to reveal all of her powers to any of them. She didn’t even tell Inuyasha about the jewel’s presence within her.


Sephiroth watched the human walk up the path. He felt something stir within him that he never felt before. He was astonished that he did not feel contempt directed at her as he did for every other human on the planet. Maybe it was her blue-black hair, long thick and just begging for his touch. Maybe it was her body, curvaceous and perfect for cradling him as he rocked into her...whoa! he gave himself a mental slap. He did not need to be thinking such perverted thoughts about the pregnant human widow of the half human brother of Sesshoumaru. His own honor would be stained by such an act so long as she was under his brother’s protection.

He was drawn out of his thoughts by her greeting to all of them. Sesshoumaru said “This is Kagome.” to his brothers, and barely brushed fingers with the hand she extended for him to shake in greeting. When she extended the same to Jareth, he let loose his smooth charming smile and took the hand into his own and pressed a kiss on the back of it. “My name is Jareth, a prince of the fae.” he said in his pleasing baritone. ‘Damn him and his genteel court manners.’ Sephiroth thought. Manners of that kind are impressed by years of experience amongst the glittering throng of the rich and powerful. Sesshoumaru and Jareth both were products of that blood. Sephiroth himself was an experiment, a result of callous and cold human scientists wanting to see what would become of a human when blended with the DNA of the calamity that fell from the sky. He never had any training that didn’t include sticking an enemy with his sword.

Kagome smiled and gently extracted her hand from the honey blond, elegant man in front of her. Her fingers tingled at the textile memory of the fine leather of his glove rubbing against her fingers. Leather has always been a weakness of hers. She turned to the dour man standing next to him, and was struck by his eyes. Pale blue, they held such a mixture of pain, self-loathing, and hatred that her breath was quite taken away. She felt the strangest urge to reach out to him, to comfort him.

Sesshoumaru brought her out of her near trance. “Yuki will show you to your rooms.” he waited for her to nod indicating that she understood. “As for your life living here, I don’t really care what you do while you are here, so long as you don’t inflict the others with your presence.”

She frowned. “if we live together, how can I not be around the others?”

He looked superciliously at her. “Jareth and Sephiroth are staying in the guest wing, while I have put you in the family wing. As soon as the remodels are done on his pavilion, or guest house, Sephiroth will return there and you will not inflict him with your presence. Jareth, however will remain in the main keep so keep out of his way. I will not have the peaceful operations of this house disrupted by you. You and your child may stay here until I take a mate of my own. At which time you and your child will be left to your own devices, never to approach me again.” That his own child would take precedence over the child of a hanyou did not need to be spoken.

Her face tightened, but she nodded. Her mother has already offered her a place at the shrine, since she is the only one out of her siblings that really wanted to become a miko or a priest. But, her unborn child is the heir of the Taisho family assets and will need to be trained in the traditions just in case such a time comes that the child will have to control them. She did not want to take away anything from her child, and the Taisho family is very powerful. She had hoped that Sesshoumaru would not cast her baby out of the family as soon as he/she was not needed as he had Inuyasha, but apparently that was not to be.

Sephiroth heard Sesshoumaru saying that, in effect, if he took a mate and had a child this lovely woman would be left out in the cold. He was surprised that his brother would be so cold towards a woman who was once family and against his own blood resting within her womb. At that moment, a small seed of doubt about his brother’s total righteousness was planted.

Jareth also looked at Sesshoumaru in surprise. He had known that Sesshoumaru had despised Inuyasha, his blood brother, but he did not think that the hatred was enough that he would throw honor out of the window and tell his brother’s grieving, *pregnant* widow that she was out on the curb as soon as he had his own heir. That was a little extreme in his opinion.

Yuki approached silently. “Yuki, you will show Kagome to her room. I am sure she is tired from the journey.” Sesshoumaru said. He didn’t care, he just wanted her out of the way.

Kagome nodded with a heavy heart and followed the little rat youkai to her room. She would be just as lonely here as she was in the house she had once shared with Inuyasha.

“So it seems that I am to be a prisoner while I am here, fearing to leave my room for ‘inflicting my presence’ on any of the men here.” she said bitterly. She forgot about the superior hearing demons had.

“Miss, you are allowed to go out. Master has set up a bank account for your personal needs. He has said that the less time you spend here the better.” the servant informed her.

“That is all well and good for now, but what happens when Sesshoumaru takes a mate? My baby and I will be left out in the cold. I could take over my parent’s shrine, but that only yields so much money, and it is in debt. I don’t know what else to do though.” she said, succumbing to fear of the future and pregnancy hormones. Tears started running down her face.

The little rat youkai bit her lip, looking nervous as she was about to overstep her bounds in a major way. But, the poor little miko sobbing in front of her inspired her pity.

“Perhaps you could use the money to pay back what is owed on this shrine. The bank account’s credit is quite extensive and if you do it a little at a time the master might not notice.”

Kagome ceased her tears and looked up at the servant in surprise. Seeing the sympathy in the warm brown eyes of the rat youkai, she smiled though her tears. Maybe her time here will
not be spent in loneliness after all.


to all- sorry for the long time between updates and the short chapter. But, I kinda started with no idea where I wanted this story to go. I only recently figured some of it out.

To my very first reviewers:

Angel_Moonlight- thanks. You are my first ever review, thanks for your kind words. The pairings so far are Sephiroth/Kagome, Jareth/OC, and I haven’t decided if Sesshoumaru deserves a mate. He is a jerk in my story.

xoulblade- I hope that this update continues to meet your expectations

Shanalir- thank you for your kind words. I hope you also like this chapter, and you have to tell me your pet peeves so I can continue to avoid them.