An Immortal Journey

thehotty : So, I've decided that I'm just going to stop holding this one for randsome.

Sesshoumaru : Even with you writing a different one.

Kagome : The right one.

thehotty : Yeah, well, that's what happens every now and then. I kind of like where this one's going too.

Inu Yasha : I don't. Kikyou's a bitch.

Kikyou : HEY! I HEARD THAT!

Inu Yasha : GOOD! I HOPE YOU DID!

thehotty : O.o The love birds are having a fight.

Inu Yasha : I was drunk!

Kagome : Rriiigggghhhhhtttttt.... And we are blind.

Inu Yasha : TH!

thehotty : Oh, shut up. Here's the new chapter!

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Kagome moaned and rolled over in her bed. She peaked her eye open and glanced at her clock. It read 10:00. She moaned again. She was late for work.

Rolling onto her back, she decided that a day off was in order after all. The pounding in her temples had made up her mind for her. An arm snaked up around her waist and she let out a shriek.

She jumped out of the bed and stared at the person that was laying next to her. After a moment to process what she was seeing, she calmed her beating heart.

“Sorry Sesshoumaru, you scared me,” Kagome managed out.

He pushed himself up onto an elbow, the blanket sliding down his chest, showing the perfect muscles that she had remembered that he had way back when she first met him. His hair laid splayed around him, making her think somewhere in the back of her mind that he looked like an angel like that. His markings were showing now for the first time since she had ran into him. She had barely noticed they weren’t there before until now. His golden eyes boar into her.

“It’s alright. You were sleeping when I brought you in here and you wouldn’t let me go,” he explained.

Kagome smiled softly while running her hand threw her hair. “Sorry about that. How did Inu Yasha get home then?” she asked.

“Don’t be sorry. He slept in one of the guest rooms. He should be awake after that yell,” Sesshoumaru teased.

As if on cue, Inu Yasha opened the door. “What’s going on?” he asked.

His hair was disheveled and his pants wrinkled from sleeping in them. He didn’t have his shirt on so his bare chest showed, showing off muscles almost as good as Sesshoumaru’s own.

“Nothing brother. She was just startled is all,” Sesshoumaru answered.

“Alright then. So, what’s for breakfast?” he asked, leaning against the doorframe.

Kagome laughed. “Why don’t you go shower and get dressed. I think there are clothes in the dresser that would fit you. Then I’ll make some food for us.”

Inu Yasha whooped and ran back to the room that he was sleeping in to get cleaned up. Kagome turned around. “I’m going to go shower. There’s one in the room next door if you want to shower too. I think there are clothes that will fit you, but I’m not sure. If not, come back in here and I’ll try to find you something.”

Sesshoumaru smirked at her and Kagome lifted an eyebrow.

“I could just shower with you. After all, I believe last night you were going to offer me a special bed to sleep in.”

Kagome blushed and hid her face in her hands. “I don’t think so. You go shower in the other one,” she said from behind her hands.

Sesshoumaru chuckled and got out of the bed. He walked up to Kagome and pulled her hands away from her face. “I shall shower in the other room then,” he said.

He lifted her chin to look at him and captured her mouth in a hungry kiss. He ran his tongue across her lips for entrance, which she complied to and they soon were wrestling for dominance. Kagome moaned into his mouth as he led her towards the bathroom.

“I think we should clean you up,” he whispered huskily while pulling away for a moment to catch their breathes. He stared into her glazed over eyes.

It took a second for Kagome to realize what he had suggested. She pulled away slightly from his grasp. “I think we should take our own separate showers now,” Kagome said in her most professional voice she could.

Sesshoumaru pulled away. “Alright then. I’ll see you downstairs.”

Kagome watched him as he walked out of her room to go next door. She sighed and turned around so that she could go take her shower.


Kagome had made it down into the kitchen before the other two had finished their showers. She pulled out a few skillets and the bacon, hash browns and eggs, figuring they’d most likely want more meat then vegetables. She started the food up while humming to herself.

“Do you have to hum?” Inu Yasha’s voice startled her.

“Oh, hey Yasha. Did you find the clothes ok?” she asked, turning around to look at him.

He wore light blue jeans with rips in them and a blue shirt with a little girl’s and boy’s profile kissing and around it said ‘Let’s be friends with benefits.’

Inu Yasha smirked. “I hope you don’t offer this to business partners.”

Kagome laughed and shook her head. “No, that’s Miroku’s. The guys leave clothes here all the time so when they’re drunk, don’t want to go because they don’t want to get in trouble, or they get kicked out, they can just crash here with no worries. It’s alright with me. The girls do the same thing, though I don’t think they get kicked out. I think they just leave the house because they’re boyfriends are stupid.”

Inu Yasha laughed with Kagome. She put some of the food on a plate and set it on the table. “Here you go. Eat up and enjoy.”

Sesshoumaru came in just then and sniffed the air. “Bacon…”

Kagome almost laughed harder at that, but decided that it wasn’t worth him getting all mad at her about and dished him up as well. She noticed he had chosen Bank’s clothes, as he was the only one that was as tall as Sesshoumaru was. He wore black jeans and a white shirt with a contoured line of a pirate’s skeleton, complete with hat, clothes and jewelry.

“Here you go Sesshoumaru. I take it you found everything alright?” she asked dishing herself up as well.

He nodded as she sat down. “Thank you for the clothes and food. What are you doing today?” he asked.

“Oh, I don’t know. Sango’s most likely sitting on the edge of her seat right now waiting for me to call her, so I’ll have to do that. Then I guess nothing until tomorrow. Why?” she asked.

“Would you like to come over to our place and piss Kikyou off after you talk to Sango?” he asked.

Kagome laughed and Inu Yasha chuckled. “Sure, though I’m sure she’s pretty pissed at us all as it is. Why don’t we up the spikes and invite some people along with us,” Kagome joked.

“How about Kaugra and Hitten?” Inu Yasha asked. “Dad would like to see them. And Sango and Miroku. I liked him.”

Sesshoumaru nodded. “Shippo too. I like him a lot. He’s got his head on his shoulders. I’ve been looking for someone like that to be my vice-president to my company. Think he’d be interested?”

Kagome nodded. “Of course he would. He’s in college right now studying computers and junk. He used to be an excellent hacker too. A few years ago he used to hack into the U.S.A.’s Nation Army facility all the time. I don’t think they ever found out either. Did you know that Watergate stuff was all just a set up to scare the people?”

Sesshoumaru and Inu Yasha stared at her for a minute. “Who else can we bring that would bother her?” Sesshoumaru asked.

“How about Bank and Jak? They were really close to her. Probably not as close as Rin, but still there.”

Inu Yasha sighed. “You know, if we really want to piss her off, then we might as well bring them all. She’d go nuclear.”

They both looked at him and Kagome smiled. “I think you’re right.”

They finished breakfast discussing what to do about Shippo and stuff before Kagome called Sango.

She sat in the living room while the guys cleaned up the dishes while she called Sango. After the third ring, the phone picked up.

“Hello?” Sango’s voice answered.

“Hey there! Guess what?” Kagome asked over the phone.

“You’re doped up on something that makes you over happy? What?” she asked.

“NO! But you and everyone else gets a chance to piss Kikyou off major time,” Kagome answered. “Ready for the phone tree?”

“I always wondered when we’d get a chance to use that thing,” Sango muttered while rummaging through a pile of papers next to her phone.

“Yeah, well, you and me both. Just tell everyone Sesshoumaru’s and Inu Yasha’s house now. Mention Kikyou’s name and the Phone tree and then hang up and get ready. We’ll meet you all there,” Kagome informed.

Sango chuckled over the phone. “Alright. See you later. Bye.”

They both hung up and Kagome dialed the next number on the tree.


Sesshoumaru sat in the living room and waited for the doorbell to ring again. Every one was here besides Naraku and Kouga. Kikyou had yet to show her face around them, making Inu Yasha think she was out with her rich friends.

They were spread out on the couches and the floor watching ‘It’ and laughing at the horrible graphics while talking about how brilliant Stephen King really was with his books. Half way through the movie the door bell rang and Inu Yasha answered it to find both the missing party members on the other side.

“Hey you two. We thought you’d never come,” Inu Yasha said, moving over to the side to let them in.

“Yeah, we’re here now, so where is the bitch?” Kouga asked walking in.

Inu Yasha shrugged his shoulders. “Don’t know. Must be out with her friends. Everyone’s in the living room watching ‘It.’”

They followed him into the living room and everyone cheered upon seeing them. ‘Hello’s and ‘Hey there’s were called out to them.

“Hey, I thought we were coming to torture the slut?” Kouga asked.

“Yeah, well, she’s not here. We don’t know where she is,” Sango answered.

“Why don’t we have Inu Yasha call her and tell her to come home because he’s got a surprise for her?” Naraku asked.

Everyone looked at each other as if to say ‘why didn’t you think of that?’ and then nodded in agreement. “Go call her,” Sango commanded, pushing him out of the living room.

The conversation of Stephen King continued on as Sesshoumaru and Kagome started argue over who was a better author.

“I’m telling you that Stephen King is freakin’ brilliant. Nobody can beat him!” she yelled.

“Alice Borchardt is ten times better then King could ever hope to be,” Sesshoumaru scoffed.

Kagome glared at Sesshoumaru. “Have you ever picked up one of his books and actually read it?” she asked him.

“I tried listening to one on tape, but I couldn’t get into it,” he replied.

Kagome gaped at him. “You’re telling me that you’ve never read a single one of Stephen King’s books and you base his writing skills on the movies?”

He didn’t answer and Sango looked over. “You know, that’s like judging a book by its cover. A movie only shows half of what’s actually in the book. It’s that plain and simple. And you actually have to read his books by yourself to really get a feel for it. That’s what makes him so brilliant.”

Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes and decided that ignoring them and watching the movie was more his style anyway. He noticed Bank watching him out of the corner of his eye.

He turned to face Bank. “What’s wrong?” he asked.

“You have the same exact clothes I do,” Bank answered.

Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow at this and shook his head. “I got these from Kagome’s house.”

Jak sputtered on the drink he was taking and gawked at Sesshoumaru. “You stayed the night at Kagome’s?” he asked.

“Hai. Why do you ask?” Sesshoumaru answered.

“And you borrowed my clothes?” Bank asked.

Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow. “I was not aware that these were yours.”

“Well, yeah. All of us have clothes over there,” Jak answered.

“I see. You’re point?” he asked.

“You didn’t do anything with her, did you?” Bank asked.

Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow but shook his head all the same. “I will not take advantage of an overly drunk woman.”

Jak sighed and leaned back. “It’s good to know you didn’t do anything. She’s probably all sorts of confused because of you right now. You know, we talked last night while she was completely wasted. She said you called her your ‘mate-to-be’ and she doesn’t understand a damn thing anymore. You should talk to her about that and then let her alone for a day or two to think about it and talk to whomever she needs to.”

Bank nodded. “Yeah, Kagome’s a good person and what not, but she’s so mixed up right now, she doesn’t know right from left.”

Sesshoumaru nodded as Inu Yasha came back in. Bank laughed. “I believe those are Miroku’s clothes too!”

Miroku looked up and glanced at Inu Yasha. “I believe you are right, dear friend. May I ask why you’re wearing my clothes, Inu Yasha?”

Kagome, having just tuned into their conversation answered. “I told him he could borrow them. After all, he doesn’t have his own clothing over there yet, you know?”

The girls chuckled and the guys snorted.

“He will soon enough,” Kilala said, which caused even the guys to laugh at that.

“What did whore woman say?” Yura asked.

“She was out shopping with Kanade. She was on her way home when I called her,” Inu Yasha answered.

Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow. “I thought that Kanade didn’t like Kikyou?”

“She doesn’t. But Kanade lost a bet with the other girls and had to spend a day of shopping with Kikyou,” Inu Yasha answered.

“Harsh torture,” Shippo muttered, causing half the room to explode into laughter.

The door opened and a shrill voice called out to Inu Yasha.

“I’m in the living room darling,” he called back, scrunching up his face in disgust.

The laughter had died as soon as they heard that voice. They watched the entrance to the living room, waiting for her to come in.

She walked in and stopped. A mask of furry fell onto her face. “What are all of you doing here?” she spat at them.

“Now, now Kikyou. That’s no way to treat your boyfriend’s friends,” Miroku tsked.

She shot him a dirty glare before turning her head to face Inu Yasha. “What are they doing here?” she spat at him.

“They’re my friends. I wanted you to watch a movie with us. After all, they haven’t seen you in so long,” Inu Yasha answered. “I believe they had told me that they used to be friends with you too.”

Kikyou’s glare hardened. “Yeah, back before they became back-stabbing bastards. I want them gone. All of them. Including that whore, Kagome,” Kikyou hissed at Inu Yasha.

“I believe the only whore here is you, Kikyou. You have no right telling my son what to do in my house. You will treat my son’s guests and future mate with respect. Either go to Inu Yasha’s room or get out of my house. I won’t tolerate this any longer,” Inu-no said, stepping up behind Kikyou.

She stiffened and turned around. “Sorry Inu-no. I’ll go upstairs now.”

She quickly fled and left the room laughing behind her. Inu-no raised an eyebrow at the huge group in front of him.

“I don’t ever remember this many people being in my house at once unless it was a ball. What’s going on?” he asked.

“Movie Marathon,” Sango answered.

“Are any of you going to introduce yourselves to me?” he asked.

Kagome laughed and walked up to him. “How about I do that for you?” she asked him. “Plus, I brought you that book I promised.”

She pulled the book out and handed it to him while pointing to people and calling them off for him. He smiled at each and nodded his head to them as they finished.

“And this is Inu-no-Tashio, Sesshoumaru’s and Inu Yasha’s father,” Kagome finished.

Everyone waved and said a ‘nice to meet you sir,’ before settling back down to talk to one another or watch the movie, which they found was over already.

“Next movie!” Rin shouted as someone got up to obey the demand.

“You must all be here for more reasons then just movie marathon,” Inu-no tried again.

Everyone shook their heads as if denying him and went back to what they were doing.

“We normally do this on weekends, but with hangovers and what not, we’re taking a personal day and a movie marathon to make it all better,” Kagome replied. “If you want, you can join us. It won’t be much fun though, because by the middle of this movie everyone’s going to be arguing about whose better or what’s better.”

Inu-no chuckled. “I think there’s work that I have to get done. Please excuse me.”

Kagome waved to him as he left the room and Sesshoumaru walked up behind her. “I think we should go and talk privately.”

“I think we should too,” she replied.

He wrapped his arm around her and led her up the stairs and down the hall until they came up to his room. He opened the door and they entered it. Kagome looked around and marveled at the deep reds and blacks he had it decorated in. Though everything was dark, his bed was covered in silk white sheets and blankets.

“Sit down please,” Sesshoumaru offered as he sat at his desk chair.

Kagome obeyed and sat on the bed, crossing her legs to sit Indian styled. “What did you want to talk about?” she asked him.

“About what I had said last night when Kikyou saw us. I had been doing a lot of thinking when I’m not with you and I’ve read the books you’ve written about our travels and what you thought through it all. I realize you have no clue of how I felt then or what I thought. I showed you kindness one minute and total indifference the next.

“I was confused myself. You were different then anyone I had met. You were defiant but loyal at the same time. You didn’t depend on me, but you wanted me there none the less. You considered me as a friend and saw through my mask of cold-indifference faster then even my mother had, where others run away and coward in fear. You looked me in the eyes, while others wouldn’t even look upon my clothing.

“You were different and it confused me. It made me want you but at the same time it made me want to break you. Make you bow to me. I was disgusted with the fact that a mere mortal could do what none other could do. I was scared in a sense.

“I didn’t know what to do. I’d find myself showing you kindness and withdraw from it. I didn’t find it right. I’d try to stuff those emotions back into the black box in my mind. And after our more personal acts, I was more confused then I was in the beginning. At the end of our journeys, I had to make up my mind. I was the prince of the West. In those times, humans were not on the top of the favorite list for mating. So I left you. I figured you living alone was better then living with me back then.

“Time went on, and I eventually froze my heart over again. Nobody knew what had happened between us. In fact, nobody knew what I had been doing at all during the time we had spent together. When I saw you again at the club, I only remembered you in dreams. I couldn’t place you until right before dinner the next night. It all just came back when I smelled your fresh scent.

“Ever since I had found you, I have wanted to ask you to accept me as a mate. Then when Kikyou ‘caught’ us last night, I became angry at her accusations and lashed out, claiming you without permission. I am sorry for that.”

He had moved over to the bed at one point or another, but Kagome wasn’t exactly sure when. She was so enwrapped in his story that everything but his words disappeared. She stared at him for a minute.

“So, you loved me this whole time too? But you let the memories disappear?” she whispered.

“I didn’t mean to let the memories disappear. It’s a side-effect of a demon. We don’t get to chose which moments we get to keep with us for the rest of our lives. They just fade away. They’re still there, but we can’t see them anymore. Things trigger those memories. Like your smell. It triggered the whole thing. It made me see,” Sesshoumaru explained. He wiped a tear away that she hadn’t been aware had fallen.

She threw herself into him and began to cry. He wrapped his arms around her and held her close to him, rubbing her back in soothing circles. “Shh, Kagome. It’s alright.”

She soon quieted down and there was a knock at the door.

“Who is it?” Sesshoumaru called out.

“Bank. Can I come in?” Bank’s voice floated through the door.

Sesshoumaru looked at Kagome who nodded weakly. “Come on in,” Sesshoumaru called out again.

Bank opened the door and peaked in. After making sure the area was safe enough to enter, he came in all the way and closed the door behind him.

“Some of us are taking off. Kouga’s being really stupid and arguing that you’re going to come running back to him as soon as Sesshoumaru screws up. I just wanted to let you know,” he said.

Kagome nodded a thanks and stood up. “You’re taking him with you, right?”

Bank laughed. “No, Naraku’s dragging him out of the house as we talk. Inu Yasha tried to gut him. Jak, Kaugra, Hitten, Sango and Shippo are holding Inu Yasha down. Ayame’s trying to talk some sense into Kouga, but we all know it’s not going to work. They’re trying to get the twins to help submit him, but they refuse. Kanna offered to suck their souls, but we can’t have them dead, now can we?”

Kagome laughed at that. “Alright. You go home and tell Jak I said thanks. Tell Sango and Miroku to stay though. I want to talk to them later.”

Bank nodded and gave Kagome a hug. “See you in two days. It’s your place for Movie Marathon next, right?”

“It’s always my place for Movie Marathon,” Kagome replied and Bank smiled.

“You’re the only one with a movie theater in your house.”

With that, Bank left leaving the two alone again. Kagome turned to face Sesshoumaru. “I think I’ve got a lot to think about. I’ll go home with Sango and Miroku. I want to talk to them anyway to get myself straightened out.”

Without really knowing what else to say, she gave him a hug and a kiss and walked out of the room, leaving him standing in the middle of the room.

She walked into the living room to find Kouga fighting off Naraku and Inu Yasha pinned to the wall by five different people.

“Like hell she’d date you! She’s meant for him!” Inu Yasha yelled at Kouga.

Kouga growled loudly. “Watch your mouth, Inu TRASHA. You don’t know anything when it comes to her! You just meet her a few days ago.”

“Kouga, please, calm down. It isn’t worth it. Please!” Ayame pleaded form the side lines.

Kagome spotted Yura off to the side laughing at the whole thing. She walked up to Yura. “Hey, would you please do something about him right now?”

Yura smiled and nodded. She pulled out the comb that was always in her shoulder length hair and began to comb her hair. As she did this, it got longer. She grabbed the tips and blew them at Kouga.

The hair made a forest of razor sharp lines that were hard to see all around Kouga. He yelped as he kicked his leg and came in contact with a strand.

“Damn it Yura! Why the hell did you do that?” Kouga asked, whipping around to face the hair demoness.

“Kagome asked me to. Now shut up. I don’t want Inu-no coming in here all pissed off,” Yura scolded.

Kouga spotted Kagome and softened his gaze. “What’s wrong?” he asked her, catching the faint scent of salt in the air.

“You’re a jerk, that’s what’s wrong. You don’t listen to a word I say. Either that, or you don’t take it seriously. I DON’T LIKE YOU! You’re only good enough to be my friend. Not my boyfriend. So just stop this non-sense right now,” she yelled at him.

“But Kagome! After all we’ve been through, I thought you cared about me more then a friend,” Kouga whined.

“If that was the case then I’d care for everyone in this damn room more then just a fucking friend! You are so damned pig-headed that it’s un-bearable! I’ve tried to hold my mouth. I’ve bit my tongue every time I wanted to call you a bastard for being so fucking insensitive, but you just had to push and push. I would never go out with you Kouga, because you’re not the man I love. He’s up stairs right now, just as confused as I am about everything.

“You never even stood a chance after I met him. And you came after I met him. Just be damn lucky I didn’t throw you to the side and say ‘fuck off, dumb shit. I could care less if you died in a fucking gutter like the pig you are!’ I almost did that too, because I was still heart broken from what had happened. Not to mention I’m the Lady of the Fucking North! I can’t mate a damn wolf prince of some small ass tribe! I have to mate someone that’s in the high noble range!

“And can I have a human as a husband?!? No! Because while I stay young, I have to watch him shrivel up and die! I can’t have a damned normal life! I’m a goddamn Immortal Human. I’m not a demon, so I don’t get the same fucking privileges as you do. They used me several times as a fucking test dummy! I’ve had cancer seven times now!

“I don’t love you Kouga. I don’t love you anymore then a brother or a friend. And it will never change. So just grow the fuck up and stop this shit. You’re damn lucky you even still get to see me every day looking like I did the first day you met me!” Kagome yelled.

The whole room had grown deathly silent during her rant and Inu-no stood in the doorway staring at her in shock. He had only come to see what the huge commotion was in the living room.

Kagome huffed from lack of breath and turned to Miroku and Sango, tears pooling in her eyes. “Can you two come home with me?” she whispered.

They nodded dumb fondly and each wrapped an arm around her and led her out of the house and into Sango’s car.

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Kouga : I'm not liking this at all.

thehotty : Good. Because I don't like you at all.

Naraku : MUHAHAHAHAHA! IN YOUR FACE, MUTT BOY!

thehotty : o.O Ok then...

Sesshoumaru : There were some colorful mushrooms on the counter. Do you know what happened to them?

thehotty : What? What mushrooms?

Kagome : SESSHOUMARU! YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT THAT!

Sesshoumaru : Hey! It's not my fault you lost your shrooms!

thehotty : WHAT THE HELL! DO PEOPLE BUY DRUGS AND NOT TELL ME TO TORTURE ME?!?!

Inu Yasha : Oh yeah, I ate those yesterday. Threw them all up too. They were shitty.

Kagome : They were on the counter because I hadn't rinsed them off yet!

thehotty : HELLO?!?! WHY DO PEOPLE BUY DRUGS AND NOT TELL ME?!?!

Kouga : Because you're insane.

Miroku : I still have some. Do you want to share?

thehotty : Yes. Yes I do. And screw you Kagome. I don't care if they're yours. You're not getting any.

*thehotty and Miroku disappear into a room to eat shrooms*

Kagome : HEY! I PAID BIG FOR THOSE!

Sesshoumaru : No fucking kidding.

Sango : God, I live with a bunch of junk addict Hippies. Anyway : Next on An Immortal Journey : What is Kagome's choice? Tune in next time to find out!

All : JA NE!