Soulmates

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Promise. Lol. I just have a slightly fan-girl-like addiction to Sesshie.

Pixie: This is a re-write of a story I wrote when I was 13, which is posted on fanfiction.net [entitled “Kagome’s True Love”] The original story is shit. I know it sucks, but I wrote it 5 years ago, and the idea for the plot wasn’t horrid. A bit cliché, yes, but not awful. So here’s the re-write. I no longer have a beta b/c my old beta no longer does the whole “fan fiction thing”. And I’m dyslexic, so errors are possible, but I try my best to catch them.

Soul Mates.
Chapter one.
That Which Fate Won’t Allow.

“Soul mates” it’s a concept that is nearly illogical, but then again, we don’t love with our brains, do we? Two people so perfect for each other that fate will find some way to be sure they end up together. But sometimes the two in question are so caught up in themselves and their lives that they cannot see what has become so obvious to everyone around them. And this is where we begin; two lives whose paths had already crossed, but fate had yet to intervene.

Kagome was sitting in her room packing her decrepit yellow bag, silently thinking about what the next few days would hold. It was four days until her eighteenth birthday, and three years since she had first fallen through the well. She’d just managed to graduate high school, realizing that she would have to take a “break” before attempting college (if she ever actually tried to go at all).

Her mother knocked softly on her open door, drawing her from her thoughts

“Are you coming home before your birthday, dear?”

“No, sorry mom, I don’t think Inuyasha will let me return so soon.” Kagome sighed, she felt terrible for letting her mother down.

“Then, I guess we need to talk” Kagome and her mother sat down on her bed and Kagome smiled.

“Okay, shoot! What’s up mom?”

“Well see… it’s about your father…sorta”

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Kagome sat alone in the well house, tracing her trembling fingers along her bag’s dingy straps. ‘I guess I have to face this eventually’ She heaved herself over the lip of the well and fell into the darkness before being enveloped in the cool, blue lights she’d become so familiar with. She closed her eyes until she felt her feet land softly on the dirt ground. She looked up and slowly exhaled as she saw the dimming blue sky. She breathed in, carefully, before shouting.

“Inuyasha?!”

She was late and had hoped that he was waiting nearby out of frustration. Her bag was far too heavy for her to climb out of the well.

“Kagome?” The voice that answered was not that of Inuyasha. It was soft, feminine.

“Sango, can you please get something to pull my pack up with?” Kagome heard the echo of Sango’s feet running swiftly to the village to retrieve rope.

Sango returned in record time, lowering rope down to Kagome to attach her bag to. After the senior citizen-aged backpack was safely beyond the rim of the well, Kagome began her assent up the vines; her climb only lasting a short while, her arms toned from years of practice.

“Where’s Inuyasha?” Kagome asked, fearing she already knew the answer.

Sango shifted from foot to foot. “He said that since you were late, he was ‘going for a walk’… I’m sorry Kagome.”

“oh” Kagome whispered “of course”. ‘oi, I need to tell him… he should know…gah, of course. The one time I need to have a serious conversation, he’s with her…’

“I’m so sorry sister” Sango said to break the short lived, but awkward silence as they walked together towards Kaede’s village.

Shippou’s shouts for joy at his ‘mother’s’ arrival could be heard throughout the village as Kagome entered Kaede’s hut. She smiled; glad to see her son after such a long day.
They all helped Kagome set up to cook dinner, and sat around her conversing with her whilst she prepared the food.

“So, how were you all while I was gone?” Kagome asked, stirring the noodles in the pot.

“oh, you act as if you were gone for months” Sango laughed “It was only three days, Kagome, we’re all fine. There were no catastrophes. I promise”

Shippou bounced up and down, his young body never seemed to run out of energy “We did miss you though mom, we always miss you, even when you go home for just an hour.”

They were all chatting away as they ate; barely noticing that Inuyasha had yet to make an appearance since Kagome’s return. Barely noticing that is, until Kagome brought it up.

“It’s not like him to miss dinner… especially not raman.” Kagome sighed.

“He’ll be fine Kagome, you know him, he probably lost track of time.” Miroku reasoned.

“Plus, he’ll eat the Raman even if it gets cold. You know him, he’s not exactly picky.” Shippou laughed.

“I suppose you guys are right” Kagome poured Inuyasha’s portion of the raman into a Glad Tupperware container and picked up the pot she’d been cooking with. “I’ll just go wash everything out so we can get ready to call it a night”

She walked out of the hut and towards the spring. ‘I guess I’ll have to wait to tell him tomorrow, I just wish that for once he was here when I really needed to talk’

Be careful what you wish for…

She stepped into the clearing with the hot spring and immediately jumped back and hid behind a tree.

Inuyasha was sitting on a large bolder by the water, holding Kikyou in his arms. She watched, broken, as she saw her ‘best friend’ whisper sweet nothings into his dead lover’s ear.

Kagome no longer loved Inuyasha; that attraction had passed. But she still worried for him, since she knew that Kikyou still planned to drag him to hell with her. He had lied to Kagome, again. He had abandoned his ‘best friend’ again. He had told her that he no longer met with the clay priestess. But he had been lying. Again.

Inuyasha didn’t notice the change in the atmosphere, nor did he smell the salt in the air from the petite girl watching.

Kagome backed up slowly, registering just what was happening. Kikyou had been working with Naraku; they’d figured that out months ago. And though the young Miko was no longer in love with her hanyou companion, it still hurt that he’d lied to her and her friends. He lied. He was, for all purposes, sleeping with the enemy. And when that clicked in her head she dropped the pot she’d been carrying and turned away, running as fast as her legs could carry her - deep into the forest.

Inuyasha was startled by the ‘clang’ of the steal pot hitting the damp forest floor.

“Just let the girl run Inuyasha, she isn’t worth it. She’ll come to her senses, she always does.” Kikyou wrapped her arms tighter around his neck to keep him from pulling away. Unfortunately for her, his strength as a half demon exceeded that of her clay body (obviously x_x) and he lifted her off of him and placed her on the rock.

“I’m sorry Kikyou; she’s my best friend… I can’t just let her run off…”

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She ran, not caring where her legs took her. She just needed to get away. She knew that Inuyasha must have heard the pot fall. She didn’t care. All she cared about was getting away. All she could think was about how much she wished that he wouldn’t catch up with her.

She was running faster than what should be humanly possible, for longer than her energy should have allowed. But still, she sprinted, dodging trees but still receiving cuts along her arms, legs, and face.

Finally, after what seemed like forever, the petite miko stopped. She sensed a demon. Strong and close. She looked around the small clear area she stood in, confused as to what she should do. She was unarmed and alone. She had no bow, no arrows, just her spiritual powers.

And then, he appeared.

Sesshomaru.

She calmed a bit, though still terrified. She must have run all the way to his lands. ‘damnit. He’ll kill me. Dead. I’ll be dead. Dead as a doornail. Gone. My mom will be heart broken. Oh and Shippou. What will poor Shippou do without me? Oh my… oh my oh my….’ Her thoughts all halted when Sesshomaru took a step closer to her.

“Speak quickly wench, why are you here?”

“I got a bit lost. I guess. I mean. I was just running and I didn’t realize how far I’d gone. I’m very sorry Sesshomaru- Lord Sesshomaru, I mean. I’m very sorry lord.” She rambled. Though Sesshomaru had never seriously harmed her, she still knew that she had to at least attempt to show respect to the lord whose lands she had unintentionally invaded.
“Where are your companions Miko?”

“Still in Kaede’s village, I believe…”

“How did you get here alone?”

Kagome was getting relatively frustrated. Did everyone think she was completely incompetent?! “I ran.”

“That’s too far for a human to run.”

“Oh, I’m sorry. OF COURSE, that’s too far to run. I must’ve been imagining it…” She placed her hands on her cocked hips. Kagome sighed. She wasn’t mad at Sesshomaru, there was no point in taking her anger out on him. “Look, Lord Sesshomaru… I’m tired and in no mood for your ‘mightier than thou” attitude.”

Sesshomaru raised his brow in silent question at the human miko who stood so openly against him on his lands. “Miko-“

“Kagome.”

But he just stared at her, not sure what she meant.

“My name, its Kagome.”

“Miko, this Sesshomaru has little concern for what your name is”

“Kagome. Ka-go-me. Not Miko. I’m fucking sick of everyone calling me that.”

“You, Kagome, have spent too much time around the half-breed.”

‘Inuyasha…’ her mind halted at thoughts of the hanyou she had previously been head over heels for. Her eyes began to water, but she refused to cry in front of the stoic demon lord.

[[AN: I don’t know how many of you read stories on AFF.net at like three or four AM. But I’d just like to state, that when it goes offline in the middle of the night and you can play Pong while you wait…. I SUCK ASS AT PONG. x.x back to the fic]]

Sesshomaru smelt the sharp aroma of salt and stared at the Miko.

“hn.”

Kagome looked up at him through glistening eyes. “what?”

“It is inappropriate for a girl such as yourself to be running around”

“Of that, I am quite aware my lord…. But… I did not wish to… travel with the hanyou any longer… I wished to have free space to gather thoughts…” She suddenly lost any urge to argue with the Youkai. She just wished to sit in peace. She just wished to be left alone. She sat down on a fallen log and sighed, suddenly not able to stand anymore. She knew she was tired, but she hadn’t realized just HOW tired until she calmed down. “I’m sorry Sesshomaru for my temper. You’ve done nothing wrong to warrant my attitude…”

“It’s too late for you to travel back towards the Miko’s village where you reside. What will you do?”

Kagome stared up at him, bewildered. That was quite possibly the longest sentence she’d ever heard come out of the Ice Prince’s mouth. “I suppose I’ll just have to start back… and make camp somewhere…but this close to my birthday…. And mom said it’s not an exact science… so it could happen early….”

“Cease your ramblings and explain”

She sighed. Of course, she hadn’t gotten to tell her friends yet. But Kami forbid that she not answer Lord Frosty Pants when he asked something. “Well… Something is supposed to happen on my 18th birthday. And it might happen a day or so early, or a day or so late. It might not be exact. I’d rather not be out in the open, just in case.” She said- trying her best to skirt the issue as to not give him details.

But he stared at her. Not willing to repeat himself, but still waiting for a better explanation.

“Lord Sesshomaru, no offense, but even if I tell you, you will not believe me… so I don’t feel the need to waste our time.”

“This Sesshomaru can sense lies. If you explain and tell only truths, you will be fine.”

“FINE! If you must know. If you really have to know. I live in the future.. I travel back in time, to come here… through a well.” She paused. Determined that he would accuse her of lying. Knowing he’d probably injure her for it, even though it was the truth.

Sesshomaru had listened to her heart beat stay steady and he could smell no deceit from her. “continue” he commanded.

“My Dad is from this time… I didn’t know until today… I didn’t know or, I would have looked for him. But I thought he was dead. But mom said… mom said that she used to be able to travel through the Bone Eater’s Well, too. She said she met my father… and they decided that It would be safer to raise their children; me and my younger brother, in the future…. But one day dad went back to the past, like he often did. But he didn’t come back.” Kagome looked up at the demon lord, to find him listening intently, probably trying to ascertain whether or not it was the truth. She didn’t want to continue. She didn’t want to tell this man her secrets. What right did he have to know…

“So, your father abandoned you?” He assumed during her silence.

“No!” Kagome gasped. “No, he wouldn’t… mom had worried, so she left us with gramps and tried to go check on him. But the well wouldn’t let her through. It had stopped working… See, Sesshomaru, my mom is also a miko, but she had far more extensive training than I have received… she was, and I assume still is, extremely powerful… mom didn’t know what to do, raising us in the future. She chose to place spells on us. To hide us from anyone until we came of age. Until we turned 18…”

Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow. “Why would she need to hide you?”

Kagome looked away, almost ashamed, and nearly certain that regardless of the fact he could smell deceit… he would believe that she was lying. “We, my brother and I, aren’t human…” She felt tears rise, certain that he would kill her, certain that she would now, never meet her father.

“How?”

Kagome dug in her pocket and pulled out the picture that her mother had given her that morning. A picture of Kagome, taken right before her mother put the spell on her. She handed it to Sesshomaru and watched as he examined it, much like she had hours before.

The picture showed an 8 year old Kagome with shoulder length black hair that had brilliant electric blue tips. She was in a kimono from the feudal era; it was pale blue with silver stitching. She had a single blue stripe on each cheek and a silver snow flake on her forehead. He eyes were a crisp cerulean blue. And she had small, angel-like wings.

“Miko-InuYoukia…” Sesshomaru looked back up at Kagome “who is your father, miko?”

“My father, Lord Sesshomaru, is Tenchi. Lord of the Northern Lands.” She fought not to look smug as she stated the next thing. “And I am a Princess. My name is Kagome, not miko. And I’d like it if you could please remember that in the future”

“Very well, princess, what were you planning to do- since you cannot travel.”

Kagome fidgeted, she’d forgotten about that. “I do not wish to return to Inuyasha” she looked at Sesshomaru “and in three day’s time, I need to go to my father’s castle… but I’m afraid I’ve never been deep within the northern territories, I will lose my way”

“I do not wish a war to be started over the fact that I left The Northern….princess…. alone at night… come” He turned on his heel, and began to walk away. She followed.

“Where are we going?” No answer. “Is it really far?” No answer. “Could you slow down? I’m still fundamentally human back here.” And the lord stopped abruptly, causing Kagome to smash right into his unsuspecting back, and to fall on her often abused derriere.

“Could you cease your excessive prattle? We’re here.”

Kagome peered around him to see… nothing. There was nothing there. “wait, Sesshomaru, I thought you lived in like, a palace.. or something… I mean come one. LORD Sesshomaru. You must have something other than an empty field”

“Woman….” He growled out, glaring at her. “I have many enemies. I can’t just let my home be visible to everyone, now can I. Only members of my bloodline or people I specifically allow entrance to, may enter.”

“people you allow entrance to….may enter” Kagome bit her lip, trying not to laugh. “Sorry Sesshomaru, but isn’t that just a tad redundant?” Her humor was lost on the demon lord and he growled again.

Kagome sighed and lifted herself off of the ground, smoothing out her clothes as she stood. She realized then, as they stepped through the concealing barrier and looked upon his castle, that she had mad a decision that would change her life.

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This is short. Really short. But I just wanted to get something up.
And this is a re-write, so it shouldn’t take me too long to update it.

I will be posting my other story, Beyond the Well, as soon as I can.

Peace out.
xoxox
Pixie