An: I got a Pm asking where this fic was, i have no idea why i cant seem to find it on Dokuga, but its old on FF. O_O i think i just forget to load it.... i hope! i dont want to have 2 f them on my profie :p if i do i blame it on my sleeplessness.
This is fanciful, and well i love it ^_^ ... :3
Whatever Will Be
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"I'll kill you, you bastard!!!" she bellowed from the tight grip of the Western Lord who was wincing at the hard range in her voice and keeping her view blocked from the source of her raging fury. Her aura hurt, stinging his pale skin as it licked his person, clashing against his own, it was setting him on fire as it fluxed wildly to life, and just as suddenly, it diminished. His eyes squinting from pain he had never felt in all his years, never let show on his face once, Sesshomaru slowly peeled his eyes open to fall on the woman he'd come to love. "Let me go Sesshoamru." she stated in a far too calm voice, and a far too calm aura. He knew she was concentrating which did not bold well at all for his half-brother. Reluctantly he let his little woman and before even he could react she had pounced.
How he could forget that she'd gained those powers?, he'd never know; she was fast if you called Kouga slow, he didn't see her draw the blade, only the cool glint of silver that the light cast as it arched down impaling the red clad hanyou into the ground. Bone crushing and breaking as the unbreakable metal met with his body, muscles and tendon tearing, while the boy-dog's blood flowed. So fast was she that the hanyou was pent beneath her before the whelp could bellow in pain. Sesshomaru understood her pain, wanted even to comfort her, but she was beyond that now, with need for revenge. His chest tightened at the idea she could kill, even if his brother deserved it.
"How could you?" she asked in a dark whisper that was only barely audible while dancing on the wind to find the Taiyouaki's ears. Kagome looked at the boy she had once loved, once wanted nothing more then to marry and bare children, now she looked at him in disgust. Of coarse she didn't care how he could, she didn't want to even know what went through his mind. How could he do that to her, of all people, she asked herself as she fought tears from falling. Inuyasha lay beneath her, her leg tight, forcing the bones of her knee to crush into his throat, cutting his air off, her weight on the blade's hilt, while the blade itself hit just below his collarbone, and sliding between his spine and his shoulder blade, he knew fully well that in this position he was highly vulnerable. He wanted to die for what he'd done, what he couldn't stop himself from doing, or at least that what he told himself. Kagome could see it in his eyes, feel it in his aura, he wanted death as much as she wanted to give it to him.
Her eyes glazed over as she thought about the last few hours of her life, she'd come here to Edo, so she could make her final trip home, it was nearly time to make her decision, stay in the past where she was loved and useful, or stay in the future where her birth family was, it had been hard but she knew there was no way she could leave her Taiyoukai, no way she could leave her son, or her brothers, Miroku and Inuyasha, let alone leaving Sango. She had gone to see her family to tell them what she knew would break their hearts, and yet they would accept this, it would be okay knowing she would be both loved and happy, and they would see her again, fate was not so cruel, not when after everything she'd become something akin to an immortal. She had laughed at the thought of her being able to live long enough to see them again, her mind plastered on how it occurred…
That had been an interesting thing, ….
Flashback…
The final battle with Naraku, the battle that had broken any and all trust she had with Inuyasha. The tainted jewel the once hanyou had made the boy-dog go insane, she'd trusted him, had faith that there would be nothing that could separate them as Naraku had done with Inuyasha and Kikyo, how utterly wrong she was. Inuyasha blood crazed and beyond reasoning had pushed her to her death, literally. She'd fallen from a great height, and yet she couldn't bring herself to hate Inuyasha, not this time, not ever, she had thought, though she could hate that he had not fought harder against Naraku's will. As she fell her anger could only be placed on one being, and one being only, Naraku and what he had caused to happen again.
She felt the sharp pain of the 'ground' as she made impact and in the last slit seconds of her life saw everything that had ever transpired, from birth until death, ever wanton moment she'd felt for the dog-hanyou, every pain when he ran to another or called her wench or weak, every painful memory her soul had ever endured in this life, and yet still she could not hate him as Kikyo had when in the same point in her own life. Yet, the last image she would see would not be of she and Inuyasha, but of a tall figure in gleaming white when the rest of her world was so very dark, "Sesshomaru." she whispered as she felt her heart slow, and her breathing stop, the few precious moments she had left looked upon the most beautiful being she'd ever seen.
He looked at her, the little woman that was his brother wench, she was the key to killing the bastard Naraku he knew, though he loathed to admit it, and here she lay dead mere feet in front of him. He had never wanted to use Tenssaiga, not even on Rin, his second 'experiment' as he called the few lives he had ever saved with the mythical sword of healing, had left a small link between he and the unfortunate being he would save. 'Being stronger' his fathers voice echoed through his head, Nonsense, he quickly thought, but here broken and dead lay the brave little miko, Kagome.
Kagome lay there in the darkness, the void of the afterlife, some how she could feel something unlocking, as small clammy hands began to examine her body, one by one she counted as four heavy locks began to yield and open gates to something unknown. Sesshomaru had only begun to walk towards the girl, no woman, when he felt power, unadulteratedly raw, power. The air itself seemed to thicken as he still neared the dead female. Once unlocked, with a mighty 'click', Kagome opened her eyes at death's minions. 'no.' she said softly, though they paid her no mind, 'no.' she said with more force, causing one of the imp-like beings around her to look at her. More imp-like beings materialized around her tugging heavily at her soul, but she refused to budge, and in a move so stubbornly Kagome, she bellowed "NO!" Light and air cracked around her as her power flared into an ungodly fury, scorching the messengers of death away from her.
Sesshomaru stood there seriously alarmed for the first time in his whole long life, not only had the girl's powers start to wildly build after death, but she had just roared with a deafening tone "NO!" While the air around them cracked wildly, he saw her chest rise and fall, while her long black lashes fluttered to life as she seemingly did as well. Her once muddy blue eyes, though still rare for a Japanese woman were now a pale cold blue, crystalline almost. For a moment she did nothing she just breathed, and while she did he did nothing but stair at the woman who it seemed had stopped death from claiming her, even though he had witnessed death take her.
Pulling herself up Kagome felt like she had never in her life, the power that had before always hummed just under the surface of her skin was always untamed and raw, but now that same power and much more rose off her skin as though she herself were on fire. Ribbons of spiritual energy, raw reiatsu flamed around her small form, were before it might have been calm even when Kagome was stressed, her aura lashed out wildly in some seductive dance of power. Standing on shaky legs she scowled, and cursed inwardly. Naraku was now problematic. Huffing audibly, Kagome turned her now unearthly gaze upon Sesshomaru as if assessing him, taking him as no threat she walked passed him only to stop when she heard his unique baritone voice. "Miko.." he didn't even get to finish his statement as Kagome slowly peered over her should to glace back at the Taiyoukai.
Sesshomaru had effectively been silence by that glance, it spoke volumes more then any booming voice could, she was out for death, and judging by the power he could visibly see let alone what he was unsure of, he knew right now the miko was not one to be fused with. "Come." was all her once sweet, yet now hard and angry voice said. He figured he'd be rather pissed if he died as well, so in a move unlike any he'd ever done since he was a pup, he followed someone else's order. They walked in utter silence for fifteen minutes, while her aura seemed to tighten and shirk, she in front leading with what he thought were 'mortal' eyes, and he following. When they came upon a dead end he was just about to sneer that he'd been a fool to follow her until she simply raised her right hand. A pulse of the strongest raw reiatsu he'd ever seen or felt exploded from her palm, the dead end was no longer, while simultaneously their surroundings responded to the threat.
Naraku had felt the change in the miko's powers, he had thought her dead, felt her life force end, but now she was not, he thanked the taiyoukai and the damnedable healing sword for that, but still even with the power he felt before, she was not a threat to him, or so he had thought until her felt his innards begin to melt. Yet it was not demonic in nature the melting, itwas spiritual, it was his worst fear, it seemed she had finally woken her powers up, the miko was now his greatest threat, working at a speed even he thought was ridiculous for, Naraku began his assault on the miko within. Sesshomaru had scented the change in the air, of coarse the bastard had noticed, who the fuck wouldn't with what she just did, the wall that had once been there, was gone, an open cavern where Sesshomaru was sure flesh had once been, the miko had even begun to enter the cavern without the slightest care. Though he did take note when her already dark scowl grew more in anger.
Sesshomaru watched amazed as the little onna took on wave after wave Naraku's minions, not just the bees, or the weak but his own naturally strong hell spawns. She seemed to be un-phased by it all and rather more annoyed then anything; Sesshomaru watched as her teeth clenched, and heard them grind in anger as she finally had enough, taking her eye off the hording youkai, which he thought was utterly stupid even for her, she asked, "Do you trust me?" Sesshomaru was dumbstruck at the audacity of the situation, until he noticed her aura beginning to grow again, with a quick nod he answered her and watched as an almost evil grin found its way to her face.
The reiatsu she held caressed his skin, not stinging and burning as it should, he watched in morbid fascination as she killed without mercy the horde that had come for her, and again as it exploded every way around her. The new cavern had held an unexpected surprise, as there in a pile of youkai parts sat Rin, and yet her body it might be, it was not Rin, but Magatsuhi's every being exuded from the girl. "Hmm, it seems my bonds were only meant o hold until after your death, who would have thought you could cheat that." said Rin in a cold voice, and again Kagome's scowl grew, by now she was glaring.
"Release the girl." Kagome said in cold voice that sound much like Sesshomaru's but far more feminine. A child's dark chuckle greeted the taiyoukai and the miko's ears.
"I think not. In this body neither of you will hurt me, thus I'm free to do whatever I want. And you are powerless." Kagome's eyes shot to the youkai lord of the west, she knew he'd never hurt the girl even if the bastard was using her, it was not in him, as it shouldn't be. But Kagome had been used, tricked, and betrayed far too many times, she loved the little girl dearly but this was about more then them, more then her, more then if they lived or died, it was about saving the world. Silent consent was given from the Western lord, knowing he could never hurt his daughter, it didn't take more then a moment before the roar of Kagome's aura few out and burned all living evil in the room, Rin's scream of terror filled pain echoed loudly in his ears and he fought with himself to not fall to his knees.
Kagome walked to where the little girl lay, her dying breaths slowing, as a sad smile graced her lips, "Thank you." she whispered. As again Rin passed into death. Kagome narrowed her eyes, as she saw the flux in the air, as minions of the afterworld again came to claim the beautiful little soul Rin held, anger grew with in her like a tsunami, causing her aura to crack angrily, the moment the soul was lifted from the body she executed the sorry excuse for soul collectors. Pressing the small glowing bundle of soul to her chest, and pulled her in for safe keeping, Kagome would repair the tears that the three deaths had caused.
"Take her." she said holding the small girl into Sesshomaru's arms.
"Miko." Kagome ignored him as she looked around the cavern of holy ash covered body, the vulnerable spot just happened to lead a path beyond her to her friends and out to fresh air. Nodding her satisfaction she missed the tinting of red eyes. His control was slipping as his inner beast roared for vengeance. "Her soul." he growled out more in a deafening roar then a voice, causing Kagome to turn to him.
"Is safe, as her body is with you. You will leave this place and keep your daughter far from here. I'm going to finish what I started." she bit out again turning from the youkai. Her white bow had been hung over he shoulder being little of use with no arrows, before, but now, she didn't need them, taking the bow from its resting place Kagome spread her legs and forced her back taught as the string in between her fingers. Sesshomaru looked upon her as though she were a fool, she had killed his ward, and now she presumed to order him to leave, that was it, he would kill her. His fanged lengthened as his eyes grew red, Kagome could feel the shift in his aura, she would regret it if she had to kill Sesshoamru, though she would if she needed to.
Sighing she pulled a sizable amount of reiatsu into the size and shape of an arrow, releasing it, the rip in the air alone roared with furied anger as it burned and turned to ash the surrounding flesh of the spider demon around them. The roar that accompanied her arrow rumbled the 'ground' they stood on, Sesshomaru watched in amazement, the crimson fleeing his eyes as the bright white light of the pierced layer after layer or flesh until finally it hit the last but and burst from the abdomen of the beast that held them. From miles away at Keade's hut she could see the explosion on the abdomen of the demon spider Naraku, the aura that had been released with it, Kagome's, a small smile played on her face as she prayed for the young miko. Miroku and Sango had almost been hit by the flying death of Kagome's fury, had it not been for the hairs on the back of the monk's neck standing up they would have been burnt to a crisp.
"Leave now. I go to finish this." Said the small woman Sesshomaru had greatly underestimated, nodding to her he began to leave before the flesh could reform. "Tell the monk and slayer to leave as well, no one else need die here today." it had barely been heard as the flesh began to seal around him but he turned to her and said.
"You will see to this Sesshomaru's ward little miko before I allow that to happen." She flashed him a brilliant smile as he was cut off from her sight. Sesshomaru began his way at speeds unknown to him in life before, he'd grabbed the slayer and the monk by the cuff of the their collars as he exited the dank stench of Naraku. Silently he preyed to all kami who might be listening that the little miko knew what she was doing. Landing near the hut of the old miko in the village, he dropped the monk and the slayer who had the small neko as well, covered in blood and guts from the vile hanyou, the old miko had purified the air around them burning Naraku's essence off of them. The taiyoukai though could not take his eyes off the dark hanyou, he didn't know what was going on, inside the beast was the jewel, the girl and his brother.
Naraku's dark laughter was heard through the air in Edo, the chilling sound brining shivers down the backs of most of the living souls near by, placing his ward in the hands of the old miko he went to go help them end this. His golden harden eyes leveled on the spider demon, he began to see a faint glow near the beasts heart, dark at first, but soon it was awesome with a brightness that seemed to scorching his eyes, blocking them from the sight of the light, he heard the hanyou's bellowing rage, as the beast exploded. Wave after wave of Kagome's awesome reiatsu flared into life burning the hanyou to ash, from his point of view he finally saw her, the small woman child's iris' seemed to be gone, only the whites of her eyes remained, the jewel of four souls slowly being pressed into her being as she floated in mid air. And yet the most amazing part of this all were the large pair of pink glowing wings extending from her back as though she were literally a floating angel.
The jewel once finally embedded back in her chest, allowed gravity to take back over, and the onna began to fall, her wings falling apart as she plummeted to earth, with all his power he managed to catch her before she hit earth. Looking at the female in his arms he could see she was still alive, he could feel the power, still just as raw and untamed, and yet she seemed so happy, even her aura said as much. Glowing feathers of reiatsu floated aimlessly around the couple, making the land glow slightly giving everything a haloed look as Sesshomaru took in the delicate beauty of the small shikon miko. Each feather floated on unseen winds, landing near blood and death all around purifying whatever it touched, so long as it held an evil aura. Landing in the little miko's village, everyone looked on them in awe. His gleaming tall figure in white holding a fallen goddess, her onyx hair had hadn't noticed was far longer then before, her sun kissed darker and more exotic. He hadn't noticed that her legs seemed longer and more shapely, hadn't noticed that her clothing though still inappropriate for this era seemed even more ill-fitting.
Walking passed all the living beings in the village he went right into the elder miko's hut without acknowledging any or all, he placed the small bundle in his arms near his ward, sitting against the wall, his brother's whereabouts never crossed his mind, only these females. He'd waited an hour before the shikon miko woke, her first act after having single handedly destroying Naraku was to ask for him, leaning in he barely heard her voice for it was so utterly weak, her warm breath kissed his skin as she did as asked, and pulled her into his grasp, over to his ward. He watched as she pulled the small soul out of her own chest, though he noticed before it had been pale white, now it held a faint glow of pink to it. Wondering just what it was she answered his unasked question. "It is laced with my own, for as long as I live, she will as well." Taking the moment in stride he realized he would have his daughter for longer then he could hope, for he could not smell the faint smell of death upon the miko that all mortals held, not even the tiniest bit that had always been there, she was immortal, or as immortal as one could be.
Kagome remembered how gentle the Taiyoukai had been those early weeks, so much had happened right after Naraku's death, Kouga had attempted to take her as mate, though she had completely bashed it into his head that she would never be his mate, Inuyasha she couldn't look at without getting angry, which considering she held so much power was highly dangerous to his health; as they all saw she when he finally pissed her off enough to 'sit' him and he was impacted into the ground so deep they actually had to climb down to get him out. Kagome and Sesshomaru would end up spending larges amounts of time together, often just enjoying the other presence, much to the hanyou's distress. It was decided then that Kagome would leave with Sesshomaru, who seemed to be the only one who could keep the females anger in check, a strong boost to his male ego at that, and beyond that the taiyoukai had become highly territorial over the little woman as well.
Leaving her Feudal family had been hard, but at the same time it just meant change, and if anything Kagome like the water in her soul could handle and adapt to change. That's what her grandmother had told her once about her eyes, that she held water in her soul and no mater what may happen in life she would always settle and find peace. Her grandmother had been so right, she couldn't imagine life now without Sesshomaru, now she just had to go home to the future and tell her mother and family the news. That little trip of coarse had been pushed back far longer then she'd wanted it but there were many things more to being the Lady of the Western lands then Kagome had ever hoped for, true she was a warrior miko, the Shikon Miko at that, but delicate tactful matters of state were not what she was used to dealing with, dealing death to evil via bow and arrow, yeah that she could do.
Much to her dismay she had lessons upon lessons, though Sesshomaru was pleased she never lost her fiery anything, in fact if anything the silver tongued skills she now possessed were probably equal or the surpass of his own. The female was simply too educated to not know how to speak her mind in an elegant way, he knew now he'd have interesting times at those boring cardinal meetings from here on out.
It came to no surprise to old shard hunting group when months later an announcement was made that the taiyoukai had taken the shikon miko as his mate, no surprise to any but Inuyasha. He couldn't understand why she had been this way, everything had changed since that day, the day that Naraku died. Inuyasha couldn't remember what had happened to make Kagome turn from him so much, so he'd paid them a visit, his brother and his 'sister.' He'd been floored that Kagome had refused and audience with him, and had stormed the castle to get to her, what he met was one pissed of miko.
"You have no right to be here!" she hissed at him.
"Tell me, tell me why? Why him?!" he pleaded in a yelling demanding voice, while Sesshomary pressed his mate behind him and growled threateningly at his half-brother. Kagome was almost in tears, why couldn't he just leave her alone, she'd been compared to another the whole time they'd known one another, her heart ripped and shredded, and finally their supposed 'unbreakable bond', broken by his own clawed hand. He'd killed her simply because he didn't care enough about her to fight harder, he fought for the jewel, and for his shard detector but not for Kagome, not for their bond. And it wasn't that she hated him, she just couldn't look at him without remembering those hate filled red eyes, the terror that raked her heart when she knew he was finally going to kill her, and then seeing him there laughing as she fell into darkness. No she didn't hate him, but she hated what he allowed to happen, she didn't want to trust him, or be around him to remember that, he had already done enough to her.
Nearly panting in a whisper she answered his question, "You killed me. You killed me because you didn't care enough to fight against his will. And you killed me." she paused trying to choke down the sob that threatened to pull her to the ground, "I can't trust you with my heart Inuyasha, not with my person, or even in my presence. I don't hate you, but I cant look at you without seeing the fact that you didn't care enough, ever. Leave my mate and I in peace. You. Are not welcome here. " her words were stern, but no more then a pained whisper.
"And so you run to him without giving me a chance?" Inuyasha yelled.
"IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU INUYASHA!" Kagome roared from behind her mate, shocking both male inus. "Your so selfish! Do you ever take anytime to even think about anything other then yourself? The world does not revolve around you and what YOU WANT. I tried for so long to give you everything I could, and you threw it away, I have nothing left for you, you got what you wanted Inuyasha, I am not yours, nor was I ever, and you would do well to remember that I can choose whom I mate with, it is my life that was bent in two to search for a jewel that never should have been brought back in the first place. It was ME who brought our group together, it was I who killed Naraku and it was I who chose Sesshomaru. Now leave this place. You. Are. Not. Welcome. Here!" she seethed out through clenched teeth, while flaring her angered aura out.
Inuyasha watched helplessly as Kagome buried her face into his half-brothers embrace, he wanted nothing more then for it to be him that Kagome went to. He was getting annoyed with everything as a dark scowl pressed its way onto his face as he lunged at the couple. He found himself pinned to a wall fast though, he'd thought it was his brother, but the jolt of energy that sent its way through his body was reiatsu. Inuyasha looked down to see Kagome holding him firmly in place, the blue iris of her eyes gone in a sea of furious white that burned the eye to look upon. "I don't want to kill you Inuyasha, but if you force my hand I will, And I will make it as painful as I can. I've taken enough of your abuse, and your lack of thought where it concerns others. Leave now before I finish what Kikyo started so long ago." she said releasing him to the floor. "I will not give you any other warning then this." Her mate stood behind her pulling her into his protective embrace as guards filed into the room, at the flare of their Ladies deadly aura. They knew their lord and his half-sibling never got along and that their aura's would flare just at the sight of the other, but their Lady was gentle, and her aura only spiked like that when imminent danger was about to happen upon the lands, her family, or her home.
That day had been a week ago, and she had come home to Edo to tell her family the news, to tell them, that she would be staying with her love, her husband, her mate and lord, that she would be bringing home her first child for her mother to meet soon and then they would have to wait to see her again; Sesshomaru had not been happy to allow her to leave via the well, not when she was so close to birthing their heir. But he also knew keeping her here would be far harder then letting her go, but still he was wary of the well and the idea that it would swallow his pregnant mate for five hundred years did not settle well with him or his beast. So when she had gone home through the glowing portal only to return moments later in a near fit of raging sorrow, her hands covered in blood that smelt like hers but not, to say the least he was not at all pleased. She'd leapt from the well flaring her reiatsu wildly around her as though she had never had training, which he had personally administered, so he knew this to be true. Whatever was on the other side of the well it had triggered such raw emotion that her powers were going wild, and for once they hurt. She didn't have an excellent sense of smell so when she turned her fury filled glowing white eyes to him and asked in a deadly calm voice, "Where is he? Where is Inuyasha?" Sesshomaru knew something had gone tragically wrong on the other side of the well.
"What happened?" was all he said trying to find out what had happened, and changing the subject, neither going unnoticed by the females who's power level was growing stronger by the moment.
"He killed them. Now. Where. Is. He?" she said still far too calm.
"This is not healthy for the pup, koi." he stated.
"Then tell me where he is so I might rid myself of this rage." she said, while her mate pulled her into his hard embrace, though she didn't need it now, no, Kagome was far too gone for revenge to know she needed to let her anger go and release it all. Taking her to his person he found his brother, and that's when his mate started to bellow at the site of him. The monk and the slayer had been behind him asking him questions when all three felt the awesome rip of Kagome's fury, no one could forget the feel of her wrath.
The moments played by slowly for Sesshomaru as he listened to and watched his mate, his heart sank thinking that she would kill his brother, though it was true, killing her family, if true did deserve a death warrant. They were helpless humans, even a half-breed could kill them easily. He could see the monk and the slayer going pale at the site as well. Though upset that she was ready to kill so easily, Sesshomaru couldn't help the swell of pride that she could handle herself so well. He had blocked out most of what she had said event the long pause as she waited for some answer that she really didn't want to hear, but her next question registered it was simple and nearly a whisper but all heard it. "Why?" she asked.
"I went to see your mother, to see if there was anything I could do to get you back, she told me that if you were mated to someone else if I really loved you I would let you be happy with my half-brother. That possible you were never meant to be with me. That's when I caught it, your scents on the wind as I made ready to leave, it seems that even now, five hundred years from now your waiting for yourself now to seal the well so you can go on with your happy little life, showing off the newest brat who's scent sickeningly stinks of him. Before I knew what I was doing I felt the transformation coming on, and all I wanted to do was hurt you, and the best way to do that was through them." he stated calmly and coldly.
Kagome's chest rose and fell several times taking in everything she had just heard. "You wanted to hurt me, because I didn't love you?" she stated more then asked. Getting no reply her eyes once again bleed a furious white while she both scowled and frowned, pulling her angry reiatsu into what looked like an arrow Kagome drove it into Inuyasha's chest, audible gasps were heard from both the monk and the slayer as they watched Inuyasha's white hair turn black, as the dog ears atop his head fade away only to have them appear on the side of his head. His once amber eye grew wide as they turned to a dull brown, claws turned to dull nails and fangs dulled. Even in broad daylight, Inuyasha was human. Pointing her index finger to the once hanyou's forehead, a pulse of energy washed over him, her raw pain and anguish rushed into his veins and he cried for mercy she would never give him. Standing gracefully, Kagome grabbed Tetsaiga from his hip.
"Where do you think your going with my sword bitch?" Inuyasha bit out through the angry sorrow Kagome had suppressed him with.
"You forget whom you speak to boy, I am a Lady of the Land, and the Shikon Miko, where as you are Nothing!" her voice was so cold and deadly that even her mate had to look at her now. "You have no right to this blade now, I have taken everything from you now just as you have done to me. You are nothing more then the son of a whore. You are no longer a prince of the west, as I have removed the great gift of blood Lord Inu no Taishou blessed you with. You don't deserve it, and you dishonor and sully our clan by existing. I will have your existence removed from this world, in written text or spoken verse, when you die a mortal death no one will remember you, no one will sing praise of your name, you will not be remembered as the savior against the dark hanyou, you will not even be remembered as the foolish hanyou who was pinned to a gods tree. You will live your greatest fear, life as a human." With that a whip of light crossed the clearing and hit Inuyasha upon the forehead, a mark that burned his very soul, let alone his skin appeared. "Now everyone that sees you will know you are nothing, I will not kill you this day, it will not be my hand that spills your blood, but someone will, eventually, and that is enough. Know this Inuyasha, if I were to come across you while you lye upon the ground taking what might be your last breath, I will look upon you in scorn, and pass by without second thought."
Kagome nodded to her friends as she began to walk away, her mate followed, as well as the monk, and the slayer, to Kagome it felt like hours when her tears finally started to fall, sorrow and pain, hurt and rage felt as though it swallowed her whole. Without her notice it seemed like gravity had taken a hold of her as her knees gave out, Sesshomaru had her in his grasp before she could even more a bit, holding his pregnant mate to his chest as she sobbed uncontrollably. He said no words as he knew nothing would ease her at the moment, rubbing her back and allowing a low vibration radiate through her being. Turning his head to her old companions, he said one word. "Come." taking off in the direction of Edo, they made it to the old miko's hut, where he laid his now sleeping mate to rest. Filling in the elder miko on the days events, he advised he would be sending shoulders to this town to protect it from anything his now human once half-brother could do, that he was still indeed impaled to the ground, and that he would have the monk and the slayer come to be with his mate for a time being, that she too was welcome as the birth of their heirs would be coming soon. They rested there that night, mostly because he didn't want to move Kagome, when she stirred it was with fiery determination in her eyes.
He was awake of coarse but he knew her to well, it would just be best if he didn't get in her way right now, "Kaede?" called her once again soft voice.
"Yes child?"
"I need you to have some of the men in the village cover the well in planked boards, I would also like it if there were a structure built around it. Miroku, I will need five of your strongest Ofuda's. The structure can wait but I would like the Ofuda's and the well sealed before we get going." the old woman nodded as did Miroku, as both left to do Lady Kamoge's wishes. Taking a moment to look questioningly at his mate she answered his unasked question, something she was getting good at he noted. "When I was fifteen, the well had been covered as I asked for far longer then I ever thought possible. The Ofuda's I did not recognize at the time because I had yet to learn them we're in Miruko's hand righting, the magic that sealed it, my own, the wood so old that when pulled through it shattered like glass. I am meant now to seal this world from that one. When the time comes I will save my family from this future." she said matter- o-factly.
"And Inuyasha?" he asked genuinely curious. Her brows drew together, as her eyes lightened into a small fury.
"He wanted, once, to be a human so he could love a woman, and have a normal life, yet he hates his human blood for making him a weakling in the court and eyes of all demon kind. He has always been torn between one life and the other. He no longer has this problem, I hope you will not fight me, I intend to remove him from anything and everything that may know of his existence." she said looking away from him.
"Even if I were to fight I know that face, you would win. Are you willing to go that far though to hurt him?" Sesshoamru asked his mate as he pulled her into his lap.
"It sounds cruel I suppose, but it is the most mercy I can show him. As a human with no powers, and no sword, he is vulnerable, and though I want him dead far more then I have ever in life at this moment, if no one knows who he is then no one will be willing to hold him against us for any reason or another. I will not allow him to be a bargaining chip for any reason, I'm beyond caring what happens in that case, but it does not mean I wish to see that outcome. Along with that, it a tradition far older then you to remove one in such a way. There is a land far to the West of here, in a mainland called Africa, the country called Egypt, once ruled the world as they knew it, when a new pharaoh, a human god like King, was crowned, depending upon how he took his crown he would erase from history the name of his enemy. There are many unknown kings in that land, rulers who were of such little thought that their names are gone from this world. He is by far no king, nor a god, nothing but a human now, and to both destroy him and protect him I will have his name stripped from life as is known." she finished.
Five hundred years later…..
A couple of both light and darkness climbed the stairs in a hurried pace, a horde of footsteps in their wake, a cry from the infant held at Kagome's breast as the coppery scent of blood hit all of her loved ones noses. Her breath hitched as she waited for the blue light to appear in the corner of the shrine telling her that it was time, moving with a speed that had yet to diminish from so long ago, the shrine irrupted in a bright flash of pink light. Sweat beaded upon her brow as she heard the many gasps of her children and friends, of her lover and mate, as they all watched their mother bring back the dead. The souls had not gotten far, when she pulled them back to their now mended bodies, their chests slowly beginning to rise and fall, their eyes fluttering open to fall upon the large group that surrounded Kagome.
Her mother was the first to her feet, quickly a pair of arms wrapped around her to steady her and she looked into a face so much like her own, though there was defiantly a difference, where as she had no fangs, or crest marks, the similar face did. "Mama," Kagome said sweetly to the confused woman they all knew now was their grandmother. "Meet my second eldest daughter, Reia." Mrs. Higurashi then took notice that nearly ever face held some vestige of her daughters, or the tall male with the striking silver hair, who held a now quiet babe, but what caught her attention more was the man standing next to this tall silver headed baby holding man, it was her husband. Pulling herself from the grasp of her granddaughter Sayuri ran for her husband, and embraced him for the first time in almost a decade, she had so many questions and needed to know what was going on. Many if not all faces smiled at her, as tears began to run down her face, Kagome too was becoming emotional, and many of her daughters had come over to assure their mother was okay, while some cast dirty looks at their father for pupping her again so soon after the birth of the last pup. Sesshomaru noticeably looked away, all of his daughters and some of his sons had inherited their mother's temper, which he found amazing because honestly she could put him in his place when she wanted to.
"Please come in side, we have so much to talk about!" exclaimed Sayuri.
"Actually Momma, if you all would come with us, this is only about a half of the family, many of the others are still coming in to the country as we speak, there'll be much more room if you could come home with us, assure you the shrine will be perfectly safe." she added looking at her grandfather, who nodded his head in return. "Oh, and Ji-ji, please don't throw any Ofuda on my children, most have my nasty temper." she said with a weak smile, while mirth clearly played in the sea of golden and sapphire eyes of all around them. They started down the long flight of stairs, her youngest pup quickly being deposited into the steady arms of her eldest daughter present, Reia's arms, as Kagome was scooped up into the protect arms of her mate, her grandfather's voice stilling them all.
"Kagome, Who're all these demons?" asked Ji-ji. Kagome let out a long giggle while shaking her head, it seemed he was never meant to change.
"They're my pups, my children, Ji-ji, we're going home to get everyone back up to current with the goings on of the Taishou-Hirgurashi clan." she said with a smile. Arriving back at the mansion, the rest of the evening was spent telling the family all that had happened, introducing Sayuri, Souta and Ji-ji, to her large family, Sesshomaru had wasted no time pupping her and keeping her that way, Kagome in five hundred years had only had maybe fifty were she was not pregnant. She and her mate had brought back the inu demons from near extinction. Their eldest, Soutaishou, and every pup their after had been born a full demon, all had either their mother's of father's hair coloring, no grey's anywhere, only onyx and silver. All of their eyes where either golden or sapphire blue and many of them were what Kagome called, 'Little Clones.'
Their family had grown as well when Kagome had realized that she had actually taken part of Rin's soul and switched it with her own that fateful day so long ago, and that had actually been how they'd postponed her lift to that of a normal demon, she too no longer smelt of death as other humans did. Sango and Miroku too benefited from this give and take of the soul that Kagome happily gave them, which oddly was not needed for any of their children as they aged like hanyous, not truly slow but not like Rin, Sango, or Miroku. This eventually was fine, their oldest even after five hundred years barely looked 22.
The subject of Shin Higurashi came up though, Kagome explained to her modern family what her born children and friends already knew. Shin had died when she was 8, shortly after Souta was born, the first time, he had stayed dead, the second time that was not the case, Kagome had some of her most talented pups create the illusion that allowed the authorities to figure out that bodies had been switched, Kagome herself had trapped her father's soul so that it could not leave again. Like that of Sango, Rin, and Miroku, she offered her father the same gift, he was not happy that he could not see his family for a decade but he agreed after some though, he knew that he couldn't be there that being there world have changed things on how they were supposed to come out. So he had stayed far enough away, but always watching, he remembered the boy in red, and seeing the many times his daughter had come home crying, he wasn't allowed to but he'd purify that boy if ever got the chance to, being a priest he knew many things.
He had foreseen many of the events of Kagome's lift, and had known of the jewel in her small body long before he told his father. He mused about how his daughter took after him, though her reiatsu was far more dangerous and stronger then his own, he was the ever proud father. The topic of conversation luckily never landed on Inuyasha, the modern family all knew what happened, they saw his eyes bleed red, while they tried to stop the carnage, they had all died in the process. Souta though oddly happy to be the young uncle of what he had counted to be about 37 - 42 mostly grown full demons being there were many twins and triplets, as well as a few adolescences and 3 small children; his heart felt broken, that the one he once thought brother could do this to them.
They spent the rest of the night talking and laughing as more family and extended family came home, Though Kagome had been put to bed huffing as they went, far earlier then any one else, the rest of the group stayed up late into the morning sharing stories. Finally it seemed that everything was right in the world. Kagome lay naked upon her silk sheets as Sesshomaru came over to get in bed with his mate. "What bothers you love?" he asked her noticing her aura and the look in her eyes.
"For the first time in five hundred years I have no idea what tomorrow will bring. And I've finally gotten my family back, do you think they'll take some of my soul as well? I don't know if I can stand seeing them dye again." she stated worriedly. He chuckled at his mate as he leaned down to capture her lips.
"Que sera, Kagome." he stated quietly as he got in bed and pulled her round frame to his lithe one, though worried she fell asleep peacefully in the arms of her mate, an odd smile upon her face.
"What ever will be, will be. I love you Sessho." she mumbled.
"And I you, love, and I you." he murmured into her hair as sleep claimed them.