Destiny by 88pieces

late night revelations

There was a knock on her door, she sat up straight in bed, hand over her heart.  'Is this another dream?'  And then the knock sounded again, sharp and sure, and not Takimi's light tapping.  Kagome scrambled out of bed, forgetting about her robe all together.  "Who is it?" she questioned.  There was no answer.  She huffed and opened the door, and promptly froze.

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When she opened the door in her bed clothes she looked much like she did when he had frist encountered her.

"Are you ill?"

She sagged against her door.  "I believe it might be worse than we frist thought." she sighed, she'd been feeling worse ever since they had had there little encouter in the hallway this morning.  And she knew for sure that they both left the other with more questions than answers.  And there he was in the middle of the night staring at her intently from her doorway.

She sighed again.  "You torture me, Sesshou." she continued as she moved aside for him to enter if he so desired.

There was that name agian. 'Why must she call me that.' he thought although deep down in his heart it felt right somehow.  He stepped past her and into her room, and she closed the door.  "You blame me for your sickness?" he questioned as he turned to face her, she was still standing by the door.

"Why are you here?" she avoided.

"I wish to know who exactly you are."

"Um . . . What?"

"I just want to get the stories straight." he added trying to prompt her into telling him what he wanted to know.

"Who's stories?" she wondered,  'I certainly haven't said any thing to him, really.' she added aside to herself.

"My mother's, and Inuyasha's.  They say that you have been here since your childhood, and that my father and myself brought you home.  And yet I cannot recall you before now."

"Oh, well it is true that you and Toga-sama brought me here when I was young.  Takimi says you found me in a forest."  She said hoping it would help him.

"What of your parents?"

She turned away from him,  "I don't remember anything before you."  she said quietly.

He stepped around her so that she was once again facing him.  She had a sad look on her face.  'She only remembers me, and yet I cannot recall her . . .' his thoughts wondered as he looked her over.  "And the story about how my crest came to hang around your neck." he said reaching forward to grab the thick chain.

"It is true that you gave it to me."  She said backing away and the pendant slid out of his hand.  He just stood there looking at her for a long moment, and then he moved, slowly.

"Why?" he asked taking a step forward for her step back.

"I was only fifteen, and sixteen is mating age for humans." she started looking up into his eyes.  "You left it for me when you left for the north.  You told me to wait for you.''

It was Sesshoumaru's turn to take a step back.  He could detect no lies from her, or his mother, or anyone else, they were all telling the truth about her.  She had been abandon by her betrothed and if he was to believe anyone, it was he who had left her.

Kagome gasped as he took a step back, there was a flash in his eyes and they unfocused, she ran toward him.  She grabbed his arms to catch his attention, and he looked at her.  "Have you allowed her to touch you since I met you in the hall this morning?" she demanded.

He didnt say anything just looked at her with a little confusion clouding his eyes.

"Have you allowed her to touch you since I met you in the hall this morning?" she demanded yet again.

He shook his head.  With a confused look on his face he lifted his hand slowly and touched her face.

She held her breath as he touched her.

"That little bitch." Shizune fumed silently to herself.  'She knows what I have been doing!'

Shizune was so angry that she didn't care if she was found and pushed herself from Kagomes door and turned to go back to her room practically stomping.

'That girl, who is she to him, really? Should I believe what she claims? No one had said anything about him being taken when I started taking interest in Sesshoumaru, but still, she must be important to the family for them to protect her so.  It seems like every time I encounter her she is with one of them.' she pondered as she walked down the hall.

She paused mid step as a thought struck her.  "They are trying to protect her!  They always try to keep my attention away from her everytime we meet." she said quietly to herself.

"She will have to be taken care of." She continued to her room.

"Plans will have to be made." she said as she entered her room.